Node v5.4.1 (Current)

Myles Borins

Notable Changes

  • Minor performance improvements:
    • module: move unnecessary work for early return (Andres Suarez) #3579
  • Various bug fixes
  • Various doc fixes
  • Various test improvements

Known issues

  • 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.
  • Unicode characters in filesystem paths are not handled consistently across platforms or Node.js APIs. See #2088, #3401 and #3519.

Commits

  • [ff539c5bb5] - cluster: ignore queryServer msgs on disconnection (Santiago Gimeno) #4465
  • [00148b3de1] - deps: backport 066747e from upstream V8 (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #4625
  • [3912b5cbda] - doc: adds usage of readline line-by-line parsing (Robert Jefe Lindstaedt) #4609
  • [102fb7d3a1] - doc: remove "above" and "below" references (Richard Sun) #4499
  • [df87176ae0] - doc: update stylesheet to match frontpage (Roman Reiss) #4621
  • [ede98d1f98] - doc: stronger suggestion for userland assert (Wyatt Preul) #4535
  • [fdfc72c977] - doc: label http.IncomingMessage as a Class (Sequoia McDowell) #4589
  • [b181e26975] - doc: document http's server.listen return value (Sequoia McDowell) #4590
  • [97aaeb8519] - doc: fix description about the latest-codename (Minwoo Jung) #4583
  • [0126615d1e] - doc: add Evan Lucas to Release Team (Evan Lucas) #4579
  • [ec73c69412] - doc: add Myles Borins to Release Team (Myles Borins) #4578
  • [e703c9a4e2] - doc: bring releases.md up to date (cjihrig) #4540
  • [ac1108d5e7] - doc: add missing backtick for readline (Brian White) #4549
  • [09bc0c6a05] - doc: improvements to crypto.markdown copy (James M Snell) #4435
  • [787c5d96bd] - http: remove variable redeclaration (Rich Trott) #4612
  • [145b66820f] - module: move unnecessary work for early return (Andres Suarez) #3579
  • [ffb7deb443] - net: remove hot path comment from connect (Evan Lucas) #4648
  • [799aa74d90] - net: fix dns lookup for android (Josh Dague) #4580
  • [9accebe087] - net, doc: fix line wrapping lint in net.js (James M Snell) #4588
  • [37a546b490] - src: remove redeclarations of variables (Rich Trott) #4605
  • [b515ccc2a1] - stream: remove useless if test in transform (zoubin) #4617
  • [ea6e26d904] - test: remove duplicate fork module import (Rich Trott) #4634
  • [b14b2aec5e] - test: require common module only once (Rich Trott) #4611
  • [f28a640505] - test: only include http module once (Rich Trott) #4606
  • [6f9a96f497] - test: fix flaky unrefed timers test (Rich Trott) #4599
  • [b70eec8f7b] - tls_legacy: do not read on OpenSSL's stack (Fedor Indutny) #4624

Windows 32-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v5.4.1/node-v5.4.1-x86.msi
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  1. Notable Changes
  2. Known issues
  3. Commits