Weekly Update - Jul 10th, 2015

Yosuke Furukawa

Security patches for io.js 1.8 and 2.3 and upcoming events.

This week we have two io.js releases: v2.3.4 and v1.8.4, complete changelog from previous releases can be found on GitHub with the v1.x changelog here.

Maintenance release

openssl: Upgrade to 1.0.2d, fixes CVE-2015-1793 (Alternate Chains Certificate Forgery) #2141.

openssl: Upgrade to 1.0.2d, fixes CVE-2015-1793 (Alternate Chains Certificate Forgery) (Shigeki Ohtsu) #2141.
npm: Upgraded to v2.12.1, release notes can be found in https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.12.0 and https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.12.1 (Kat Marchán) #2112.

Some problems with unreferenced timers running during beforeExit are still to be resolved. See #1264.
Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. #690
process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760.
Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. #894
url.resolve may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see #1435.

OpenSSL published a high severity security issue, io.js and Node.js have upgraded OpenSSL version and fixed the problem on latest version.
Node.js LTS WG has updated their proposed LTS plan. They need some feedbacks from Noders.
ReactNative required io.js as their test platform.

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