News from 2017

• 03 May Node v7.10.0 (Current)
  • crypto: add randomFill and randomFillSync (Evan Lucas) #10209
  • meta: Added new collaborators
    • add lucamaraschi to collaborators (Luca Maraschi) #12538
    • add DavidCai1993 to collaborators (David Cai) #12435
    • add jkrems to collaborators (Jan Krems) #12427
    • add AnnaMag to collaborators (AnnaMag) #12414
  • process: fix crash when Promise rejection is a Symbol (Cameron Little) #11640
  • url: make WHATWG URL more spec compliant (Timothy Gu) #12507
  • v8:
    • fix stack overflow in recursive method (Ben Noordhuis) #12460
    • fix build errors with g++ 7 (Ben Noordhuis) #12392

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• 02 May Node v4.8.3 (Maintenance)
  • module:
    • The module loading global fallback to the Node executable's directory now works correctly on Windows. (Richard Lau) #9283
  • src:
    • fix base64 decoding in rare edgecase (Nikolai Vavilov) #11995
  • tls:
    • fix rare segmentation faults when using TLS
      • (Trevor Norris) #11947
      • (Ben Noordhuis) #11898
      • (jBarz) #11776

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• 02 May Node v6.10.3 (LTS)
  • module:
    • The module loading global fallback to the Node executable's directory now works correctly on Windows. (Richard Lau) #9283
  • src:
    • fix base64 decoding in rare edgecase (Nikolai Vavilov) #11995
  • tls:
    • fix rare segmentation faults when using TLS
      • (Trevor Norris) #11947
      • (Ben Noordhuis) #11898
      • (jBarz) #11776

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• 11 Apr Node v7.9.0 (Current)
  • util: console is now closer to what is supported in all major browsers (Roman Reiss) #10308

  • [9f73df5910] - deps: cherry-pick 22858cb from V8 upstream (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #11998
  • [b997e62692] - test: add internal/socket_list tests (DavidCai) #12109
  • [c11c23b22b] - doc: make the heading consistent (Sakthipriyan Vairamani (thefourtheye)) #11569
  • [67d21149a2] - crypto: handle exceptions in hmac/hash.digest (Tobias Nießen) #12164
  • [3b765f5366] - doc: fix confusing example in process.md (Vse Mozhet Byt) #12282
  • [37568c093a] - src: use std::list for at_exit_functions (Daniel Bevenius) #12255
  • [2f9e2fcf3e] - doc: update information on test/known_issues (Jan Krems) #12262
  • [0f4319a14a] - src: use std::string for trace enabled_categories (Sam Roberts) #12242
  • [6826637f11] - doc: fix missing argument for dns.resolvePtr() (Uppinder Chugh) #12256
  • [4a6bb378d4] - doc: fix confusing reference in net.md (Vse Mozhet Byt) #12247
  • [3e8991cc56] - doc: modernize and fix code examples in modules.md (Vse Mozhet Byt) #12224
  • [376f5ef1ee] - doc: document the performance team (Gibson Fahnestock) #12213
  • [c0b7c075da] - doc: add refack to collaborators (Refael Ackermann) #12277
  • [83f855d505] - doc: add aqrln to collaborators (Alexey Orlenko) #12273
  • [2fb2289177] - doc: add sub domain to host in url (Steven) #12233
  • [ac200a6122] - test: add a second argument to assert.throws() (dave-k) #12139
  • [3cdd04b1c0] - test: skip irrelevant test on Windows (Rich Trott) #12261
  • [d4d6986551] - build: fix path voodoo in icu-generic.gyp (Refael Ackermann) #11217
  • [a735c16d52] - deps: backport ec1ffe3 from upstream V8 (Daniel Bevenius) #12061
  • [d641164d09] - doc: update pull request template URL layout (Rich Trott) #12216
  • [6feea08587] - buffer: preallocate array with buffer length (alejandro) #11733
  • [a703bdecc4] - build: add checks for openssl configure options (Daniel Bevenius) #12175
  • [b495b6acdf] - build: make configure print statements consistent (Daniel Bevenius) #12176
  • [f60b4553f3] - doc: modernize and fix code examples in https.md (Vse Mozhet Byt) #12171
  • [74d0266694] - doc: fix string interpolation in Stream 'finish' (Vinay Hiremath) #12221
  • [4b54520a4a] - test: refactor mkdtemp test and added async (Luca Maraschi) #12080
  • [8caf6fd58a] - test: add Unicode characters regression test (Alexey Orlenko) #11423
  • [961c89cc61] - doc: add table of contents to README.md (Jason Marsh) #11635
  • [a11ed6a0b3] - test: more robust check for location of node.exe (Refael Ackermann) #12120
  • [6083e7aa7b] - benchmark: avoid TurboFan deopt in arrays bench (Michaël Zasso) #11894
  • [cf1117bc13] - doc: fix the timing of setImmediate's execution (Daiki Arai) #12034
  • [806c4f3c0c] - doc: fix fs.read arg type (Daiki Arai) #12034
  • [c814c7e9ea] - events: do not keep arrays with a single listener (Luigi Pinca) #12043
  • [36617fd5b8] - doc: add notes to http.get options (Raphael Okon) #12124
  • [9e6b0a4604] - test: performance, remove Popen(shell=True) on Win (Refael Ackermann) #12138
  • [805ebef8b1] - buffer: optimize decoding wrapped base64 data (Alexey Orlenko) #12146
  • [fb34d9c210] - test: increase querystring coverage (DavidCai) #12163
  • [d6e9cf7c22] - doc: fix and update examples in http.md (Vse Mozhet Byt) #12169
  • [f057cc3d84] - benchmark: replace [].join() with ''.repeat() (Vse Mozhet Byt) #12170
  • [b15dc95848] - test: fix flaky test-child-process-exec-timeout (Santiago Gimeno) #12159
  • [72a27b3eb5] - build: use $(RM) in Makefile for consistency (Gibson Fahnestock) #12157
  • [3af9101d20] - doc, inspector: note that the host is optional (Gibson Fahnestock) #12149
  • [b52b3f6710] - test: reduce buffer size in buffer-creation test (Sakthipriyan Vairamani (thefourtheye)) #11177
  • [b5283f9d4b] - doc: add logo to README (Roman Reiss) #12148
  • [305f822a36] - net: rename internal functions for readability (Joyee Cheung) #11796
  • [2f88de1ce3] - vm: use SetterCallback to set func declarations (AnnaMag) #12051
  • [ffbcfdfe32] - src: fix base64 decoding (Nikolai Vavilov) #11995
  • [8823861d9d] - tools: update dotfile whitelist in .gitignore (Michaël Zasso) #12116
  • [87ca9a6ffe] - test: fix flaky child-process-exec-kill-throws (Rich Trott) #12111
  • [fdf76d5aa0] - tools: add missing #include "unicode/putil.h" (Steven R. Loomis) #12078
  • [6130d547a0] - deps: backport 8dde6ac from upstream V8 (Daniel Bevenius) #12060
  • [1ee38eb874] - (SEMVER-MINOR) util: add %i and %f formatting specifiers (Roman Reiss) #10308
  • [5ac719d0d2] - doc: add deprecations page to docs toc (Michaël Zasso) #12268

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• 04 Apr Node v4.8.2 (Maintenance)
  • crypto:
    • fix memory leak if certificate is revoked (Tom Atkinson) #12089
  • deps:
    • upgrade zlib to 1.2.11 (Sam Roberts) #10980

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• 04 Apr Node v6.10.2 (LTS)
  • crypto:
    • fix memory leak if certificate is revoked (Tom Atkinson) #12089
  • deps:
    • upgrade zlib to 1.2.11 (Sam Roberts) #10980
    • backport V8 fixes for spread syntax regression causing segfaults (Michaël Zasso) #12037
  • repl:
    • Revert commit that broke REPL display on Windows (Myles Borins) #12123

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• 29 Mar Node v7.8.0 (Current)
  • buffer:
    • do not segfault on out-of-range index (Timothy Gu) #11927
  • crypto:
    • Fix memory leak if certificate is revoked (Tom Atkinson) #12089
  • deps:
    • upgrade npm to 4.2.0 (Kat Marchán) #11389
    • fix async await desugaring in V8 (Michaël Zasso) #12004
  • readline:
    • add option to stop duplicates in history (Danny Nemer) #2982

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• 21 Mar Node v7.7.4 (Current)

  Thank you to @italoacasas for preparing the majority of this release.

  • deps: Upgraded internal node-inspect version to 1.10.6, containing several fixes. (Jan Krems) #11869
  • inspector: Use proper WebSockets URLs when bound to 0.0.0.0 (Eugene Ostroukhov) #11850
  • tls: Fixed a segfault when the handle was destroyed after a partial read. (Ben Noordhuis) #11898

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• 21 Mar Node v6.10.1 (LTS)
  • performance: The performance of several APIs has been improved.
    • Buffer.compare() is up to 35% faster on average. (Brian White) #10927
    • buffer.toJSON() is up to 2859% faster on average. (Brian White) #10895
    • fs.*statSync() functions are now up to 9.3% faster on average. (Brian White) #11522
    • os.loadavg is up to 151% faster. (Brian White) #11516
    • process.memoryUsage() is up to 34% faster. (Brian White) #11497
    • querystring.unescape() for Buffers is 15% faster on average. (Brian White) #10837
    • querystring.stringify() is up to 7.8% faster on average. (Brian White) #10852
    • querystring.parse() is up to 21% faster on average. (Brian White) #10874
  • 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.
  • child_process: spawnSync now returns a null status when child is terminated by a signal. (cjihrig) #11288
    • This fixes the behavior to act like spawn() does.
  • http:
    • Control characters are now always rejected when using http.request(). (Ben Noordhuis) #8923
    • Debug messages have been added for cases when headers contain invalid values. (Evan Lucas) #9195
  • node: Heap statistics now support values larger than 4GB. (Ben Noordhuis) #10186
  • timers: Timer callbacks now always maintain order when interacting with domain error handling. (John Barboza) #10522

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• 21 Mar Node v4.8.1 (LTS)
  • 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

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• 14 Mar Node v7.7.3 (Current)
• 08 Mar Node v7.7.2 (Current)
• 02 Mar Node v7.7.1 (Current)
• 01 Mar Node v7.7.0 (Current)
• 28 Feb Diag WG Update - Many new tools, phasing out some old ones
• 22 Feb Node v7.6.0 (Current)
• 22 Feb Node.js - Quality with Speed
• 22 Feb Node v6.10.0 (LTS)
• 22 Feb Node v4.8.0 (LTS)
• 10 Feb Weekly Update - February 10th, 2017
• 01 Feb Node v7.5.0 (Current)
• 01 Feb Node v4.7.3 (LTS)
• 01 Feb Node v6.9.5 (LTS)
• 27 Jan OpenSSL update, 1.0.2k
• 26 Jan The Node.js Foundation Partners with The Linux Foundation on New Node.js Certification Program
• 20 Jan Node.js Foundation Individual Membership Director election opens Friday, January 20
• 05 Jan Node v6.9.4 (LTS)
• 05 Jan Node v4.7.2 (LTS)
• 04 Jan Node v7.4.0 (Current)
• 04 Jan Node v4.7.1 (LTS)
• 04 Jan Node v6.9.3 (LTS)