* [[`3b27dd5ce1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3b27dd5ce1)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **buffer**: throw if both length and enc are passed (Mathias Buus) [#4514](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4514)
* [[`f429fe1b88`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f429fe1b88)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **crypto**: fail early when loading crypto without openssl (James M Snell) [#5611](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5611)
* [[`7c48cb5601`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7c48cb5601)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **crypto**: Improve control of FIPS mode (Stefan Budeanu) [#5181](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5181)
* [[`4bc1cccb22`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4bc1cccb22)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **dgram**: pass null as error on successful send() (cjihrig) [#5929](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5929)
* [[`dbdbdd4998`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/dbdbdd4998)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **dns**: add resolvePtr to query plain DNS PTR records (Daniel Turing) [#4921](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4921)
* [[`c4ab861a49`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c4ab861a49)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **dns**: add failure test for dns.resolveXXX (Daniel Turing) [#4921](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4921)
* [[`f3be421c1c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f3be421c1c)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **dns**: coerce port to number in lookupService (Evan Lucas) [#4883](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4883)
* [[`34b1a64068`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/34b1a64068)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **doc**: minor copy improvement in buffer.markdown (James M Snell) [#5833](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5833)
* [[`4d4f3535a9`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4d4f3535a9)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **doc**: general improvements to fs.markdown (James M Snell) [#5616](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5616)
* [[`53a95a5b12`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/53a95a5b12)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **fs**: make fs.watch error message more useful (James M Snell) [#5616](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5616)
* [[`060e5f0c00`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/060e5f0c00)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **fs**: Buffer and encoding enhancements to fs API (James M Snell) [#5616](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5616)
* [[`8bb60e3c8d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8bb60e3c8d)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **fs**: improve error message for invalid flag (James M Snell) [#5590](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5590)
* [[`2b15e68bbe`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2b15e68bbe)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **fs**: fs.read into zero buffer should not throw exception (Feross Aboukhadijeh) [#4518](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4518)
* [[`8b97249893`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8b97249893)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **fs**: fix the error report on fs.link(Sync) (yorkie) [#3917](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3917)
* [[`d38503ab01`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d38503ab01)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **module**: prioritize current dir for local lookups (Phillip Johnsen) [#5689](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5689)
* [[`71470a8e45`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/71470a8e45)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **module**: pass v8::Object to linked module initialization function (Phillip Kovalev) [#4771](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4771)
* [[`d1000b4137`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d1000b4137)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **path**: make format() consistent and more functional (Nathan Woltman) [#2408](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2408)
* [[`c6656db352`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c6656db352)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **process**: add 'warning' event and process.emitWarning() (James M Snell) [#4782](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4782)
* [[`72e3dd9f43`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/72e3dd9f43)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **process**: throw on non-function to nextTick() (yorkie) [#3860](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3860)
* [[`5c8b5971eb`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5c8b5971eb)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **querystring**: using toString for objects on querystring.escape (Igor Kalashnikov) [#5341](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5341)
* [[`9c6ef5b3e1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9c6ef5b3e1)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **readline**: allow history to be disabled (surya panikkal) [#6352](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6352)
* [[`c0abecdaf3`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c0abecdaf3)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **stream**: make null an invalid chunk to write in object mode (Calvin Metcalf) [#6170](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6170)
* [[`652782d137`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/652782d137)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **test**: update test-repl-require for local paths (Myles Borins) [#5689](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5689)
* [[`a5aa7c1713`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a5aa7c1713)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **test**: expand test case for unknown file open flags (James M Snell) [#5590](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5590)
* [[`ac153bd2a6`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ac153bd2a6)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **timers**: fail early when callback is not a function (Anna Henningsen) [#4362](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4362)
* [[`102a77655a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/102a77655a)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **tools**: do not rewrite npm shebang in install.py (Evan Lucas) [#6098](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6098)
* [[`1b50b80e06`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1b50b80e06)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **url**: drop auth in `url.resolve()` if host changes (Alex Kocharin) [#1480](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1480)
* [[`4cf19ad1bb`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4cf19ad1bb)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **util**: Remove exec, has been deprecated for years (Wyatt Preul) [#2530](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2530)
* [[`1cf26c036d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1cf26c036d)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **win**: prevent node from running on Windows Vista or earlier (Alexis Campailla) [#5167](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5167)
* [[`55db19074d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/55db19074d)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **win,msi**: prevent from installing on Windows Vista or earlier (Alexis Campailla) [#5167](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5167)
* [[`8b43d3f52d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8b43d3f52d)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **zlib**: do not emit event on *Sync() methods (Rich Trott) [#5707](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5707)
* [[`451f4fc88e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/451f4fc88e)] - **benchmarks**: add microbenchmarks for new ES6 features (James M Snell) [#6222](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6222)
* [[`962c1e1cac`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/962c1e1cac)] - **benchmarks**: add common.v8ForceOptimization (James M Snell) [#6222](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6222)
* [[`afd821a91d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/afd821a91d)] - **buffer**: faster case for create buffer from empty string (Jackson Tian) [#4414](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4414)
* [[`8cf94006c9`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8cf94006c9)] - **build**: do not ignore errors during build-addons (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) [#5494](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5494)
* [[`704b68aeb9`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/704b68aeb9)] - **cares**: Support malloc(0) scenarios for AIX (Gireesh Punathil) [#6305](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6305)
* [[`77e2efec8c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/77e2efec8c)] - **console**: refactor to use rest params and template strings (James M Snell) [#6233](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6233)
* [[`a53b2ac4b1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a53b2ac4b1)] - **contextify**: tie lifetimes of context & sandbox (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) [#5786](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5786)
* [[`8a43a3d761`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8a43a3d761)] - **deps**: upgrade V8 to 4.7.80.24 (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) [#4106](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4106)
* [[`61be0004a6`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/61be0004a6)] - **doc**: fix position of `fs.readSync()` (Jeremiah Senkpiel) [#6399](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6399)
* [[`27ce7fe953`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/27ce7fe953)] - **doc**: change references to Stable to Current (Myles Borins) [#6318](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6318)
* [[`547a6fecb9`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/547a6fecb9)] - **doc**: update authors (James M Snell) [#6373](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6373)
* [[`11d71da558`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/11d71da558)] - **doc**: add note for platform specific flags `fs.open()` (Robert Jefe Lindstaedt) [#6136](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6136)
* [[`e6d4f3befb`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e6d4f3befb)] - **doc**: improvements to child_process, process docs (Alexander Makarenko)
* [[`7c03595b2a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7c03595b2a)] - **doc**: fix a typo in the CONTRIBUTING.md (vsemozhetbyt) [#6343](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6343)
* [[`557c309447`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/557c309447)] - **doc**: add vm example, be able to require modules (Robert Jefe Lindstaedt) [#5323](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5323)
* [[`61a214e957`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/61a214e957)] - **doc**: note that process.config can and will be changed (James M Snell) [#6266](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6266)
* [[`1d79787e2e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1d79787e2e)] - **fs**: add a temporary fix for re-evaluation support (Сковорода Никита Андреевич) [#5102](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5102)
* [[`809bf5e38c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/809bf5e38c)] - **fs**: change statSync to accessSync in realpathSync (Ben Noordhuis) [#4575](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4575)
* [[`4bd8b20f20`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4bd8b20f20)] - **github**: put description of PR to the end of tmpl (Fedor Indutny) [#5378](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5378)
* [[`aa395b78fe`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/aa395b78fe)] - **net**: set ADDRCONFIG DNS hint in connections (cjihrig) [#6281](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6281)
* [[`86ff8447f3`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/86ff8447f3)] - **src**: add intl and icu configs to process.binding('config') (James M Snell) [#6266](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6266)
* [[`5b7a011e1b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5b7a011e1b)] - **src**: add process.binding('config') (James M Snell) [#6266](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6266)
* [[`924cc6c633`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/924cc6c633)] - **src**: upgrade to new v8::Private api (Ben Noordhuis) [#5045](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5045)
* [[`79dc1d7635`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/79dc1d7635)] - **src**: remove forwards for v8::GC*logueCallback (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) [#4381](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4381)
* [[`a9bab5fddb`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a9bab5fddb)] - **test**: v8-flags is sensitive to script caching (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) [#6316](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6316)
* [[`b73e1b3c5a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b73e1b3c5a)] - **test**: fix another flaky stringbytes test (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) [#6073](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6073)
* [[`f4ebd5989a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f4ebd5989a)] - **test**: fix flakiness of stringbytes-external (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) [#6039](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6039)
* [[`967a15541b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/967a15541b)] - **v8**: warn in Template::Set() on improper use (Ben Noordhuis) [#6277](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6277)
## 2016-04-20, Version 5.11.0 (Stable), @thealphanerd
## Notable Changes
* **Buffer**:
*`Buffer.prototype.compare` can now compare sub-ranges of two Buffers. (James M Snell) [#5880](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5880)
* **deps**:
* update to http-parser 2.7.0 (Fedor Indutny) [#6279](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6279)
* update ESLint to 2.7.0 (silverwind) [#6132](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6132)
* **net**:
* adds support for passing DNS lookup hints to `createConnection()` (Colin Ihrig) [#6000](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6000)
* **node**:
* Make the builtin libraries available for the `--eval` and `--print` CLI options (Anna Henningsen) [#6207](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6207)
* **npm**:
* upgrade npm to 3.8.6 (Kat Marchán) [#6153](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6153)
* **repl**:
* Pressing enter in the repl will repeat the last command by default if no input has been received. This behaviour was in node previously and was not removed intentionally. (Rich Trott) [#6090](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6090)
* **src**:
* add SIGINFO to supported signals (James Reggio) [#6093](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6093)
* **streams**:
* Fix a regression that caused by net streams requesting multiple chunks synchronously when combined with cork/uncork (Matteo Collina) [#6164](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6164)
* **zlib**:
* The flushing flag is now configurable allowing for decompression of partial data (Anna Henningsen) [#6069](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6069)
* [[`bd12d72e0c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/bd12d72e0c)] - **build**: fix make tar-headers for Linux (Gibson Fahnestock) [#5978](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5978)
* [[`3c8d404a82`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3c8d404a82)] - **build**: allow test-ci to run tests in parallel (Johan Bergström) [#6208](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6208)
* [[`1fb40524ee`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1fb40524ee)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **debugger**: run last command on presssing enter (Rich Trott) [#6090](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6090)
* [[`e6f4a175d4`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e6f4a175d4)] - **doc**: add full example for zlib.flush() (Anna Henningsen) [#6172](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6172)
* [[`50f3f10ce6`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/50f3f10ce6)] - **doc**: note that zlib.flush acts after pending writes (Anna Henningsen) [#6172](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6172)
* [[`3b00d7a5b1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3b00d7a5b1)] - **doc**: document intention and dangers of fs module Buffer API (Nikolai Vavilov) [#6020](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6020)
* [[`3bc31526bb`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3bc31526bb)] - **doc**: explain differences in console.assert between node and browsers (James M Snell) [#6169](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6169)
* [[`3f73502662`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3f73502662)] - **doc**: native module reloading is not supported (Bryan English) [#6168](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6168)
* [[`5f9c8297f1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5f9c8297f1)] - **doc**: clarify fs.watch() and inodes on linux, os x (Joran Dirk Greef) [#6099](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6099)
* [[`b26fea1595`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b26fea1595)] - **doc**: add copy about how to curl SHA256.txt (Myles Borins) [#6120](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6120)
* [[`daaad47099`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/daaad47099)] - **doc**: clarification for maxBuffer and Unicode output (James M Snell) [#6030](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6030)
* [[`5e6915f374`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5e6915f374)] - **doc**: describe child.kill() pitfalls on linux (Robert Jefe Lindstaedt) [#2098](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/2098)
* [[`440d1172fd`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/440d1172fd)] - **doc**: add example using algorithms not directly exposed (Brad Hill) [#6108](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6108)
* [[`96ad5c5303`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/96ad5c5303)] - **doc**: update openssl LICENSE using license-builder.sh (Steven R. Loomis) [#6065](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6065)
* [[`16b23b2c28`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/16b23b2c28)] - **http**: skip body and next message of CONNECT res (Fedor Indutny) [#6279](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6279)
* [[`6d9c0c9aa7`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/6d9c0c9aa7)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **net**: support DNS hints in createConnection() (Colin Ihrig) [#6000](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6000)
* [[`457f24f19c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/457f24f19c)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **node**: make builtin libs available for `--eval` (Anna Henningsen) [#6207](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6207)
* [[`fc89d17656`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/fc89d17656)] - **path**: fixing a test that breaks on some machines. (Mike Kaufman) [#6067](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6067)
* [[`99d0a61441`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/99d0a61441)] - **test**: move more tests from sequential to parallel (Santiago Gimeno) [#6187](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6187)
* [[`96be986a77`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/96be986a77)] - **test**: assert - fixed error messages to match the tests (surya panikkal) [#6241](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6241)
* [[`4e4efb756e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4e4efb756e)] - **test**: add test for responses to HTTP CONNECT req (Josh Leder) [#6279](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6279)
* [[`9856b804e9`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9856b804e9)] - **test**: move some test from sequential to parallel (Santiago Gimeno) [#6087](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6087)
* [[`1d130d0203`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1d130d0203)] - **test**: move the debugger tests back to parallel (Santiago Gimeno) [#6246](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6246)
* [[`be070d775f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/be070d775f)] - **tools**: lint for alignment of variable assignments (Rich Trott) [#6242](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6242)
* [[`d9b8758f47`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d9b8758f47)] - **tools**: update ESLint to 2.7.0 (silverwind) [#6132](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6132)
* [[`a6056c453e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a6056c453e)] - **tools**: fix license-builder.sh again for ICU (Steven R. Loomis) [#6068](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6068)
* [[`a2dd848764`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a2dd848764)] - **tools,doc**: fix incomplete json produced by doctool (firedfox) [#5966](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5966)
* [[`bad006f2e1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/bad006f2e1)] - **zlib**: fix use after null when calling .close (James Lal) [#5982](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5982)
* [[`83bc0a2ac9`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/83bc0a2ac9)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **zlib**: Make the finish flush flag configurable (Anna Henningsen) [#6069](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6069)
* [[`2c23e14d5d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2c23e14d5d)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **zlib**: detect gzip files when using unzip* (Anna Henningsen) [#5884](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5884)
* Enclose IPv6 Host header in square brackets. This will enable proper separation of the host adress from any port reference (Mihai Potra) [#5314](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5314)
* Make win32.isAbsolute more consistent (Brian White) [#6028](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6028)
### Commits
* [[`0f5a51ae4b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0f5a51ae4b)] - **assert**: Check typed array view type in deepEqual (Anna Henningsen) [#5910](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5910)
* [[`e966d1f5db`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e966d1f5db)] - **buffer**: don't set `kNoZeroFill` flag in allocUnsafe (Vladimir Kurchatkin) [#6007](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6007)
* [[`3f75751c2e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3f75751c2e)] - **build**: introduce ci targets for lint/benchmark (Johan Bergström) [#5921](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5921)
* [[`aa9fb03202`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/aa9fb03202)] - **doc**: use HTTPS for links where possible (Rich Trott) [#6019](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6019)
* [[`f879f5e68a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f879f5e68a)] - **doc**: document unspecified behavior for buf.write* methods (James M Snell) [#5925](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5925)
* [[`f12c3861e0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f12c3861e0)] - **doc**: clarify stdout/stderr arguments to callback (James M Snell) [#6015](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6015)
* [[`ce173716be`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ce173716be)] - **doc**: add 'Command Line Options' to 'View on single page' (firedfox) [#6011](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6011)
* [[`7337ef6422`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7337ef6422)] - **doc**: minor argument formatting in stream.markdown (James M Snell) [#6016](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6016)
* [[`0ae5d027c6`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0ae5d027c6)] - **doc**: clarify that __dirname is module local (James M Snell) [#6018](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6018)
* [[`059b607a4f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/059b607a4f)] - **test**: make use of globals explicit (Rich Trott) [#6014](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6014)
* [[`cc8fcc5a07`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/cc8fcc5a07)] - **test**: be explicit about polluting of `global` (Rich Trott) [#6017](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6017)
* [[`7db7a820b9`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7db7a820b9)] - **test**: make arch available in status files (Santiago Gimeno) [#5997](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5997)
* [[`02f2ebd9b4`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/02f2ebd9b4)] - **test**: explicitly set global in test-repl (Rich Trott) [#6026](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6026)
* [[`f14d71ccea`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f14d71ccea)] - **test**: stdin is not always a net.Socket (Jeremiah Senkpiel) [#5935](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5935)
## 2016-03-31, Version 0.10.44 (Maintenance), @rvagg
### Notable changes
* npm: Upgrade to v2.15.1. Fixes a security flaw in the use of authentication tokens in HTTP requests that would allow an attacker to set up a server that could collect tokens from users of the command-line interface. Authentication tokens have previously been sent with every request made by the CLI for logged-in users, regardless of the destination of the request. This update fixes this by only including those tokens for requests made against the registry or registries used for the current install. IMPORTANT: This is a major upgrade to npm v2 LTS from the previously deprecated npm v1. (Forrest L Norvell) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5967
* openssl: OpenSSL v1.0.1s disables the EXPORT and LOW ciphers as they are obsolete and not considered safe. This release of Node.js turns on `OPENSSL_NO_WEAK_SSL_CIPHERS` to fully disable the 27 ciphers included in these lists which can be used in SSLv3 and higher. Full details can be found in our LTS discussion on the matter (https://github.com/nodejs/LTS/issues/85). (Shigeki Ohtsu) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5712
### Commits
* [feceb77d7e] - deps: upgrade npm in LTS to 2.15.1 (Forrest L Norvell) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5968
* [0847954331] - deps: Disable EXPORT and LOW ciphers in openssl (Shigeki Ohtsu) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5712
* [6bb86e727a] - test: change tls tests not to use LOW cipher (Shigeki Ohtsu) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5712
* [905bec29ad] - win,build: support Visual C++ Build Tools 2015 (João Reis) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5627
* [[`ee83c956c5`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ee83c956c5)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **buffer**: make byteLength work with ArrayBuffer & DataView (Jackson Tian) [#5255](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5255)
* [[`1f8e4b54ce`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1f8e4b54ce)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **buffer**: add swap16() and swap32() methods (James M Snell) [#5724](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5724)
* [[`bdf933bece`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/bdf933bece)] - **buffer**: changing let in for loops back to var (Gareth Ellis) [#5819](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5819)
* [[`c1534e7eaf`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c1534e7eaf)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **buffer**: backport new buffer constructor APIs (James M Snell) [#5763](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5763)
* [[`3c02727055`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3c02727055)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **buffer**: backport --zero-fill-buffers command line option (James M Snell) [#5744](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5744)
* [[`58b5c1e19f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/58b5c1e19f)] - **build**: add suport for x86 architecture (Robert Chiras) [#5544](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5544)
* [[`6a6112a2f3`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/6a6112a2f3)] - **dns**: Use object without protoype for map (Benjamin Gruenbaum) [#5843](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5843)
* [[`8fa0b5c1da`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8fa0b5c1da)] - **doc**: Add @mhdawson back to the CTC (James M Snell) [#5633](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5633)
* [[`29778393a0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/29778393a0)] - **doc**: use consistent event name parameter (Benjamin Gruenbaum) [#5850](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5850)
* [[`949b17ff6d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/949b17ff6d)] - **doc**: fix order of end tags of list after heading (firedfox) [#5874](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5874)
* [[`8e790b7a0c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8e790b7a0c)] - **doc**: add instructions to only sign a release (Jeremiah Senkpiel) [#5876](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5876)
* [[`f1f9aff855`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f1f9aff855)] - **doc**: fix doc for Buffer.readInt32LE() (ghaiklor) [#5890](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5890)
* [[`731f7b8055`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/731f7b8055)] - **etw**: fix descriptors of events 9 and 23 (João Reis) [#5742](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5742)
* [[`aebe6245b7`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/aebe6245b7)] - **test**: add test for piping large input from stdin (Anna Henningsen) [#5949](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5949)
* [[`a19de97d2f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a19de97d2f)] - **test**: remove the use of curl in the test suite (Santiago Gimeno) [#5750](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5750)
* [[`6928a17aa3`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/6928a17aa3)] - **test**: exclude new fs watch test for AIX (Michael Dawson) [#5937](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5937)
* [[`3238bff3b3`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3238bff3b3)] - **test**: confirm globals not used internally (Rich Trott) [#5882](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5882)
* [[`82a50d3def`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/82a50d3def)] - **test**: move dns test to test/internet (Ben Noordhuis) [#5905](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5905)
* [[`7ec5397954`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7ec5397954)] - **timers**: fixing API refs to use safe internal refs (Kyle Simpson) [#5882](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5882)
* [[`77bed269ad`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/77bed269ad)] - **win,build**: build and test add-ons on test-ci (Bogdan Lobor) [#5886](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5886)
## 2016-03-31, Version 4.4.2 'Argon' (LTS), @thealphanerd
### Notable Changes
* **https**:
- Under certain conditions ssl sockets may have been causing a memory leak when keepalive is enabled. This is no longer the case. (Alexander Penev) [#5713](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5713)
* **lib**:
- The way that we were internally passing arguments was causing a potential leak. By copying the arguments into an array we can avoid this. (Nathan Woltman) [#4361](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4361)
* **npm**:
- Upgrade to v2.15.1. Fixes a security flaw in the use of authentication tokens in HTTP requests that would allow an attacker to set up a server that could collect tokens from users of the command-line interface. Authentication tokens have previously been sent with every request made by the CLI for logged-in users, regardless of the destination of the request. This update fixes this by only including those tokens for requests made against the registry or registries used for the current install. (Forrest L Norvell)
* **repl**:
- Previously if you were using the repl in strict mode the column number would be wrong in a stack trace. This is no longer an issue. (Prince J Wesley) [#5416](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5416)
### Commits
* [[`96e163a79f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/96e163a79f)] - **buffer**: changing let in for loops back to var (Gareth Ellis) [#5819](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5819)
* [[`0c6f6742f2`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0c6f6742f2)] - **console**: check that stderr is writable (Rich Trott) [#5635](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5635)
* [[`55c3f804c4`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/55c3f804c4)] - **deps**: upgrade npm in LTS to 2.15.1 (Forrest L Norvell)
* [[`d55599f4d8`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d55599f4d8)] - **dns**: use template literals (Benjamin Gruenbaum) [#5809](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5809)
* [[`42bbdc9dd1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/42bbdc9dd1)] - **doc** Add @mhdawson back to the CTC (James M Snell) [#5633](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5633)
* [[`60ddab841e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/60ddab841e)] - **doc**: add instructions to only sign a release (Jeremiah Senkpiel) [#5876](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5876)
* [[`040263e0f3`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/040263e0f3)] - **doc**: grammar, clarity and links in timers doc (Bryan English) [#5792](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5792)
* [[`8c24bd25a6`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8c24bd25a6)] - **doc**: fix order of end tags of list after heading (firedfox) [#5874](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5874)
* [[`7c837028da`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7c837028da)] - **doc**: use consistent event name parameter (Benjamin Gruenbaum) [#5850](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5850)
* [[`20faf9097d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/20faf9097d)] - **doc**: explain error message on missing main file (Wolfgang Steiner) [#5812](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5812)
* [[`bf1fe4693c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/bf1fe4693c)] - **doc**: Add windows example for Path.format (Mithun Patel) [#5700](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5700)
* [[`3b8fc4fddc`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3b8fc4fddc)] - **doc**: update crypto docs to use good defaults (Bill Automata) [#5505](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5505)
* [[`b70ca4a4b4`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b70ca4a4b4)] - **doc**: updated fs #5862 removed irrelevant data in fs.markdown (topal) [#5877](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5877)
* [[`81876612f7`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/81876612f7)] - **https**: fix ssl socket leak when keepalive is used (Alexander Penev) [#5713](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5713)
* [[`3c8e59c396`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3c8e59c396)] - **lib**: copy arguments object instead of leaking it (Nathan Woltman) [#4361](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4361)
* [[`8648420586`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8648420586)] - **net**: make `isIPv4` and `isIPv6` more efficient (Vladimir Kurchatkin) [#5478](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5478)
* [[`07b7172d76`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/07b7172d76)] - **net**: remove unused `var self = this` from old code (Benjamin Gruenbaum) [#5224](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5224)
* [[`acbce4b72b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/acbce4b72b)] - **repl**: fix stack trace column number in strict mode (Prince J Wesley) [#5416](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5416)
* [[`e57355c2f4`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e57355c2f4)] - **test**: make test-net-connect-options-ipv6.js better (Michael Dawson) [#5791](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5791)
* [[`1b266fc15c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1b266fc15c)] - **test**: remove the use of curl in the test suite (Santiago Gimeno) [#5750](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5750)
* openssl: OpenSSL v1.0.1s disables the EXPORT and LOW ciphers as they are obsolete and not considered safe. This release of Node.js turns on `OPENSSL_NO_WEAK_SSL_CIPHERS` to fully disable the 27 ciphers included in these lists which can be used in SSLv3 and higher. Full details can be found in our LTS discussion on the matter (https://github.com/nodejs/LTS/issues/85). (Shigeki Ohtsu) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5712
### Commits
* [4041ea6bc5] - deps: upgrade npm in LTS to 2.15.1 (Forrest L Norvell)
* [a115779026] - deps: Disable EXPORT and LOW ciphers in openssl (Shigeki Ohtsu) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5712
* [ab907eb5a8] - test: skip cluster-disconnect-race on Windows (Gibson Fahnestock) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5621
* [9c06db7444] - test: change tls tests not to use LOW cipher (Shigeki Ohtsu) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5712
* [154098a3dc] - test: bp fix for test-http-get-pipeline-problem.js (Michael Dawson) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3013
* [ff2bed6e86] - win,build: support Visual C++ Build Tools 2015 (João Reis) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5627
* [[`72fb796bed`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/72fb796bed)] - **buffer**: throw range error before truncating write (Matt Loring) [#5605](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5605)
* [[`c5d83695e1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c5d83695e1)] - **contextify**: tie lifetimes of context & sandbox (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) [#5800](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5800)
* [[`54abbe7e6f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/54abbe7e6f)] - **dns**: use template literals (Benjamin Gruenbaum) [#5809](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5809)
* [[`3fef69bf15`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3fef69bf15)] - **dns**: use isIp consistently (Benjamin Gruenbaum) [#5804](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5804)
* [[`d2d0fe9d34`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d2d0fe9d34)] - **doc**: update crypto docs to use good defaults (Bill Automata) [#5505](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5505)
* [[`0ffd794b27`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0ffd794b27)] - **doc**: Add windows example for Path.format (Mithun Patel) [#5700](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5700)
* [[`f53cc37578`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f53cc37578)] - **doc**: grammar, clarity and links in timers doc (Bryan English) [#5792](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5792)
* [[`f34a00cee2`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f34a00cee2)] - **docs**: fix man pages link if tok type is code (Mithun Patel) [#5721](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5721)
* [[`3bff3111f4`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3bff3111f4)] - **https**: fix ssl socket leak when keepalive is used (Alexander Penev) [#5713](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5713)
* [[`20a68e9eef`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/20a68e9eef)] - **timers**: give Timeouts a constructor name (Jeremiah Senkpiel) [#5793](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5793)
* [[`46a5d519dd`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/46a5d519dd)] - **build**: skip msi build if WiX is not found (Tsarevich Dmitry) [#5220](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5220)
* [[`dac4e64491`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/dac4e64491)] - **build**: add option to select VS version (julien.waechter) [#4645](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4645)
* [[`97e95d04c2`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/97e95d04c2)] - **crypto**: PBKDF2 works with `int` not `ssize_t` (Fedor Indutny) [#5397](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5397)
* [[`4332f8011e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4332f8011e)] - **doc**: fix return value of write methods (Felix Böhm) [#5736](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5736)
* [[`e572542de5`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e572542de5)] - **doc**: Add note about use of JSON.stringify() (Mithun Patel) [#5723](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5723)
* [[`f6d4982aa0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f6d4982aa0)] - **doc**: clarify type of first argument in zlib (Kirill Fomichev) [#5685](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5685)
* [[`51763462bc`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/51763462bc)] - **doc**: include typo in 'unhandledRejection' example (Robert C Jensen) [#5654](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5654)
* [[`b1b17efcb7`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b1b17efcb7)] - **doc**: move build instructions to a new document (Johan Bergström) [#5634](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5634)
* [[`98a1bb6989`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/98a1bb6989)] - **doc**: document directories in test directory (Michael Barrett) [#5557](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5557)
* [[`04d3f8a741`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/04d3f8a741)] - **doc**: update link green to match homepage (silverwind) [#5548](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5548)
* [[`1afab6ac9c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1afab6ac9c)] - **doc**: add clarification on birthtime in fs stat (Kári Tristan Helgason) [#5479](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5479)
* [[`97a18bdbad`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/97a18bdbad)] - **doc**: update NAN urls in ROADMAP.md and doc/releases.md (ronkorving) [#5472](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5472)
* [[`d4a1fc7acd`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d4a1fc7acd)] - **doc**: add Testing WG (Rich Trott) [#5461](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5461)
* [[`0830bb4950`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0830bb4950)] - **doc**: clarify when writable.write callback is called (Kevin Locke) [#4810](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4810)
* [[`17a74305c8`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/17a74305c8)] - **doc**: add info to docs on how to submit docs patch (Sequoia McDowell) [#4591](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4591)
* [[`29646200f8`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/29646200f8)] - **doc**: add Evan Lucas to the CTC (Rod Vagg)
* [[`a2a32b7810`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a2a32b7810)] - **doc**: add Rich Trott to the CTC (Rod Vagg) [#5276](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5276)
* [[`4e469d5e47`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4e469d5e47)] - **doc**: add Ali Ijaz Sheikh to the CTC (Rod Vagg) [#5277](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5277)
* [[`d09b44f59b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d09b44f59b)] - **doc**: add Сковорода Никита Андреевич to the CTC (Rod Vagg) [#5278](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5278)
* [[`20539954ff`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/20539954ff)] - **docs**: fix man pages link if tok type is code (Mithun Patel) [#5721](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5721)
* [[`38d7b0b6ea`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/38d7b0b6ea)] - **docs**: update link to iojs+release ci job (Myles Borins) [#5632](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5632)
* [[`04db9efd78`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/04db9efd78)] - **stream**: fix no data on partial decode (Brian White) [#5226](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5226)
* [[`666d3690d8`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/666d3690d8)] - **test**: eval a strict function (Kári Tristan Helgason) [#5250](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5250)
* [[`9952bcf203`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9952bcf203)] - **test**: bug repro for vm function redefinition (cjihrig) [#5528](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5528)
* [[`063f22f1f0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/063f22f1f0)] - **test**: check memoryUsage properties The properties on memoryUsage were not checked before, this commit checks them. (Wyatt Preul) [#5546](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5546)
* [[`ba9ad2662c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ba9ad2662c)] - **test**: apply Linux workaround to Linux only (Rich Trott) [#5471](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5471)
* [[`b4fbe04514`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b4fbe04514)] - **test**: fix test-timers.reliability on OS X (Rich Trott) [#5379](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5379)
* [[`99269ffdbf`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/99269ffdbf)] - **test**: increase timeouts on some unref timers tests (Jeremiah Senkpiel) [#5352](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5352)
* [[`85f927a774`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/85f927a774)] - **test**: prevent flakey test on pi2 (Trevor Norris) [#5537](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5537)
* [[`8ffef48fee`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8ffef48fee)] - **tools**: fix gyp to work on MacOSX without XCode (Shigeki Ohtsu) [nodejs/node#1325](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1325)
* [[`7501ddc878`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7501ddc878)] - **tools**: support testing known issues (cjihrig) [#5528](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5528)
* [[`dff7091fce`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/dff7091fce)] - **url**: group slashed protocols by protocol name (nettofarah) [#5380](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5380)
* [[`0e97a3ea51`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0e97a3ea51)] - **win,build**: support Visual C++ Build Tools 2015 (João Reis) [#5627](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5627)
* **contextify**: Fixed a memory consumption issue related to heavy use of `vm.createContext` and `vm.runInNewContext`. (Ali Ijaz Sheikh)
https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5392
* **governance**: The following members have been added as collaborators:
- Andreas Madsen (@AndreasMadsen)
- Benjamin Gruenbaum (@benjamingr)
- Claudio Rodriguez (@claudiorodriguez)
- Glen Keane (@thekemkid)
- Jeremy Whitlock (@whitlockjc)
- Matt Loring (@matthewloring)
- Phillip Johnsen (@phillipj)
* **lib**: copy arguments object instead of leaking it (Nathan Woltman)
https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4361
* **src**: allow both -i and -e flags to be used at the same time (Rich Trott)
https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5655
* **timers**: Internal Node.js timeouts now use the same logic path as those created with `setTimeout()` (Jeremiah Senkpiel) [#4007](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4007)
* This may cause a slightly different performance profile in some situations. So far, it has shown to be positive in most cases.
* **v8**: backport fb4ccae from v8 upstream (Vladimir Krivosheev) #4231
- breakout events from v8 to offer better support for external debuggers
* **zlib**: add support for concatenated members (Kári Tristan Helgason)
https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5120
* Previously, if multiple members were in the same archive, only the first would be read. The others are no longer thrown away.
* [[`a7819da15a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a7819da15a)] - ***Revert*** "**build**: run lint before tests" (Rich Trott) [#5602](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5602)
* [[`5e9cac4333`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5e9cac4333)] - **console**: check that stderr is writable (Rich Trott) [#5635](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5635)
* [[`0662fcf209`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0662fcf209)] - **contextify**: cache sandbox and context in locals (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) [#5392](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5392)
* [[`bfff07b4dd`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/bfff07b4dd)] - **contextify**: cleanup weak ref for sandbox (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) [#5392](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5392)
* [[`93f60cdc54`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/93f60cdc54)] - **contextify**: cleanup weak ref for global proxy (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) [#5392](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5392)
* [[`8c4c84fe5b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8c4c84fe5b)] - **doc**: add Testing WG (Rich Trott) [#5461](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5461)
* [[`434af03825`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/434af03825)] - **doc**: Add note about use of JSON.stringify() (Mithun Patel) [#5723](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5723)
* [[`62926d85bd`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/62926d85bd)] - **doc**: clarify type of first argument in zlib (Kirill Fomichev) [#5685](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5685)
* [[`eb73574349`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/eb73574349)] - **doc**: clarify when writable.write callback is called (Kevin Locke) [#4810](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4810)
* [[`31e39fbd7a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/31e39fbd7a)] - **doc**: remove non-standard use of hyphens (Stefano Vozza)
* [[`f3e9daa825`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f3e9daa825)] - **doc**: add clarification on birthtime in fs stat (Kári Tristan Helgason) [#5479](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5479)
* [[`c379ec6522`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c379ec6522)] - **doc**: move build instructions to a new document (Johan Bergström) [#5634](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5634)
* [[`dd12661173`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/dd12661173)] - **doc**: include typo in 'unhandledRejection' example (Robert C Jensen) [#5654](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5654)
* [[`4c1fdaeb2a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4c1fdaeb2a)] - **docs**: update link to iojs+release ci job (Myles Borins) [#5632](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5632)
* [[`205bed0bec`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/205bed0bec)] - **lib**: copy arguments object instead of leaking it (Nathan Woltman) [#4361](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4361)
* [[`b16f67a0b9`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b16f67a0b9)] - **net**: make `isIPv4` and `isIPv6` more efficient (Vladimir Kurchatkin) [#5478](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5478)
* [[`4ecd996baa`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4ecd996baa)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **src**: allow combination of -i and -e cli flags (Rich Trott) [#5655](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5655)
* [[`0b545fb3f8`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0b545fb3f8)] - **win,build**: support Visual C++ Build Tools 2015 (João Reis) [#5627](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5627)
* [[`ef774ff9a8`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ef774ff9a8)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **zlib**: add support for concatenated members (Kári Tristan Helgason) [#5120](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5120)
* [[`67e9f65958`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/67e9f65958)] - **dgram**: default send address to 127.0.0.1 or ::1 (Matteo Collina) [#5493](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5493)
* [[`3c92352c8c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3c92352c8c)] - **doc**: document directories in test directory (Michael Barrett) [#5557](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5557)
* [[`7be726f86a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7be726f86a)] - **doc**: add info to docs on how to submit docs patch (Sequoia McDowell) [#4591](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4591)
* [[`3bd96fdb0f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3bd96fdb0f)] - **doc**: update link green to match homepage (silverwind) [#5548](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5548)
* [[`29e26b38c5`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/29e26b38c5)] - **test**: bug repro for vm function redefinition (cjihrig) [#5528](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5528)
* [[`e6210d5f50`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e6210d5f50)] - **test**: prevent flakey test on pi2 (Trevor Norris) [#5537](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5537)
* [[`5aa17dc136`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5aa17dc136)] - **tools**: support testing known issues (cjihrig) [#5528](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5528)
## 2016-03-08, Version 4.4.0 'Argon' (LTS), @thealphanerd
In December we announced that we would be doing a minor release in order to
get a number of voted on SEMVER-MINOR changes into LTS. Our ability to release this
was delayed due to the unforeseen security release v4.3. We are quickly bumping to
v4.4 in order to bring you the features that we had committed to releasing.
This release also includes over 70 fixes to our docs and over 50 fixes to tests.
### Notable changes
The SEMVER-MINOR changes include:
* **deps**:
- An update to v8 that introduces a new flag --perf_basic_prof_only_functions (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) [#3609](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3609)
* **http**:
- A new feature in http(s) agent that catches errors on *keep alived* connections (José F. Romaniello) [#4482](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4482)
* **src**:
- Better support for Big-Endian systems (Bryon Leung) [#3410](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3410)
* **tls**:
- A new feature that allows you to pass common SSL options to `tls.createSecurePair` (Коренберг Марк) [#2441](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2441)
* **tools**:
- a new flag `--prof-process` which will execute the tick processor on the provided isolate files (Matt Loring) [#4021](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4021)
Notable semver patch changes include:
* **buld**:
- Support python path that includes spaces. This should be of particular interest to our Windows users who may have python living in `c:/Program Files` (Felix Becker) [#4841](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4841)
* **https**:
- A potential fix for [#3692](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3692) HTTP/HTTPS client requests throwing EPROTO (Fedor Indutny) [#4982](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4982)
* **installer**:
- More readable profiling information from isolate tick logs (Matt Loring) [#3032](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3032)
* **npm**:
- upgrade to npm 2.14.20 (Kat Marchán) [#5510](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5510)
* **process**:
- Add support for symbols in event emitters. Symbols didn't exist when it was written ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (cjihrig) [#4798](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4798)
* **querystring**:
- querystring.parse() is now 13-22% faster! (Brian White) [#4675](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4675)
* **streams**:
- performance improvements for moving small buffers that shows a 5% throughput gain. IoT projects have been seen to be as much as 10% faster with this change! (Matteo Collina) [#4354](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4354)
* **tools**:
- eslint has been updated to version 2.1.0 (Rich Trott) [#5214](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5214)
* [[`bc2536dfc6`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/bc2536dfc6)] - **build**: add a help message and removed a TODO. (Ojas Shirekar) [#5080](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5080)
* [[`f6416be5d2`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f6416be5d2)] - **build**: remove redundant TODO in configure (Ojas Shirekar) [#5080](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5080)
* [[`29951cf36a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/29951cf36a)] - **child_process**: fix data loss with readable event (Brian White) [#5036](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5036)
* [[`81d4127279`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/81d4127279)] - **cluster**: dont rely on `this` in `fork` (Igor Klopov) [#5216](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5216)
* [[`de4c07b29e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/de4c07b29e)] - **console**: apply null as `this` for util.format (Jackson Tian) [#5222](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5222)
* [[`5d9c1cf001`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5d9c1cf001)] - **crypto**: add `pfx` certs as CA certs too (Fedor Indutny) [#5109](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5109)
* [[`ab5cb0539b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ab5cb0539b)] - **crypto**: use SSL_CTX_clear_extra_chain_certs. (Adam Langley) [#4919](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4919)
* [[`198928eb9f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/198928eb9f)] - **crypto**: fix build when OCSP-stapling not provided (Adam Langley) [#4914](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4914)
* [[`b8e1089df0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b8e1089df0)] - **crypto**: use a const SSL_CIPHER (Adam Langley) [#4913](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4913)
* [[`139d6d9284`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/139d6d9284)] - **debugger**: assert test before accessing this.binding (Prince J Wesley) [#5145](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5145)
* [[`063e14b568`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/063e14b568)] - **dns**: throw a TypeError in lookupService with invalid port (Evan Lucas) [#4839](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4839)
* [[`394743f4b3`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/394743f4b3)] - **doc**: explicit about VS 2015 support in readme (Phillip Johnsen) [#5406](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5406)
* [[`a9035b5e1d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a9035b5e1d)] - **doc**: link to man pages (dcposch@dcpos.ch) [#5073](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5073)
* [[`808fe0ea48`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/808fe0ea48)] - **doc**: fix `notDeepEqual` API (Minwoo Jung) [#4971](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4971)
* [[`5b9025689f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5b9025689f)] - **doc**: show links consistently in deprecations (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#4907](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4907)
* [[`3a1865db5e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3a1865db5e)] - **doc**: don't use "interface" as a variable name (ChALkeR) [#4900](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4900)
* [[`90715c3d68`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/90715c3d68)] - **doc**: keep the names in sorted order (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#4876](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4876)
* [[`7b763c8d25`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7b763c8d25)] - **doc**: fix code type of markdowns (Jackson Tian) [#4858](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4858)
* [[`37d4e7afc2`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/37d4e7afc2)] - **doc**: check for errors in 'listen' event (Benjamin Gruenbaum) [#4834](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4834)
* [[`3f876b104c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3f876b104c)] - **doc**: Examples work when data exceeds buffer size (Glen Arrowsmith) [#4811](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4811)
* [[`73e0195cef`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/73e0195cef)] - **doc**: fix type references for link gen, link css (Claudio Rodriguez) [#4741](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4741)
* [[`693c16fb6b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/693c16fb6b)] - **doc**: fix anchor links from stream to http and events (piepmatz) [#5007](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5007)
* [[`5fb533522c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5fb533522c)] - **doc**: replace function expressions with arrows (Benjamin Gruenbaum) [#4832](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4832)
* [[`e3572fb809`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e3572fb809)] - **doc**: fix links order in Buffer doc (Alexander Makarenko) [#5076](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5076)
* [[`9087f6daca`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9087f6daca)] - **doc**: fix named anchors in addons.markdown and http.markdown (Michael Theriot) [#4708](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4708)
* [[`4c8713ce58`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4c8713ce58)] - **doc**: add buf.indexOf encoding param with example (Karl Skomski) [#3373](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3373)
* [[`abfb2f5864`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/abfb2f5864)] - **doc**: fix link in cluster documentation (Timothy Gu) [#5068](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5068)
* [[`8b040b5bb2`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8b040b5bb2)] - **doc**: fix minor typo in process doc (Prayag Verma) [#5018](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5018)
* [[`2b97ff89a6`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2b97ff89a6)] - **doc**: minor improvement in OS docs (Alexander Makarenko) [#5006](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5006)
* [[`9a5d58b89e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9a5d58b89e)] - **doc**: improve styling consistency in VM docs (Alexander Makarenko) [#5005](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5005)
* [[`960e1bab98`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/960e1bab98)] - **doc**: minor improvement to HTTPS doc (Alexander Makarenko) [#5002](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5002)
* [[`f3e3c70bca`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f3e3c70bca)] - **doc**: Update small error in LICENSE for npm (Kat Marchán) [#4872](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4872)
* [[`6a0571cd72`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/6a0571cd72)] - **http**: do not emit `upgrade` on advertisement (Fedor Indutny) [#4337](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4337)
* [[`567ced9ef0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/567ced9ef0)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **http**: handle errors on idle sockets (José F. Romaniello) [#4482](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4482)
* [[`78d64889bd`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/78d64889bd)] - **node**: set process._eventsCount to 0 on startup (Evan Lucas) [#5208](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5208)
* [[`7a2e8f4356`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7a2e8f4356)] - **process**: support symbol events (cjihrig) [#4798](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4798)
* [[`10be8dc360`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/10be8dc360)] - **src**: force line buffering for stderr (Rich Trott) [#3701](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3701)
* [[`7958664e85`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7958664e85)] - **src**: clean up usage of __proto__ (Jackson Tian) [#5069](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5069)
* [[`c18ef54d88`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c18ef54d88)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **src**: add BE support to StringBytes::Encode() (Bryon Leung) [#3410](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3410)
* [[`be9e7610b5`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/be9e7610b5)] - **src,test,tools**: modify for more stringent linting (Rich Trott) [#5214](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5214)
* [[`4fa22e4126`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4fa22e4126)] - **streams**: 5% throughput gain when sending small chunks (Matteo Collina) [#4354](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4354)
* [[`b6bd87495f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b6bd87495f)] - **test**: remove flaky mark for test-debug-no-context (Rich Trott) [#5317](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5317)
* [[`7705360e35`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7705360e35)] - **test**: add test for https server close event (Braydon Fuller) [#5106](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5106)
* [[`9d6623e1d1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9d6623e1d1)] - **test**: use String.prototype.repeat() for clarity (Rich Trott) [#5311](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5311)
* [[`46dc12bdcc`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/46dc12bdcc)] - **test**: enable to work pkcs12 test in FIPS mode (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#5150](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5150)
* [[`6072d2e15e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/6072d2e15e)] - **test**: disable gh-5100 test when in FIPS mode (Fedor Indutny) [#5144](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5144)
* [[`69150caedc`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/69150caedc)] - **test**: don't run test-tick-processor.js on Aix (Michael Dawson) [#5093](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5093)
* [[`4a492b96b1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4a492b96b1)] - **test**: mark flaky tests on Raspberry Pi (Rich Trott) [#5082](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5082)
* [[`226dfef690`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/226dfef690)] - **test**: add common.platformTimeout() to dgram test (Rich Trott) [#4938](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4938)
* [[`fb14bac662`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/fb14bac662)] - **test**: fix flaky cluster test on Windows 10 (Rich Trott) [#4934](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4934)
* [[`2b026c9d5a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2b026c9d5a)] - **test**: fs.link() test runs on same device (Drew Folta) [#4861](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4861)
* [[`f78daa67b8`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f78daa67b8)] - **test**: make npm tests work on prerelease node versions (Kat Marchán) [#4960](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4960)
* [[`1c03191b6a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1c03191b6a)] - **test**: make npm tests work on prerelease node versions (Kat Marchán) [#4872](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4872)
* [[`5c4960468a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5c4960468a)] - **tls**: nullify `.ssl` on handle close (Fedor Indutny) [#5168](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5168)
* [[`c0f5f01c9c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c0f5f01c9c)] - **tls**: scope loop vars with let (Rich Trott) [#4853](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4853)
* [[`154772cfa8`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/154772cfa8)] - **tools**: parse types into links in doc html gen (Claudio Rodriguez) [#4741](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4741)
* [[`ee594f1ed7`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ee594f1ed7)] - **tools**: lint for empty character classes in regex (Rich Trott) [#5115](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5115)
* [[`bf0e239e99`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/bf0e239e99)] - **tools**: lint for spacing around unary operators (Rich Trott) [#5063](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5063)
* [[`57a5f8731a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/57a5f8731a)] - **url**: change scoping of variables with let (Kári Tristan Helgason) [#4867](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4867)
* openssl: Fully remove SSLv2 support, the `--enable-ssl2` command line argument will now produce an error. The DROWN Attack (https://drownattack.com/) creates a vulnerability where SSLv2 is enabled by a server, even if a client connection is not using SSLv2. The SSLv2 protocol is widely considered unacceptably broken and should not be supported. More information is available at https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#2016-0800
Note that the upgrade to OpenSSL 1.0.1s in Node.js v0.12.11 removed internal SSLv2 support. The change in this release was originally intended for v0.12.11. The `--enable-ssl2` command line argument now produces an error rather than being a no-op.
### Commits:
* [dbfc9d9241] - crypto,tls: remove SSLv2 support (Ben Noordhuis) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5536
## 2016-03-04, Version 0.10.43 (Maintenance), @rvagg
### Notable changes:
* http_parser: Update to http-parser 1.2 to fix an unintentionally strict limitation of allowable header characters. (James M Snell) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5242
* domains:
- Prevent an exit due to an exception being thrown rather than emitting an `'uncaughtException'` event on the `process` object when no error handler is set on the domain within which an error is thrown and an `'uncaughtException'` event listener is set on `process`. (Julien Gilli) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3887
- Fix an issue where the process would not abort in the proper function call if an error is thrown within a domain with no error handler and `--abort-on-uncaught-exception` is used. (Julien Gilli) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3887
* openssl: Upgrade from 1.0.1r to 1.0.1s (Ben Noordhuis) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5508
- Fix a double-free defect in parsing malformed DSA keys that may potentially be used for DoS or memory corruption attacks. It is likely to be very difficult to use this defect for a practical attack and is therefore considered low severity for Node.js users. More info is available at https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#2016-0705
- Fix a defect that can cause memory corruption in certain very rare cases relating to the internal `BN_hex2bn()` and `BN_dec2bn()` functions. It is believed that Node.js is not invoking the code paths that use these functions so practical attacks via Node.js using this defect are _unlikely_ to be possible. More info is available at https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#2016-0797
- Fix a defect that makes the CacheBleed Attack (https://ssrg.nicta.com.au/projects/TS/cachebleed/) possible. This defect enables attackers to execute side-channel attacks leading to the potential recovery of entire RSA private keys. It only affects the Intel Sandy Bridge (and possibly older) microarchitecture when using hyper-threading. Newer microarchitectures, including Haswell, are unaffected. More info is available at https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#2016-0702
- Remove SSLv2 support, the `--enable-ssl2` command line argument will now produce an error. The DROWN Attack (https://drownattack.com/) creates a vulnerability where SSLv2 is enabled by a server, even if a client connection is not using SSLv2. The SSLv2 protocol is widely considered unacceptably broken and should not be supported. More information is available at https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#2016-0800
### Commits:
* [164157abbb] - build: update Node.js logo on OSX installer (Rod Vagg) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5401
* [f8cb0dcf67] - crypto,tls: remove SSLv2 support (Ben Noordhuis) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5529
* http_parser: Update to http-parser 2.3.2 to fix an unintentionally strict limitation of allowable header characters. (James M Snell) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5241
* domains:
- Prevent an exit due to an exception being thrown rather than emitting an 'uncaughtException' event on the `process` object when no error handler is set on the domain within which an error is thrown and an 'uncaughtException' event listener is set on `process`. (Julien Gilli) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3885
- Fix an issue where the process would not abort in the proper function call if an error is thrown within a domain with no error handler and `--abort-on-uncaught-exception` is used. (Julien Gilli) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3885
- Fix a double-free defect in parsing malformed DSA keys that may potentially be used for DoS or memory corruption attacks. It is likely to be very difficult to use this defect for a practical attack and is therefore considered low severity for Node.js users. More info is available at https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#2016-0705
- Fix a defect that can cause memory corruption in certain very rare cases relating to the internal `BN_hex2bn()` and `BN_dec2bn()` functions. It is believed that Node.js is not invoking the code paths that use these functions so practical attacks via Node.js using this defect are _unlikely_ to be possible. More info is available at https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#2016-0797
- Fix a defect that makes the CacheBleed Attack (https://ssrg.nicta.com.au/projects/TS/cachebleed/) possible. This defect enables attackers to execute side-channel attacks leading to the potential recovery of entire RSA private keys. It only affects the Intel Sandy Bridge (and possibly older) microarchitecture when using hyper-threading. Newer microarchitectures, including Haswell, are unaffected. More info is available at https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#2016-0702
### Commits:
* [1ab6653db9] - build: update Node.js logo on OSX installer (Rod Vagg) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5401
## 2016-03-02, Version 5.7.1 (Stable), @Fishrock123
### Notable changes
* **governance**: The Core Technical Committee (CTC) added four new members to help guide Node.js core development: Evan Lucas, Rich Trott, Ali Ijaz Sheikh and Сковорода Никита Андреевич (Nikita Skovoroda).
* **openssl**: Upgrade from 1.0.2f to 1.0.2g (Ben Noordhuis) [#5507](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5507).
- Fix a double-free defect in parsing malformed DSA keys that may potentially be used for DoS or memory corruption attacks. It is likely to be very difficult to use this defect for a practical attack and is therefore considered low severity for Node.js users. More info is available at [CVE-2016-0705](https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#2016-0705).
- Fix a defect that can cause memory corruption in certain very rare cases relating to the internal `BN_hex2bn()` and `BN_dec2bn()` functions. It is believed that Node.js is not invoking the code paths that use these functions so practical attacks via Node.js using this defect are _unlikely_ to be possible. More info is available at [CVE-2016-0797](https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#2016-0797).
- Fix a defect that makes the _[CacheBleed Attack](https://ssrg.nicta.com.au/projects/TS/cachebleed/)_ possible. This defect enables attackers to execute side-channel attacks leading to the potential recovery of entire RSA private keys. It only affects the Intel Sandy Bridge (and possibly older) microarchitecture when using hyper-threading. Newer microarchitectures, including Haswell, are unaffected. More info is available at [CVE-2016-0702](https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#2016-0702).
* Fixed several regressions that appeared in v5.7.0:
- **`path.relative()`**:
- Output is no longer unnecessarily verbose (Brian White) [#5389](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5389).
- Resolving UNC paths on Windows now works correctly (Owen Smith) [#5456](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5456).
- Resolving paths with prefixes now works correctly from the root directory (Owen Smith) [#5490](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5490).
- **url**: Fixed an off-by-one error with `parse()` (Brian White) [#5394](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5394).
- **dgram**: Now correctly handles a default address case when offset and length are specified (Matteo Collina) [#5407](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5407).
### Commits
* [[`7cae774d9b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7cae774d9b)] - **benchmark**: refactor to eliminate redeclared vars (Rich Trott) [#5468](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5468)
* [[`00660f55c8`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/00660f55c8)] - **benchmark**: move string-decoder to its own category (Andreas Madsen) [#5177](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5177)
* [[`2c619f2012`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2c619f2012)] - **build**: run lint before tests (Rich Trott) [#5470](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5470)
* [[`f349a9a2cf`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f349a9a2cf)] - **build**: update Node.js logo on OSX installer (Rod Vagg) [#5401](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5401)
* [[`88f393588a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/88f393588a)] - **crypto**: PBKDF2 works with `int` not `ssize_t` (Fedor Indutny) [#5397](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5397)
* [[`d3f9b84be8`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d3f9b84be8)] - **dgram**: handle default address case when offset and length are specified (Matteo Collina)
* [[`f1f3832934`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f1f3832934)] - **doc**: update NAN urls in ROADMAP.md and doc/releases.md (ronkorving) [#5472](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5472)
* [[`c0fd802cc2`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c0fd802cc2)] - **doc**: link to man pages (dcposch@dcpos.ch) [#5073](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5073)
* [[`f8c6701e22`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f8c6701e22)] - **doc**: add missing property in cluster example (Rafael Cepeda) [#5305](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5305)
* [[`3bfe0483f0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3bfe0483f0)] - **doc**: corrected name of argument in socket.send (Chris Dew) [#5449](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5449)
* [[`7f2cf9af5c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7f2cf9af5c)] - **doc**: explicit about VS 2015 support in readme (Phillip Johnsen) [#5406](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5406)
* [[`96daf51358`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/96daf51358)] - **doc**: add Evan Lucas to the CTC (Rod Vagg) [#5275](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5275)
* [[`31b405d0cf`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/31b405d0cf)] - **doc**: add Rich Trott to the CTC (Rod Vagg) [#5276](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5276)
* [[`bcd154e402`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/bcd154e402)] - **doc**: add Ali Ijaz Sheikh to the CTC (Rod Vagg) [#5277](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5277)
* [[`9d0330c804`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9d0330c804)] - **doc**: add Сковорода Никита Андреевич to the CTC (Rod Vagg) [#5278](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5278)
* [[`91782f1888`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/91782f1888)] - **path**: fix win32 relative() when "to" is a prefix (Owen Smith) [#5456](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5456)
* [[`81348e8855`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/81348e8855)] - **test**: apply Linux workaround to Linux only (Rich Trott) [#5471](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5471)
* [[`ff75023812`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ff75023812)] - **test**: fix test-timers.reliability on OS X (Rich Trott) [#5379](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5379)
* [[`9424fa5732`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9424fa5732)] - **url**: group slashed protocols by protocol name (nettofarah) [#5380](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5380)
## 2016-03-02, Version 4.3.2 'Argon' (LTS), @thealphanerd
This is a security release with only a single commit, an update to openssl due to a recent security advisory. You can read more about the security advisory on [the Node.js website](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/openssl-march-2016/)
### Notable changes
* **openssl**: Upgrade from 1.0.2f to 1.0.2g (Ben Noordhuis) [#5507](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5507)
- Fix a double-free defect in parsing malformed DSA keys that may potentially be used for DoS or memory corruption attacks. It is likely to be very difficult to use this defect for a practical attack and is therefore considered low severity for Node.js users. More info is available at [CVE-2016-0705](https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#2016-0705).
- Fix a defect that can cause memory corruption in certain very rare cases relating to the internal `BN_hex2bn()` and `BN_dec2bn()` functions. It is believed that Node.js is not invoking the code paths that use these functions so practical attacks via Node.js using this defect are _unlikely_ to be possible. More info is available at [CVE-2016-0797](https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#2016-0797).
- Fix a defect that makes the _[CacheBleed Attack](https://ssrg.nicta.com.au/projects/TS/cachebleed/)_ possible. This defect enables attackers to execute side-channel attacks leading to the potential recovery of entire RSA private keys. It only affects the Intel Sandy Bridge (and possibly older) microarchitecture when using hyper-threading. Newer microarchitectures, including Haswell, are unaffected. More info is available at [CVE-2016-0702](https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#2016-0702).
- You can now supply an `encoding` argument when filling a Buffer `Buffer#fill(string[, start[, end]][, encoding])`, supplying an existing Buffer will also work with `Buffer#fill(buffer[, start[, end]])`. See the [API documentation](https://nodejs.org/api/buffer.html#buffer_buf_fill_value_offset_end_encoding) for details on how this works. (Trevor Norris) [#4935](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4935)
-`Buffer#indexOf()` no longer requires a `byteOffset` argument if you also wish to specify an `encoding`: `Buffer#indexOf(val[, byteOffset][, encoding])`. (Trevor Norris) [#4803](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4803)
* **child_process**: `spawn()` and `spawnSync()` now support a `'shell'` option to allow for optional execution of the given command inside a shell. If set to `true`, `cmd.exe` will be used on Windows and `/bin/sh` elsewhere. A path to a custom shell can also be passed to override these defaults. On Windows, this option allows `.bat.` and `.cmd` files to be executed with `spawn()` and `spawnSync()`. (Colin Ihrig) [#4598](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4598)
* **http_parser**: Update to http-parser 2.6.2 to fix an unintentionally strict limitation of allowable header characters (James M Snell) [#5237](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5237)
* **dgram**: `socket.send()` now supports accepts an array of Buffers or Strings as the first argument. See the [API docs](https://nodejs.org/download/nightly/v6.0.0-nightly201602102848f84332/docs/api/dgram.html#dgram_socket_send_msg_offset_length_port_address_callback) for details on how this works. (Matteo Collina) [#4374](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4374)
* **http**: Fix a bug where handling headers will mistakenly trigger an `'upgrade'` event where the server is just advertising its protocols. This bug can prevent HTTP clients from communicating with HTTP/2 enabled servers. (Fedor Indutny) [#4337](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4337)
* **net**: Added a `listening` Boolean property to `net` and `http` servers to indicate whether the server is listening for connections. (José Moreira) [#4743](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4743)
* **node**: The C++ `node::MakeCallback()` API is now reentrant and calling it from inside another `MakeCallback()` call no longer causes the `nextTick` queue or Promises microtask queue to be processed out of order. (Trevor Norris) [#4507](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4507)
* **tls**: Add a new `tlsSocket.getProtocol()` method to get the negotiated TLS protocol version of the current connection. (Brian White) [#4995](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4995)
* **vm**: Introduce new `'produceCachedData'` and `'cachedData'` options to `new vm.Script()` to interact with V8's code cache. When a new `vm.Script` object is created with the `'produceCachedData'` set to `true` a `Buffer` with V8's code cache data will be produced and stored in `cachedData` property of the returned object. This data in turn may be supplied back to another `vm.Script()` object with a `'cachedData'` option if the supplied source is the same. Successfully executing a script from cached data can speed up instantiation time. See the [API docs](https://nodejs.org/api/vm.html#vm_new_vm_script_code_options) for details. (Fedor Indutny) [#4777](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4777)
* [[`4ef04c7c4c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4ef04c7c4c)] - **async_wrap**: make uid the first argument in init (Andreas Madsen) [#4600](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4600)
* [[`4afe801f90`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4afe801f90)] - **async_wrap**: add uid to all asyncWrap hooks (Andreas Madsen) [#4600](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4600)
* [[`5fa4117bfc`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5fa4117bfc)] - **build**: add a help message and removed a TODO. (Ojas Shirekar) [#5080](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5080)
* [[`09bfb865af`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/09bfb865af)] - **build**: remove redundant TODO in configure (Ojas Shirekar) [#5080](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5080)
* [[`fc78d3d6a7`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/fc78d3d6a7)] - **build**: skip msi build if WiX is not found (Tsarevich Dmitry) [#5220](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5220)
* [[`9e6ad2d8ff`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9e6ad2d8ff)] - **child_process**: fix data loss with readable event (Brian White) [#5036](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5036)
* [[`efd6f68dce`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/efd6f68dce)] - **cluster**: dont rely on `this` in `fork` (Igor Klopov) [#5216](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5216)
* [[`df93d60caf`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/df93d60caf)] - **console**: apply null as `this` for util.format (Jackson Tian) [#5222](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5222)
* [[`c397ba8fa3`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c397ba8fa3)] - **contextify**: use offset/length from Uint8Array (Fedor Indutny) [#4947](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4947)
* [[`3955bc4cd0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3955bc4cd0)] - **doc**: fix minor inconsistencies in repl doc (Rich Trott) [#5193](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5193)
* [[`287bce7b48`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/287bce7b48)] - **doc**: merging behavior of writeHead vs setHeader (Alejandro Oviedo) [#5081](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5081)
* [[`529e749d88`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/529e749d88)] - **doc**: fix type references for link gen, link css (Claudio Rodriguez) [#4741](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4741)
* [[`411d813323`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/411d813323)] - **http**: do not emit `upgrade` on advertisement (Fedor Indutny) [#4337](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4337)
* [[`a2d198c702`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a2d198c702)] - **net**: use `_server` for internal book-keeping (Fedor Indutny) [#5262](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5262)
* [[`18d24e60c5`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/18d24e60c5)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **net**: add net.listening boolean property over a getter (José Moreira) [#4743](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4743)
* [[`9cee86e3e9`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9cee86e3e9)] - **node**: set process._eventsCount to 0 on startup (Evan Lucas) [#5208](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5208)
* [[`8d6e679a90`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8d6e679a90)] - **src,test,tools**: modify for more stringent linting (Rich Trott) [#5214](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5214)
* [[`7684b0fcdf`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7684b0fcdf)] - **stream**: fix no data on partial decode (Brian White) [#5226](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5226)
* [[`f706cb0189`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f706cb0189)] - **streams**: 5% throughput gain when sending small chunks (Matteo Collina) [#4354](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4354)
* [[`0e85530d8c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0e85530d8c)] - **test**: use String.prototype.repeat() for clarity (Rich Trott) [#5311](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5311)
* [[`5683efb90a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5683efb90a)] - **test**: remove flaky mark for test-debug-no-context (Rich Trott) [#5317](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5317)
* [[`c55bb79ace`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c55bb79ace)] - **test**: add test for https server close event (Braydon Fuller) [#5106](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5106)
* [[`e7bf951136`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e7bf951136)] - **test**: add addons test for MakeCallback (Trevor Norris) [#4507](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4507)
* [[`98596a94fa`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/98596a94fa)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **test**: run v8 tests from node tree (Bryon Leung) [#4704](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4704)
* [[`22c8d50a1f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/22c8d50a1f)] - **tools**: parse types into links in doc html gen (Claudio Rodriguez) [#4741](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4741)
* [[`748d2b4de1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/748d2b4de1)] - **buffer**: make byteLength work with Buffer correctly (Jackson Tian) [#4738](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4738)
* [[`c3956d05b1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c3956d05b1)] - **doc**: update list of personal traits in CoC (Kat Marchán) [#4801](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4801)
* [[`39cb69ca21`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/39cb69ca21)] - **doc**: style fixes for the TOC (Roman Reiss) [#4748](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4748)
* [[`2e92a1a6b4`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2e92a1a6b4)] - **module**: move unnecessary work for early return (Andres Suarez) [#3579](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3579)
* [[`40c8e6d75d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/40c8e6d75d)] - **net**: remove hot path comment from connect (Evan Lucas) [#4648](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4648)
* [[`8ed0c1c22c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8ed0c1c22c)] - **net**: fix dns lookup for android (Josh Dague) [#4580](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4580)
* [[`15fa555204`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/15fa555204)] - **net, doc**: fix line wrapping lint in net.js (James M Snell) [#4588](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4588)
* [[`1b070e48e0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1b070e48e0)] - **node_contextify**: do not incept debug context (Myles Borins) [#4815](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/4815)
* [[`d71f9992f9`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d71f9992f9)] - **stream**: remove useless if test in transform (zoubin) [#4617](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4617)
* [[`909b5167cb`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/909b5167cb)] - **test**: remove 1 second delay from test (Rich Trott) [#4616](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4616)
* [[`7afcdd358e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7afcdd358e)] - **test**: require common module only once (Rich Trott) [#4611](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4611)
* [[`0e02eb0bbe`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0e02eb0bbe)] - **test**: only include http module once (Rich Trott) [#4606](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4606)
* [[`e6448aa36b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e6448aa36b)] - **test**: use addon.md block headings as test dir names (Rod Vagg) [#4412](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4412)
* [[`305d340fca`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/305d340fca)] - **test**: test each block in addon.md contains js & cc (Rod Vagg) [#4411](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4411)
* [[`aefb20a94f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/aefb20a94f)] - **tls**: copy client CAs and cert store on CertCb (Fedor Indutny) [#3537](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3537)
* [[`7821b3e305`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7821b3e305)] - **tls_legacy**: do not read on OpenSSL's stack (Fedor Indutny) [#4624](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4624)
* [[`b66db49f94`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b66db49f94)] - **tools**: add support for subkeys in release tools (Myles Borins) [#4807](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4807)
This is an important security release. All Node.js users should consult the security release summary at nodejs.org for details on patched vulnerabilities.
### Notable changes
* **http**: fix defects in HTTP header parsing for requests and responses that can allow request smuggling (CVE-2016-2086) or response splitting (CVE-2016-2216). HTTP header parsing now aligns more closely with the HTTP spec including restricting the acceptable characters.
* **http-parser**: upgrade from 2.6.0 to 2.6.1
* **npm**: upgrade npm from 3.3.12 to 3.6.0 (Rebecca Turner) [#4958](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4958)
* **openssl**: upgrade from 1.0.2e to 1.0.2f. To mitigate against the Logjam attack, TLS clients now reject Diffie-Hellman handshakes with parameters shorter than 1024-bits, up from the previous limit of 768-bits.
### Commits
* [[`3b6283c163`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3b6283c163)] - **benchmark**: add a constant declaration for `net` (Minwoo Jung) [#3950](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3950)
* [[`58d67e26a2`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/58d67e26a2)] - **buffer**: validate list elements in Buffer.concat (Michaël Zasso) [#4951](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4951)
* [[`d9e934c71f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d9e934c71f)] - **crypto**: add `pfx` certs as CA certs too (Fedor Indutny) [#5109](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5109)
* [[`0d4b538175`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0d4b538175)] - **crypto**: use SSL_CTX_clear_extra_chain_certs. (Adam Langley) [#4919](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4919)
* [[`abb0f6cd53`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/abb0f6cd53)] - **crypto**: fix build when OCSP-stapling not provided (Adam Langley) [#4914](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4914)
* [[`755619c554`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/755619c554)] - **crypto**: use a const SSL_CIPHER (Adam Langley) [#4913](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4913)
* [[`d5d2f86f89`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d5d2f86f89)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **deps**: update http-parser to version 2.6.1 (James M Snell)
* [[`fa0457ed04`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/fa0457ed04)] - **dns**: throw a TypeError in lookupService with invalid port (Evan Lucas) [#4839](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4839)
* [[`9c93ea3d51`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9c93ea3d51)] - **doc**: fix links order in Buffer doc (Alexander Makarenko) [#5076](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5076)
* [[`a0ba378880`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a0ba378880)] - **doc**: minor improvement in OS docs (Alexander Makarenko) [#5006](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5006)
* [[`ee013715b9`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ee013715b9)] - **doc**: improve styling consistency in VM docs (Alexander Makarenko) [#5005](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5005)
* [[`9824b0d132`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9824b0d132)] - **doc**: fix anchor links from stream to http and events (piepmatz) [#5007](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5007)
* [[`2c85f79569`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2c85f79569)] - **doc**: minor improvement to HTTPS doc (Alexander Makarenko) [#5002](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5002)
* [[`3b08b5d22c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3b08b5d22c)] - **doc**: fix minor typo in process doc (Prayag Verma) [#5018](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5018)
* [[`396e4b9199`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/396e4b9199)] - **doc**: add more details to process.env (Evan Lucas) [#4924](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4924)
* [[`bc11bf4659`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/bc11bf4659)] - **doc**: don't use "interface" as a variable name (ChALkeR) [#4900](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4900)
* [[`5129930786`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5129930786)] - **doc**: keep the names in sorted order (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#4876](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4876)
* [[`5a860d9cb7`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5a860d9cb7)] - **doc**: Examples work when data exceeds buffer size (Glen Arrowsmith) [#4811](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4811)
* [[`71ba14de86`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/71ba14de86)] - **doc**: update list of personal traits in CoC (Kat Marchán) [#4801](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4801)
* [[`7003a4e3d8`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7003a4e3d8)] - **node_contextify**: do not incept debug context (Myles Borins) [#4815](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/4815)
* [[`5a77c095a6`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5a77c095a6)] - **process**: support symbol events (cjihrig) [#4798](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4798)
* [[`85743c0e92`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/85743c0e92)] - **querystring**: check that maxKeys is finite (Myles Borins) [#5066](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5066)
* [[`5a10fe932c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5a10fe932c)] - **querystring**: use String.prototype.split's limit (Manuel Valls) [#2288](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2288)
* [[`ac6627a0fe`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ac6627a0fe)] - **src**: avoid compiler warning in node_revert.cc (James M Snell)
* [[`459c5844c8`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/459c5844c8)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **src**: add --security-revert command line flag (James M Snell)
* [[`95615196de`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/95615196de)] - **src**: clean up usage of __proto__ (Jackson Tian) [#5069](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5069)
* [[`9dcc45e9c5`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9dcc45e9c5)] - **test**: enable to work pkcs12 test in FIPS mode (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#5150](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5150)
* [[`e4390664ae`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e4390664ae)] - **test**: disable gh-5100 test when in FIPS mode (Fedor Indutny) [#5144](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5144)
* [[`63884f57dd`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/63884f57dd)] - **test**: mark flaky tests on Raspberry Pi (Rich Trott) [#5082](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5082)
* [[`e98772d68e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e98772d68e)] - **test**: remove redeclared var in test-domain (Rich Trott) [#4984](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4984)
* [[`443d0463ca`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/443d0463ca)] - **test**: add common.platformTimeout() to dgram test (Rich Trott) [#4938](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4938)
* [[`90219c3398`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/90219c3398)] - **test**: fix flaky cluster test on Windows 10 (Rich Trott) [#4934](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4934)
* [[`3b225209f0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3b225209f0)] - **test**: fs.link() test runs on same device (Drew Folta) [#4861](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4861)
* [[`62479e3406`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/62479e3406)] - **tls**: scope loop vars with let (Rich Trott) [#4853](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4853)
* [[`f75d06bf10`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f75d06bf10)] - **tools**: lint for empty character classes in regex (Rich Trott) [#5115](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5115)
* [[`53cbd0564f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/53cbd0564f)] - **tools**: lint for spacing around unary operators (Rich Trott) [#5063](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5063)
* [[`7fa5959c59`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7fa5959c59)] - **tools**: fix redeclared vars in doc/json.js (Rich Trott) [#5047](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5047)
* [[`fd5c56698e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/fd5c56698e)] - **tools**: add support for subkeys in release tools (Myles Borins) [#4807](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4807)
* [[`e415eb27e5`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e415eb27e5)] - **url**: change scoping of variables with let (Kári Tristan Helgason) [#4867](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4867)
## 2016-02-09, Version 4.3.0 'Argon' (LTS), @jasnell
This is an important security release. All Node.js users should consult the security release summary at nodejs.org for details on patched vulnerabilities.
Note that this release includes a non-backward compatible change to address a security issue. This change increases the version of the LTS v4.x line to v4.3.0. There will be *no further updates* to v4.2.x.
### Notable changes
* **http**: fix defects in HTTP header parsing for requests and responses that can allow request smuggling (CVE-2016-2086) or response splitting (CVE-2016-2216). HTTP header parsing now aligns more closely with the HTTP spec including restricting the acceptable characters.
* **http-parser**: upgrade from 2.5.0 to 2.5.1
* **openssl**: upgrade from 1.0.2e to 1.0.2f. To mitigate against the Logjam attack, TLS clients now reject Diffie-Hellman handshakes with parameters shorter than 1024-bits, up from the previous limit of 768-bits.
* **src**:
- introduce new `--security-revert={cvenum}` command line flag for selective reversion of specific CVE fixes
- allow the fix for CVE-2016-2216 to be selectively reverted using `--security-revert=CVE-2016-2216`
* [[`0eae95eae3`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0eae95eae3)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **deps**: update http-parser to version 2.5.1 (James M Snell)
* [[`cf2b714b02`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/cf2b714b02)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **http**: strictly forbid invalid characters from headers (James M Snell)
* [[`49ae2e0334`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/49ae2e0334)] - **src**: avoid compiler warning in node_revert.cc (James M Snell)
* [[`da3750f981`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/da3750f981)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **src**: add --security-revert command line flag (James M Snell)
This is an important security release. All Node.js users should consult the security release summary at nodejs.org for details on patched vulnerabilities.
### Notable changes
* http: fix defects in HTTP header parsing for requests and responses that can allow request smuggling (CVE-2016-2086) or response splitting (CVE-2016-2216). HTTP header parsing now aligns more closely with the HTTP spec including restricting the acceptable characters.
* http-parser: upgrade from 2.3.0 to 2.3.1
* openssl: upgrade from 1.0.1q to 1.0.1r. To mitigate against the Logjam attack, TLS clients now reject Diffie-Hellman handshakes with parameters shorter than 1024-bits, up from the previous limit of 768-bits.
* src:
- introduce new `--security-revert={cvenum}` command line flag for selective reversion of specific CVE fixes
- allow the fix for CVE-2016-2216 to be selectively reverted using `--security-revert=CVE-2016-2216`
* build:
- xz compressed tar files will be made available from nodejs.org for v0.12 builds from v0.12.10 onward
- A headers.tar.gz file will be made available from nodejs.org for v0.12 builds from v0.12.10 onward, a future change to node-gyp will be required to make use of these
### Commits
* [4312848bff] - build: enable xz compressed tarballs where possible (Rod Vagg) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4894
## 2016-02-09, Version 0.10.42 (Maintenance), @jasnell
This is an important security release. All Node.js users should consult the security release summary at nodejs.org for details on patched vulnerabilities.
### Notable changes
* http: fix defects in HTTP header parsing for requests and responses that can allow request smuggling (CVE-2016-2086) or response splitting (CVE-2016-2216). HTTP header parsing now aligns more closely with the HTTP spec including restricting the acceptable characters.
* http-parser: upgrade from 1.0 to 1.1
* openssl: upgrade from 1.0.1q to 1.0.1r. To mitigate against the Logjam attack, TLS clients now reject Diffie-Hellman handshakes with parameters shorter than 1024-bits, up from the previous limit of 768-bits.
* src:
- introduce new `--security-revert={cvenum}` command line flag for selective reversion of specific CVE fixes
- allow the fix for CVE-2016-2216 to be selectively reverted using `--security-revert=CVE-2016-2216`
* build:
- xz compressed tar files will be made available from nodejs.org for v0.10 builds from v0.10.42 onward
- A headers.tar.gz file will be made available from nodejs.org for v0.10 builds from v0.10.42 onward, a future change to node-gyp will be required to make use of these
### Commits
* [fdc332183e] - build: enable xz compressed tarballs where possible (Rod Vagg) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4894
## 2016-01-21, Version 4.2.6 'Argon' (LTS), @TheAlphaNerd
### Notable changes
* Fix regression in debugger and profiler functionality
### Known issues
* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1264).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
### Commits
* [[`1408f7abb1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1408f7abb1)] - **module,src**: do not wrap modules with -1 lineOffset (cjihrig) [#4298](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4298)
* [[`1f8e1472cc`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1f8e1472cc)] - **test**: add test for debugging one line files (cjihrig) [#4298](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4298)
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
* Unicode characters in filesystem paths are not handled consistently across platforms or Node.js APIs. See [#2088](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/2088), [#3401](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3401) and [#3519](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3519).
### Commits
* [[`8d0ca10752`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8d0ca10752)] - **buffer**: make byteLength work with Buffer correctly (Jackson Tian) [#4738](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4738)
* [[`8182ec094d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8182ec094d)] - **build**: add option to select VS version (julien.waechter) [#4645](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4645)
* [[`4383acd9f4`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4383acd9f4)] - **build**: fix and refactor VTune config in vcbuild.bat (Rod Vagg) [#4192](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4192)
* [[`be0b0b8cb9`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/be0b0b8cb9)] - **build**: minor corrections in VTune configure text (Rod Vagg) [#4192](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4192)
* [[`666c089e68`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/666c089e68)] - **doc**: fix named anchors in addons.markdown and http.markdown (Michael Theriot) [#4708](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4708)
* [[`310530b7ec`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/310530b7ec)] - **doc**: add path property to Write/ReadStream in fs.markdown (Claudio Rodriguez) [#4368](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4368)
* [[`3470574cb6`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3470574cb6)] - **doc**: clarify explanation of first stream section (Vitor Cortez) [#4234](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4234)
* [[`3727ae0d7d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3727ae0d7d)] - **test**: use addon.md block headings as test dir names (Rod Vagg) [#4412](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4412)
* [[`47960a07c0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/47960a07c0)] - **test**: make test-cluster-disconnect-leak reliable (Rich Trott) [#4736](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4736)
* [[`e98bcfa2cb`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e98bcfa2cb)] - **test**: remove 1 second delay from test (Rich Trott) [#4616](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4616)
* add tap output to cpplint (Johan Bergström) [#3448](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3448)
* **util**
* allow lookup of hidden values (cjihrig) [#3988](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3988)
### Known issues
* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1264).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
* [[`a8b45e9e96`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a8b45e9e96)] - **async_wrap**: new instances get uid (Trevor Norris) [#3461](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3461)
* [[`49f16d77c4`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/49f16d77c4)] - **async_wrap**: allow some hooks to be optional (Trevor Norris) [#3461](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3461)
* [[`138d004ac0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/138d004ac0)] - **buffer**: faster case for create Buffer from new Buffer(0) (Jackson Tian) [#4326](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4326)
* [[`80b4ba286c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/80b4ba286c)] - **build**: Updates for AIX npm support - part 1 (Michael Dawson) [#3114](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3114)
* [[`481d59a74c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/481d59a74c)] - **configure**: fix arm vfpv2 (Jörg Krause) [#4203](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4203)
* [[`d19da6638d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d19da6638d)] - **crypto**: load PFX chain the same way as regular one (Fedor Indutny) [#4165](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4165)
* [[`b8e75de1f3`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b8e75de1f3)] - **crypto**: fix native module compilation with FIPS (Stefan Budeanu) [#4023](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4023)
* [[`b7c3fb7f75`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b7c3fb7f75)] - **crypto**: disable crypto.createCipher in FIPS mode (Stefan Budeanu) [#3754](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3754)
* [[`31b4091a1e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/31b4091a1e)] - **debugger**: also exit when the repl emits 'exit' (Felix Böhm) [#2369](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2369)
* [[`9baa5618f5`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9baa5618f5)] - **deps**: backport 066747e from upstream V8 (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) [#4655](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4655)
* [[`33e72e135f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/33e72e135f)] - **doc**: update links to use https where possible (jpersson) [#4054](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4054)
* [[`5f4aa79410`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5f4aa79410)] - **doc**: clarify explanation of first stream section (Vitor Cortez) [#4234](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4234)
* [[`295ca5bfb2`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/295ca5bfb2)] - **doc**: add branch-diff example to releases.md (Myles Borins) [#4636](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4636)
* [[`18f5cd8710`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/18f5cd8710)] - **doc**: update stylesheet to match frontpage (Roman Reiss) [#4621](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4621)
* [[`bd31740339`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/bd31740339)] - **doc**: label http.IncomingMessage as a Class (Sequoia McDowell) [#4589](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4589)
* [[`bcd2cbbb93`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/bcd2cbbb93)] - **doc**: fix description about the latest-codename (Minwoo Jung) [#4583](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4583)
* [[`0b12bcb35d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0b12bcb35d)] - **doc**: add Evan Lucas to Release Team (Evan Lucas) [#4579](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4579)
* [[`e20b1f6f10`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e20b1f6f10)] - **doc**: add Myles Borins to Release Team (Myles Borins) [#4578](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4578)
* [[`5d6bed895c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5d6bed895c)] - **doc**: bring releases.md up to date (cjihrig) [#4540](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4540)
* [[`2b142fd876`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2b142fd876)] - **doc**: catch the WORKING_GROUPS.md bootstrap docs up to date (James M Snell) [#4367](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4367)
* [[`ed87873de3`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ed87873de3)] - **doc**: fix link in addons.markdown (Nicholas Young) [#4331](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4331)
* [[`6c30d087e5`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/6c30d087e5)] - **doc**: Fixing broken links to the v8 wiki (Tom Gallacher) [#4241](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4241)
* [[`cf214e56e4`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/cf214e56e4)] - **doc**: move description of 'equals' method to right place (janriemer) [#4227](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4227)
* [[`70c95ea0e5`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/70c95ea0e5)] - **doc**: add warning about Windows process groups (Roman Klauke) [#3681](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3681)
* [[`7ffd299a1d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7ffd299a1d)] - **doc**: add final full stop in CONTRIBUTING.md (Emily Aviva Kapor-Mater) [#3576](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3576)
* [[`3d81ea99bb`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3d81ea99bb)] - **lib,test**: update let to const where applicable (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#3152](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3152)
* [[`f61412c753`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f61412c753)] - **test**: mark test-debug-no-context is flaky (Rich Trott) [#4421](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4421)
* [[`46d8c93ed2`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/46d8c93ed2)] - **test**: don't use cwd for relative path (Johan Bergström) [#4477](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4477)
* [[`b6124ea39c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b6124ea39c)] - **test**: write to tmp dir rather than fixture dir (Rich Trott) [#4489](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4489)
* [[`350fa664bb`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/350fa664bb)] - **test**: don't assume a certain folder structure (Johan Bergström) [#3325](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3325)
* [[`610727dea7`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/610727dea7)] - **test**: clarify role of domains in test (Rich Trott) [#4474](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4474)
* [[`acc3d66934`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/acc3d66934)] - **test**: move ArrayStream to common (cjihrig) [#4027](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4027)
* [[`29804e00ad`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/29804e00ad)] - **test**: use platformTimeout() in more places (Brian White) [#4387](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4387)
* [[`73e781172b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/73e781172b)] - **test**: add test for tls.parseCertString (Evan Lucas) [#4283](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4283)
* [[`15c295a21b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/15c295a21b)] - **test**: use regular timeout times for ARMv8 (Jeremiah Senkpiel) [#4248](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4248)
* [[`22b88e1c48`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/22b88e1c48)] - **test**: add TAP diagnostic message for retried tests (Rich Trott) [#3960](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3960)
* [[`22d2887b1c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/22d2887b1c)] - **test**: add OS X to module loading error test (Evan Lucas) [#3901](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3901)
* [[`e2141cb75e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e2141cb75e)] - **test**: skip instead of fail when mem constrained (Michael Cornacchia) [#3697](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3697)
* [[`166523d0ed`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/166523d0ed)] - **test**: fix race condition in unrefd interval test (Michael Cornacchia) [#3550](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3550)
* [[`5b695d0343`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5b695d0343)] - **tls_wrap**: inherit from the `AsyncWrap` first (Fedor Indutny) [#4268](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4268)
## 2016-01-12, Version 5.4.1 (Stable), @TheAlphaNerd
### Notable Changes
* Minor performance improvements:
- **module**: move unnecessary work for early return (Andres Suarez) [#3579](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3579)
* Various bug fixes
* Various doc fixes
* Various test improvements
### Known issues
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
* Unicode characters in filesystem paths are not handled consistently across platforms or Node.js APIs. See [#2088](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/2088), [#3401](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3401) and [#3519](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3519).
* [[`fdfc72c977`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/fdfc72c977)] - **doc**: label http.IncomingMessage as a Class (Sequoia McDowell) [#4589](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4589)
* [[`97aaeb8519`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/97aaeb8519)] - **doc**: fix description about the latest-codename (Minwoo Jung) [#4583](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4583)
* [[`0126615d1e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0126615d1e)] - **doc**: add Evan Lucas to Release Team (Evan Lucas) [#4579](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4579)
* [[`ec73c69412`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ec73c69412)] - **doc**: add Myles Borins to Release Team (Myles Borins) [#4578](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4578)
* [[`e703c9a4e2`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e703c9a4e2)] - **doc**: bring releases.md up to date (cjihrig) [#4540](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4540)
* [[`145b66820f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/145b66820f)] - **module**: move unnecessary work for early return (Andres Suarez) [#3579](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3579)
* [[`ffb7deb443`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ffb7deb443)] - **net**: remove hot path comment from connect (Evan Lucas) [#4648](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4648)
* [[`799aa74d90`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/799aa74d90)] - **net**: fix dns lookup for android (Josh Dague) [#4580](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4580)
* [[`9accebe087`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9accebe087)] - **net, doc**: fix line wrapping lint in net.js (James M Snell) [#4588](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4588)
* [[`b515ccc2a1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b515ccc2a1)] - **stream**: remove useless if test in transform (zoubin) [#4617](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4617)
* [[`b14b2aec5e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b14b2aec5e)] - **test**: require common module only once (Rich Trott) [#4611](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4611)
* [[`f28a640505`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f28a640505)] - **test**: only include http module once (Rich Trott) [#4606](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4606)
* [[`b70eec8f7b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b70eec8f7b)] - **tls_legacy**: do not read on OpenSSL's stack (Fedor Indutny) [#4624](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4624)
- **util**: Use faster iteration in `util.format()` (Jackson Tian) [#3964](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3964).
### Known issues
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
* Unicode characters in filesystem paths are not handled consistently across platforms or Node.js APIs. See [#2088](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/2088), [#3401](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3401) and [#3519](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3519).
* [[`6d8053ab56`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/6d8053ab56)] - **buffer**: faster case for create Buffer from new Buffer(0) (Jackson Tian) [#4326](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4326)
* [[`fcf632bc6a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/fcf632bc6a)] - **crypto**: load PFX chain the same way as regular one (Fedor Indutny) [#4165](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4165)
* [[`a5094a35a0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a5094a35a0)] - **debugger**: guard against call from non-node context (Ben Noordhuis) [#4328](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4328)
* [[`bc1c0dc3fb`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/bc1c0dc3fb)] - **doc**: catch the WORKING_GROUPS.md bootstrap docs up to date (James M Snell) [#4367](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4367)
* [[`ab3e5c1417`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ab3e5c1417)] - **test**: write to tmp dir rather than fixture dir (Rich Trott) [#4489](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4489)
* [[`f1a66bc249`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f1a66bc249)] - **test**: clarify role of domains in test (Rich Trott) [#4474](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4474)
* [[`08a3490dd6`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/08a3490dd6)] - **test**: inherit JOBS from environment (Johan Bergström) [#4495](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4495)
* [[`71b79bcf54`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/71b79bcf54)] - **test**: test each block in addon.md contains js & cc (Rod Vagg) [#4411](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4411)
* [[`6d14b6520f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/6d14b6520f)] - **test**: use platformTimeout() in more places (Brian White) [#4387](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4387)
## 2015-12-23, Version 4.2.4 'Argon' (LTS), @jasnell
Maintenance update.
### Notable changes
* Roughly 78% of the commits are documentation and test improvements
* **domains**:
** Fix handling of uncaught exceptions (Julien Gilli) [#3884](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3884)
* **deps**:
** Upgrade to npm 2.14.12 (Kat Marchán) [#4110](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4110)
** Backport 819b40a from V8 upstream (Michaël Zasso) [#3938](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3938)
** Updated node LICENSE file with new npm license (Kat Marchán) [#4110](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4110)
### Known issues
* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1264).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
* [[`7ffc01756f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7ffc01756f)] - **buffer**: fix writeInt{B,L}E for some neg values (Peter A. Bigot) [#3994](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3994)
* [[`629d5d18d7`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/629d5d18d7)] - **configure**: `v8_use_snapshot` should be `true` (Fedor Indutny) [#3962](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3962)
* [[`3094464871`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3094464871)] - **configure**: use __ARM_ARCH to determine arm version (João Reis) [#4123](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4123)
* [[`8aafa2ecc0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8aafa2ecc0)] - **doc**: standardize references to node.js in docs (Scott Buchanan) [#4136](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4136)
* [[`72f43a263a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/72f43a263a)] - **doc**: fix internal link to child.send() (Luigi Pinca) [#4089](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4089)
* [[`dcfdbac457`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/dcfdbac457)] - **doc**: reword https.Agent example text (Jan Krems) [#4075](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4075)
* [[`f93d268dec`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f93d268dec)] - **doc**: add HTTP working group (James M Snell) [#3919](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3919)
* [[`753c5071ea`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/753c5071ea)] - **doc**: Adding best practises for crypto.pbkdf2 (Tom Gallacher) [#3290](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3290)
* [[`8f0291beba`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8f0291beba)] - **doc**: update WORKING_GROUPS.md to include Intl (Steven R. Loomis) [#3251](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3251)
* [[`ffd3335e29`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ffd3335e29)] - **doc**: address use of profanity in code of conduct (James M Snell) [#3827](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3827)
* [[`a36a5b63cf`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a36a5b63cf)] - **doc**: reword message.headers to indicate they are not read-only (Tristian Flanagan) [#3814](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3814)
* [[`b22973af81`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b22973af81)] - **doc**: replace head of readme with updated text (Rod Vagg) [#3482](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3482)
* [[`1bbc3b3ff8`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1bbc3b3ff8)] - **doc**: add note on tls connection meta data methods (Tyler Henkel) [#3746](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3746)
* [[`488e74f27d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/488e74f27d)] - **doc**: update lts description in the collaborator guide (James M Snell) [#3668](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3668)
* [[`fe3ae3cea4`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/fe3ae3cea4)] - **doc**: add LTS info to COLLABORATOR_GUIDE.md (Myles Borins) [#3442](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3442)
* [[`daa10a345e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/daa10a345e)] - **doc**: typo fix in readme.md (Sam P Gallagher-Bishop) [#3649](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3649)
* [[`eca5720761`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/eca5720761)] - **doc**: fix wrong date and known issue in changelog.md (James M Snell) [#3650](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3650)
* [[`83494f8f3e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/83494f8f3e)] - **doc**: rename iojs-* groups to nodejs-* (Steven R. Loomis) [#3634](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3634)
* [[`6db4392bfb`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/6db4392bfb)] - **doc**: made code spans more visible in the API docs (phijohns) [#3573](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3573)
* [[`8a7dd73af1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8a7dd73af1)] - **doc**: added what buf.copy returns (Manuel B) [#3555](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3555)
* [[`cf4b65c2d6`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/cf4b65c2d6)] - **doc**: fix function param order in assert doc (David Woods) [#3533](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3533)
* [[`f50f19e384`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f50f19e384)] - **doc**: stdout/stderr can block when directed to file (Ben Noordhuis) [#3170](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3170)
* [[`b2cc1302e0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b2cc1302e0)] - **docs**: improve discoverability of Code of Conduct (Ashley Williams) [#3774](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3774)
* [[`fa1ab497f1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/fa1ab497f1)] - **docs**: fs - change links to buffer encoding to Buffer class anchor (fansworld-claudio) [#2796](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2796)
* [[`0311836e7a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0311836e7a)] - **meta**: remove use of profanity in source (Myles Borins) [#4122](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4122)
* [[`ff02b295fc`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ff02b295fc)] - **repl**: don't crash if cannot open history file (Evan Lucas) [#3630](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3630)
* [[`329e88e545`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/329e88e545)] - **repl**: To exit, press ^C again or type .exit. (Hemanth.HM) [#3368](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3368)
* [[`5f66d66e84`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5f66d66e84)] - **test**: don't check the # of chunks in test-http-1.0 (Santiago Gimeno) [#3961](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3961)
* [[`4e46e04002`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4e46e04002)] - **test**: add test for repl.defineCommand() (Bryan English) [#3908](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3908)
* [[`4ea1a69c53`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4ea1a69c53)] - **test**: mark test flaky on FreeBSD (Rich Trott) [#4016](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4016)
* [[`05b64c11f5`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/05b64c11f5)] - **test**: mark cluster-net-send test flaky on windows (Rich Trott) [#4006](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4006)
* [[`abbd87b273`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/abbd87b273)] - **test**: mark fork regression test flaky on windows (Rich Trott) [#4005](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4005)
* [[`38ba152a7a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/38ba152a7a)] - **test**: skip test if in FreeBSD jail (Rich Trott) [#3995](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3995)
* [[`b2f1014d26`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b2f1014d26)] - **test**: remove flaky status for cluster test (Rich Trott) [#3975](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3975)
* [[`cca216a034`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/cca216a034)] - **test**: move test-specific function out of common (Rich Trott) [#3871](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3871)
* [[`9ea6bc1e0f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9ea6bc1e0f)] - **test**: skip test if FreeBSD jail will break it (Rich Trott) [#3839](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3839)
* [[`603a6f5405`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/603a6f5405)] - **test**: run pipeline flood test in parallel (Rich Trott) [#3811](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3811)
* [[`4a26f74ee3`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4a26f74ee3)] - **test**: skip/replace weak crypto tests in FIPS mode (Stefan Budeanu) [#3757](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3757)
* [[`3f9562b6bd`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3f9562b6bd)] - **test**: stronger crypto in test fixtures (Stefan Budeanu) [#3759](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3759)
* [[`1f83eebec5`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1f83eebec5)] - **test**: increase crypto strength for FIPS standard (Stefan Budeanu) [#3758](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3758)
* [[`0e8eb66a78`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0e8eb66a78)] - **test**: fix path to module for repl test on Windows (Michael Cornacchia) [#3608](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3608)
* [[`542d05cbe1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/542d05cbe1)] - **test**: enhance fs-watch-recursive test (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#2599](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2599)
* [[`0eb0119d64`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0eb0119d64)] - **tls**: Use SHA1 for sessionIdContext in FIPS mode (Stefan Budeanu) [#3755](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3755)
* [[`c10c08604c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c10c08604c)] - **tls**: remove util and calls to util.format (Myles Borins) [#3456](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3456)
* [[`a558a570c0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a558a570c0)] - **util**: use regexp instead of str.replace().join() (qinjia) [#3689](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3689)
* [[`47bb94a0c3`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/47bb94a0c3)] - **zlib**: only apply drain listener if given callback (Craig Cavalier) [#3534](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3534)
* [[`4733a60158`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4733a60158)] - **zlib**: pass kind to recursive calls to flush (Myles Borins) [#3534](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3534)
-`Buffer.prototype.includes()` has been added to keep parity with TypedArrays. (Alexander Martin) [#3567](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3567).
* **domains**:
- Fix handling of uncaught exceptions. (Julien Gilli) [#3654](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3654).
* **https**:
- Added support for disabling session caching. (Fedor Indutny) [#4252](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4252).
* **repl**:
- Allow third party modules to be imported using `require()`. This corrects a regression from 5.2.0. (Ben Noordhuis) [#4215](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4215).
* **deps**:
- Upgrade libuv to 1.8.0. (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé) [#4276](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4276).
### Known issues
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
* Unicode characters in filesystem paths are not handled consistently across platforms or Node.js APIs. See [#2088](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/2088), [#3401](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3401) and [#3519](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3519).
### Commits
* [[`6ca5ea3860`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/6ca5ea3860)] - 2015-12-09, Version 5.2.0 (Stable) (Rod Vagg) [#4181](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4181)
* [[`67e181986a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/67e181986a)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **buffer**: add includes() for parity with TypedArray (Alexander Martin) [#3567](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3567)
* [[`84dea1bd0c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/84dea1bd0c)] - **configure**: fix arm vfpv2 (Jörg Krause) [#4203](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4203)
* [[`a7f5dfd14c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a7f5dfd14c)] - **configure**: use \_\_ARM\_ARCH to determine arm version (João Reis) [#4123](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4123)
* [[`1a21a5368b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1a21a5368b)] - **doc**: move description of 'equals' method to right place (janriemer) [#4227](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4227)
* [[`9a9c5259bf`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9a9c5259bf)] - **doc**: Fixing broken links to the v8 wiki (Tom Gallacher) [#4241](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4241)
* [[`2a60e2ad71`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2a60e2ad71)] - **module,src**: do not wrap modules with -1 lineOffset (cjihrig) [#4298](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4298)
* [[`cb0b4a6bc0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/cb0b4a6bc0)] - **test**: add test for debugging one line files (cjihrig) [#4298](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4298)
* [[`0b9c3a30d6`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0b9c3a30d6)] - **test**: add test for tls.parseCertString (Evan Lucas) [#4283](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4283)
* [[`668449ad14`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/668449ad14)] - **test**: use regular timeout times for ARMv8 (Jeremiah Senkpiel) [#4248](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4248)
* [[`e0bb118a1d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e0bb118a1d)] - **tls_wrap**: inherit from the `AsyncWrap` first (Fedor Indutny) [#4268](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4268)
- Add support for Intel's VTune JIT profiling when compiled with `--enable-vtune-profiling`. For more information about VTune, see <https://software.intel.com/en-us/node/544211>. (Chunyang Dai) [#3785](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3785).
- Properly enable V8 snapshots by default. Due to a configuration error, snapshots have been kept off by default when the intention is for the feature to be enabled. (Fedor Indutny) [#3962](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3962).
* **crypto**:
- Simplify use of ECDH (Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman) objects (created via `crypto.createECDH(curve_name)`) with private keys that are not dynamically generated via `generateKeys()`. The public key is now computed when explicitly setting a private key. Added validity checks to reduce the possibility of computing weak or invalid shared secrets. Also, deprecated the `setPublicKey()` method for ECDH objects as its usage is unnecessary and can lead to inconsistent state. (Michael Ruddy) [#3511](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3511).
- Update root certificates from the current list stored maintained by Mozilla NSS. (Ben Noordhuis) [#3951](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3951).
- Multiple CA certificates can now be passed with the `ca` option to TLS methods as an array of strings or in a single new-line separated string. (Ben Noordhuis) [#4099](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4099)
* **tools**: Include a tick processor in core, exposed via the `--prof-process` command-line argument which can be used to process V8 profiling output files generated when using the `--prof` command-line argument. (Matt Loring) [#4021](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4021).
### Known issues
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
* Unicode characters in filesystem paths are not handled consistently across platforms or Node.js APIs. See [#2088](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/2088), [#3401](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3401) and [#3519](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3519).
### Commits
* [[`08a3f29fd4`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/08a3f29fd4)] - **buffer**: fix range checking for slowToString (Matt Loring) [#4019](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4019)
* [[`0e18e68324`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0e18e68324)] - **buffer**: fix writeInt{B,L}E for some neg values (Peter A. Bigot) [#3994](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3994)
* [[`ab5b529dd2`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ab5b529dd2)] - **buffer**: default to UTF8 in byteLength() (Tom Gallacher) [#4010](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4010)
* [[`fcf0e8ebdf`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/fcf0e8ebdf)] - **buffer**: move checkFloat from lib into src (Matt Loring) [#3763](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3763)
* [[`85b601224b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/85b601224b)] - **doc**: add HTTP working group (James M Snell) [#3919](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3919)
* [[`f4164bd8df`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f4164bd8df)] - **doc**: update links to use https where possible (jpersson) [#4054](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4054)
* [[`3169eed1e3`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3169eed1e3)] - **doc**: add links and backticks around names (jpersson) [#4054](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4054)
* [[`f3417e2574`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f3417e2574)] - **doc**: standardize references to node.js in docs (Scott Buchanan) [#4136](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4136)
* [[`95dd60c657`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/95dd60c657)] - **doc**: reword https.Agent example text (Jan Krems) [#4075](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4075)
* [[`c61237d3ea`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c61237d3ea)] - **doc**: fix internal link to child.send() (Luigi Pinca) [#4089](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4089)
* [[`aaeced915e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/aaeced915e)] - **doc**: fix the exception description (yorkie) [#3658](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3658)
* [[`a2b7596ac0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a2b7596ac0)] - **doc**: fix color of linked code blocks (jpersson) [#4068](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4068)
* [[`f3c50f5fb5`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f3c50f5fb5)] - **doc**: fix rare case of misaligned columns (Roman Reiss) [#3948](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3948)
* [[`e8e4e0718b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e8e4e0718b)] - **meta**: remove use of profanity in source (Myles Borins) [#4122](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4122)
* [[`0869ef3c55`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0869ef3c55)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **repl**: allow leading period in multiline input (Zirak) [#3835](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3835)
* [[`aaab108dfe`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/aaab108dfe)] - **repl**: attach location info to syntax errors (cjihrig) [#4013](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4013)
* [[`458facdf66`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/458facdf66)] - **src**: define getpid() based on OS (cjihrig) [#4146](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4146)
* [[`7e18f2ec62`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7e18f2ec62)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **src**: add BE support to StringBytes::Encode() (Bryon Leung) [#3410](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3410)
* [[`756ab9caad`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/756ab9caad)] - **stream**: be less eager with readable flag (Brian White) [#4141](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4141)
* [[`8f845ba28a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8f845ba28a)] - **stream_wrap**: error if stream has StringDecoder (Fedor Indutny) [#4031](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4031)
* [[`1d50819c85`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1d50819c85)] - **test**: check range fix for slowToString (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#4019](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4019)
* [[`0c2a0dc859`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0c2a0dc859)] - **test**: skip long path tests on non-Windows (Rafał Pocztarski) [#4116](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4116)
* [[`8a60aa1303`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8a60aa1303)] - **test**: don't check the # of chunks in test-http-1.0 (Santiago Gimeno) [#3961](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3961)
* [[`e84aeec883`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e84aeec883)] - **test**: mark test-cluster-shared-leak flaky (Rich Trott) [#4162](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4162)
* [[`9d16729b20`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9d16729b20)] - **test**: skip instead of fail when mem constrained (Michael Cornacchia) [#3697](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3697)
* [[`c50003746b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c50003746b)] - **test**: mark test flaky on FreeBSD (Rich Trott) [#4016](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4016)
* [[`69c95bbdb7`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/69c95bbdb7)] - **test**: move ArrayStream to common (cjihrig) [#4027](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4027)
* [[`00b839a2b8`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/00b839a2b8)] - **test**: use platform-based timeout for reliability (Rich Trott) [#4015](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4015)
* [[`054a216b6f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/054a216b6f)] - **test**: mark cluster-net-send test flaky on windows (Rich Trott) [#4006](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4006)
* [[`d0621c5649`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d0621c5649)] - **test**: mark fork regression test flaky on windows (Rich Trott) [#4005](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4005)
* [[`19ed33df80`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/19ed33df80)] - **test**: skip test if in FreeBSD jail (Rich Trott) [#3995](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3995)
* [[`a863e8d667`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a863e8d667)] - **test**: remove flaky status for cluster test (Rich Trott) [#3975](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3975)
* [[`dd0d15fc47`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/dd0d15fc47)] - **test**: add TAP diagnostic message for retried tests (Rich Trott) [#3960](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3960)
* [[`1fe4d30efc`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1fe4d30efc)] - **test**: retry on smartos if ECONNREFUSED (Rich Trott) [#3941](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3941)
* [[`781f8c0d1e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/781f8c0d1e)] - **test**: add OS X to module loading error test (Evan Lucas) [#3901](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3901)
* [[`80f7f65464`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/80f7f65464)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **tls**: support reading multiple cas from one input (Ben Noordhuis) [#4099](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4099)
* **http**: Fix CVE-2015-8027, a bug whereby an HTTP socket may no longer have a parser associated with it but a pipelined request attempts to trigger a pause or resume on the non-existent parser, a potential denial-of-service vulnerability. (Fedor Indutny)
* **openssl**: Upgrade to 1.0.2e, containing fixes for:
- CVE-2015-3193 "BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64", an attack may be possible against a Node.js TLS server using DHE key exchange. Details are available at <http://openssl.org/news/secadv/20151203.txt>.
- CVE-2015-3194 "Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter", a potential denial-of-service vector for Node.js TLS servers using client certificate authentication; TLS clients are also impacted. Details are available at <http://openssl.org/news/secadv/20151203.txt>.
* **v8**: Backport fix for CVE-2015-6764, a bug in `JSON.stringify()` that can result in out-of-bounds reads for arrays. (Ben Noordhuis)
### Known issues
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
* Unicode characters in filesystem paths are not handled consistently across platforms or Node.js APIs. See [#2088](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/2088), [#3401](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3401) and [#3519](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3519).
## 2015-12-04, Version 4.2.3 'Argon' (LTS), @rvagg
Security Update
### Notable changes
* **http**: Fix CVE-2015-8027, a bug whereby an HTTP socket may no longer have a parser associated with it but a pipelined request attempts to trigger a pause or resume on the non-existent parser, a potential denial-of-service vulnerability. (Fedor Indutny)
* **openssl**: Upgrade to 1.0.2e, containing fixes for:
- CVE-2015-3193 "BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64", an attack may be possible against a Node.js TLS server using DHE key exchange. Details are available at <http://openssl.org/news/secadv/20151203.txt>.
- CVE-2015-3194 "Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter", a potential denial-of-service vector for Node.js TLS servers using client certificate authentication; TLS clients are also impacted. Details are available at <http://openssl.org/news/secadv/20151203.txt>.
* **v8**: Backport fix for CVE-2015-6764, a bug in `JSON.stringify()` that can result in out-of-bounds reads for arrays. (Ben Noordhuis)
### Known issues
* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1264).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
* http: Fix CVE-2015-8027, a bug whereby an HTTP socket may no longer have a parser associated with it but a pipelined request attempts to trigger a pause or resume on the non-existent parser, a potential denial-of-service vulnerability. (Fedor Indutny)
* openssl: Upgrade to 1.0.1q, fixes CVE-2015-3194 "Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter", a potential denial-of-service vector for Node.js TLS servers using client certificate authentication; TLS clients are also impacted. Details are available at <http://openssl.org/news/secadv/20151203.txt>. (Ben Noordhuis) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4133
## 2015-12-04, Version 0.10.41 (Maintenance), @rvagg
Security Update
### Notable changes
* build: Add support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2015
* npm: Upgrade to v1.4.29 from v1.4.28. A special one-off release as part of the strategy to get a version of npm into Node.js v0.10.x that works with the current registry (https://github.com/nodejs/LTS/issues/37). This version of npm prints out a banner each time it is run. The banner warns that the next standard release of Node.js v0.10.x will ship with a version of npm v2.
* openssl: Upgrade to 1.0.1q, containing fixes CVE-2015-3194 "Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter", a potential denial-of-service vector for Node.js TLS servers using client certificate authentication; TLS clients are also impacted. Details are available at <http://openssl.org/news/secadv/20151203.txt>. (Ben Noordhuis) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4133
### Commits
* [16ca0779f5] - src/node.cc: fix build error without OpenSSL support (Jörg Krause) https://github.com/nodejs/node-v0.x-archive/pull/25862
* **buffer**: The `noAssert` option for many buffer functions will now silently drop invalid write values rather than crashing (Minqi Pan) [#3767](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3767).
- This makes the behavior match what the docs suggest.
* **child_process**: `child.send()` now properly returns a boolean like the docs suggest (Rich Trott) [#3577](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3577).
* **doc**: All of the API docs have been re-ordered so as to read in alphabetical order (Tristian Flanagan) [#3662](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3662).
* **http_parser**: update http-parser to 2.6.0 from 2.5.0 (James M Snell) [#3569](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3569).
- Now supports the following HTTP methods: `LINK`, `UNLINK`, `BIND`, `REBIND`, `UNBIND`.
- Also added ACL and IPv6 Zone ID support.
* **npm**: upgrade npm to 3.3.12 from v3.3.6 (Rebecca Turner) [#3685](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3685).
- See the release notes for [v3.3.7](https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v3.3.7), [v3.3.8](https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v3.3.8), [v3.3.9](https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v3.3.9), [v3.3.10](https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v3.3.10), [v3.3.11](https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v3.3.11), and [v3.3.12](https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v3.3.12) for more details.
* **repl**: The REPL no longer crashes if the [persistent history](https://nodejs.org/api/repl.html#repl_persistent_history) file cannot be opened (Evan Lucas) [#3630](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3630).
* **tls**: The default `sessionIdContext` now uses SHA1 in FIPS mode rather than MD5 (Stefan Budeanu) [#3755](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3755).
* **v8**: Added some more useful post-mortem data (Fedor Indutny) [#3779](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3779).
### Known issues
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
* Unicode characters in filesystem paths are not handled consistently across platforms or Node.js APIs. See [#2088](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/2088), [#3401](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3401) and [#3519](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3519).
* [[`eccbec99ea`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/eccbec99ea)] - **async_wrap**: new instances get uid (Trevor Norris) [#3461](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3461)
* [[`5d34c81a5c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5d34c81a5c)] - **async_wrap**: allow some hooks to be optional (Trevor Norris) [#3461](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3461)
* [[`5ed30da5a0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5ed30da5a0)] - **console**: use 'label' argument for time and timeEnd (Roman Reiss) [#3590](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3590)
* [[`7a290abea6`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7a290abea6)] - **crypto**: DSA parameter validation in FIPS mode (Stefan Budeanu) [#3756](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3756)
* [[`66dccaf0cd`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/66dccaf0cd)] - **debugger**: also exit when the repl emits 'exit' (Felix Böhm) [#2369](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2369)
* [[`60d3daa65c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/60d3daa65c)] - **doc**: replace head of readme with updated text (Rod Vagg) [#3482](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3482)
* [[`7ecd5422c8`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7ecd5422c8)] - **doc**: address use of profanity in code of conduct (James M Snell) [#3827](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3827)
* [[`d137f0fd28`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d137f0fd28)] - **doc**: add warning about Windows process groups (Roman Klauke) [#3681](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3681)
* [[`45ff31cf94`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/45ff31cf94)] - **doc**: added what buf.copy returns (Manuel B) [#3555](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3555)
* [[`5d1faa28cb`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5d1faa28cb)] - **doc**: reword message.headers to indicate they are not read-only (Tristian Flanagan) [#3814](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3814)
* [[`da911f158b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/da911f158b)] - **doc**: update lts description in the collaborator guide (James M Snell) [#3668](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3668)
* [[`597f8751d1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/597f8751d1)] - **doc**: add note on tls connection meta data methods (Tyler Henkel) [#3746](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3746)
* [[`44f779b112`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/44f779b112)] - **doc**: add caveats of algs and key size in crypto (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#3479](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3479)
* [[`a0db5fb355`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a0db5fb355)] - **doc**: stdout/stderr can block when directed to file (Ben Noordhuis) [#3170](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3170)
* [[`409f29972e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/409f29972e)] - **doc**: rename iojs-* groups to nodejs-* (Steven R. Loomis) [#3634](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3634)
* [[`801866280e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/801866280e)] - **doc**: fix wrong date and known issue in changelog.md (James M Snell) [#3650](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3650)
* [[`325c4c7af5`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/325c4c7af5)] - **doc**: fix function param order in assert doc (David Woods) [#3533](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3533)
* [[`045e04e531`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/045e04e531)] - **doc**: typo fix in readme.md (Sam P Gallagher-Bishop) [#3649](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3649)
* [[`efa19bdcb5`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/efa19bdcb5)] - **doc**: add final full stop in CONTRIBUTING.md (Emily Aviva Kapor-Mater) [#3576](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3576)
* [[`90723afe32`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/90723afe32)] - **doc**: made code spans more visible in the API docs (phijohns) [#3573](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3573)
* [[`530bb9144f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/530bb9144f)] - **docs**: improve discoverability of Code of Conduct (Ashley Williams) [#3774](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3774)
* [[`73e40f0327`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/73e40f0327)] - **docs**: fs - change links to buffer encoding to Buffer class anchor (fansworld-claudio) [#2796](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2796)
* [[`7a84fa6c60`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7a84fa6c60)] - **docs**: fs - remove encoding list and link to buffer (fansworld-claudio) [#2796](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2796)
* [[`75dbafc3f8`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/75dbafc3f8)] - **repl**: To exit, press ^C again or type .exit. (Hemanth.HM) [#3368](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3368)
* [[`5073da0481`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5073da0481)] - **repl**: don't crash if cannot open history file (Evan Lucas) [#3630](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3630)
* [[`02e012e984`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/02e012e984)] - **src**: force line buffering for stderr (Rich Trott) [#3701](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3701)
* [[`047abbd6eb`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/047abbd6eb)] - **test**: move test-specific function out of common (Rich Trott) [#3871](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3871)
* [[`4bb27baf8d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4bb27baf8d)] - **test**: skip test if FreeBSD jail will break it (Rich Trott) [#3839](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3839)
* [[`1c1e70864b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1c1e70864b)] - **test**: fix path to module for repl test on Windows (Michael Cornacchia) [#3608](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3608)
* [[`413ca53107`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/413ca53107)] - **test**: increase crypto strength for FIPS standard (Stefan Budeanu) [#3758](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3758)
* [[`91248b1094`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/91248b1094)] - **test**: run pipeline flood test in parallel (Rich Trott) [#3811](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3811)
* [[`583f58e5d6`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/583f58e5d6)] - **test**: stronger crypto in test fixtures (Stefan Budeanu) [#3759](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3759)
* [[`1e98d90db8`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1e98d90db8)] - **test**: add regression test for --debug-brk -e 0 (Ben Noordhuis) [#3585](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3585)
* [[`2f16be2b70`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2f16be2b70)] - **tls**: Use SHA1 for sessionIdContext in FIPS mode (Stefan Budeanu) [#3755](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3755)
* [[`05f0549b50`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/05f0549b50)] - **tls**: copy client CAs and cert store on CertCb (Fedor Indutny) [#3537](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3537)
* [[`bea35424a2`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/bea35424a2)] - **tools**: add tap output to cpplint (Johan Bergström) [#3448](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3448)
* [[`d036b35349`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d036b35349)] - **tools**: enforce `throw new Error()` with lint rule (Rich Trott) [#3714](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3714)
* [[`38bb0d864e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/38bb0d864e)] - **tools**: Use `throw new Error()` consistently (Rich Trott) [#3714](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3714)
* [[`e40d28283a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e40d28283a)] - **tools**: update npm test tooling for 3.3.10+ (Rebecca Turner) [#3599](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3599)
* [[`cbd358ce33`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/cbd358ce33)] - **tools**: fix gyp to work on MacOSX without XCode (Shigeki Ohtsu) [iojs/io.js#1325](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1325)
* [[`d61cb90ee3`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d61cb90ee3)] - **util**: use Object.create(null) for dictionary object (Minwoo Jung) [#3831](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3831)
* [[`9a45c21e6c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9a45c21e6c)] - **util**: use regexp instead of str.replace().join() (qinjia) [#3689](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3689)
* [[`33ffc62670`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/33ffc62670)] - **zlib**: only apply drain listener if given callback (Craig Cavalier) [#3534](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3534)
* [[`d70deabf90`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d70deabf90)] - **zlib**: pass kind to recursive calls to flush (Myles Borins) [#3534](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3534)
* [[`a04408acce`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a04408acce)] - **repl**: limit persistent history correctly on load (Jeremiah Senkpiel) [#2356](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2356)
* [[`3bafe1a59b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3bafe1a59b)] - **src**: fix race condition in debug signal on exit (Ben Noordhuis) [#3528](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3528)
* [[`fe01d0df7a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/fe01d0df7a)] - **src**: fix exception message encoding on Windows (Brian White) [#3288](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3288)
* [[`4bac5d9ddf`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4bac5d9ddf)] - **stream**: avoid unnecessary concat of a single buffer. (Calvin Metcalf) [#3300](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3300)
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
### Commits
* [[`1d0f2cbf87`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1d0f2cbf87)] - **buffer**: fix value check for writeUInt{B,L}E (Trevor Norris) [#3500](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3500)
* [[`a6469e901a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a6469e901a)] - **deps**: backport 010897c from V8 upstream (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) [#3520](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3520)
* [[`cadee67c25`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/cadee67c25)] - **deps**: backport 8d6a228 from the v8's upstream (Fedor Indutny) [#3549](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3549)
* [[`1ebd35550b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1ebd35550b)] - **doc**: fix typos in changelog (reggi) [#3291](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3291)
* [[`fbd93d4c1c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/fbd93d4c1c)] - **doc**: more use-cases for promise events (Domenic Denicola) [#3438](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3438)
* [[`6ceb9af407`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/6ceb9af407)] - **doc**: remove old note, 'cluster' is marked stable (Balázs Galambosi) [#3314](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3314)
* [[`a5f0d64ddc`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a5f0d64ddc)] - **doc**: createServer's key option can be an array (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#3123](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3123)
* [[`317e0ec6b3`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/317e0ec6b3)] - **doc**: binary encoding is not deprecated (Trevor Norris) [#3441](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3441)
* [[`b422f6ee1a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b422f6ee1a)] - **doc**: mention the behaviour if URL is invalid (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#2966](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2966)
* [[`bc29aad22b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/bc29aad22b)] - **doc**: fix indent in tls resumption example (Roman Reiss) [#3372](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3372)
* [[`4be432862a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4be432862a)] - **doc**: show keylen in pbkdf2 as a byte length (calebboyd) [#3334](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3334)
* [[`23a1140ddb`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/23a1140ddb)] - **doc**: add information about Assert behavior and maintenance (Rich Trott) [#3330](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3330)
* [[`e04cb1e1fc`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e04cb1e1fc)] - **doc**: clarify API buffer.concat (Martii) [#3255](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3255)
* [[`eae714c370`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/eae714c370)] - **doc**: clarify the use of `option.detached` (Kyle Smith) [#3250](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3250)
* [[`b884899e67`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b884899e67)] - **doc**: label v4.2.1 as LTS in changelog heading (Phillip Johnsen) [#3360](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3360)
* [[`3bafe1a59b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3bafe1a59b)] - **src**: fix race condition in debug signal on exit (Ben Noordhuis) [#3528](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3528)
* [[`fe01d0df7a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/fe01d0df7a)] - **src**: fix exception message encoding on Windows (Brian White) [#3288](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3288)
* [[`4bac5d9ddf`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4bac5d9ddf)] - **stream**: avoid unnecessary concat of a single buffer. (Calvin Metcalf) [#3300](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3300)
* [[`117fb47a16`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/117fb47a16)] - **stream**: fix signature of _write() in a comment (Fábio Santos) [#3248](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3248)
* [[`c563a34427`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c563a34427)] - **test**: split independent tests into separate files (Rich Trott) [#3548](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3548)
* [[`6b75f10d8a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/6b75f10d8a)] - **test**: use port number from env in tls socket test (Stefan Budeanu) [#3557](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3557)
* [[`39ff44e94f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/39ff44e94f)] - **test**: fix heap-profiler link error LNK1194 on win (Junliang Yan) [#3572](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3572)
* [[`a2786dd408`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a2786dd408)] - **test**: fix missing unistd.h on windows (Junliang Yan) [#3532](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3532)
* [[`5e6f7c9a23`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5e6f7c9a23)] - **test**: add regression test for --debug-brk -e 0 (Ben Noordhuis) [#3585](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3585)
* [[`7cad182cb6`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7cad182cb6)] - **test**: port domains regression test from v0.10 (Jonas Dohse) [#3356](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3356)
* [[`78d854c6ce`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/78d854c6ce)] - **test**: remove util from common (Rich Trott) [#3324](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3324)
* [[`c566c8b8c0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c566c8b8c0)] - **test**: remove util properties from common (Rich Trott) [#3304](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3304)
* [[`eb7c3fb2f4`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/eb7c3fb2f4)] - **test**: split up buffer tests for reliability (Rich Trott) [#3323](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3323)
* [[`b398a85e19`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b398a85e19)] - **test**: parallelize long-running test (Rich Trott) [#3287](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3287)
* [[`ea58fa0bac`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ea58fa0bac)] - **test**: add Symbol test for assert.deepEqual() (Rich Trott) [#3327](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3327)
* [[`d409ac473b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d409ac473b)] - **test**: disable test-tick-processor - aix and be ppc (Michael Dawson) [#3491](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3491)
* [[`eac2acca76`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/eac2acca76)] - **test**: remove flaky status from eval_messages test (Rich Trott) [#3420](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3420)
* [[`155c778584`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/155c778584)] - **test**: fix flaky test for symlinks (Rich Trott) [#3418](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3418)
* **buffer**: _(Breaking)_ Removed both `'raw'` and `'raws'` encoding types from `Buffer`, these have been deprecated for a long time (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#2859](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2859).
* **console**: _(Breaking)_ Values reported by `console.time()` now have 3 decimals of accuracy added (Michaël Zasso) [#3166](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3166).
* **fs**:
-`fs.readFile*()`, `fs.writeFile*()`, and `fs.appendFile*()` now also accept a file descriptor as their first argument (Johannes Wüller) [#3163](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3163).
- _(Breaking)_ In `fs.readFile()`, if an encoding is specified and the internal `toString()` fails the error is no longer _thrown_ but is passed to the callback (Evan Lucas) [#3485](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3485).
- _(Breaking)_ In `fs.read()` (using the `fs.read(fd, length, position, encoding, callback)` form), if the internal `toString()` fails the error is no longer _thrown_ but is passed to the callback (Evan Lucas) [#3503](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3503).
* **http**:
- Fixed a bug where pipelined http requests would stall (Fedor Indutny) [#3342](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3342).
- _(Breaking)_ When parsing HTTP, don't add duplicates of the following headers: `Retry-After`, `ETag`, `Last-Modified`, `Server`, `Age`, `Expires`. This is in addition to the following headers which already block duplicates: `Content-Type`, `Content-Length`, `User-Agent`, `Referer`, `Host`, `Authorization`, `Proxy-Authorization`, `If-Modified-Since`, `If-Unmodified-Since`, `From`, `Location`, `Max-Forwards` (James M Snell) [#3090](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3090).
- _(Breaking)_ The `callback` argument to `OutgoingMessage#setTimeout()` must be a function or a `TypeError` is thrown (James M Snell) [#3090](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3090).
- _(Breaking)_ HTTP methods and header names must now conform to the RFC 2616 "token" rule, a list of allowed characters that excludes control characters and a number of _separator_ characters. Specifically, methods and header names must now match ```/^[a-zA-Z0-9_!#$%&'*+.^`|~-]+$/``` or a `TypeError` will be thrown (James M Snell) [#2526](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2526).
* **node**:
- _(Breaking)_ Deprecated the `_linklist` module (Rich Trott) [#3078](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3078).
- _(Breaking)_ Removed `require.paths` and `require.registerExtension()`, both had been previously set to throw `Error` when accessed (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#2922](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2922).
* **npm**: Upgraded to version 3.3.6 from 2.14.7, see https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v3.3.6 for more details. This is a major version bump for npm and it has seen a significant amount of change. Please see the original [npm v3.0.0 release notes](https://github.com/npm/npm/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v300-2015-06-25) for a list of major changes (Rebecca Turner) [#3310](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3310).
* **src**: _(Breaking)_ Bumped `NODE_MODULE_VERSION` to `47` from `46`, this is necessary due to the V8 upgrade. Native add-ons will need to be recompiled (Rod Vagg) [#3400](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3400).
* **timers**: Attempt to reuse the timer handle for `setTimeout().unref()`. This fixes a long-standing known issue where unrefed timers would perviously hold `beforeExit` open (Fedor Indutny) [#3407](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3407).
* **tls**:
- Added ALPN Support (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#2564](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2564).
- TLS options can now be passed in an object to `createSecurePair()` (Коренберг Марк) [#2441](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2441).
- _(Breaking)_ The default minimum DH key size for `tls.connect()` is now 1024 bits and a warning is shown when DH key size is less than 2048 bits. This a security consideration to prevent "logjam" attacks. A new `minDHSize` TLS option can be used to override the default. (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1831](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1831).
* **util**:
- _(Breaking)_ `util.p()` was deprecated for years, and has now been removed (Wyatt Preul) [#3432](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3432).
- _(Breaking)_ `util.inherits()` can now work with ES6 classes. This is considered a breaking change because of potential subtle side-effects caused by a change from directly reassigning the prototype of the constructor using `ctor.prototype = Object.create(superCtor.prototype, { constructor: { ... } })` to using `Object.setPrototypeOf(ctor.prototype, superCtor.prototype)` (Michaël Zasso) [#3455](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3455).
* **v8**: _(Breaking)_ Upgraded to 4.6.85.25 from 4.5.103.35 (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) [#3351](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3351).
- Implements the spread operator, see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/Spread_operator for further information.
- Implements `new.target`, see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/new.target for further information.
* **zlib**: Decompression now throws on truncated input (e.g. unexpected end of file) (Yuval Brik) [#2595](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2595).
### Known issues
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
* Unicode characters in filesystem paths are not handled consistently across platforms or Node.js APIs. See [#2088](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/2088), [#3401](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3401) and [#3519](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3519).
### Commits
* [[`6a04cc0a43`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/6a04cc0a43)] - **buffer**: fix value check for writeUInt{B,L}E (Trevor Norris) [#3500](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3500)
* [[`70fca2a81e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/70fca2a81e)] - **build**: Updates for AIX npm support - part 1 (Michael Dawson) [#3114](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3114)
* [[`a89eeca590`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a89eeca590)] - **console**: rename argument of time and timeEnd (Michaël Zasso) [#3166](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3166)
* [[`239ad899a3`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/239ad899a3)] - **doc**: add LTS info to COLLABORATOR_GUIDE.md (Myles Borins) [#3442](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3442)
* [[`5e76587fdf`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5e76587fdf)] - **doc**: createServer's key option can be an array (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#3123](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3123)
* [[`605c5a7754`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/605c5a7754)] - **doc**: clarify the use of `option.detached` (Kyle Smith) [#3250](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3250)
* [[`cf75a175e5`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/cf75a175e5)] - **doc**: more use-cases for promise events (Domenic Denicola) [#3438](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3438)
* [[`b483afcb20`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b483afcb20)] - **doc**: binary encoding is not deprecated (Trevor Norris) [#3441](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3441)
* [[`b607366a1c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b607366a1c)] - **doc**: add information about Assert behavior and maintenance (Rich Trott) [#3330](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3330)
* [[`086103b32e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/086103b32e)] - **doc**: show keylen in pbkdf2 as a byte length (calebboyd) [#3334](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3334)
* [[`503f279527`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/503f279527)] - **doc**: fix indent in tls resumption example (Roman Reiss) [#3372](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3372)
* [[`dae9fae0fe`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/dae9fae0fe)] - **doc**: label v4.2.1 as LTS in changelog heading (Phillip Johnsen) [#3360](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3360)
* [[`4fc638804c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4fc638804c)] - **doc**: update V8 options in man page (Michaël Zasso) [#3351](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3351)
* [[`a441aa6e1d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a441aa6e1d)] - **doc**: update WORKING_GROUPS.md to include Intl (Steven R. Loomis) [#3251](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3251)
* [[`2bb147535e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2bb147535e)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **fs**: don't throw in read if buffer too big (Evan Lucas) [#3503](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3503)
* [[`7added3b39`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7added3b39)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **fs**: pass err to callback if buffer is too big (Evan Lucas) [#3485](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3485)
* [[`5e0759f6fd`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5e0759f6fd)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **fs**: add file descriptor support to *File() funcs (Johannes Wüller) [#3163](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3163)
* [[`e655a437b3`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e655a437b3)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **http**: do not allow multiple instances of certain response headers (James M Snell) [#3090](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3090)
* [[`0094a8dad7`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0094a8dad7)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **http**: add callback is function check (James M Snell) [#3090](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3090)
* [[`6192c9892f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/6192c9892f)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **http**: add checkIsHttpToken check for header fields (James M Snell) [#2526](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2526)
* [[`c9786bb680`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c9786bb680)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** http{s}: don't connect to localhost on invalid URL (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#2967](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2967)
* [[`6e887cc630`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/6e887cc630)] - **lib,test**: update let to const where applicable (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#3152](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3152)
* [[`4c80c02ac7`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4c80c02ac7)] - **repl**: limit persistent history correctly on load (Jeremiah Senkpiel) [#2356](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2356)
* [[`134a60c785`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/134a60c785)] - **src**: fix race condition in debug signal on exit (Ben Noordhuis) [#3528](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3528)
* [[`8854183fe5`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8854183fe5)] - **stream**: avoid unnecessary concat of a single buffer. (Calvin Metcalf) [#3300](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3300)
* [[`85b74de9de`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/85b74de9de)] - **stream**: fix signature of _write() in a comment (Fábio Santos) [#3248](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3248)
* [[`b8cea49c88`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b8cea49c88)] - **test**: fix heap-profiler link error LNK1194 on win (Junliang Yan) [#3572](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3572)
* [[`4a5dbeab43`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4a5dbeab43)] - **test**: fix missing unistd.h on windows (Junliang Yan) [#3532](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3532)
* [[`74e2328b3a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/74e2328b3a)] - **test**: split independent tests into separate files (Rich Trott) [#3548](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3548)
* [[`8c6c0f915a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8c6c0f915a)] - **test**: use port number from env in tls socket test (Stefan Budeanu) [#3557](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3557)
* [[`eef0f0cd63`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/eef0f0cd63)] - **test**: remove flaky status from eval_messages test (Rich Trott) [#3420](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3420)
* [[`bbbd81eab2`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/bbbd81eab2)] - **test**: skip test-dns-ipv6.js if ipv6 is unavailable (Junliang Yan) [#3444](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3444)
* [[`f78c8e7426`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f78c8e7426)] - **test**: fix flaky test for symlinks (Rich Trott) [#3418](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3418)
* [[`28e9a4f41b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/28e9a4f41b)] - **test**: repl-persistent-history is no longer flaky (Jeremiah Senkpiel) [#3437](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3437)
* [[`ee2e641e0a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ee2e641e0a)] - **test**: add Symbol test for assert.deepEqual() (Rich Trott) [#3327](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3327)
* [[`e2b8393ee8`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e2b8393ee8)] - **test**: port domains regression test from v0.10 (Jonas Dohse) [#3356](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3356)
* [[`5029f41b2f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5029f41b2f)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **tls,crypto**: move NPN protcol data to hidden value (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#2564](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2564)
* [[`6e78382605`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/6e78382605)] - **tools**: ensure npm always uses the local node (Jeremiah Senkpiel) [#3489](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3489)
* [[`3c3435d017`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3c3435d017)] - **tools**: update test-npm to work with npm 3 (Rebecca Turner) [#3489](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3489)
* [[`b4f4c24539`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b4f4c24539)] - **tools**: use absolute paths in test-npm (Rebecca Turner) [#3309](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3309)
* [[`80573153b8`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/80573153b8)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **util**: make inherits work with classes (Michaël Zasso) [#3455](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3455)
* [[`412252ca04`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/412252ca04)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **util**: Remove p, has been deprecated for years (Wyatt Preul) [#3432](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3432)
* [[`718c304a4f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/718c304a4f)] - **v8**: pull fix for builtin code size on PPC (Michael Dawson) [#3474](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3474)
- Assertion error in WeakCallback - see [#3329](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3329)
- Undefined timeout regression - see [#3331](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3331)
### Known issues
* When a server queues a large amount of data to send to a client over a pipelined HTTP connection, the underlying socket may be destroyed. See [#3332](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3332) and [#3342](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3342).
* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1264).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
The first Node.js LTS release! See https://github.com/nodejs/LTS/ for details of the LTS process.
* **icu**: Updated to version 56 with significant performance improvements (Steven R. Loomis) [#3281](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3281)
* **node**:
- Added new `-c` (or `--check`) command line argument for checking script syntax without executing the code (Dave Eddy) [#2411](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2411)
- Added `process.versions.icu` to hold the current ICU library version (Evan Lucas) [#3102](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3102)
- Added `process.release.lts` to hold the current LTS codename when the binary is from an active LTS release line (Rod Vagg) [#3212](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3212)
* **npm**: Upgraded to npm 2.14.7 from 2.14.4, see [release notes](https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.14.7) for full details (Kat Marchán) [#3299](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3299)
### Known issues
See https://github.com/nodejs/node/labels/confirmed-bug for complete and current list of known issues.
* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1264).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
### Commits
* [[`8383c4fe00`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8383c4fe00)] - **assert**: support arrow functions in .throws() (Ben Noordhuis) [#3276](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3276)
* [[`660f7591c8`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/660f7591c8)] - **buffer**: FreeCallback should be tied to ArrayBuffer (Fedor Indutny) [#3198](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3198)
* [[`651a5b51eb`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/651a5b51eb)] - **buffer**: only check if instance is Uint8Array (Trevor Norris) [#3080](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3080)
* [[`d5a1b1ad7c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d5a1b1ad7c)] - **buffer**: clean up usage of __proto__ (Trevor Norris) [#3080](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3080)
* [[`af24376e18`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/af24376e18)] - **build**: Intl: deps: bump ICU to 56.1 (GA) (Steven R. Loomis) [#3281](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3281)
* [[`d4fc6d93ef`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d4fc6d93ef)] - **doc**: add help repo link to CONTRIBUTING.md (Doug Shamoo) [#3233](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3233)
* [[`725c7276dd`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/725c7276dd)] - **doc**: fix README.md link to joyent/node intl wiki (Steven R. Loomis) [#3067](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3067)
* [[`4a35ba4966`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4a35ba4966)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **fs**: include filename in watch errors (charlierudolph) [#2748](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2748)
* [[`2ddbbfd164`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2ddbbfd164)] - **http**: cork/uncork before flushing pipelined res (Fedor Indutny) [#3172](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3172)
* [[`f638402e2f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f638402e2f)] - **http**: add comment about `outputSize` in res/server (Fedor Indutny) [#3128](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3128)
* [[`589287b2e3`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/589287b2e3)] - **src**: convert BE-utf16-string to LE before search (Karl Skomski) [#3295](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3295)
* [[`2314378f06`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2314378f06)] - **src**: fix u-a-free if uv returns err in ASYNC_CALL (Karl Skomski) [#3049](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3049)
* [[`5ca4f6f8bd`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5ca4f6f8bd)] - **test**: test `util` rather than `common` (Rich Trott) [#3256](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3256)
* [[`7a5ae34345`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7a5ae34345)] - **test**: refresh temp directory when using pipe (Rich Trott) [#3231](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3231)
- Fix out-of-order 'finish' event bug in pipelining that can abort execution, fixes DoS vulnerability [CVE-2015-7384](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3138) (Fedor Indutny) [#3128](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3128)
- Account for pending response data instead of just the data on the current request to decide whether pause the socket or not (Fedor Indutny) [#3128](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3128)
* **libuv**: Upgraded from v1.7.4 to v1.7.5, see [release notes](https://github.com/libuv/libuv/releases/tag/v1.7.5) for details (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé) [#3010](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3010)
- A better rwlock implementation for all Windows versions
- Improved AIX support
* **v8**:
- Upgraded from v4.5.103.33 to v4.5.103.35 (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) [#3117](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3117)
- Backported [f782159](https://codereview.chromium.org/1367123003) from v8's upstream to help speed up Promise introspection (Ben Noordhuis) [#3130](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3130)
- Backported [c281c15](https://codereview.chromium.org/1363683002) from v8's upstream to add JSTypedArray length in post-mortem metadata (Julien Gilli) [#3031](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3031)
### Known issues
See https://github.com/nodejs/node/labels/confirmed-bug for complete and current list of known issues.
* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1264).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
### Commits
* [[`39b8730e8b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/39b8730e8b)] - **async_wrap**: ensure all objects have internal field (Trevor Norris) [#3139](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3139)
* [[`99e66074d7`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/99e66074d7)] - **async_wrap**: update providers and add test (Trevor Norris) [#3139](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3139)
* [[`798dad24f4`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/798dad24f4)] - **child_process**: `null` channel handle on close (Fedor Indutny) [#3041](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3041)
* [[`e5615854ea`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e5615854ea)] - **contextify**: use CHECK instead of `if` (Oguz Bastemur) [#3125](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3125)
* [[`f055a66a38`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f055a66a38)] - **crypto**: enable FIPS only when configured with it (Fedor Indutny) [#3153](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3153)
* [[`4c8d96bc30`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4c8d96bc30)] - **crypto**: add more keylen sanity checks in pbkdf2 (Johann) [#3029](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3029)
* [[`4fc33ac11a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4fc33ac11a)] - **doc**: make execFileSync in line with execFile (Laurent Fortin) [#2940](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2940)
* [[`a0b35bfcf3`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a0b35bfcf3)] - **i18n**: add caller to removal list for bidi in ICU55 (Michael Dawson) [#3115](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3115)
* [[`9a593abc47`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9a593abc47)] - **src**: include signal.h in util.h (Cheng Zhao) [#3058](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3058)
* [[`fde0c6f321`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/fde0c6f321)] - **src**: fix function and variable names in comments (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#3039](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3039)
* [[`1cc7b41ba4`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1cc7b41ba4)] - **stream_wrap**: support empty `TryWrite`s (Fedor Indutny) [#3128](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3128)
* [[`9faf4c6fcf`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9faf4c6fcf)] - **test**: load common.js to test for global leaks (Rich Trott) [#3095](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3095)
* **buffer**: Fixed a bug introduced in v4.1.0 where allocating a new zero-length buffer can result in the _next_ allocation of a TypedArray in JavaScript not being zero-filled. In certain circumstances this could result in data leakage via reuse of memory space in TypedArrays, breaking the normally safe assumption that TypedArrays should be always zero-filled. (Trevor Norris) [#2931](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2931).
* **http**: Guard against response-splitting of HTTP trailing headers added via [`response.addTrailers()`](https://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_response_addtrailers_headers) by removing new-line (`[\r\n]`) characters from values. Note that standard header values are already stripped of new-line characters. The expected security impact is low because trailing headers are rarely used. (Ben Noordhuis) [#2945](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2945).
* **npm**: Upgrade to npm 2.14.4 from 2.14.3, see [release notes](https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.14.4) for full details (Kat Marchán) [#2958](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2958)
- Upgrades `graceful-fs` on multiple dependencies to no longer rely on monkey-patching `fs`
- Fix `npm link` for pre-release / RC builds of Node
* **v8**: Update post-mortem metadata to allow post-mortem debugging tools to find and inspect:
- JavaScript objects that use dictionary properties (Julien Gilli) [#2959](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2959)
- ScopeInfo and thus closures (Julien Gilli) [#2974](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2974)
### Known issues
See https://github.com/nodejs/node/labels/confirmed-bug for complete and current list of known issues.
* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1264).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
### Commits
* [[`d63e02e08d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d63e02e08d)] - **buffer**: don't set zero fill for zero-length buffer (Trevor Norris) [#2931](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2931)
* [[`5905b14bff`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5905b14bff)] - **build**: fix icutrim when building small-icu on BE (Stewart Addison) [#2602](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2602)
* [[`9c59d2f16a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9c59d2f16a)] - **doc**: remove extra using v8::HandleScope statement (Christopher J. Brody) [#2983](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2983)
* [[`f542e74c93`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f542e74c93)] - **http**: guard against response splitting in trailers (Ben Noordhuis) [#2945](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2945)
* [[`bc9f629387`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/bc9f629387)] - **http_parser**: do not dealloc during kOnExecute (Fedor Indutny) [#2956](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2956)
* [[`9760e04839`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9760e04839)] - **repl**: don't use tty control codes when $TERM is set to "dumb" (Salman Aljammaz) [#2712](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2712)
* [[`4519dd00f9`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4519dd00f9)] - **test**: test sync version of mkdir & rmdir (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#2588](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2588)
* [[`816f609c8b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/816f609c8b)] - **test**: use tmpDir instead of fixtures in readdir (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#2587](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2587)
* [[`2084f52585`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2084f52585)] - **test**: test more http response splitting scenarios (Ben Noordhuis) [#2945](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2945)
* [[`71b5d80682`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/71b5d80682)] - **test**: make cluster tests more time tolerant (Michael Dawson) [#2891](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2891)
## 2015-09-17, Version 4.1.0 (Stable), @Fishrock123
### Notable changes
* **buffer**:
- Buffers are now created in JavaScript, rather than C++. This increases the speed of buffer creation (Trevor Norris) [#2866](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2866).
-`fs.utimes()` now properly converts numeric strings, `NaN`, and `Infinity` (Yazhong Liu) [#2387](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2387).
-`fs.WriteStream` now implements `_writev`, allowing for super-fast bulk writes (Ron Korving) [#2167](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2167).
* **http**: Fixed an issue with certain `write()` sizes causing errors when using `http.request()` (Fedor Indutny) [#2824](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2824).
* **npm**: Upgrade to version 2.14.3, see https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.14.3 for more details (Kat Marchán) [#2822](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2822).
* **src**: V8 cpu profiling no longer erroneously shows idle time (Oleksandr Chekhovskyi) [#2324](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2324).
* **timers**: `#ref()` and `#unref()` now return the timer they belong to (Sam Roberts) [#2905](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2905).
* **v8**: Lateral upgrade to 4.5.103.33 from 4.5.103.30, contains minor fixes (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) [#2870](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2870).
- This fixes a previously known bug where some computed object shorthand properties did not work correctly ([#2507](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/2507)).
### Known issues
See https://github.com/nodejs/node/labels/confirmed-bug for complete and current list of known issues.
* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1264).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
### Commits
* [[`b1abe812cd`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b1abe812cd)] - Working on 4.0.1 (Rod Vagg)
* [[`f9f8378853`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f9f8378853)] - 2015-09-08, Version 4.0.0 (Stable) Release (Rod Vagg)
* [[`9683e5df51`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9683e5df51)] - **bindings**: close after reading module struct (Fedor Indutny) [#2792](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2792)
* [[`43397b204e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/43397b204e)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **build**: Updates to enable AIX support (Michael Dawson) [#2364](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2364)
* [[`e35b1fd610`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e35b1fd610)] - **build**: clean up the generated tap file (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#2837](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2837)
* [[`bf42cc8dba`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/bf42cc8dba)] - **doc**: process exit event is not guaranteed to fire (Rich Trott) [#2861](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2861)
* [[`bb0f869f67`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/bb0f869f67)] - **doc**: remove incorrect reference to TCP in net docs (Sam Roberts) [#2903](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2903)
* [[`a7bd897273`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a7bd897273)] - **doc**: rename from iojs(1) to node(1) in benchmarks (Dmitry Vasilyev) [#2884](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2884)
* [[`4d1ae26196`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4d1ae26196)] - **doc**: add tunniclm as a collaborator (Mike Tunnicliffe) [#2826](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2826)
* [[`2d77d03643`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2d77d03643)] - **doc**: fix two doc errors in stream and process (Jeremiah Senkpiel) [#2549](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2549)
* [[`cd1297fb57`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/cd1297fb57)] - **doc**: use "Calls" over "Executes" for consistency (Minwoo Jung) [#2800](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2800)
* [[`d664b95581`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d664b95581)] - **doc**: use US English for consistency (Anne-Gaelle Colom) [#2784](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2784)
* [[`82ba1839fb`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/82ba1839fb)] - **doc**: use 3rd person singular for consistency (Anne-Gaelle Colom) [#2765](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2765)
* [[`432cce6e95`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/432cce6e95)] - **doc**: describe process API for IPC (Sam Roberts) [#1978](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1978)
* [[`ea15d71c16`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ea15d71c16)] - **http_server**: fix resume after socket close (Fedor Indutny) [#2824](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2824)
* [[`8e5843405b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8e5843405b)] - **src**: null env_ field from constructor (Trevor Norris) [#2913](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2913)
* [[`0a5f80a11f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0a5f80a11f)] - **src**: use subarray() in Buffer#slice() for speedup (Karl Skomski) [#2777](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2777)
* [[`57707e2490`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/57707e2490)] - **src**: use ZCtxt as a source for v8::Isolates (Roman Klauke) [#2547](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2547)
* [[`648c003e14`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/648c003e14)] - **test**: use tmp directory in chdir test (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#2589](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2589)
* [[`52019a1b21`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/52019a1b21)] - **test**: fix default value for additional param (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#2553](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2553)
* [[`5df5d0423a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5df5d0423a)] - **test**: remove disabled test (Rich Trott) [#2841](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2841)
* [[`9e5f0995bd`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9e5f0995bd)] - **test**: split up internet dns tests (Rich Trott) [#2802](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2802)
* [[`ac004b8555`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ac004b8555)] - **tools**: remove hyphen in TAP result (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#2718](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2718)
* [[`ba47511976`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ba47511976)] - **tsc**: adjust TSC membership for IBM+StrongLoop (James M Snell) [#2858](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2858)
* **child_process**: Fix error that was causing crashes (Evan Lucas) [#2727](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2727)
* **crypto**: Replace use of rwlocks, unsafe on Windows XP / 2003 (Ben Noordhuis) [#2723](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2723)
* **libuv**: Upgrade from 1.7.3 to 1.7.4 (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé) [#2817](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2817)
* **node**: Fix faulty `process.release.libUrl` on Windows (Rod Vagg) [#2699](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2699)
* **node-gyp**: Float v3.0.3 which has improved support for Node.js and io.js v0.10 to v4+ (Rod Vagg) [#2700](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2700)
* **npm**: Upgrade to version 2.14.3 from 2.13.3, includes a security update, see https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.14.2 for more details, (Kat Marchán) [#2696](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2696).
* **timers**: Improved timer performance from porting the 0.12 implementation, plus minor fixes (Jeremiah Senkpiel) [#2540](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2540), (Julien Gilli) [nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#8751](https://github.com/nodejs/node-v0.x-archive/pull/8751) [nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#8905](https://github.com/nodejs/node-v0.x-archive/pull/8905)
### Known issues
See https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/labels/confirmed-bug for complete and current list of known issues.
* Some uses of computed object shorthand properties are not handled correctly by the current version of V8. e.g. `[{ [prop]: val }]` evaluates to `[{}]`. [#2507](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/2507)
* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/issues/1264).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/issues/690)
*`process.send()` is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see [#760](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/issues/760).
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/issues/1435).
### Commits
* [[`b73ff52fe6`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b73ff52fe6)] - **bindings**: close after reading module struct (Fedor Indutny) [#2792](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2792)
* [[`574475d56e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/574475d56e)] - **build**: clean up the generated tap file (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#2837](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2837)
* [[`aa0001271e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/aa0001271e)] - **build**: remote commands on staging in single session (Rod Vagg) [#2717](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2717)
* [[`618caa5de0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/618caa5de0)] - **child_process**: use stdio.fd even if it is 0 (Evan Lucas) [#2727](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2727)
* [[`7be4e49cb6`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7be4e49cb6)] - **child_process**: check execFile and fork args (James M Snell) [#2667](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2667)
* [[`610fa964aa`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/610fa964aa)] - **cpplint**: make it possible to run outside git repo (Ben Noordhuis) [#2710](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2710)
* [[`476125d403`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/476125d403)] - **doc**: add tunniclm as a collaborator (Mike Tunnicliffe) [#2826](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2826)
* [[`0603a92d48`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0603a92d48)] - **doc**: fix two doc errors in stream and process (Jeremiah Senkpiel) [#2549](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2549)
* [[`da2902ddfd`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/da2902ddfd)] - **doc**: use "Calls" over "Executes" for consistency (Minwoo Jung) [#2800](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2800)
* [[`5e93bc4fba`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5e93bc4fba)] - **doc**: use US English for consistency (Anne-Gaelle Colom) [#2784](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2784)
* [[`3ee7fbcefd`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3ee7fbcefd)] - **doc**: use 3rd person singular for consistency (Anne-Gaelle Colom) [#2765](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2765)
* [[`d8371a801e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d8371a801e)] - **http_server**: fix resume after socket close (Fedor Indutny) [#2824](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2824)
* [[`7f7d4fdddd`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7f7d4fdddd)] - **node-gyp**: float 3.0.1, minor fix for download url (Rod Vagg) [#2737](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2737)
* [[`91cee73294`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/91cee73294)] - **src**: use ZCtxt as a source for v8::Isolates (Roman Klauke) [#2547](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2547)
* [[`ac98e13b95`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ac98e13b95)] - **src**: s/ia32/x86 for process.release.libUrl for win (Rod Vagg) [#2699](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2699)
* [[`ca6c3223e1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ca6c3223e1)] - **src**: use standard conform snprintf on windows (Karl Skomski) [#2404](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2404)
* [[`b028978a53`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b028978a53)] - **src**: fix buffer overflow for long exception lines (Karl Skomski) [#2404](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2404)
* [[`d370306de1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d370306de1)] - **src**: only set v8 flags if argc > 1 (Evan Lucas) [#2646](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2646)
* [[`993c22fe0e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/993c22fe0e)] - **test**: remove disabled test (Rich Trott) [#2841](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2841)
* [[`1474f29d1f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1474f29d1f)] - **test**: split up internet dns tests (Rich Trott) [#2802](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2802)
* [[`f3d5891a3f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f3d5891a3f)] - **test**: expect error for test_lookup_ipv6_hint on FreeBSD (Rich Trott) [#2724](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2724)
* [[`2ffb21baf1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2ffb21baf1)] - **test**: fix use of `common` before required (Rod Vagg) [#2685](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2685)
* [[`b2c5479a14`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b2c5479a14)] - **test**: refactor to eliminate flaky test (Rich Trott) [#2609](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2609)
* [[`fcfd15f8f9`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/fcfd15f8f9)] - **test**: mark eval_messages as flaky (Alexis Campailla) [#2648](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2648)
* [[`1865cad7ae`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1865cad7ae)] - **test**: mark test-vm-syntax-error-stderr as flaky (João Reis) [#2662](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2662)
* [[`b0014ecd27`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b0014ecd27)] - **test**: mark test-repl-persistent-history as flaky (João Reis) [#2659](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2659)
* [[`74ff9bc86c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/74ff9bc86c)] - **timers**: minor _unrefActive fixes and improvements (Jeremiah Senkpiel) [#2540](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2540)
* [[`5d14a6eca7`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5d14a6eca7)] - **timers**: don't mutate unref list while iterating it (Julien Gilli) [#2540](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2540)
* [[`6e744c58f2`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/6e744c58f2)] - **timers**: Avoid linear scan in _unrefActive. (Julien Gilli) [#2540](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2540)
* [[`07fbf835ad`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/07fbf835ad)] - **tools**: open `test.tap` file in write-binary mode (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#2837](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2837)
* [[`ef83029356`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ef83029356)] - **tools**: remove hyphen in TAP result (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#2718](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2718)
This list of changes is relative to the last io.js v3.x branch release, v3.3.0. Please see the list of notable changes in the v3.x, v2.x and v1.x releases for a more complete list of changes from 0.12.x. Note, that some changes in the v3.x series as well as major breaking changes in this release constitute changes required for full convergence of the Node.js and io.js projects.
* **child_process**: `ChildProcess.prototype.send()` and `process.send()` operate asynchronously across all platforms so an optional callback parameter has been introduced that will be invoked once the message has been sent, i.e. `.send(message[, sendHandle][, callback])` (Ben Noordhuis) [#2620](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2620).
* **node**: Rename "io.js" code to "Node.js" (cjihrig) [#2367](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2367).
* **node-gyp**: This release bundles an updated version of node-gyp that works with all versions of Node.js and io.js including nightly and release candidate builds. From io.js v3 and Node.js v4 onward, it will only download a headers tarball when building addons rather than the entire source. (Rod Vagg) [#2700](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2700)
* **npm**: Upgrade to version 2.14.2 from 2.13.3, includes a security update, see https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.14.2 for more details, (Kat Marchán) [#2696](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2696).
* **timers**: Improved timer performance from porting the 0.12 implementation, plus minor fixes (Jeremiah Senkpiel) [#2540](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2540), (Julien Gilli) [nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#8751](https://github.com/nodejs/node-v0.x-archive/pull/8751) [nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#8905](https://github.com/nodejs/node-v0.x-archive/pull/8905)
* **util**: The `util.is*()` functions have been deprecated, beginning with deprecation warnings in the documentation for this release, users are encouraged to seek more robust alternatives in the npm registry, (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#2447](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2447).
* **v8**: Upgrade to version 4.5.103.30 from 4.4.63.30 (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) [#2632](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2632).
- Implement new `TypedArray` prototype methods: `copyWithin()`, `every()`, `fill()`, `filter()`, `find()`, `findIndex()`, `forEach()`, `indexOf()`, `join()`, `lastIndexOf()`, `map()`, `reduce()`, `reduceRight()`, `reverse()`, `slice()`, `some()`, `sort()`. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/TypedArray for further information.
- Implement new `TypedArray.from()` and `TypedArray.of()` functions. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/TypedArray for further information.
- Implement arrow functions, see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Functions/Arrow_functions for further information.
- Full ChangeLog available at https://github.com/v8/v8-git-mirror/blob/4.5.103/ChangeLog
### Known issues
See https://github.com/nodejs/node/labels/confirmed-bug for complete and current list of known issues.
* Some uses of computed object shorthand properties are not handled correctly by the current version of V8. e.g. `[{ [prop]: val }]` evaluates to `[{}]`. [#2507](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/2507)
* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1264).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
### Commits
* [[`4f50d3fb90`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4f50d3fb90)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** This commit sets the value of process.release.name to "node". (cjihrig) [#2367](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2367)
* [[`a7596d7efc`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a7596d7efc)] - **build**: remote commands on staging in single session (Rod Vagg) [#2717](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2717)
* [[`be427e9efa`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/be427e9efa)] - **build**: make .msi install to "nodejs", not "node" (Rod Vagg) [#2701](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2701)
* [[`2c3939c9c0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2c3939c9c0)] - **child_process**: use stdio.fd even if it is 0 (Evan Lucas) [#2727](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2727)
* [[`609db5a1dd`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/609db5a1dd)] - **child_process**: check execFile and fork args (James M Snell) [#2667](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2667)
* [[`3711934095`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3711934095)] - **cpplint**: make it possible to run outside git repo (Ben Noordhuis) [#2710](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2710)
* [[`847459c29b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/847459c29b)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **crypto**: show exponent in decimal and hex (Chad Johnston) [#2320](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2320)
* [[`d3d5b93214`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d3d5b93214)] - **doc**: update environment vars in manpage and --help (Roman Reiss) [#2690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2690)
* [[`29f586ac0a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/29f586ac0a)] - **doc**: update url doc to account for escaping (Jeremiah Senkpiel) [#2605](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2605)
* [[`ba50cfebef`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ba50cfebef)] - **doc**: reorder collaborators by their usernames (Johan Bergström) [#2322](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2322)
* [[`a69ab27ab4`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a69ab27ab4)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **node**: rename from io.js to node (cjihrig) [#2367](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2367)
* [[`9358eee9dd`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9358eee9dd)] - **node-gyp**: float 3.0.1, minor fix for download url (Rod Vagg) [#2737](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2737)
* [[`d2d981252b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d2d981252b)] - **src**: s/ia32/x86 for process.release.libUrl for win (Rod Vagg) [#2699](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2699)
* [[`eba3d3dccd`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/eba3d3dccd)] - **src**: use standard conform snprintf on windows (Karl Skomski) [#2404](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2404)
* [[`cddbec231f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/cddbec231f)] - **src**: fix buffer overflow for long exception lines (Karl Skomski) [#2404](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2404)
* [[`dd3f3417c7`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/dd3f3417c7)] - **src**: re-enable fast math on arm (Michaël Zasso) [#2592](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2592)
* [[`e137c1177c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e137c1177c)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **src**: enable vector ics on arm again (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) [#2509](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2509)
* [[`7ce749d722`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7ce749d722)] - **src**: replace usage of v8::Handle with v8::Local (Michaël Zasso) [#2202](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2202)
* [[`b1a2d9509f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b1a2d9509f)] - **src**: enable v8 deprecation warnings and fix them (Ben Noordhuis) [#2091](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2091)
* [[`808de0da03`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/808de0da03)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **src**: apply debug force load fixups from 41e63fb (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) [#2509](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2509)
* [[`2308a27c0a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2308a27c0a)] - **src**: only set v8 flags if argc > 1 (Evan Lucas) [#2646](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2646)
* [[`384effed20`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/384effed20)] - **test**: fix use of `common` before required (Rod Vagg) [#2685](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2685)
* [[`f146f686b7`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f146f686b7)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **test**: fix test-repl-tab-complete.js for V8 4.5 (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) [#2509](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2509)
* [[`fe4b309fd3`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/fe4b309fd3)] - **test**: refactor to eliminate flaky test (Rich Trott) [#2609](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2609)
* [[`619721e6b8`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/619721e6b8)] - **test**: mark eval_messages as flaky (Alexis Campailla) [#2648](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2648)
* [[`93ba585b66`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/93ba585b66)] - **test**: mark test-vm-syntax-error-stderr as flaky (João Reis) [#2662](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2662)
* [[`367140bca0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/367140bca0)] - **test**: mark test-repl-persistent-history as flaky (João Reis) [#2659](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2659)
* [[`f6b093343d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f6b093343d)] - **timers**: minor `_unrefActive` fixes and improvements (Jeremiah Senkpiel) [#2540](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2540)
* [[`403d7ee7d1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/403d7ee7d1)] - **timers**: don't mutate unref list while iterating it (Julien Gilli) [#2540](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2540)
* [[`7a8c3e08c3`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7a8c3e08c3)] - **timers**: Avoid linear scan in `_unrefActive`. (Julien Gilli) [#2540](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2540)
* [[`b630ebaf43`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b630ebaf43)] - **win,msi**: Upgrade from old upgrade code (João Reis) [#2439](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2439)
* **build**: Add a `--link-module` option to `configure` that can be used to bundle additional JavaScript modules into a built binary (Bradley Meck) [#2497](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2497)
* **docs**: Merge outstanding doc updates from joyent/node (James M Snell) [#2378](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2378)
* **http_parser**: Significant performance improvement by having `http.Server` consume all initial data from its `net.Socket` and parsing directly without having to enter JavaScript. Any `'data'` listeners on the `net.Socket` will result in the data being "unconsumed" into JavaScript, thereby undoing any performance gains. (Fedor Indutny) [#2355](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2355)
* **libuv**: Upgrade to 1.7.3 (from 1.6.1), see [ChangeLog](https://github.com/libuv/libuv/blob/v1.x/ChangeLog) for details (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé) [#2310](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2310)
* **V8**: Upgrade to 4.4.63.30 (from 4.4.63.26) (Michaël Zasso) [#2482](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2482)
### Known issues
See https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/labels/confirmed-bug for complete and current list of known issues.
* Some uses of computed object shorthand properties are not handled correctly by the current version of V8. e.g. `[{ [prop]: val }]` evaluates to `[{}]`. [#2507](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/2507)
* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/issues/1264).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/issues/690)
*`process.send()` is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see [#760](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/issues/760).
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/issues/1435).
* [[`3172e9c541`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3172e9c541)] - **build**: set file permissions before uploading (Rod Vagg) [#2623](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2623)
* [[`a860d7fae1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a860d7fae1)] - **build**: change staging directory on new server (Rod Vagg) [#2623](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2623)
* [[`50c0baa8d7`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/50c0baa8d7)] - **build**: rename 'doc' directory to 'docs' for upload (Rod Vagg) [#2623](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2623)
* [[`0a0577cf5f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0a0577cf5f)] - **build**: fix bad cherry-pick for vcbuild.bat build-release (Rod Vagg) [#2625](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2625)
* [[`34de90194b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/34de90194b)] - **build**: only define NODE_V8_OPTIONS if not empty (Evan Lucas) [#2532](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2532)
* [[`944174b189`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/944174b189)] - **build**: make ci test addons in test/addons (Ben Noordhuis) [#2428](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2428)
* [[`e955f9a1b0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e955f9a1b0)] - **crypto**: Use OPENSSL_cleanse to shred the data. (Сковорода Никита Андреевич) [#2575](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2575)
* [[`f75d54607b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f75d54607b)] - **doc**: clarify cluster behaviour with no workers (Jeremiah Senkpiel) [#2606](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2606)
* [[`8936302121`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8936302121)] - **doc**: minor clarification in buffer.markdown (Сковорода Никита Андреевич) [#2574](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2574)
* [[`0db0e53753`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0db0e53753)] - **doc**: add @jasnell and @sam-github to release team (Rod Vagg) [#2455](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2455)
* [[`c16e100593`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c16e100593)] - **doc**: reorg release team to separate section (Rod Vagg) [#2455](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2455)
* [[`e3e00143fd`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e3e00143fd)] - **doc**: fix bad merge on modules.markdown (James M Snell)
* [[`2f62455880`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2f62455880)] - **doc**: minor additional corrections and improvements (James M Snell) [#2378](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2378)
* [[`3bd08aac4b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3bd08aac4b)] - **doc**: minor grammatical update in crypto.markdown (James M Snell) [#2378](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2378)
* [[`f707189370`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f707189370)] - **doc**: minor grammatical update (James M Snell) [#2378](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2378)
* [[`6c98cf0266`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/6c98cf0266)] - **doc**: remove repeated statement in globals.markdown (James M Snell) [#2378](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2378)
* [[`48e6ccf8c2`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/48e6ccf8c2)] - **doc**: remove 'dudes' from documentation (James M Snell) [#2378](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2378)
* [[`b5d68f8076`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b5d68f8076)] - **doc**: update tense in child_process.markdown (James M Snell) [#2378](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2378)
* [[`242e3fe3ba`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/242e3fe3ba)] - **doc**: fixed worker.id type (James M Snell) [#2378](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2378)
* [[`ea9ee15c21`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ea9ee15c21)] - **doc**: port is optional for socket.bind() (James M Snell) [#2378](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2378)
* [[`0ff6657a50`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0ff6657a50)] - **doc**: fix minor types and grammar in fs docs (James M Snell) [#2378](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2378)
* [[`94d83c04f2`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/94d83c04f2)] - **doc**: update parameter name in net.markdown (James M Snell) [#2378](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2378)
* [[`04111ce40f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/04111ce40f)] - **doc**: small typo in domain.markdown (James M Snell) [#2378](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2378)
* [[`c9fdd1bbbf`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c9fdd1bbbf)] - **doc**: fixed typo in net.markdown (missing comma) (James M Snell) [#2378](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2378)
* [[`27c07b3f8e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/27c07b3f8e)] - **doc**: update description of fs.exists in fs.markdown (James M Snell) [#2378](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2378)
* [[`52018e73d9`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/52018e73d9)] - **doc**: clarification on the 'close' event (James M Snell) [#2378](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2378)
* [[`f6d3b87a25`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f6d3b87a25)] - **doc**: improve working in stream.markdown (James M Snell) [#2378](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2378)
* [[`1d4ea609db`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1d4ea609db)] - **doc**: small clarifications to modules.markdown (James M Snell) [#2378](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2378)
* [[`c888985591`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c888985591)] - **doc**: code style cleanups in repl.markdown (James M Snell) [#2378](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2378)
* [[`105b493595`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/105b493595)] - **doc**: correct grammar in cluster.markdown (James M Snell) [#2378](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2378)
* [[`51b86ccac7`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/51b86ccac7)] - **doc**: Clarify the module.parent is set once (James M Snell) [#2378](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2378)
* [[`ce04b735cc`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ce04b735cc)] - **src**: only memcmp if length > 0 in Buffer::Compare (Karl Skomski) [#2544](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2544)
* [[`8f8ab6fa57`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8f8ab6fa57)] - **test**: runner should return 0 on flaky tests (Alexis Campailla) [#2424](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2424)
* [[`0cfd3be9c6`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0cfd3be9c6)] - **test**: runner support for flaky tests (Alexis Campailla) [#2424](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2424)
* [[`3492d2d4c6`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3492d2d4c6)] - **test**: make test-process-argv-0 robust (Rich Trott) [#2541](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2541)
* [[`a96cc31710`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a96cc31710)] - **test**: speed up test-child-process-spawnsync.js (Rich Trott) [#2542](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2542)
* [[`856baf4c67`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/856baf4c67)] - **test**: make spawnSync() test robust (Rich Trott) [#2535](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2535)
* [[`3aa6bbb648`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3aa6bbb648)] - **tools**: update release.sh to work with new website (Rod Vagg) [#2623](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2623)
* **events**: Added `EventEmitter#listenerCount(event)` as a replacement for `EventEmitter.listenerCount(emitter, event)`, which has now been marked as deprecated in the docs. (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#2349](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2349)
* **module**: Fixed an error with preloaded modules when the current working directory doesn't exist. (Bradley Meck) [#2353](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2353)
* **node**: Startup time is now about 5% faster when not passing V8 flags. (Evan Lucas) [#2483](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2483)
* **repl**: Tab-completion now works better with arrays. (James M Snell) [#2409](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2409)
* **string_bytes**: Fixed an unaligned write in the handling of UCS2 encoding. (Fedor Indutny) [#2480](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2480)
* **tls**: Added a new `--tls-cipher-list` flag that can be used to override the built-in default cipher list. (James M Snell) [#2412](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2412) _Note: it is suggested you use the built-in cipher list as it has been carefully selected to reflect current security best practices and risk mitigation._
### Known issues
See https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/labels/confirmed-bug for complete and current list of known issues.
* Some uses of computed object shorthand properties are not handled correctly by the current version of V8. e.g. `[{ [prop]: val }]` evaluates to `[{}]`. [#2507](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/2507)
* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/issues/1264).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/issues/690)
*`process.send()` is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see [#760](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/issues/760).
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/issues/1435).
* [[`d1c27b2e29`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d1c27b2e29)] - **module**: fix module preloading when cwd is ENOENT (Bradley Meck) [#2353](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2353)
* [[`5d7486941b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5d7486941b)] - **repl**: filter integer keys from repl tab complete list (James M Snell) [#2409](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2409)
* [[`7f02443a9a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7f02443a9a)] - **repl**: dont throw ENOENT on NODE_REPL_HISTORY_FILE (Todd Kennedy) [#2451](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2451)
* [[`56a2ae9cef`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/56a2ae9cef)] - **src**: improve startup time (Evan Lucas) [#2483](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2483)
* [[`14653c7429`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/14653c7429)] - **stream**: rename poorly named function (Ben Noordhuis) [#2479](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2479)
* [[`1c6e014bfa`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1c6e014bfa)] - **stream**: micro-optimize high water mark calculation (Ben Noordhuis) [#2479](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2479)
* [[`536c3d0537`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/536c3d0537)] - **test**: use reserved IP in test-net-connect-timeout (Rich Trott) [#2257](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2257)
* [[`5df06fd8df`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5df06fd8df)] - **test**: add spaces after keywords (Brendan Ashworth)
- Signing now checks for OpenSSL errors (Minqi Pan) [#2342](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2342). **Note that this may expose previously hidden errors in user code.**
* **intl**: Intl support using small-icu is now enabled by default in builds (Steven R. Loomis) [#2264](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2264).
- [`String#normalize()`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/normalize) can now be used for unicode normalization.
- The [`Intl`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Intl) object and various `String` and `Number` methods are present, but only support the English locale.
- For support of all locales, node must be built with [full-icu](https://github.com/nodejs/node#build-with-full-icu-support-all-locales-supported-by-icu).
* **tls**: Fixed tls throughput being much lower after an incorrect merge (Fedor Indutny) [#2381](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2381).
* **tools**: The v8 tick processor now comes bundled with node (Matt Loring) [#2090](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2090).
- This can be used by producing performance profiling output by running node with `--perf`, then running your appropriate platform's script on the output as found in [tools/v8-prof](https://github.com/nodejs/node/tree/master/tools/v8-prof).
* **util**: `util.inspect(obj)` now prints the constructor name of the object if there is one (Christopher Monsanto) [#1935](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/1935).
### Known issues
See https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/labels/confirmed-bug for complete and current list of known issues.
* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/issues/1264).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/issues/690)
*`process.send()` is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see [#760](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/issues/760).
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/issues/1435).
### Commits
* [[`3645dc62ed`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3645dc62ed)] - **build**: work around VS2015 issue in ICU <56(StevenR.Loomis) [#2283](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2283)
* [[`1f12e03266`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1f12e03266)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **build**: intl: converge from joyent/node (Steven R. Loomis) [#2264](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2264)
* [[`071640abdd`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/071640abdd)] - **build**: Intl: bump ICU4C from 54 to 55 (Steven R. Loomis) [#2293](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2293)
* [[`07a88b0c8b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/07a88b0c8b)] - **build**: update manifest to include Windows 10 (Lucien Greathouse) [#2332](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/2332)
* [[`0bb099f444`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0bb099f444)] - **build**: expand ~ in install prefix early (Ben Noordhuis) [#2307](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/2307)
* [[`e76822f454`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e76822f454)] - **doc**: multiple documentation updates cherry picked from v0.12 (James M Snell) [#2302](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/2302)
* [[`1738c9680b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1738c9680b)] - **net**: ensure Socket reported address is current (Ryan Graham) [#2095](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/2095)
* [[`844d3f0e3e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/844d3f0e3e)] - **path**: use '===' instead of '==' for comparison (Sam Stites) [#2388](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2388)
* [[`7118b8a882`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7118b8a882)] - **path**: remove dead code in favor of unit tests (Nathan Woltman) [#2282](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/2282)
* [[`d1307b2995`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d1307b2995)] - **src**: don't use fopen() in require() fast path (Ben Noordhuis) [#2377](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2377)
* [[`a3160c0a33`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a3160c0a33)] - **test**: correct spelling of 'childProcess' (muddletoes) [#2389](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2389)
* [[`e51f90d747`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e51f90d747)] - **test**: option to run a subset of tests (João Reis) [#2260](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/2260)
* [[`fb0f5d733f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/fb0f5d733f)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **tools**: run the tick processor without building v8 (Matt Loring) [#2090](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2090)
- Due to changes in V8, it has been necessary to reimplement `Buffer` on top of V8's `Uint8Array`. Every effort has been made to minimize the performance impact, however `Buffer` instantiation is measurably slower. Access operations may be faster in some circumstances but the exact performance profile and difference over previous versions will depend on how `Buffer` is used within applications. (Trevor Norris) [#1825](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1825).
-`Buffer` can now take `ArrayBuffer`s as a constructor argument (Trevor Norris) [#2002](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2002).
- When a single buffer is passed to `Buffer.concat()`, a new, copied `Buffer` object will be returned; previous behavior was to return the original `Buffer` object (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#1937](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1937).
* **build**: PPC support has been added to core to allow compiling on pLinux BE and LE (AIX support coming soon) (Michael Dawson) [#2124](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2124).
* **dgram**: If an error occurs within `socket.send()` and a callback has been provided, the error is only passed as the first argument to the callback and not emitted on the `socket` object; previous behavior was to do both (Matteo Collina & Chris Dickinson) [#1796](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1796)
- Status codes now all use the official [IANA names](http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-status-codes) as per [RFC7231](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231), e.g. `http.STATUS_CODES[414]` now returns `'URI Too Long'` rather than `'Request-URI Too Large'` (jomo) [#1470](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1470).
- Calling .getName() on an HTTP agent no longer returns a trailing colon, HTTPS agents will no longer return an extra colon near the middle of the string (Brendan Ashworth) [#1617](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1617).
-`NODE_MODULE_VERSION` has been bumped to `45` to reflect the break in ABI (Rod Vagg) [#2096](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2096).
- Introduce a new `process.release` object that contains a `name` property set to `'io.js'` and `sourceUrl`, `headersUrl` and `libUrl` (Windows only) properties containing URLs for the relevant resources; this is intended to be used by node-gyp (Rod Vagg) [#2154](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2154).
- The version of node-gyp bundled with io.js now downloads and uses a tarball of header files from iojs.org rather than the full source for compiling native add-ons; it is hoped this is a temporary floating patch and the change will be upstreamed to node-gyp soon (Rod Vagg) [#2066](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2066).
* **repl**: Persistent history is now enabled by default. The history file is located at ~/.node_repl_history, which can be overridden by the new environment variable `NODE_REPL_HISTORY`. This deprecates the previous `NODE_REPL_HISTORY_FILE` variable. Additionally, the format of the file has been changed to plain text to better handle file corruption. (Jeremiah Senkpiel) [#2224](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2224).
* **smalloc**: The `smalloc` module has been removed as it is no longer possible to provide the API due to changes in V8 (Ben Noordhuis) [#2022](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2022).
* **tls**: Add `server.getTicketKeys()` and `server.setTicketKeys()` methods for [TLS session key](https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5077.txt) rotation (Fedor Indutny) [#2227](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2227).
- ES6: `Array` can now be subclassed in strict mode
- ES6: Implement [rest parameters](https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Functions/rest_parameters) in staging, use the `--harmony-rest-parameters` command line flag
- ES6: Implement the [spread operator](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/Spread_operator) in staging, use the `--harmony-spreadcalls` command line flag
- Removed `SetIndexedPropertiesToExternalArrayData` and related APIs, forcing a shift to `Buffer` to be reimplemented based on `Uint8Array`
- Introduction of `Maybe` and `MaybeLocal` C++ API for objects which _may_ or _may not_ have a value.
* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1264).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
*`process.send()` is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see [#760](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/760).
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
* [[`e5ada116cd`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e5ada116cd)] - **buffer**: minor cleanup from rebase (Trevor Norris) [#2003](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2003)
* [[`eea66e2a7b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/eea66e2a7b)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **buffer**: fix case of one buffer passed to concat (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#1937](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1937)
* [[`8664084166`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8664084166)] - **buffer**: make additional changes to native API (Trevor Norris) [#1825](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1825)
* [[`36f78f4c1c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/36f78f4c1c)] - **buffer**: switch API to return MaybeLocal<T> (Trevor Norris) [#1825](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1825)
* [[`571ec13841`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/571ec13841)] - **buffer**: switch to using Maybe<T> API (Trevor Norris) [#1825](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1825)
* [[`23be6ca189`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/23be6ca189)] - **buffer**: allow ARGS_THIS to accept a name (Trevor Norris) [#1825](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1825)
* [[`971de5e417`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/971de5e417)] - **build**: prepare Windows installer for i18n support (Frederic Hemberger) [#2247](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2247)
* [[`2ba8b23661`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2ba8b23661)] - **build**: add 'x86' option back in to configure (Rod Vagg) [#2233](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2233)
* [[`b4226e797a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b4226e797a)] - **build**: first set of updates to enable PPC support (Michael Dawson) [#2124](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2124)
* [[`24dd016deb`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/24dd016deb)] - **build**: produce symbol map files on windows (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) [#2243](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2243)
* [[`423d8944ce`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/423d8944ce)] - **cluster**: do not unconditionally set --debug-port (cjihrig) [#1949](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1949)
* [[`2a63cf612b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2a63cf612b)] - **deps**: make node-gyp work with io.js (cjihrig) [iojs/io.js#990](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/990)
* [[`ef2c8cd4ec`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ef2c8cd4ec)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **dgram**: make send cb act as "error" event handler (Matteo Collina) [#1796](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1796)
* [[`3da057fef6`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3da057fef6)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **dgram**: make send cb act as "error" event handler (Chris Dickinson) [#1796](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1796)
* [[`df1994fe53`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/df1994fe53)] - ***Revert*** "**dns**: remove AI_V4MAPPED hint flag on FreeBSD" (cjihrig) [iojs/io.js#1555](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1555)
* [[`500f2538cc`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/500f2538cc)] - **doc**: a listener, not "an" listener (Sam Roberts) [#1025](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1025)
* [[`54627a919d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/54627a919d)] - **doc**: server close event does not have an argument (Sam Roberts) [#1025](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1025)
* [[`2d9456e3e6`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2d9456e3e6)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **http**: use official IANA Status Codes (jomo) [#1470](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1470)
* [[`9bc2e26720`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9bc2e26720)] - **net**: do not set V4MAPPED on FreeBSD (Julien Gilli) [iojs/io.js#1555](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1555)
* [[`ef65321083`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ef65321083)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **node**: do not override `message`/`stack` of error (Fedor Indutny) [#2108](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2108)
* [[`9f727f5e03`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9f727f5e03)] - **node-gyp**: detect RC build with x.y.z-rc.n format (Rod Vagg) [#2171](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2171)
* [[`ed6c249104`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ed6c249104)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **repl**: persist history in plain text (Jeremiah Senkpiel) [#2224](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2224)
* [[`64cf71195c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/64cf71195c)] - **test**: change the hostname to an invalid name (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#2287](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2287)
* [[`80a1cf7425`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/80a1cf7425)] - **test**: fix messages and use return to skip tests (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#2290](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2290)
* [[`d5ab92bcc1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d5ab92bcc1)] - **test**: use common.isWindows consistently (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#2269](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2269)
* **https**: TLS sessions in Agent are reused (Fedor Indutny) [#2228](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2228)
* **src**: base64 decoding is now 50% faster (Ben Noordhuis) [#2193](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2193)
* **npm**: Upgraded to v2.13.2, release notes can be found in <https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.13.2> (Kat Marchán) [#2241](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2241).
* Using multiple REPL instances in parallel may cause some REPL history corruption or loss. [#1634](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1634)
* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1264).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
*`process.send()` is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see [#760](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/760).
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
* [[`fef190cea6`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/fef190cea6)] - **deps**: make node-gyp work with io.js (cjihrig) [iojs/io.js#990](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/990)
* [[`0a7bf81d2f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0a7bf81d2f)] - **deps**: update V8 to 4.2.77.21 (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) [#2238](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/2238)
* [[`73cdcdd581`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/73cdcdd581)] - **deps**: make node-gyp work with io.js (cjihrig) [iojs/io.js#990](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/990)
* [[`9afee6785e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9afee6785e)] - **http**: Check this.connection before using it (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#2172](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2172)
* [[`c786d6341d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c786d6341d)] - **test**: do not use public IPs for timeout testing (Rich Trott) [#2057](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2057)
* [[`4e78cd71c0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4e78cd71c0)] - **test**: skip IPv6 part before testing it (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#2226](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2226)
* [[`68b06e94e3`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/68b06e94e3)] - **tools**: use local or specified $NODE for test-npm (Jeremiah Senkpiel) [#1984](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1984)
* [[`ab479659c7`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ab479659c7)] - **util**: delay creation of debug context (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) [#2248](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2248)
* **src**: Added a new `--track-heap-objects` flag to track heap object allocations for heap snapshots (Bradley Meck) [#2135](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2135).
* **readline**: Fixed a freeze that affected the repl if the keypress event handler threw (Alex Kocharin) [#2107](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2107).
* **npm**: Upgraded to v2.13.0, release notes can be found in <https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.13.0> (Forrest L Norvell) [#2152](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2152).
* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1264).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
*`process.send()` is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see [#760](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/760).
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
* [[`47e2c5c828`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/47e2c5c828)] - **build**: bail early if clean is invoked (Johan Bergström) [#2127](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2127)
* [[`3c4121c418`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3c4121c418)] - **deps**: make node-gyp work with io.js (cjihrig) [iojs/io.js#990](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/990)
* [[`938cc757bb`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/938cc757bb)] - **deps**: upgrade to npm 2.13.0 (Forrest L Norvell) [#2152](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2152)
* [[`6f306e0ed2`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/6f306e0ed2)] - **doc**: add targos as a collaborator (Michaël Zasso) [#2200](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2200)
* [[`c019d9a239`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c019d9a239)] - **doc**: add thefourtheye as a collaborator (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#2199](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2199)
* [[`4e92dbc26b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4e92dbc26b)] - **doc**: add TSC members from the combined project (Jeremiah Senkpiel) [#2085](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2085)
* [[`0ab81e6f58`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0ab81e6f58)] - **docs**: link to more up-to-date v8 docs (Jeremiah Senkpiel) [#2196](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2196)
* [[`1afc0c9e86`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1afc0c9e86)] - **fs**: fix error on bad listener type (Brendan Ashworth) [#2093](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2093)
* **npm**: Upgraded to v2.12.1, release notes can be found in <https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.12.0> and <https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.12.1> (Kat Marchán) [#2112](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2112).
* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1264).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
*`process.send()` is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see [#760](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/760).
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
* [[`b18c841ec1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b18c841ec1)] - **deps**: make node-gyp work with io.js (cjihrig) [iojs/io.js#990](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/990)
* [[`fb05c8e27d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/fb05c8e27d)] - ***Revert*** "**test**: add test for missing `close`/`finish` event" (Fedor Indutny)
* [[`9436a860cb`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9436a860cb)] - **test**: add test for missing `close`/`finish` event (Mark Plomer) [iojs/io.js#1373](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1373)
* [[`ee3ce2ed88`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ee3ce2ed88)] - **tools**: install gdbinit from v8 to $PREFIX/share (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) [#2123](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2123)
* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1264).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
*`process.send()` is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see [#760](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/760) and fix in [#774](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/774)
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
* readline: split escapes are processed incorrectly, see [#1403](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1403)
* **deps**: Fixed an out-of-band write in utf8 decoder. **This is an important security update** as it can be used to cause a denial of service attack.
* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1264).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
*`process.send()` is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see [#760](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/760).
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
* **v8**: Fixed an out-of-band write in utf8 decoder. **This is an important security update** as it can be used to cause a denial of service attack.
* **openssl**: Upgrade to 1.0.2b and 1.0.2c, introduces DHE man-in-the-middle protection (Logjam) and fixes malformed ECParameters causing infinite loop (CVE-2015-1788). See the [security advisory](https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20150611.txt) for full details. (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1950](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1950) [#1958](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1958)
* **build**:
- Added support for compiling with Microsoft Visual C++ 2015
- Started building and distributing headers-only tarballs along with binaries
### Known issues
* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1264).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
*`process.send()` is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see [#760](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/760) and fix in [#774](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/774)
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
* readline: split escapes are processed incorrectly, see [#1403](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1403)
### Commits
* [[`d8f260d33b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d8f260d33b)] - **build**: add tar-headers target for headers-only tar (Rod Vagg) [#1975](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1975)
* [[`8e1134c04c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8e1134c04c)] - **build**: remove lint from test-ci on windows (Johan Bergström) [#2004](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2004)
* [[`e52e99085e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e52e99085e)] - **build**: don't run lint from test-ci (Johan Bergström) [#1965](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1965)
* [[`c5d1ec7fea`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c5d1ec7fea)] - **build**: simplify execution of built binary (Johan Bergström) [#1955](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1955)
* [[`2ce147551a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2ce147551a)] - **build,win**: set env before generating projects (Alexis Campailla) [joyent/node#20109](https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/20109)
* [[`83ee07b6be`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/83ee07b6be)] - **deps**: copy all openssl header files to include dir (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#2016](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2016)
* [[`5c29c0c519`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5c29c0c519)] - **openssl**: fix keypress requirement in apps on win32 (Shigeki Ohtsu) [nodejs/node#1389](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1389)
* [[`2cd7f73d9f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2cd7f73d9f)] - **openssl**: fix keypress requirement in apps on win32 (Shigeki Ohtsu) [nodejs/node#1389](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1389)
* [[`c65484a74d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c65484a74d)] - **tls**: make server not use DHE in less than 1024bits (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1739](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1739)
* [[`77f518403f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/77f518403f)] - **win,node-gyp**: make delay-load hook C89 compliant (Sharat M R) [TooTallNate/node-gyp#616](https://github.com/TooTallNa
* **deps**: Fixed an out-of-band write in utf8 decoder. **This is an important security update** as it can be used to cause a denial of service attack.
* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1264).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
*`process.send()` is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see [#760](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/760) and fix in [#774](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/774)
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
* [[`9180140231`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9180140231)] - **_stream_wrap**: prevent use after free in TLS (Fedor Indutny) [#1910](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1910)
* [[`1cd9eeb556`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1cd9eeb556)] - **buffer**: prevent abort on bad proto (Trevor Norris) [#2012](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2012)
* [[`834a365113`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/834a365113)] - **build**: DTrace is enabled by default on darwin (Evan Lucas) [#2019](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2019)
* [[`c0c0d73269`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c0c0d73269)] - **build,win**: set env before generating projects (Alexis Campailla) [joyent/node#20109](https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/20109)
* [[`9e890fe8b4`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9e890fe8b4)] - **crypto**: fix VerifyCallback in case of verify error (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#2064](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2064)
* [[`1f371e3988`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1f371e3988)] - **deps**: copy all openssl header files to include dir (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#2016](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2016)
* [[`c370bd3aea`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c370bd3aea)] - **doc**: make the abbreviation 1MM clear (Ivan Yan) [#2053](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2053)
* [[`54d5437566`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/54d5437566)] - **doc**: Added sample command to test iojs build (Jimmy Hsu) [#850](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/850)
* [[`4d5089e181`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4d5089e181)] - **test**: do not swallow OpenSSL support error (Rich Trott) [#2042](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2042)
* [[`8e9089ac35`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8e9089ac35)] - **test**: check for error on Windows (Rich Trott) [#2035](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2035)
* [[`58e914f9bc`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/58e914f9bc)] - **tools**: fix gyp to work on MacOSX without XCode (Shigeki Ohtsu) [iojs/io.js#1325](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1325)
* **module**: The number of syscalls made during a `require()` have been significantly reduced again (see [#1801](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1801) from v2.2.0 for previous work), which should lead to a performance improvement (Pierre Inglebert) [#1920](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1920).
* Upgrade to [v2.11.2](https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.11.2) (Rebecca Turner) [#1956](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1956).
* Upgrade to [v2.11.3](https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.11.3) (Forrest L Norvell) [#2018](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2018).
* **zlib**: A bug was discovered where the process would abort if the final part of a zlib decompression results in a buffer that would exceed the maximum length of `0x3fffffff` bytes (~1GiB). This was likely to only occur during buffered decompression (rather than streaming). This is now fixed and will instead result in a thrown `RangeError` (Michaël Zasso) [#1811](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1811).
* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1264).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
*`process.send()` is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see [#760](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/760) and fix in [#774](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/774)
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
* [[`e56758a5e0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e56758a5e0)] - **async-wrap**: add provider id and object info cb (Trevor Norris) [#1896](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1896)
* [[`c5353d7c62`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c5353d7c62)] - **build**: remove lint from test-ci on windows (Johan Bergström) [#2004](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2004)
* [[`48c0fb8b1a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/48c0fb8b1a)] - **deps**: make node-gyp work with io.js (cjihrig) [iojs/io.js#990](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/990)
* [[`6a359b1ce9`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/6a359b1ce9)] - **deps**: upgrade to npm 2.11.3 (Forrest L Norvell) [#2018](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2018)
* [[`6aab2f3b9a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/6aab2f3b9a)] - **deps**: make node-gyp work with io.js (cjihrig) [iojs/io.js#990](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/990)
* [[`1f93b63b11`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1f93b63b11)] - **doc**: change the info to the same as in gitconfig (Christian Tellnes) [#2000](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2000)
* [[`0cf94e6856`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0cf94e6856)] - **doc**: mention CI in Collaborator Guide (Rich Trott) [#1995](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1995)
* [[`96165f9be2`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/96165f9be2)] - **doc**: minor clarification in the modules API doc. (Сковорода Никита Андреевич) [#1983](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1983)
* [[`a4f4909f3d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a4f4909f3d)] - **module**: fix stat with long paths on Windows (Michaël Zasso) [#2013](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2013)
* [[`671e64ac73`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/671e64ac73)] - **module**: allow long paths for require on Windows (Michaël Zasso)
* [[`061342a500`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/061342a500)] - **net**: Defer reading until listeners could be added (James Hartig) [#1496](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1496)
* [[`5d2b846d11`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5d2b846d11)] - **test**: assert tmp and fixture dirs different (Rich Trott) [#2015](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2015)
* [[`3ba4f71fc4`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3ba4f71fc4)] - **test**: check result as early as possible (Rich Trott) [#2007](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2007)
* [[`7c79490bfb`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7c79490bfb)] - **test**: only refresh tmpDir for tests that need it (Rich Trott) [#1954](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1954)
* [[`88d7904c0b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/88d7904c0b)] - **test**: remove test repetition (Rich Trott) [#1874](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1874)
* [[`91dfb5e094`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/91dfb5e094)] - **tools**: make test-npm work without global npm (Jeremiah Senkpiel) [#1926](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1926)
* [[`3777f41562`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3777f41562)] - **tools**: enable whitespace related rules in eslint (Roman Reiss) [#1971](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1971)
* [[`626432d843`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/626432d843)] - **util**: dont repeat isBuffer (Brendan Ashworth) [#1988](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1988)
* [[`20d8db1a42`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/20d8db1a42)] - **npm**: upgrade to 2.11.2 [#25517](https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/25517)
* [[`50f961596d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/50f961596d)] - **uv**: upgrade to 1.6.1 [#25475](https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/25475)
* [[`b81a643f9a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b81a643f9a)] - **V8**: avoid deadlock when profiling is active (Dmitri Melikyan) [#25309](https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/25309)
* **libuv**: Upgraded to 1.6.0 and 1.6.1, see [full ChangeLog](https://github.com/libuv/libuv/blob/60e515d9e6f3d86c0eedad583805201f32ea3aed/ChangeLog#L1-L36) for details. (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé) [#1905](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1905) [#1889](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1889). Highlights include:
* **npm**: See full [release notes](https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.11.1) for details. (Kat Marchán) [#1899](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1899). Highlight:
- Upgrade to 1.0.2b and 1.0.2c, introduces DHE man-in-the-middle protection (Logjam) and fixes malformed ECParameters causing infinite loop (CVE-2015-1788). See the [security advisory](https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20150611.txt) for full details. (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1950](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1950) [#1958](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1958)
- Support [FIPS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Information_Processing_Standards) mode of OpenSSL, see [README](https://github.com/nodejs/node#building-iojs-with-fips-compliant-openssl) for instructions. (Fedor Indutny) [#1890](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1890)
* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1264).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
*`process.send()` is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see [#760](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/760) and fix in [#774](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/774)
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
* [[`9c0a1b8cfc`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9c0a1b8cfc)] - **cluster**: wait on servers closing before disconnect (Oleg Elifantiev) [#1400](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1400)
* [[`0f68377f69`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0f68377f69)] - **crypto**: support FIPS mode of OpenSSL (Fedor Indutny) [#1890](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1890)
* [[`38d1afc24d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/38d1afc24d)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **crypto**: add getCurves() to get supported ECs (Brian White) [#1914](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1914)
* [[`2dc819b09a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2dc819b09a)] - **deps**: make node-gyp work with io.js (cjihrig) [iojs/io.js#990](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/990)
* [[`53a4eb3198`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/53a4eb3198)] - **fs**: make SyncWriteStream non-enumerable (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#1870](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1870)
* [[`a011c3243f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a011c3243f)] - **fs**: minor refactoring (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#1870](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1870)
* [[`8841132f30`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8841132f30)] - **fs**: remove inStatWatchers and use Map for lookup (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#1870](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1870)
* [[`b5b8ff117c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b5b8ff117c)] - **lib**: don't use global Buffer (Roman Reiss) [#1794](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1794)
* [[`a251657058`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a251657058)] - **node**: mark promises as handled as soon as possible (Vladimir Kurchatkin) [#1952](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1952)
* [[`2eb170874a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2eb170874a)] - **openssl**: fix keypress requirement in apps on win32 (Shigeki Ohtsu) [iojs/io.js#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)
* [[`a130132c8f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a130132c8f)] - **openssl**: fix keypress requirement in apps on win32 (Shigeki Ohtsu) [iojs/io.js#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)
* [[`8ea6844d26`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8ea6844d26)] - **test**: add test for failed save in REPL (Rich Trott) [#1818](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1818)
* [[`4cf323d23d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4cf323d23d)] - **test**: kill child in tls-server-verify for speed up (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1836](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1836)
* [[`bd99e8de8e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/bd99e8de8e)] - **test**: more test coverage for maxConnections (Rich Trott) [#1855](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1855)
* [[`5be9efca40`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5be9efca40)] - **tools**: update mk-ca-bundle.pl to HEAD of upstream (Ben Noordhuis) [#1833](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1833)
* **http**: Reverts the move of the `client` property of `IncomingMessage` to its prototype. Although undocumented, this property was used and assumed to be an "own property" in the wild, most notably by [request](https://github.com/request/request) which is used by npm. (Michaël Zasso) [#1852](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1852).
* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1264).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
*`process.send()` is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see [#760](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/760) and fix in [#774](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/774)
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
* **node**: Speed-up `require()` by replacing usage of `fs.statSync()` and `fs.readFileSync()` with internal variants that are faster for this use-case and do not create as many objects for the garbage collector to clean up. The primary two benefits are: significant increase in application start-up time on typical applications and better start-up time for the debugger by eliminating almost all of the thousands of exception events. (Ben Noordhuis) [#1801](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1801).
* **node**: Resolution of pre-load modules (`-r` or `--require`) now follows the standard `require()` rules rather than just resolving paths, so you can now pre-load modules in node_modules. (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) [#1812](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1812).
* **npm**: Upgraded npm to v2.11.0. New hooks for `preversion`, `version`, and `postversion` lifecycle events, some SPDX-related license changes and license file inclusions. See the [release notes](https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.11.0) for full details.
* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1264).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
*`process.send()` is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see [#760](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/760) and fix in [#774](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/774)
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
* [[`3a1bc067d4`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3a1bc067d4)] - ***Revert*** "**core**: set PROVIDER type as Persistent class id" (Ben Noordhuis) [#1827](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1827)
* [[`f9fd554500`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f9fd554500)] - **deps**: make node-gyp work with io.js (cjihrig) [iojs/io.js#990](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/990)
* [[`c1afa53648`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c1afa53648)] - **deps**: upgrade npm to 2.11.0 (Forrest L Norvell) [iojs/io.js#1829](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1829)
* [[`5759722cfa`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5759722cfa)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **src**: fix module search path for preload modules (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) [#1812](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1812)
* [[`a65762cab6`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a65762cab6)] - **src**: remove old code (Brendan Ashworth) [#1819](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1819)
* [[`93a44d5228`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/93a44d5228)] - **src**: fix deferred events not working with -e (Ben Noordhuis) [#1793](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1793)
* [[`8059393934`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8059393934)] - **test**: check error type from net.Server.listen() (Rich Trott) [#1821](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1821)
* **crypto**: Diffie-Hellman key exchange (DHE) parameters (`'dhparams'`) must now be 1024 bits or longer or an error will be thrown. A warning will also be printed to the console if you supply less than 2048 bits. See https://weakdh.org/ for further context on this security concern. (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1739](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1739).
* **node**: A new `--trace-sync-io` command line flag will print a warning and a stack trace whenever a synchronous API is used. This can be used to track down synchronous calls that may be slowing down an application. (Trevor Norris) [#1707](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1707).
* **node**: To allow for chaining of methods, the `setTimeout()`, `setKeepAlive()`, `setNoDelay()`, `ref()` and `unref()` methods used in `'net'`, `'dgram'`, `'http'`, `'https'` and `'tls'` now return the current instance instead of `undefined` (Roman Reiss & Evan Lucas) [#1699](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1699) [#1768](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1768) [#1779](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1779).
* **npm**: Upgraded to v2.10.1, release notes can be found in <https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.10.1> and <https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.10.0>.
* **util**: A significant speed-up (in the order of 35%) for the common-case of a single string argument to `util.format()`, used by `console.log()` (Сковорода Никита Андреевич) [#1749](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1749).
* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1264).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
*`process.send()` is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see [#760](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/760) and fix in [#774](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/774)
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
* [[`3c44100558`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3c44100558)] - **core**: set PROVIDER type as Persistent class id (Trevor Norris) [#1730](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1730)
* [[`c1de6d249e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c1de6d249e)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **core**: implement runtime flag to trace sync io (Trevor Norris) [#1707](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1707)
* [[`9e7099fa4e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9e7099fa4e)] - **deps**: make node-gyp work with io.js (cjihrig) [iojs/io.js#990](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/990)
* [[`515afc6367`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/515afc6367)] - **doc**: path is ignored in url.format (Maurice Butler) [#1753](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1753)
* [[`f0a8bc3f84`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f0a8bc3f84)] - **doc**: fix spelling in CHANGELOG (Felipe Batista)
* [[`86dd244d9b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/86dd244d9b)] - **doc**: add notes to child_process.fork() and .exec() (Rich Trott) [#1718](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1718)
* [[`066274794c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/066274794c)] - **doc**: update links from iojs/io.js to nodejs/io.js (Frederic Hemberger) [#1715](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1715)
* [[`cb381fe3e0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/cb381fe3e0)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **net**: return this from setNoDelay and setKeepAlive (Roman Reiss) [#1779](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1779)
* [[`39dde3222e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/39dde3222e)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **net,dgram**: return this from ref and unref methods (Roman Reiss) [#1768](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1768)
* [[`80342f649d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/80342f649d)] - **tls**: use `.destroy(err)` instead of destroy+emit (Fedor Indutny) [#1711](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1711)
* [[`9b35be5810`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9b35be5810)] - **tls**: make server not use DHE in less than 1024bits (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1739](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1739)
* [[`214d02040e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/214d02040e)] - **util**: speed up common case of formatting string (Сковорода Никита Андреевич) [#1749](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1749)
* **npm**: Upgrade npm to 2.9.0. See the [v2.8.4](https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.8.4) and [v2.9.0](https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.9.0) release notes for details. Summary:
- Add support for default author field to make `npm init -y` work without user-input (@othiym23) [npm/npm/d8eee6cf9d](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/d8eee6cf9d2ff7aca68dfaed2de76824a3e0d9
- Include local modules in `npm outdated` and `npm update` (@ArnaudRinquin) [npm/npm#7426](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/7426)
- The prefix used before the version number on `npm version` is now configurable via `tag-version-prefix` (@kkragenbrink) [npm/npm#8014](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/8014)
### Known issues
* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1264).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
*`process.send()` is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see [#760](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/760) and fix in [#774](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/774)
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
* readline: split escapes are processed incorrectly, see [#1403](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1403)
### Commits
* [[`5404cbc745`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5404cbc745)] - **buffer**: fix copy() segfault with zero arguments (Trevor Norris) [nodejs/node#1520](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1520)
* [[`f10f379240`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f10f379240)] - **deps**: make node-gyp work with io.js (cjihrig) [nodejs/node#990](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/990)
* [[`ba0e744c2c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ba0e744c2c)] - **deps**: upgrade npm to 2.9.0 (Forrest L Norvell) [nodejs/node#1583](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1583)
* [[`1cfc455dc5`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1cfc455dc5)] - **tls**: zero SSL_CTX freelist for a singleUse socket (Fedor Indutny) [nodejs/node#1529](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1529)
* [[`7ada680519`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7ada680519)] - **tls**: destroy SSL once it is out of use (Fedor Indutny) [nodejs/node#1529](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1529)
* [[`71274b0263`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/71274b0263)] - **tls_wrap**: use localhost if options.host is empty (Guilherme Souza) [nodejs/node#1493](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1493)
* [[`0eb74a8b6c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0eb74a8b6c)] - **win,node-gyp**: optionally allow node.exe/iojs.exe to be renamed (Bert Belder) [nodejs/node#1266](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1266)
* **win,node-gyp**: the delay-load hook for windows addons has now been correctly enabled by default, it had wrongly defaulted to off in the release version of 2.0.0 (Bert Belder) [#1433](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1433)
* **os**: `tmpdir()`'s trailing slash stripping has been refined to fix an issue when the temp directory is at '/'. Also considers which slash is used by the operating system. (cjihrig) [#1673](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1673)
* **tls**: default ciphers have been updated to use gcm and aes128 (Mike MacCana) [#1660](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1660)
* **build**: v8 snapshots have been re-enabled by default as suggested by the v8 team, since prior security issues have been resolved. This should give some perf improvements to both startup and vm context creation. (Trevor Norris) [#1663](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1663)
* **src**: fixed preload modules not working when other flags were used before `--require` (Yosuke Furukawa) [#1694](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1694)
* **dgram**: fixed `send()`'s callback not being asynchronous (Yosuke Furukawa) [#1313](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1313)
* **readline**: emitKeys now keeps buffering data until it has enough to parse. This fixes an issue with parsing split escapes. (Alex Kocharin) [#1601](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1601)
* **cluster**: works now properly emit 'disconnect' to `cluser.worker` (Oleg Elifantiev) [#1386](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1386)
* **events**: uncaught errors now provide some context (Evan Lucas) [#1654](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1654)
* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1264).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
*`process.send()` is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see [#760](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/760) and fix in [#774](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/774)
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
* [[`8a0e5295b4`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8a0e5295b4)] - **build**: use backslashes for paths on windows (Johan Bergström) [#1698](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1698)
* [[`aed6bce906`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/aed6bce906)] - **readline**: turn emitKeys into a streaming parser (Alex Kocharin) [#1601](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1601)
* [[`0a461e5360`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0a461e5360)] - **src**: fix preload when used with prior flags (Yosuke Furukawa) [#1694](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1694)
* [[`931a0d4634`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/931a0d4634)] - **src**: add type check to v8.setFlagsFromString() (Roman Klauke) [#1652](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1652)
* [[`5755fc099f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5755fc099f)] - **tls**: update default ciphers to use gcm and aes128 (Mike MacCana) [#1660](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1660)
* [[`966acb9916`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/966acb9916)] - **tools**: remove closure_linter to eslint on windows (Yosuke Furukawa) [#1685](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1685)
* [[`c58264e58b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c58264e58b)] - **tools**: make eslint work on subdirectories (Roman Reiss) [#1686](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1686)
* [[`32166a90cf`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/32166a90cf)] - **V8**: update to 3.28.71.19 [#18206](https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/18206)
* [[`84f1ab6114`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/84f1ab6114)] - **uv**: upgrade to 1.5.0 [#25141](https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/25141)
* [[`03cfbd65fb`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/03cfbd65fb)] - **npm**: upgrade to 2.9.1 [#25289](https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/25289)
* [[`80cdae855f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/80cdae855f)] - **V8**: don't busy loop in v8 cpu profiler thread (Mike Tunnicliffe) [#25268](https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/25268)
* [[`2a5f4bd7ce`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2a5f4bd7ce)] - **V8**: fix issue with let bindings in for loops (adamk) [#23948](https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/23948)
* [[`f0ef597e09`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f0ef597e09)] - **debugger**: don't spawn child process in remote mode (Jackson Tian) [#14172](https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/14172)
* [[`0e392f3b68`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0e392f3b68)] - **net**: do not set V4MAPPED on FreeBSD (Julien Gilli) [#18204](https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/18204)
- [#1397](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1397) fix EPERM error with fs.access(W_OK) on Windows
- [#1621](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1621) build errors associated with the bundled libuv
- [#1512](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1512) should properly fix Windows termination errors
* **addons**: the `NODE_DEPRECATED` macro was causing problems when compiling addons with older compilers, this should now be resolved (Ben Noordhuis) [#1626](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1626)
* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1264).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
*`process.send()` is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see [#760](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/760) and fix in [#774](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/774)
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
* readline: split escapes are processed incorrectly, see [#1403](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1403)
* [[`bd42ba056a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/bd42ba056a)] - **async-wrap**: set flags using functions (Trevor Norris) [#1614](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1614)
* [[`4b2c786449`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4b2c786449)] - **async-wrap**: pass PROVIDER as first arg to init (Trevor Norris) [#1614](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1614)
* [[`6ccbe75384`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/6ccbe75384)] - **js_stream**: fix buffer index in DoWrite (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1635](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1635)
* [[`c43855c49c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c43855c49c)] - **src**: export the ParseEncoding function on Windows (Ivan Kozik) [#1596](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1596)
* While not a *breaking change* the 'smalloc' module has been deprecated in anticipation of it becoming unsupportable with a future upgrade to V8 4.4. See [#1451](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1451) for further information.
_Note: a new version of the 'url' module was reverted prior to release as it was decided the potential for breakage across the npm ecosystem was too great and that more compatibility work needed to be done before releasing it. See [#1602](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1602) for further information._
* **net**: `socket.connect()` now accepts a `'lookup'` option for a custom DNS resolution mechanism, defaults to `dns.lookup()` (Evan Lucas) [#1505](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1505)
* **npm**: Upgrade npm to 2.9.0. See the [v2.8.4](https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.8.4) and [v2.9.0](https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.9.0) release notes for details. Notable items:
- Add support for default author field to make `npm init -y` work without user-input (@othiym23) [npm/npm/d8eee6cf9d](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/d8eee6cf9d2ff7aca68dfaed2de76824a3e0d9af)
- Include local modules in `npm outdated` and `npm update` (@ArnaudRinquin) [npm/npm#7426](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/7426)
- The prefix used before the version number on `npm version` is now configurable via `tag-version-prefix` (@kkragenbrink) [npm/npm#8014](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/8014)
* **os**: `os.tmpdir()` is now cross-platform consistent and will no longer returns a path with a trailing slash on any platform (Christian Tellnes) [#747](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/747)
-`process.nextTick()` performance has been improved by between 2-42% across the benchmark suite, notable because this is heavily used across core (Brian White) [#1571](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1571)
- New `process.geteuid()`, `process.seteuid(id)`, `process.getegid()` and `process.setegid(id)` methods allow you to get and set effective UID and GID of the process (Evan Lucas) [#1536](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1536)
- REPL history can be persisted across sessions if the `NODE_REPL_HISTORY_FILE` environment variable is set to a user accessible file, `NODE_REPL_HISTORY_SIZE` can set the maximum history size and defaults to `1000` (Chris Dickinson) [#1513](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1513)
- The REPL can be placed in to one of three modes using the `NODE_REPL_MODE` environment variable: `sloppy`, `strict` or `magic` (default); the new `magic` mode will automatically run "strict mode only" statements in strict mode (Chris Dickinson) [#1513](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1513)
* **V8**: upgrade to 4.2.77.18, see the [ChangeLog](https://chromium.googlesource.com/v8/v8/+/refs/heads/4.2.77/ChangeLog) for full details. Notable items:
- Classes have moved out of staging; the `class` keyword is now usable in strict mode without flags
- Object literal enhancements have moved out of staging; shorthand method and property syntax is now usable (`{ method() { }, property }`)
- Rest parameters (`function(...args) {}`) are implemented in staging behind the `--harmony-rest-parameters` flag
- Computed property names (`{['foo'+'bar']:'bam'}`) are implemented in staging behind the `--harmony-computed-property-names` flag
- Unicode escapes (`'\u{xxxx}'`) are implemented in staging behind the `--harmony_unicode` flag and the `--harmony_unicode_regexps` flag for use in regular expressions
- Random process termination on Windows fixed (Fedor Indutny) [#1512](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1512) / [#1563](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1563)
- The delay-load hook introduced to fix issues with process naming (iojs.exe / node.exe) has been made opt-out for native add-ons. Native add-ons should include `'win_delay_load_hook': 'false'` in their binding.gyp to disable this feature if they experience problems . (Bert Belder) [#1433](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1433)
* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1264).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
*`process.send()` is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see [#760](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/760) and fix in [#774](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/774)
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
* readline: split escapes are processed incorrectly, see [#1403](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1403)
* [[`5404cbc745`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5404cbc745)] - **buffer**: fix copy() segfault with zero arguments (Trevor Norris) [#1520](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1520)
* [[`3d3083b91f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3d3083b91f)] - **buffer**: little improve for Buffer.concat method (Jackson Tian) [#1437](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1437)
* [[`e67542ae17`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e67542ae17)] - **build**: disable -Og when building with clang (Ben Noordhuis) [#1609](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1609)
* [[`78f4b038f8`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/78f4b038f8)] - **build**: turn on debug-safe optimizations with -Og (Ben Noordhuis) [#1569](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1569)
* [[`a5dcff827a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a5dcff827a)] - **build**: Use option groups in configure output (Johan Bergström) [#1533](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1533)
* [[`935c9d3fa7`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/935c9d3fa7)] - **deps**: make node-gyp work with io.js (cjihrig) [#990](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/990)
* [[`56e4255382`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/56e4255382)] - **deps**: upgrade npm to 2.9.0 (Forrest L Norvell) [#1573](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1573)
* [[`391cae3595`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/391cae3595)] - **doc**: Add Known issues to v1.7.0/1.7.1 CHANGELOG (Yosuke Furukawa) [#1473](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1473)
* [[`e55fdc47a7`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e55fdc47a7)] - **doc**: fix util.deprecate example (Nick Raienko) [#1535](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1535)
* [[`5178f93bc0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5178f93bc0)] - **doc**: Add Addon API (NAN) to working group list (Julian Duque) [#1523](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1523)
* [[`2e2fce0502`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2e2fce0502)] - **repl**: fix persistent history and env variable name (Roman Reiss) [#1593](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1593)
* [[`ea5195ccaf`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ea5195ccaf)] - **repl**: do not save history for non-terminal repl (Fedor Indutny) [#1575](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1575)
* [[`af9fe3bbc7`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/af9fe3bbc7)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **src**: bump NODE_MODULE_VERSION due to V8 API (Rod Vagg) [#1532](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1532)
* [[`2684c902c4`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2684c902c4)] - **tls**: zero SSL_CTX freelist for a singleUse socket (Fedor Indutny) [#1529](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1529)
* [[`2d241b3b82`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2d241b3b82)] - **tls**: destroy SSL once it is out of use (Fedor Indutny) [#1529](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1529)
* [[`a7d74633f2`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a7d74633f2)] - **tls_wrap**: use localhost if options.host is empty (Guilherme Souza) [#1493](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1493)
* [[`702997c1f0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/702997c1f0)] - ***Revert*** "**url**: significantly improve the performance of the url module" (Rod Vagg) [#1602](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1602)
* [[`0daed24883`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0daed24883)] - ***Revert*** "**url**: delete href cache on all setter code paths" (Rod Vagg) [#1602](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1602)
* [[`0f39ef4ca1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0f39ef4ca1)] - ***Revert*** "**url**: fix treatment of some values as non-empty" (Rod Vagg) [#1602](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1602)
* [[`66877216bd`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/66877216bd)] - **url**: fix treatment of some values as non-empty (Petka Antonov) [#1589](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1589)
* [[`dbdd81a91b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/dbdd81a91b)] - **url**: delete href cache on all setter code paths (Petka Antonov) [#1589](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1589)
* [[`3fd7fc429c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3fd7fc429c)] - **url**: significantly improve the performance of the url module (Petka Antonov) [#1561](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1561)
* [[`bf7ac08dd0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/bf7ac08dd0)] - **util**: add Map and Set inspection support (Christopher Monsanto) [#1471](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1471)
* [[`30e83d2e84`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/30e83d2e84)] - **win,node-gyp**: optionally allow node.exe/iojs.exe to be renamed (Bert Belder) [#1266](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1266)
* **npm**: Upgrade npm to 2.8.3. See the [release notes](https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.8.3) for details. Includes improved git support. Summary:
* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1264).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
*`process.send()` is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see [#760](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/760) and fix in [#774](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/774)
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
*`url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
* readline: split escapes are processed incorrectly, see [#1403](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1403)
* [[`92dfb794f9`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/92dfb794f9)] - **build**: enable ssl support on arm64 (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1389)
* [[`7de0dcde83`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7de0dcde83)] - **deps**: make node-gyp work with io.js (cjihrig) [#990](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/990)
* [[`4870213f9e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4870213f9e)] - **deps**: upgrade npm to 2.8.3 (Forrest L Norvell)
* [[`49bb7ded2c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/49bb7ded2c)] - **deps**: fix git case sensitivity issue in npm (Chris Dickinson) [#1456](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1456)
* [[`eb7a23595f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/eb7a23595f)] - **deps**: add x32 and arm64 support for opensslconf.h (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1389)
* [[`033a663127`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/033a663127)] - **deps**: replace all headers in openssl (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1389)
* [[`ae8831f240`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ae8831f240)] - **deps**: backport openssl patch of alt cert chains 1 (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1389)
* [[`71316c46d9`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/71316c46d9)] - **deps**: fix asm build error of openssl in x86_win32 (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/1389)
