Node.js v4.2.5 (LTS)

Myles Borins

Notable changes

assert
- accommodate ES6 classes that extend Error (Rich Trott) #4166
build
- add "--partly-static" build options (Super Zheng) #4152
deps
- backport 066747e from upstream V8 (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #4655
- backport 200315c from V8 upstream (Vladimir Kurchatkin) #4128
- upgrade libuv to 1.8.0 (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé)
docs
- various updates landed in 70 different commits!
repl
- attach location info to syntax errors (cjihrig) #4013
- display error message when loading directory (Prince J Wesley) #4170
tests
- various updates landed in over 50 commits
tools
- add tap output to cpplint (Johan Bergström) #3448
util
- allow lookup of hidden values (cjihrig) #3988

Known issues

Some problems with unreferenced timers running during beforeExit are still to be resolved. See #1264.
Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. #690
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.

Commits

[87181cd74c] - assert: accommodate ES6 classes that extend Error (Rich Trott) #4166
[901172a783] - assert: typed array deepequal performance fix (Claudio Rodriguez) #4330
[55336810ee] - async_wrap: call callback in destructor (Trevor Norris) #3461
[a8b45e9e96] - async_wrap: new instances get uid (Trevor Norris) #3461
[49f16d77c4] - async_wrap: allow some hooks to be optional (Trevor Norris) #3461
[44ee33f945] - buffer: refactor create buffer (Jackson Tian) #4340
[138d004ac0] - buffer: faster case for create Buffer from new Buffer(0) (Jackson Tian) #4326
[c6dc2a1609] - buffer: Prevent Buffer constructor deopt (Bryce Baril) #4158
[a320045e68] - buffer: default to UTF8 in byteLength() (Tom Gallacher) #4010
[c5f71ac771] - build: add "--partly-static" build options (Super Zheng) #4152
[e6c25335ea] - build: omit -gline-tables-only for --enable-asan (Ben Noordhuis) #3680
[80b4ba286c] - build: Updates for AIX npm support - part 1 (Michael Dawson) #3114
[35e32985ca] - child_process: guard against race condition (Rich Trott) #4418
[48564204f0] - child_process: flush consuming streams (Dave) #4071
[481d59a74c] - configure: fix arm vfpv2 (Jörg Krause) #4203
[d19da6638d] - crypto: load PFX chain the same way as regular one (Fedor Indutny) #4165
[b8e75de1f3] - crypto: fix native module compilation with FIPS (Stefan Budeanu) #4023
[b7c3fb7f75] - crypto: disable crypto.createCipher in FIPS mode (Stefan Budeanu) #3754
[31b4091a1e] - debugger: also exit when the repl emits 'exit' (Felix Böhm) #2369
[9baa5618f5] - deps: backport 066747e from upstream V8 (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #4655
[c3a9d8a62e] - deps: backport 200315c from V8 upstream (Vladimir Kurchatkin) #4128
[1ebb0c0fdf] - deps: upgrade libuv to 1.8.0 (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé) #4276
[253fe3e7c8] - dns: remove nonexistant exports.ADNAME (Roman Reiss) #3051
[8c2b65ad82] - doc: clarify protocol default in http.request() (cjihrig) #4714
[33e72e135f] - doc: update links to use https where possible (jpersson) #4054
[5f4aa79410] - doc: clarify explanation of first stream section (Vitor Cortez) #4234
[295ca5bfb2] - doc: add branch-diff example to releases.md (Myles Borins) #4636
[18f5cd8710] - doc: update stylesheet to match frontpage (Roman Reiss) #4621
[2f40715f08] - doc: adds usage of readline line-by-line parsing (Robert Jefe Lindstaedt) #4609
[5b45a464ee] - doc: document http's server.listen return value (Sequoia McDowell) #4590
[bd31740339] - doc: label http.IncomingMessage as a Class (Sequoia McDowell) #4589
[bcd2cbbb93] - doc: fix description about the latest-codename (Minwoo Jung) #4583
[0b12bcb35d] - doc: add Evan Lucas to Release Team (Evan Lucas) #4579
[e20b1f6f10] - doc: add Myles Borins to Release Team (Myles Borins) #4578
[54977e63eb] - doc: add missing backtick for readline (Brian White) #4549
[5d6bed895c] - doc: bring releases.md up to date (cjihrig) #4540
[0cd2252e85] - doc: fix numbering in stream.markdown (Richard Sun) #4538
[8574d91f27] - doc: stronger suggestion for userland assert (Wyatt Preul) #4535
[a7bcf8b84d] - doc: close backtick in process.title description (Dave) #4534
[0ceb3148b0] - doc: improvements to events.markdown copy (James M Snell) #4468
[bf56d509b9] - doc: explain ClientRequest#setTimeout time unit (Ben Ripkens) #4458
[d927c51be3] - doc: improvements to errors.markdown copy (James M Snell) #4454
[ceea6df581] - doc: improvements to dns.markdown copy (James M Snell) #4449
[506f2f8ed1] - doc: add anchors for _transform _flush _writev in stream.markdown (iamchenxin) #4448
[74bcad0b78] - doc: improvements to dgram.markdown copy (James M Snell) #4437
[e244d560c9] - doc: improvements to debugger.markdown copy (James M Snell) #4436
[df7e1281a5] - doc: improvements to console.markdown copy (James M Snell) #4428
[abb17cc6c1] - doc: fix spelling error in lib/url.js comment (Nik Nyby) #4390
[823269db2d] - doc: improve assert.markdown copy (James M Snell) #4360
[2b1804f6cb] - doc: copyedit releases.md (Rich Trott) #4384
[2b142fd876] - doc: catch the WORKING_GROUPS.md bootstrap docs up to date (James M Snell) #4367
[ed87873de3] - doc: fix link in addons.markdown (Nicholas Young) #4331
[fe693b7a4f] - doc: Typo in buffer.markdown referencing buf.write() (chrisjohn404) #4324
[764df2166e] - doc: document the cache parameter for fs.realpathSync (Jackson Tian) #4285
[61f91b2f29] - doc: fix, modernize examples in docs (James M Snell) #4282
[d87ad302ce] - doc: clarify error events in HTTP module documentation (Lenny Markus) #4275
[7983577e41] - doc: fix improper http.get sample code (Hideki Yamamura) #4263
[6c30d087e5] - doc: Fixing broken links to the v8 wiki (Tom Gallacher) #4241
[cf214e56e4] - doc: move description of 'equals' method to right place (janriemer) #4227
[fb8e8dbb92] - doc: copyedit console doc (Rich Trott) #4225
[4ccf04c229] - doc: add mcollina to collaborators (Matteo Collina) #4220
[59654c21d4] - doc: add rmg to collaborators (Ryan Graham) #4219
[bfe1a6bd2b] - doc: add calvinmetcalf to collaborators (Calvin Metcalf) #4218
[5140c404ae] - doc: harmonize description of ca argument (Ben Noordhuis) #4213
[2e642051cf] - doc: copyedit child_process doc (Rich Trott) #4188
[7920f8dbde] - doc: copyedit buffer doc (Rich Trott) #4187
[c35a409cbe] - doc: clarify assert.fail doc (Rich Trott) #4186
[6235fdf72e] - doc: copyedit addons doc (Rich Trott) #4185
[990e7ff93e] - doc: update AUTHORS list (Rod Vagg) #4183
[8d676ef55e] - doc: change references from node to Node.js (Roman Klauke) #4177
[1c34b139a2] - doc: add brief Node.js overview to README (wurde) #4174
[27b9b72ab0] - doc: add iarna to collaborators (Rebecca Turner) #4144
[683d8dd564] - doc: add JungMinu to collaborators (Minwoo Jung) #4143
[17b06dfa94] - doc: add zkat to collaborators (Kat Marchán) #4142
[39364c4c72] - doc: improve child_process.markdown wording (yorkie) #4138
[abe452835f] - doc: url.format - true slash postfix behaviour (fansworld-claudio) #4119
[6dd375cfe2] - doc: document backlog for server.listen() variants (Jan Schär) #4025
[b71a3b363a] - doc: fixup socket.remoteAddress (Arthur Gautier) #4198
[e2fe214857] - doc: add links and backticks around names (jpersson) #4054
[bb158f8aed] - doc: s/node.js/Node.js in readme (Rod Vagg) #3998
[f55491ad47] - doc: move fs.existsSync() deprecation message (Martin Forsberg) #3942
[8c5b847f5b] - doc: Describe FIPSDIR environment variable (Stefan Budeanu) #3752
[70c95ea0e5] - doc: add warning about Windows process groups (Roman Klauke) #3681
[46c59b7256] - doc: add CTC meeting minutes 2015-10-28 (Rod Vagg) #3661
[7ffd299a1d] - doc: add final full stop in CONTRIBUTING.md (Emily Aviva Kapor-Mater) #3576
[1f78bff7ce] - doc: add TSC meeting minutes 2015-10-21 (Rod Vagg) #3480
[2e623ff024] - doc: add TSC meeting minutes 2015-10-14 (Rod Vagg) #3463
[b9c69964bb] - doc: add TSC meeting minutes 2015-10-07 (Rod Vagg) #3364
[f31d23c724] - doc: add TSC meeting minutes 2015-09-30 (Rod Vagg) #3235
[ae8e3af178] - doc: update irc channels: #node.js and #node-dev (Nelson Pecora) #2743
[830caeb1bd] - doc, test: symbols as event names (Bryan English) #4151
[82cbfcdcbe] - docs: update gpg key for Myles Borins (Myles Borins) #4657
[50b72aa5a3] - docs: fix npm command in releases.md (Myles Borins) #4656
[5bf56882e1] - fs,doc: use target instead of destination (yorkie) #3912
[41fcda840c] - http: use self.keepAlive instead of self.options.keepAlive (Damian Schenkelman) #4407
[3ff237333d] - http: Remove an unnecessary assignment (Bo Borgerson) #4323
[39dc054572] - http: remove excess calls to removeSocket (Dave) #4172
[751fbd84dd] - https: use servername in agent key (Fedor Indutny) #4389
[7a1a0a0055] - lib: remove unused modules (Rich Trott) #4683
[3d81ea99bb] - lib,test: update let to const where applicable (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #3152
[8a9869eeab] - module: fix column offsets in errors (Tristian Flanagan) #2867
[0ae90ecd3d] - module,repl: remove repl require() hack (Ben Noordhuis) #4026
[a7367fdc1e] - net: small code cleanup (Jan Schär) #3943
[03e9495cc2] - node: remove unused variables in AppendExceptionLine (Yazhong Liu) #4264
[06113b8711] - node: s/doNTCallbackX/nextTickCallbackWithXArgs/ (Rod Vagg) #4167
[8ce6843fe4] - os: fix crash in GetInterfaceAddresses (Martin Bark) #4272
[53dcbb6aa4] - repl: remove unused function (Rich Trott)
[db0e906fc1] - repl: Fixed node repl history edge case. (Mudit Ameta) #4108
[9855fab05f] - repl: use String#repeat instead of Array#join (Evan Lucas) #3900
[41882e4077] - repl: fix require('3rdparty') regression (Ben Noordhuis) #4215
[93afc39d4a] - repl: attach location info to syntax errors (cjihrig) #4013
[d4806675a6] - repl: display error message when loading directory (Prince J Wesley) #4170
[3080bdc7d7] - src: define Is* util functions with macros (cjihrig) #4118
[2b8a32a13b] - src: refactor vcbuild configure args creation (Rod Vagg) #3399
[d47f6ba768] - src: fix deprecation message for ErrnoException (Martin von Gagern) #4269
[5ba08fbf76] - src: fix line numbers on core errors (cjihrig) #4254
[70974e9362] - src: use GetCurrentProcessId() for process.pid (Ben Noordhuis) #4163
[c96eca164f] - src: don't print garbage errors (cjihrig) #4112
[f61412c753] - test: mark test-debug-no-context is flaky (Rich Trott) #4421
[46d8c93ed2] - test: don't use cwd for relative path (Johan Bergström) #4477
[b6124ea39c] - test: write to tmp dir rather than fixture dir (Rich Trott) #4489
[350fa664bb] - test: don't assume a certain folder structure (Johan Bergström) #3325
[6b2ef0efac] - test: make temp path customizable (Johan Bergström) #3325
[f1837703a9] - test: remove unused vars from parallel tests (Rich Trott) #4511
[b4964b099a] - test: remove unused variables form http tests (Rich Trott) #4422
[0d5a508dfb] - test: extend timeout in Debug mode (Rich Trott) #4431
[6e4598d5da] - test: remove unused variables from TLS tests (Rich Trott) #4424
[7b1aa045a0] - test: remove unused variables from HTTPS tests (Rich Trott) #4426
[da9e5c1b01] - test: remove unused variables from net tests (Rich Trott) #4430
[13241bd24b] - test: remove unused vars in ChildProcess tests (Rich Trott) #4425
[2f4538ddda] - test: remove unused vars (Rich Trott) #4536
[dffe83ccd6] - test: remove unused modules (Rich Trott) #4684
[c4eeb88ba1] - test: fix flaky cluster-disconnect-race (Brian White) #4457
[7caf87bf6c] - test: fix flaky test-http-agent-keepalive (Rich Trott) #4524
[25c41d084d] - test: remove flaky designations for tests (Rich Trott) #4519
[b8f097ece2] - test: fix flaky streams test (Rich Trott) #4516
[c24fa1437c] - test: inherit JOBS from environment (Johan Bergström) #4495
[7dc90e9e7f] - test: remove time check (Rich Trott) #4494
[7ca3c6c388] - test: refactor test-fs-empty-readStream (Rich Trott) #4490
[610727dea7] - test: clarify role of domains in test (Rich Trott) #4474
[1ae0e355b9] - test: improve assert message (Rich Trott) #4461
[e70c88df56] - test: remove unused assert module imports (Rich Trott) #4438
[c77fc71f9b] - test: remove unused var from test-assert.js (Rich Trott) #4405
[f613b3033f] - test: add test-domain-exit-dispose-again back (Julien Gilli) #4256
[f5bfacd858] - test: remove unused util imports (Rich Trott) #4562
[d795301025] - test: remove unnecessary assignments (Rich Trott) #4563
[acc3d66934] - test: move ArrayStream to common (cjihrig) #4027
[6c0021361c] - test: refactor test-net-connect-options-ipv6 (Rich Trott) #4395
[29804e00ad] - test: use platformTimeout() in more places (Brian White) #4387
[761af37d0e] - test: fix race condition in test-http-client-onerror (Devin Nakamura) #4346
[980852165f] - test: fix flaky test-net-error-twice (Brian White) #4342
[1bc44e79d3] - test: try other ipv6 localhost alternatives (Brian White) #4325
[44dbe15640] - test: fix debug-port-cluster flakiness (Ben Noordhuis) #4310
[73e781172b] - test: add test for tls.parseCertString (Evan Lucas) #4283
[15c295a21b] - test: use regular timeout times for ARMv8 (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #4248
[fd250b8fab] - test: parallelize test-repl-persistent-history (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #4247
[9a0f156e5a] - test: fix domain-top-level-error-handler-throw (Santiago Gimeno) #4364
[6bc1b1c259] - test: don't assume openssl s_client supports -ssl3 (Ben Noordhuis) #4204
[d00b9fc66f] - test: fix tls-inception flakiness (Santiago Gimeno) #4195
[c41b280a2b] - test: fix tls-inception (Santiago Gimeno) #4195
[6f4ab1d1ab] - test: mark test-cluster-shared-leak flaky (Rich Trott) #4162
[90498e2a68] - test: skip long path tests on non-Windows (Rafał Pocztarski) #4116
[c9100d78f3] - test: fix flaky test-net-socket-local-address (Rich Trott) #4109
[ac939d51d9] - test: improve cluster-disconnect-handles test (Brian White) #4084
[22ba1b4115] - test: eliminate multicast test FreeBSD flakiness (Rich Trott) #4042
[2ee7853bb7] - test: fix http-many-ended-pipelines flakiness (Santiago Gimeno) #4041
[a77dcfec06] - test: use platform-based timeout for reliability (Rich Trott) #4015
[3f0ff879cf] - test: fix time resolution constraint (Gireesh Punathil) #3981
[22b88e1c48] - test: add TAP diagnostic message for retried tests (Rich Trott) #3960
[22d2887b1c] - test: add OS X to module loading error test (Evan Lucas) #3901
[e2141cb75e] - test: skip instead of fail when mem constrained (Michael Cornacchia) #3697
[166523d0ed] - test: fix race condition in unrefd interval test (Michael Cornacchia) #3550
[86b47e8dc0] - timers: optimize callback call: bind -> arrow (Andrei Sedoi) #4038
[4d37472ea7] - tls_wrap: clear errors on return (Fedor Indutny) #4709
[5b695d0343] - tls_wrap: inherit from the AsyncWrap first (Fedor Indutny) #4268
[0efc35e6d8] - tls_wrap: slice buffer properly in ClearOut (Fedor Indutny) #4184
[628cb8657c] - tools: add .editorconfig (ronkorving) #2993
[69fef19624] - tools: implement no-unused-vars for eslint (Rich Trott) #4536
[3ee16706f2] - tools: enforce throw new Error() with lint rule (Rich Trott) #3714
[32801de4ef] - tools: Use throw new Error() consistently (Rich Trott) #3714
[f413fae0cd] - tools: add tap output to cpplint (Johan Bergström) #3448
[efa30dd2f0] - tools: enable prefer-const eslint rule (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #3152
[dd0c925896] - udp: remove a needless instanceof Buffer check (ronkorving) #4301
[f4414102ed] - util: faster arrayToHash (Jackson Tian)
[b421119984] - util: determine object types in C++ (cjihrig) #4100
[6a7c9d9293] - util: move .decorateErrorStack to internal/util (Ben Noordhuis) #4026
[422a865d46] - util: add decorateErrorStack() (cjihrig) #4013
[2d5380ea25] - util: fix constructor/instanceof checks (Brian White) #3385
[1bf84b9d41] - util,src: allow lookup of hidden values (cjihrig) #3988

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