News from 2017

• 05 Jan Node v6.9.4 (LTS)

  This is a special release that contains 0 commits. While promoting additional platforms for v6.9.3 after the release, the tarballs on the release server were overwritten and now have different shasums. In order to remove any ambiguity around the release we have opted to do a semver patch release with no changes.

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• 05 Jan Node v4.7.2 (LTS)

  This is a special release that contains 0 commits. While promoting additional platforms for v4.7.1 after the release, the tarballs on the release server were overwritten and now have different shasums. In order to remove any ambiguity around the release we have opted to do a semver patch release with no changes.

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• 04 Jan Node v7.4.0 (Current)
  • buffer:
    • Improve performance of Buffer allocation by ~11%. (Brian White) #10443
    • Improve performance of Buffer.from() by ~50%. (Brian White) #10443
  • events: Improve performance of EventEmitter.once() by ~27%. (Brian White) #10445
  • fs: Allow passing Uint8Array to fs methods where Buffers are supported. (Anna Henningsen) #10382
  • http: Improve performance of http server by ~7%. (Brian White) #6533
  • npm: Upgrade to v4.0.5 (Kat Marchán) #10330

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• 04 Jan Node v4.7.1 (LTS)

  While promoting additional platforms for v4.7.1 after the release, the tarballs on the release server were overwritten and now have different shasums. In order to remove any ambiguity around the release we have opted to do a semver patch release, v4.7.2, with no changes.

  • build: shared library support is now working for AIX builds (Stewart Addison) #9675
  • repl: Passing options to the repl will no longer overwrite defaults (cjihrig) #7826
  • timers: Re canceling a cancelled timers will no longer throw (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #9685

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• 04 Jan Node v6.9.3 (LTS)

  While promoting additional platforms for v6.9.3 after the release, the tarballs on the release server were overwritten and now have different shasums. In order to remove any ambiguity around the release we have opted to do a semver patch release, v6.9.4, with no changes.

  • build: shared library support is now working for AIX builds (Stewart Addison) #9675
  • deps:
    • npm: upgrade npm to 3.10.10 (Rebecca Turner) #9847
    • V8: Destructuring of arrow function arguments via computed property no longer throws (Michaël Zasso) #10386
  • inspector: /json/version returns object, not an object wrapped in an array (Ben Noordhuis) #9762
  • module: using --debug-brk and --eval together now works as expected (Kelvin Jin) #8876
  • process: improve performance of nextTick up to 20% (Evan Lucas) #8932
  • repl:
    • the division operator will no longer be accidentally parsed as regex (Teddy Katz) #10103
    • improved support for generator functions (Teddy Katz) #9852
  • timers: Re canceling a cancelled timers will no longer throw (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #9685

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