Node v4.8.1 (LTS)

Myles Borins

Notable Changes

buffer: The performance of .toJSON() is now up to 2859% faster on average. (Brian White) #10895
IPC: Batched writes have been enabled for process IPC on platforms that support Unix Domain Sockets. (Alexey Orlenko) #10677
- Performance gains may be up to 40% for some workloads.
http:
- Control characters are now always rejected when using http.request(). (Ben Noordhuis) #8923
node: Heap statistics now support values larger than 4GB. (Ben Noordhuis) #10186

Commits

[77f23ec5af] - assert: unlock the assert API (Rich Trott) #11304
[090037a41a] - assert: remove unneeded condition (Rich Trott) #11314
[75af859af7] - assert: apply minor refactoring (Rich Trott) #11511
[994f562858] - assert: update comments (Kai Cataldo) #10579
[14e57c1102] - benchmark: add more thorough timers benchmarks (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #10925
[850f85d96e] - benchmark: add benchmark for object properties (Michaël Zasso) #10949
[626875f2e4] - benchmark: don't lint autogenerated modules (Brian White) #10756
[9da6ebd73f] - benchmark: add dgram bind(+/- params) benchmark (Vse Mozhet Byt) #11313
[a597c11ba4] - benchmark: improve readability of net benchmarks (Brian White) #10446
[22c25dee92] - buffer: improve toJSON() performance (Brian White) #10895
[af3c21197d] - build: move source files from headers section (Daniel Bevenius) #10850
[4bb61553f0] - build: disable C4267 conversion compiler warning (Ben Noordhuis) #11205
[6a45ac0ea9] - build: fix newlines in addon build output (Brian White) #11466
[bfc553d55d] - build: fail on CI if leftover processes (Rich Trott) #11269
[094bfe66aa] - build: fix node_g target (Daniel Bevenius) #10153
[87db4f7225] - build: Don't regenerate node symlink (sxa555) #9827
[e0dc0ceb37] - build: don't squash signal handlers with --shared (Stewart X Addison) #10539
[4676eec382] - child_process: remove empty if condition (cjihrig) #11427
[2b867d2ae5] - child_process: refactor internal/child_process.js (Arseniy Maximov) #11366
[c9a92ff494] - crypto: return the retval of HMAC_Update (Travis Meisenheimer) #10891
[9c53e402d7] - crypto: freelist_max_len is gone in OpenSSL 1.1.0 (Adam Langley) #10859
[c6f6b029a1] - crypto: add cert check issued by StartCom/WoSign (Shigeki Ohtsu) #9469
[c56719f47a] - crypto: Remove expired certs from CNNIC whitelist (Shigeki Ohtsu) #9469
[b48f6ffc63] - crypto: use CHECK_NE instead of ABORT or abort (Sam Roberts) #10413
[35a660ee70] - crypto: fix handling of root_cert_store. (Adam Langley) #9409
[3516f35b77] - deps: backport 7c3748a from upstream V8 (Cristian Cavalli) #10873
[f9e121ead8] - dgram: fix possibly deoptimizing use of arguments (Vse Mozhet Byt)
[fc2bb2c8ef] - doc: remove Chris Dickinson from active releasers (Ben Noordhuis) #11011
[725a89606b] - doc: remove duplicate properties bullet in readme (Javis Sullivan) #10741
[db03294c41] - doc: fix typo in http.md (Peter Mescalchin) #10975
[15188900b8] - doc: add who to CC list for dgram (cjihrig) #11035
[a0742902bd] - doc: correct and complete dgram's Socket.bind docs (Alex Jordan) #11025
[f464dd837f] - doc: edit CONTRIBUTING.md for clarity (Rich Trott) #11045
[07dfed8f45] - doc: fix confusing example in dns.md (Vse Mozhet Byt) #11022
[d55d760086] - doc: add personal pronouns option (Rich Trott) #11089
[b86843a463] - doc: clarify msg when doc/api/cli.md not updated (Stewart X Addison) #10872
[c2d70908e6] - doc: edit stability text for clarity and style (Rich Trott) #11112
[115448ec94] - doc: remove assertions about assert (Rich Trott) #11113
[e90317d739] - doc: fix "initial delay" link in http.md (Timo Tijhof) #11108
[788d736ab6] - doc: typographical fixes in COLLABORATOR_GUIDE.md (Anna Henningsen) #11163
[2016aa4e07] - doc: add not-an-aardvark as ESLint contact (Rich Trott) #11169
[2b6ee39264] - doc: improve testing guide (Joyee Cheung) #11150
[aae768c599] - doc: remove extraneous paragraph from assert doc (Rich Trott) #11174
[ca4b2f6154] - doc: fix typo in dgram doc (Rich Trott) #11186
[bb1e97c31a] - doc: add and fix System Error properties (Daiki Arai) #10986
[e1e02efac5] - doc: clarify the behavior of Buffer.byteLength (Nikolai Vavilov) #11238
[30d9202f54] - doc: improve consistency in documentation titles (Vse Mozhet Byt) #11230
[10afa8befc] - doc: drop "and io.js" from release section (Ben Noordhuis) #11054
[6f1db35e27] - doc: update email and add personal pronoun (JungMinu) #11318
[61ac3346ba] - doc: update code examples in domain.md (Vse Mozhet Byt) #11110
[0c9ea4fe8b] - doc: dns examples implied string args were arrays (Sam Roberts) #11350
[485ec6c180] - doc: change STYLE-GUIDE to STYLE_GUIDE (Dean Coakley) #11460
[41bf266b0a] - doc: add STYLE_GUIDE (moved from nodejs/docs) (Gibson Fahnestock) #11321
[6abfcd560b] - doc: add comment for net.Server's error event (QianJin2013) #11136
[f4bc12dd11] - doc: note message event listeners ref IPC channels (Diego Rodríguez Baquero) #11494
[09c9105a79] - doc: argument types for assert methods (Amelia Clarke) #11548
[d622b67302] - doc: document clientRequest.aborted (Zach Bjornson) #11544
[d0dbf12884] - doc: update TheAlphaNerd to MylesBorins (Myles Borins) #10586
[05273c5a4e] - doc: update AUTHORS list to fix name (Noah Rose Ledesma) #10945
[79f700c891] - doc: add TimothyGu to collaborators (Timothy Gu) #10954
[e656a4244a] - doc: add edsadr to collaborators (Adrian Estrada) #10883
[6d0e1621e5] - doc: clarifying variables in fs.write() (Jessica Quynh Tran) #9792
[7287dddd69] - doc: add links for zlib convenience methods (Anna Henningsen) #10829
[b10842ac77] - doc: sort require statements in tests (Sam Roberts) #10616
[8f0e31b2d9] - doc: add test naming information to guide (Rich Trott) #10584
[56b779db93] - doc: "s/git apply/git am -3" in V8 guide (Myles Borins) #10665
[3be7a7adb5] - doc: update LTS info for current releases (Evan Lucas) #10720
[530adfdb2a] - doc: improve rinfo object documentation (Matt Crummey) #10050
[48b5097ea8] - http: make request.abort() destroy the socket (Luigi Pinca) #10818
[15231aa6e5] - http: reject control characters in http.request() (Ben Noordhuis) #8923
[fc2cd63998] - lib,src: support values > 4GB in heap statistics (Ben Noordhuis) #10186
[533d2bf0a9] - meta: add explicit deprecation and semver-major policy (James M Snell) #7964
[923309adef] - meta: remove Chris Dickinson from CTC (Chris Dickinson) #11267
[342c3e2bb4] - meta: adding Italo A. Casas PGP Fingerprint (Italo A. Casas) #11202
[434b00be8a] - meta: decharter the http working group (James M Snell) #10604
[a7df345921] - net: prefer === to == (Arseniy Maximov) #11513
[396688f075] - readline: refactor construct Interface (Jackson Tian) #4740
[a40f8429e6] - readline: update 6 comparions to strict (Umair Ishaq) #11078
[90d8e118fb] - src: add a missing space in node_os.cc (Alexey Orlenko) #10931
[279cb09cc3] - src: enable writev for pipe handles on Unix (Alexey Orlenko) #10677
[a557d6ce1d] - src: unconsume stream fix in internal http impl (Roee Kasher) #11015
[c4e1af712e] - src: remove unused typedef (Ben Noordhuis) #11322
[da2adb7133] - src: update http-parser link (Daniel Bevenius) #11477
[2f48001574] - src: use ABORT() macro instead of abort() (Evan Lucas) #9613
[a9eb093ce3] - src: fix memory leak introduced in 34febfbf4 (Ben Noordhuis) #9604
[f854d8c789] - test: increase setMulticastLoopback() coverage (cjihrig) #11277
[1df09f9d37] - test: add known_issues test for #10223 (AnnaMag) #11024
[be34b629de] - test: increase coverage for stream's duplex (abouthiroppy) #10963
[dc24127e5c] - test: allow for slow hosts in spawnSync() test (Rich Trott) #10998
[2f4b6bda97] - test: expand test coverage of fs.js (Vinícius do Carmo) #10947
[3f6a2dbc2f] - test: enhance test-timers (Rich Trott) #10960
[6ca9901d8b] - test: add process.assert's test (abouthiroppy) #10911
[d8af5a7431] - test: improve code in test-crypto-verify (Adrian Estrada) #10845
[4d1f7b1df8] - test: add dgram.Socket.prototype.bind's test (abouthiroppy) #10894
[6c1d82c68a] - test: improving coverage for dgram (abouthiroppy) #10783
[017afd48fd] - test: improve code in test-console-instance (Adrian Estrada) #10813
[1b1ba741c3] - test: improve code in test-domain-multi (Adrian Estrada) #10798
[ee27917a65] - test: improve test-stream2-large-read-stall (stefan judis) #10725
[9ac2316595] - test: improve code in test-http-host-headers (Adrian Estrada) #10830
[a9278a063f] - test: refactor cluster-preload.js (abouthiroppy) #10701
[db60d92e15] - test: test hmac binding robustness (Sam Roberts) #10923
[a1a850f066] - test: don't connect to :: (use localhost instead) (Gibson Fahnestock)
[b3a8e95af3] - test: improve test-assert (richnologies) #10916
[56970efe51] - test: increase coverage for punycode's decode (abouthiroppy) #10940
[df69c2148a] - test: check fd 0,1,2 are used, not access mode (John Barboza) #10339
[7bceb4fb48] - test: add message verification on assert.throws (Travis Meisenheimer) #10890
[1c223ecc70] - test: add http-common's test (abouthiroppy) #10832
[89e9da6b6d] - test: tests for _readableStream.awaitDrain (Mark) #8914
[53b0f413cd] - test: improve the code in test-process-cpuUsage (Adrian Estrada) #10714
[b3d1700d1f] - test: improve tests in pummel/test-exec (Chase Starr) #10757
[6e7dfb1f45] - test: fix temp-dir option in tools/test.py (Gibson Fahnestock) #10723
[9abde3ac6e] - test: use realpath for NODE_TEST_DIR in common.js (Gibson Fahnestock) #10723
[f86c64a13a] - test: refactor the code of test-keep-alive.js (sivaprasanna) #10684
[4d51db87dc] - test: refactor test-doctool-html.js (abouthiroppy) #10696
[ab65429e44] - test: refactor test-watch-file.js (sivaprasanna) #10679
[4453c0c1dc] - test: refactor the code in test-child-process-spawn-loop.js (sivaprasanna) #10605
[42b86ea968] - test: improve test-http-chunked-304 (Adrian Estrada) #10462
[1ae95e64ee] - test: improve test-fs-readfile-zero-byte-liar (Adrian Estrada) #10570
[3f3c78d785] - test: refactor test-fs-utimes (Junshu Okamoto) #9290
[50a868b3f7] - test: require handler to be run in sigwinch test (Rich Trott) #11068
[c1f45ec2d0] - test: add 2nd argument to throws in test-assert (Marlena Compton) #11061
[f24aa7e071] - test: improve error messages in test-npm-install (Gonen Dukas) #11027
[1db89d4009] - test: improve coverage on removeListeners functions (matsuda-koushi) #11140
[c532c16e53] - test: increase specificity in dgram test (Rich Trott) #11187
[cb81ae8eea] - test: add vm module edge cases (Franziska Hinkelmann) #11265
[8629c956c3] - test: improve punycode test coverage (Sebastian Van Sande) #11144
[caf1ba15f9] - test: add coverage for dgram _createSocketHandle() (cjihrig) #11291
[d729e52ef3] - test: improve crypto coverage (Akito Ito) #11280
[d1a8588cab] - test: improve message in net-connect-local-error (Rich Trott) #11393
[f2fb4143b4] - test: refactor test-dgram-membership (Rich Trott) #11388
[bf4703d66f] - test: remove unused args and comparison fix (Alexander) #11396
[28471c23ff] - test: refactor test-http-response-splitting (Arseniy Maximov) #11429
[cd3e17e248] - test: improve coverage in test-crypto.dh (Eric Christie) #11253
[fa681ea55a] - test: add regex check to test-module-loading (Tarang Hirani) #11413
[f0eee61a93] - test: throw check in test-zlib-write-after-close (Jason Wilson) #11482
[f0c7c7fad4] - test: fix flaky test-vm-timeout-rethrow (Kunal Pathak) #11530
[53f2848dc8] - test: favor assertions over console logging (Rich Trott) #11547
[0109321fd8] - test: refactor test-https-truncate (Rich Trott) #10225
[536733697c] - test: simplify test-http-client-unescaped-path (Rod Vagg) #9649
[4ce9bfb4e7] - test: exclude pseudo-tty test pertinent to #11541 (Gireesh Punathil) #11602
[53dd1a8539] - tls: do not crash on STARTTLS when OCSP requested (Fedor Indutny) #10706
[e607ff52fa] - tools: rename eslintrc to an undeprecated format (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #7699
[6648b729b7] - tools: add compile_commands.json gyp generator (Ben Noordhuis) #7986
[8f49962f47] - tools: suggest python2 command in configure (Roman Reiss) #11375
[4b83a83c06] - tools,doc: add Google Analytics tracking. (Phillip Johnsen) #6601
[ef63af6006] - tty: avoid oob warning in TTYWrap::GetWindowSize() (Dmitry Tsvettsikh) #11454
[2c84601062] - util: don't init Debug if it's not needed yet (Bryan English) #8452

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