version: 0.5.5
title: Node v0.5.5
author: bennoordhuis
date: Fri Aug 26 2011 23:20:10 GMT-0700 (PDT)
status: publish
category: release
slug: node-v0-5-5
< p > 2011.08.26, Version 0.5.5 (unstable)< / p >
< ul >
< li > typed arrays, implementation from Plesk
< li > fix IP multicast on SunOS
< li > fix DNS lookup order: IPv4 first, IPv6 second (--use-uv only)
< li > remove support for UNIX datagram sockets (--use-uv only)
< li > UDP support for Windows (Bert Belder)
< li > #1572 improve tab completion for objects in the REPL (Nathan Rajlich)
< li > #1563 fix buffer overflow in child_process module (reported by Dean McNamee)
< li > #1546 fix performance regression in http module (reported by Brian Geffon)
< li > #1491 add PBKDF2 crypto support (Glen Low)
< li > #1447 remove deprecated http.cat() function (Mikeal Rogers)
< li > #1140 fix incorrect dispatch of vm.runInContext's filename argument< br / >
(Antranig Basman)< / p >
< li > #1140 document vm.runInContext() and vm.createContext() (Antranig Basman)
< li > #1428 fix os.freemem() on 64 bits freebsd (Artem Zaytsev)
< li > #1164 make all DNS lookups async, fixes uncatchable exceptions< br / >
(Koichi Kobayashi)< / p >
< li > fix incorrect ssl shutdown check (Tom Hughes)
< li > various cmake fixes (Tom Hughes)
< li > improved documentation (Koichi Kobayashi, Logan Smyth, Fedor Indutny,< br / >
Mikeal Rogers, Maciej Małecki, Antranig Basman, Mickaël Delahaye)< / p >
< li > upgrade libuv to commit 835782a
< li > upgrade V8 to 3.5.8
< / ul >
< p > Download: < a href = "http://nodejs.org/dist/node-v0.5.5.tar.gz" > http://nodejs.org/dist/node-v0.5.5.tar.gz< / a > < / p >
< p > Windows Executable: < a href = "http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.5.5/node.exe" > http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.5.5/node.exe< / a > < / p >
< p > Website: < a href = "http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.5.5/" > http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.5.5/< / a > < / p >
< p > Documentation: < a href = "http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.5.5/api/" > http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.5.5/api/< / a > < / p >
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< b > Update:</ b > The < code > .exe</ code > has a bug that results in incompatibility with Windows XP and Server 2003. This has been reported in < a href = "https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/1592" > issue #1592 </ a > and fixed. A new binary was made that is compatibile with the older Windows: < a href = "http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.5.5/node-186364e.exe" > http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.5.5/node-186364e.exe</ a > .
