This brings in the '%PYTHON%' revert, and restores
the correct NODE_MODULE_VERSION.
PR-URL: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1482
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
* **NOTICE**: Skipped v1.8.0 due to problems with release tooling.
See [#1436](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/1436) for details.
* **build**: Support for building io.js as a static library (Marat Abdullin) [#1341](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1341)
* **deps**: Upgrade openssl to 1.0.2a (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)
* Users should see performance improvements when using the crypto API.
See [here](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/wiki/Crypto-Performance-Notes-for-OpenSSL-1.0.2a-on-iojs-v1.8.0)
for details.
* **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:
* [[`92dfb794f9`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/92dfb794f9)] - **build**: enable ssl support on arm64 (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)
* [[`7de0dcde83`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/7de0dcde83)] - **deps**: make node-gyp work with io.js (cjihrig) [#990](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/990)
* [[`4870213f9e`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/4870213f9e)] - **deps**: upgrade npm to 2.8.3 (Forrest L Norvell)
* [[`4870213f9e`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/4870213f9e)] - **deps**: upgrade npm to 2.8.3 (Forrest L Norvell)
* [[`49bb7ded2c`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/49bb7ded2c)] - **deps**: fix git case sensitivity issue in npm (Chris Dickinson) [#1456](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1456)