Node.js v4.4.1 (LTS)

Notable Changes

• build:
  • Updated Logos for the OSX + Windows installers
    • (Rod Vagg) #5401
    • (Robert Jefe Lindstaedt) #5531
  • New option to select your VS Version in the Windows installer
    • (julien.waechter) #4645
  • Support Visual C++ Build Tools 2015
    • (João Reis) #5627
• tools:
  • Gyp now works on OSX without XCode
    • (Shigeki Ohtsu) nodejs/node#1325

Commits

• [df283f8a03] - benchmark: fix linting issues (Rich Trott) #5773
• [c901741c60] - benchmark: use strict mode (Rich Trott) #5773
• [4be2065dbc] - benchmark: refactor to eliminate redeclared vars (Rich Trott) #5773
• [ddac368533] - benchmark: fix lint errors (Rich Trott) #5773
• [03b20a73b9] - benchmark: add benchmark for buf.compare() (Rich Trott) #5441
• [b816044845] - buffer: remove duplicated code in fromObject (HUANG Wei) #4948
• [067ce9b905] - build: don't install github templates (Johan Bergström) #5612
• [a1772dc515] - build: update Node.js logo on OSX installer (Rod Vagg) #5401
• [9058fc0383] - build: correctly detect clang version (Stefan Budeanu) #5553
• [1165ecc6f7] - build: update Node.js logo on Win installer (Robert Jefe Lindstaedt) #5531
• [4990ddad72] - build: remove --quiet from eslint invocation (firedfox) #5519
• [46a5d519dd] - build: skip msi build if WiX is not found (Tsarevich Dmitry) #5220
• [dac4e64491] - build: add option to select VS version (julien.waechter) #4645
• [7a10fd3a56] - collaborator_guide: clarify commit message rules (Wyatt Preul) #5661
• [97e95d04c2] - crypto: PBKDF2 works with int not ssize_t (Fedor Indutny) #5397
• [57b02e6a3e] - debugger: remove unneeded callback check (Rich Trott) #5319
• [19ae308867] - deps: update openssl config (Shigeki Ohtsu) #5630
• [d7b81b5bc7] - deps: cherry-pick 2e4da65 from v8's 4.8 upstream (Michael Dawson) #5293
• [1e05f371d6] - doc: fix typo in synchronous randomBytes example (Andrea Giammarchi) #5781
• [5f54bd2088] - doc: topic blocking vs non-blocking (Jarrett Widman) #5326
• [0943001563] - doc: fix invalid path doc comments (Rich Trott) #5797
• [bb423bb1e6] - doc: update release tweet template (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #5628
• [1e877f10aa] - doc: fix typo in child_process docs (Benjamin Gruenbaum) #5681
• [d53dcc599b] - doc: update fansworld-claudio username on README (Claudio Rodriguez) #5680
• [4332f8011e] - doc: fix return value of write methods (Felix Böhm) #5736
• [e572542de5] - doc: Add note about use of JSON.stringify() (Mithun Patel) #5723
• [daf3ef66ef] - doc: explain path.format() algorithm (Rich Trott) #5688
• [f6d4982aa0] - doc: clarify type of first argument in zlib (Kirill Fomichev) #5685
• [07e71b2d44] - doc: fix typo in api/addons (Daijiro Wachi) #5678
• [c6dc56175b] - doc: remove non-standard use of hyphens (Stefano Vozza)
• [4c92316972] - doc: add fansworld-claudio to collaborators (Claudio Rodriguez) #5668
• [0a6e883f85] - doc: add thekemkid to collaborators (Glen Keane) #5667
• [39c7d8a972] - doc: add AndreasMadsen to collaborators (Andreas Madsen) #5666
• [eec3008970] - doc: add whitlockjc to collaborators (Jeremy Whitlock) #5665
• [e5f254d83c] - doc: add benjamingr to collaborator list (Benjamin Gruenbaum) #5664
• [3f718643c9] - doc: add phillipj to collaborators (Phillip Johnsen) #5663
• [2d5527fe69] - doc: add mattloring to collaborators (Matt Loring) #5662
• [51763462bc] - doc: include typo in 'unhandledRejection' example (Robert C Jensen) #5654
• [cae5da2f0a] - doc: fix markdown links (Steve Mao) #5641
• [b1b17efcb7] - doc: move build instructions to a new document (Johan Bergström) #5634
• [13a8bde1fa] - doc: fix dns.resolveCname description typo (axvm) #5622
• [1faea43c40] - doc: fix typo in fs.symlink (Michaël Zasso) #5560
• [98a1bb6989] - doc: document directories in test directory (Michael Barrett) #5557
• [04d3f8a741] - doc: update link green to match homepage (silverwind) #5548
• [1afab6ac9c] - doc: add clarification on birthtime in fs stat (Kári Tristan Helgason) #5479
• [d871ae2349] - doc: fix typo in child_process documentation (Evan Lucas) #5474
• [97a18bdbad] - doc: update NAN urls in ROADMAP.md and doc/releases.md (ronkorving) #5472
• [d4a1fc7acd] - doc: add Testing WG (Rich Trott) #5461
• [1642078580] - doc: fix crypto function indentation level (Brian White) #5460
• [2b0c7ad985] - doc: fix links in tls, cluster docs (Alexander Makarenko) #5364
• [901dbabea6] - doc: fix relative links in net docs (Evan Lucas) #5358
• [38d429172d] - doc: fix typo in pbkdf2Sync code sample (Marc Cuva) #5306
• [d4cfc6f97c] - doc: add missing property in cluster example (Rafael Cepeda) #5305
• [b66d6b1458] - doc: improve httpVersionMajor / httpVersionMajor (Jackson Tian) #5296
• [70c872c9c4] - doc: improve unhandledException doc copy (James M Snell) #5287
• [ba5e0b6110] - doc: fix buf.readInt16LE output (Chinedu Francis Nwafili) #5282
• [1624d5b049] - doc: document base64url encoding support (Tristan Slominski) #5243
• [b1d580c9d2] - doc: update removeListener behaviour (Vaibhav) #5201
• [ca17f91ba8] - doc: add note for binary safe string reading (Anton Andesen) #5155
• [0830bb4950] - doc: clarify when writable.write callback is called (Kevin Locke) #4810
• [17a74305c8] - doc: add info to docs on how to submit docs patch (Sequoia McDowell) #4591
• [470a9ca909] - doc: add onboarding resources (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #3726
• [3168e6b486] - doc: update V8 URL (Craig Akimoto) #5530
• [04d16eb7e8] - doc: document fs.datasync(Sync) (Ron Korving) #5402
• [29646200f8] - doc: add Evan Lucas to the CTC (Rod Vagg)
• [a2a32b7810] - doc: add Rich Trott to the CTC (Rod Vagg) #5276
• [4e469d5e47] - doc: add Ali Ijaz Sheikh to the CTC (Rod Vagg) #5277
• [d09b44f59b] - doc: add Сковорода Никита Андреевич to the CTC (Rod Vagg) #5278
• [ebbc64bc97] - doc: add "building node with ninja" guide (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #4767
• [67245fa0e3] - doc: clarify code of conduct reporting (Julie Pagano) #5107
• [cd78ff9706] - doc: fix links in Addons docs (Alexander Makarenko) #5072
• [20539954ff] - docs: fix man pages link if tok type is code (Mithun Patel) #5721
• [38d7b0b6ea] - docs: update link to iojs+release ci job (Myles Borins) #5632
• [f982632f90] - http: remove old, confusing comment (Brian White) #5233
• [ca5d7a8bb6] - http: remove unnecessary check (Brian White) #5233
• [2ce83bd8f9] - http,util: fix typos in comments (Alexander Makarenko) #5279
• [b690916e5a] - lib: freelist: use .pop() for allocation (Anton Khlynovskiy) #2174
• [e7f45f0a17] - repl: handle quotes within regexp literal (Prince J Wesley) #5117
• [7c3b844f78] - src: return UV_EAI_NODATA on empty lookup (cjihrig) #4715
• [242a65e930] - stream: prevent object map change in TransformState (Evan Lucas) #5032
• [fb5ba6b928] - stream: prevent object map change in ReadableState (Evan Lucas) #4761
• [04db9efd78] - stream: fix no data on partial decode (Brian White) #5226
• [cc0e36ff98] - string_decoder: fix performance regression (Brian White) #5134
• [666d3690d8] - test: eval a strict function (Kári Tristan Helgason) #5250
• [9952bcf203] - test: bug repro for vm function redefinition (cjihrig) #5528
• [063f22f1f0] - test: check memoryUsage properties The properties on memoryUsage were not checked before, this commit checks them. (Wyatt Preul) #5546
• [7a0fcfc127] - test: remove broken debugger scenarios (Rich Trott) #5532
• [ba9ad2662c] - test: apply Linux workaround to Linux only (Rich Trott) #5471
• [4aa2c03d31] - test: increase timeout for test-tls-fast-writing (Rich Trott) #5466
• [b4ef644ce4] - test: retry on known SmartOS bug (Rich Trott) #5454
• [d681bf24b5] - test: fix flaky child-process-fork-regr-gh-2847 (Santiago Gimeno) #5422
• [b4fbe04514] - test: fix test-timers.reliability on OS X (Rich Trott) #5379
• [99269ffdbf] - test: increase timeouts on some unref timers tests (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #5352
• [85f927a774] - test: prevent flakey test on pi2 (Trevor Norris) #5537
• [c86902d800] - test: mitigate flaky test-http-agent (Rich Trott) #5346
• [f242e62817] - test: remove flaky designation from fixed tests (Rich Trott) #5459
• [a39aacf035] - test: refactor test-dgram-udp4 (Santiago Gimeno) #5339
• [6386f62221] - test: remove unneeded bind() and related comments (Aayush Naik) #5023
• [068b0cbd12] - test: move cluster tests to parallel (Rich Trott) #4774
• [a673c9ae2d] - tls: fix assert in context._external accessor (Ben Noordhuis) #5521
• [8ffef48fee] - tools: fix gyp to work on MacOSX without XCode (Shigeki Ohtsu) nodejs/node#1325
• [4b6a8f4321] - tools: update gyp to b3cef02 (Imran Iqbal) #3487
• [7501ddc878] - tools: support testing known issues (cjihrig) #5528
• [10ec1d2a6b] - tools: enable linting for benchmarks (Rich Trott) #5773
• [deec8bc5f5] - tools: reduce verbosity of cpplint (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #5578
• [64d5752711] - tools: enable no-self-assign ESLint rule (Rich Trott) #5552
• [131ed494e2] - tools: enable no-extra-parens in ESLint (Rich Trott) #5512
• [d4b9f02fdc] - tools: apply custom buffer lint rule to /lib only (Rich Trott) #5371
• [6867bed4c4] - tools: enable additional lint rules (Rich Trott) #5357
• [5e6b7605ee] - tools: add Node.js-specific ESLint rules (Rich Trott) #5320
• [6dc49ae203] - tools,benchmark: increase lint compliance (Rich Trott) #5773
• [dff7091fce] - url: group slashed protocols by protocol name (nettofarah) #5380
• [0e97a3ea51] - win,build: support Visual C++ Build Tools 2015 (João Reis) #5627

Windows 32-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.4.1/node-v4.4.1-x86.msi
Windows 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.4.1/node-v4.4.1-x64.msi
Windows 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.4.1/win-x86/node.exe
Windows 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.4.1/win-x64/node.exe
Mac OS X 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.4.1/node-v4.4.1.pkg
Mac OS X 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.4.1/node-v4.4.1-darwin-x64.tar.gz
Linux 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.4.1/node-v4.4.1-linux-x86.tar.xz
Linux 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.4.1/node-v4.4.1-linux-x64.tar.xz
Linux PPC LE 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.4.1/node-v4.4.1-linux-ppc64le.tar.xz
SmartOS 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.4.1/node-v4.4.1-sunos-x86.tar.xz
SmartOS 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.4.1/node-v4.4.1-sunos-x64.tar.xz
ARMv6 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.4.1/node-v4.4.1-linux-armv6l.tar.xz
ARMv7 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.4.1/node-v4.4.1-linux-armv7l.tar.xz
ARMv8 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.4.1/node-v4.4.1-linux-arm64.tar.xz
Source Code: https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.4.1/node-v4.4.1.tar.gz
Other release files: https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.4.1/
Documentation: https://nodejs.org/docs/v4.4.1/api/

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