PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/1777
Notable Changes:
* 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.
* 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.
* 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#1768#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.
* **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/io.js/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/io.js/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/io.js/pull/1699) [#1768](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/1768) [#1779](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/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/io.js/pull/1749).
### 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) and fix in [#774](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/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/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).
* [[`3c44100558`](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/commit/3c44100558)] - **core**: set PROVIDER type as Persistent class id (Trevor Norris) [#1730](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/1730)
* [[`c1de6d249e`](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/commit/c1de6d249e)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **core**: implement runtime flag to trace sync io (Trevor Norris) [#1707](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/1707)
* [[`9e7099fa4e`](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/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/io.js/commit/515afc6367)] - **doc**: path is ignored in url.format (Maurice Butler) [#1753](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/1753)
* [[`f0a8bc3f84`](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/commit/f0a8bc3f84)] - **doc**: fix spelling in CHANGELOG (Felipe Batista)
* [[`86dd244d9b`](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/commit/86dd244d9b)] - **doc**: add notes to child_process.fork() and .exec() (Rich Trott) [#1718](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/1718)
* [[`066274794c`](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/commit/066274794c)] - **doc**: update links from iojs/io.js to nodejs/io.js (Frederic Hemberger) [#1715](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/1715)
* [[`cb381fe3e0`](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/commit/cb381fe3e0)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **net**: return this from setNoDelay and setKeepAlive (Roman Reiss) [#1779](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/1779)
* [[`39dde3222e`](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/commit/39dde3222e)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **net,dgram**: return this from ref and unref methods (Roman Reiss) [#1768](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/1768)
* [[`80342f649d`](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/commit/80342f649d)] - **tls**: use `.destroy(err)` instead of destroy+emit (Fedor Indutny) [#1711](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/1711)
* [[`9b35be5810`](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/commit/9b35be5810)] - **tls**: make server not use DHE in less than 1024bits (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1739](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/1739)
* [[`214d02040e`](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/commit/214d02040e)] - **util**: speed up common case of formatting string (Сковорода Никита Андреевич) [#1749](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/1749)
Rod Vagg
10 years ago