Node v8.6.0 (Current)

James M Snell

Notable Changes

crypto
- Support for multiple ECDH curves. #15206
dgram
- Added setMulticastInterface() API. #7855
- Custom lookup functions are now supported. #14560
n-api
- The command-line flag is no longer required to use N-API. #14902
tls
- Docs-only deprecation of parseCertString(). #14245
New Contributors
- Welcome Sebastiaan Deckers (@sebdeckers) as a new Collaborator! #15354

Commits

[4f7d9392e7] - assert: improve AssertionError in case of "Errors" (Ruben Bridgewater) #15025
[f6c65e6e19] - assert: fix boxed primitives in deepStrictEqual (Ruben Bridgewater) #15050
[7fa175f6d3] - assert: fix deepEqual inconsistencies (Ruben Bridgewater) #14491
[17d8dfec70] - async_hooks: support promise resolve hook (Anna Henningsen) #15296
[81723a9172] - (SEMVER-MINOR) async_hooks,doc: some async_hooks improvements (James M Snell) #15103
[535f8d5281] - benchmark: var to const (Ruben Bridgewater) #13757
[0f8f37ed45] - benchmark: improve and add more inspect benchmarks (Ruben Bridgewater) #14881
[3bf718c3fe] - benchmark: enable assert benchmark with short len (Rich Trott) #15174
[d30a5836b6] - benchmark: provide default methods for assert (Rich Trott) #15174
[142d2ed057] - benchmark: use smaller n value in some http tests (Peter Marshall) #14002
[5e4f87ae65] - buffer: improve Buffer.from performance (Anatoli Papirovski) #15178
[8bbbda55e4] - build: use generic names for linting tasks (Nikolai Vavilov) #15272
[9685b9ff2f] - build: don't fail make test on source tarballs (Gibson Fahnestock) #15441
[354f32040d] - build: remove unused configuration variable (Ben Noordhuis) #15266
[5d217ad5d7] - build: add support for link-module to vcbuild (Bartosz Sosnowski) #15410
[607832d3c3] - child_process: set shell to false in fork() (Alex Gresnel) #15352
[c26e93b309] - crypto: fix Node_SignFinal (David Benjamin) #15024
[bd07574718] - (SEMVER-MINOR) crypto: support multiple ECDH curves and auto (Roga Pria Sembada) #15206
[5e043a6c78] - deps: define BUILDING_NGHTTP2 during nghttp2 build (Ben Noordhuis) #15487
[2e75ac028a] - deps: v8: fix potential segfault in profiler (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #15498
[2944ea6c6b] - (SEMVER-MINOR) dgram: add custom lookup function in sockets (cjihrig) #14560
[b24ee68133] - (SEMVER-MINOR) dgram: added setMulticastInterface() (Will Young) #7855
[f6b484461c] - doc: ctc -> tsc in onboarding extras (Bryan English) #15621
[f38666a967] - doc: ctc -> tsc in collab guide (Bryan English) #15590
[02c62df75e] - doc: remove invalid hash in link (Vse Mozhet Byt) #15542
[6cd64f36bc] - doc: note caveats in process message serialization (Joyee Cheung) #12963
[1fbb86c64b] - doc: fix 'aborted' event documentation (Luigi Pinca) #15471
[2326d655de] - doc: fix types and description for dns.resolveTxt (Tobias Nießen) #15472
[fcbee7b4bb] - doc: fix some links in http2.md (Vse Mozhet Byt) #15481
[9d6b0e6f6f] - doc: fix external links with 404 status (Vse Mozhet Byt) #15463
[29fd88c3e5] - doc: fix new nits in links (Vse Mozhet Byt) #15449
[4efc6fec6b] - doc: fix some internal links (Vse Mozhet Byt) #15293
[5ea4b88a29] - doc: adding sebdeckers to collaborators (Sebastiaan Deckers) #15354
[d5d498b6dc] - doc: update AUTHORS list (Michaël Zasso) #15181
[950f7f5fe1] - doc: update README with SHASUMS256.txt.sig info (Jon Moss) #15107
[38422d5963] - doc: fix nits in esm.md (Vse Mozhet Byt) #15315
[b0f5b2a38c] - doc: fix "added in" for Buffer.allocUnsafeSlow() (Tuan Anh Tran) #15330
[8112f496dc] - doc: add missing heading for error (Jon Moss) #15325
[29707afd82] - doc: add missing doc for readable._destroy (Michaël Zasso) #15316
[9f4480ce90] - doc: use consistent terminology in process doc (Rich Trott) #15321
[a53a0d8b38] - doc: fix emitKeypressEvents stream type (Oblosys) #15399
[b5c1a82560] - doc: fix http.ClientRequest method descriptions (Antoine AMARA) #15163
[f0e411d1b2] - doc: prevent displaying empty version picker (Chris Young) #15420
[acb0d012b3] - doc: make mkdtemp example work on Windows (Bartosz Sosnowski) #15408
[bdfed1ad25] - doc: fix entryTypes type and missing link (Mani Maghsoudlou) #15406
[7fa2bee5e7] - doc: add documentation for the 'timeout' event (Luigi Pinca) #15443
[b09eeb4a3d] - (SEMVER-MINOR) doc, tls: mark parseCertString() as deprecated (XadillaX) #14245
[e0f5e3a199] - docs: clarify usage cli options -e,-p on windows (Łukasz Szewczak) #15568
[a792ea7709] - docs: update 8.5.0 changelog (Myles Borins) #15384
[0a8258b3de] - errors: remove duplicate error definition (Jon Moss)
[a14b252c5c] - errors: eliminate circular dependency on assert (James M Snell) #15002
[b58a2aae1b] - errors: fix ERR_MODULE_RESOLUTION_LEGACY message (Tobias Nießen) #15290
[da3265ad82] - errors: backport ERR_INVALID_PROTOCOL to v8.x (Myles Borins) #15388
[2e0313865b] - errors,tools: alphabetize-errors lint rule (Jon Moss) #15083
[771c2ac7c2] - http: revert #14024 writable is never set to false (Matteo Collina) #15404
[68ec157be0] - http2: fix compat stream read handling, add tests (Anatoli Papirovski) #15503
[9fc8eddfdd] - http2: remove unused onTimeout, add timeout tests (Anatoli Papirovski) #15539
[1691827b8c] - http2: small fixes to compatibility layer (Anatoli Papirovski) #15473
[66a5f99828] - http2: improved coverage of Http2Stream destroy (Simon Brewster) #15461
[ba9012d4bc] - http2: add tests for push stream error handling (Anatoli Papirovski) #15281
[b61220ed84] - http2: fix subsequent end calls to not throw (Anatoli Papirovski) #15414
[2e421ff5c9] - http2: correct behaviour for enablePush unpack (Anatoli Papirovski) #15167
[9490be353e] - http2: cleanup of h2 compat layer, add tests (Anatoli Papirovski) #15254
[aa0917cd0a] - http2: improve http2 coverage (James M Snell) #15210
[a6879bfab6] - http2: custom promisify for http2.connect (James M Snell) #15207
[2ea2725ce0] - http2: emit close event if request aborted (Anatoli Papirovski) #15415
[b9a9290e8d] - http2: expand list of known headers (Anatoli Papirovski) #15434
[a32c8a566e] - http2,async-wrap: introduce AliasedBuffer class (Mike Kaufman) #15077
[25692a985c] - inspector: break in eval script (Eugene Ostroukhov) #14581
[cf1fe762dc] - lib: improve lazy requires (Ruben Bridgewater) #14167
[8ce0e9a619] - lib: refactor console startup (Ruben Bridgewater) #15111
[91e96d8f08] - lib,src: fix consistent spacing inside braces (James M Snell) #14162
[ede09f29d0] - meta: allow vague objections to be dismissed (James M Snell) #15233
[727d7b5078] - meta: improve contributors guide (James M Snell) #15123
[c005713d05] - module: check file url passed to top-level import (guybedford) #15389
[939c8ed084] - module: coverity fixes for ESM C++ (Bradley Farias) #15275
[a95ddc9484] - n-api: fix warning about size_t compare with int (Sampson Gao) #15508
[cd3a8e8832] - n-api: remove n-api module loading flag (Gabriel Schulhof) #14902
[526e78f5cd] - n-api: add optional string length parameters (Sampson Gao) #15343
[87a3162f85] - n-api: Context for custom async operations (Jason Ginchereau) #15189
[7b7c030adc] - (SEMVER-MINOR) n-api: change async resource name to napi_value (Jason Ginchereau) #14697
[d5b3002572] - n-api: stop creating references to primitives (Gabriel Schulhof) #15289
[a47fe692b1] - (SEMVER-MINOR) n-api: use AsyncResource for Work tracking (Anna Henningsen) #14697
[8f12b9dce4] - n-api: refactor napi_addon_register_func (Taylor Woll) #15088
[a2d340fb00] - n-api: napi_is_construct_call->napi_get_new_target (Sampson Gao) #14698
[fe9bb7e51e] - net: support passing null to listen() (cjihrig) #14221
[19d2d6611c] - path: fix normalize paths ending with two dots (Michaël Zasso) nodejs-private/node-private#94
[8eeaba62bc] - readline: name some anonymous functions (Flandre Scarlet) #14297
[4907ae7cb9] - src: correct typo in trace_event header (Daniel Bevenius) #15583
[4f88c19cf3] - src: add --pending-deprecation to NODE_OPTIONS (Thomas Corbière) #15494
[b87088c0b1] - src: remove unused constant from node_perf.h (Anna Henningsen) #15548
[90d14df56d] - src: minor c++ refactors to module_wrap (Anna Henningsen) #15515
[24271a7aca] - src: do not include internals from node_buffer.h (Anna Henningsen) #15554
[774e42b575] - (SEMVER-MINOR) src: refactor #include handling (Anna Henningsen) #14697
[29e38ab2a2] - src: remove unused perf_hooks uv handles (James M Snell) #15368
[606da2ba43] - (SEMVER-MINOR) src: make in_makecallback() getter const (Anna Henningsen) #14697
[98967c988f] - (SEMVER-MINOR) src: refactor async callback handling (Anna Henningsen) #14697
[f60a2aa982] - (SEMVER-MINOR) src: remove virtually unused ExecScope (Anna Henningsen) #14697
[6c520af6d5] - (SEMVER-MINOR) src: move DomainEnter,DomainExit to node.cc (Anna Henningsen) #14697
[8c480f9d8c] - src: remove outdated todo from node_crypto.cc (Bartek Szczepański) #15104
[409576e015] - test: expand http2 util test coverage for headers (Anatoli Papirovski) #15493
[0503c44835] - test: update test-fs-fsync to run from temp (atvoicu) #15537
[29f0ad6ccb] - test: fixing AliasedBuffer tests to enter Isolate (Mike Kaufman) #15536
[eccf503362] - test: improve readline test coverage for tty (Claudio Rodriguez) #12064
[58b9495c42] - test: use reserved invalid hostname for tests (icarter09) #14781
[b1227147b9] - test: clean up some assert deepEqual tests (Ruben Bridgewater) #14491
[93c08b0735] - test: improve util inspect tests (Ruben Bridgewater) #14881
[59f183640b] - test: refactor test for readability (Refael Ackermann) #13003
[757c34276b] - test: fix actual and expected order (Ruben Bridgewater) #14881
[5125c08c50] - test: remove obsolete debugger tests (Rich Trott) #15139
[7dfd570cad] - test: add test-benchmark-assert (Rich Trott) #15174
[a9066459ad] - test: convert buffer benchmark to runBenchmark (Jon Moss) #15349
[45cdbcfee6] - test: create shared runBenchmark function (Jon Moss) #15004
[ba96c8f23e] - test: don't skip when common.mustCall() is pending (cjihrig) #15421
[50b6203a33] - (SEMVER-MINOR) test: add regression test for 5691 (Anna Henningsen) #14697
[f0a741d178] - test: kill subprocess only after last ACK (Refael Ackermann) #15186
[4d68064493] - test: move common.PORT tests to sequential (Jon Moss) #15151
[a92f3dfd8c] - test: make test-http-agent-maxsockets robust (Rich Trott) #15192
[edece30930] - test: remove random timer in test-tls-fast-writing (Rich Trott) #15138
[b1a0bdcdaf] - test: remove faulty test case (Ruben Bridgewater) #15110
[cd238e2c0e] - test: check inspect array with empty string key (Rahul Mishra) #15258
[3ce501c8ff] - test: improve process warning coverage (James M Snell) #15212
[a2c335b973] - test: fix sequential/test-async-wrap-getasyncid (Anna Henningsen) #15319
[94e2b5c371] - test: refactor test-debug-prompt (Rich Trott) #15141
[5881033138] - test: remove invalid test (Rich Trott) #15320
[a1abf62cc3] - test: allow adding known-globals through ENV (Refael Ackermann) #15187
[427bf80194] - test: add test for fork() + shell (cjihrig) #15352
[4d26c68b6b] - test: move test-benchmark-buffer to sequential (Rich Trott) #15373
[1fbdf47742] - test: fix flaky test-http2-session-timeout (Anatoli Papirovski) #15338
[f20fb4ce40] - test: do not write fixture in test-require-symlink (Rich Trott) #15067
[389c8c33d7] - test: expand http2 frameError test case (Anatoli Papirovski) #15298
[d82ae0cb6e] - test: backward compatible api for tty (Gergely Nemeth) #15235
[e014983ec4] - test,process: run 'abort' suite on Windows (Refael Ackermann) #15056
[6a94c1aa3b] - timers: clarify lib/timer.js comment (Daniel Bevenius) #11018
[ee157e5a7f] - tls: prefer path over port in connect (Bryan English) #14564
[9049f09e0f] - tools: enforce consistent spacing inside braces (Sebastiaan Deckers) #14162
[6c221b83e3] - url: fix windows drive letter handling (Benjamin Coe) #15490
[fc1448f357] - util: improve format performance (Ruben Bridgewater) #15422
[5b47f846b0] - util: fix out of bounds indices in util.inspect (Ruben Bridgewater) #14881
[9e8b1b3ec6] - util: refactor inspect for performance and more (Ruben Bridgewater) #14881
[539445890b] - util: add fast internal array join method (Ruben Bridgewater) #14881
[7d95dc385c] - vm: support parsing a script in a specific context (Timothy Gu) #14888 james@ubuntu:~/node/main$

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