Notable changes:
* build:
- 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.
- 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.
* 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.
- Update root certificates from the current list stored maintained
by Mozilla NSS. (Ben Noordhuis) #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
* 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.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4181
- 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)
Rod Vagg
9 years ago