Notable Changes:
* node: a new -r or --require command-line option can be used to
pre-load modules at start-up (Ali Ijaz Sheikh)
* querystring: parse() and stringify() are now faster (Brian White)
* http: the http.ClientRequest#flush() method has been deprecated and
replaced with http.ClientRequest#flushHeaders() to match the same
change now in Node.js v0.12 as per
https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/9048 (Yosuke Furukawa)
* net: allow server.listen() to accept a String option for port, e.g.
{ port: "1234" }, to match the same option being accepted in
net.connect() as of https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/9268 (Ben
Noordhuis)
* tls: further work on the reported memory leak although there appears
to be a minor leak remaining for the use-case in question, track
progress at https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/1075.
* v8: backport a fix for an integer overflow when --max_old_space_size
values above 4096 are used (Ben Noordhuis)
* platforms: the io.js CI system now reports passes on FreeBSD and
SmartOS (_Solaris_).
* npm: upgrade npm to 2.7.1. See the npm CHANGELOG.md for details.
https://github.com/npm/npm/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v271-2015-03-05
* **node**: a new `-r` or `--require` command-line option can be used to pre-load modules at start-up (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) [#881](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/881).
* **querystring**: `parse()` and `stringify()` are now faster (Brian White) [#847](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/847).
* **http**: the `http.ClientRequest#flush()` method has been deprecated and replaced with `http.ClientRequest#flushHeaders()` to match the same change now in Node.js v0.12 as per [joyent/node#9048](https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/9048) (Yosuke Furukawa) [#1156](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1156).
* **net**: allow `server.listen()` to accept a `String` option for `port`, e.g. `{ port: "1234" }`, to match the same option being accepted in `net.connect()` as of [joyent/node#9268](https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/9268) (Ben Noordhuis) [#1116](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1116).
* **tls**: further work on the reported memory leak although there appears to be a minor leak remaining for the use-case in question, track progress at [#1075](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/1075).
* **v8**: backport a fix for an integer overflow when `--max_old_space_size` values above `4096` are used (Ben Noordhuis) [#1166](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1166).
* **platforms**: the io.js CI system now reports passes on **FreeBSD** and **SmartOS** (_Solaris_).
* **npm**: upgrade npm to 2.7.1. See [npm CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/npm/npm/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v271-2015-03-05) for details. Summary:
* [`6823807`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/6823807bba) [#7121](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/7121) `npm install --save` for Git dependencies saves the URL passed in, instead of the temporary directory used to clone the remote repo. Fixes using Git dependencies when shrinkwwapping. In the process, rewrote the Git dependency caching code. Again. No more single-letter variable names, and a much clearer workflow. ([@othiym23](https://github.com/othiym23))
* [`abdd040`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/abdd040da9) read-package-json@1.3.2: Provide more helpful error messages when JSON parse errors are encountered by using a more forgiving JSON parser than JSON.parse. ([@smikes](https://github.com/smikes))
* [`4ef1412`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/4ef1412d00) [#7075](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/7075) If you try to tag a release as a valid semver range, `npm publish` and `npm tag` will error early instead of proceeding. ([@smikes](https://github.com/smikes))
### Known issues
* Possible remaining TLS-related memory leak(s), details at [#1075](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/1075).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal [#690](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/690)
* Not possible to build io.js as a static library [#686](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/686)
* `process.send()` is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see [#760](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/760) and fix in [#774](https://github.com/iojs/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/iojs/io.js/issues/894)
### Commits
* [[`a84ea66b35`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/a84ea66b35)] - **deps**: upgrade to openssl-1.0.1m (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1206](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1206)
* [[`3bc445f6c2`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/3bc445f6c2)] - **doc**: fix a broken collaborator github link (Aleksanteri Negru-Vode) [#1204](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1204)
* [[`8b2363d2fd`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/8b2363d2fd)] - **configure**: use gcc and g++ as CC and CXX defaults (Ben Noordhuis) [#1174](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1174)
* [[`65d0a8eca8`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/65d0a8eca8)] - **deps**: make node-gyp work with io.js (cjihrig) [#990](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/990)
* [[`7d0baf1741`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/7d0baf1741)] - **deps**: upgrade npm to 2.7.1 (Forrest L Norvell) [#1142](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1142)
* [[`d8c4a932c9`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/d8c4a932c9)] - **crypto**: add deprecated ValiCert CA for cross cert (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1135](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1135)
* [[`82f067e60b`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/82f067e60b)] - **test**: fix ext commands to be double quoted (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1122](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1122)
* [[`5ecdc0314d`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/5ecdc0314d)] - **test**: add test for reading a large file through a pipe (Santiago Gimeno) [#1074](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1074)
* [[`a6af709489`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/a6af709489)] - **fs**: use stat.st_size only to read regular files (Santiago Gimeno) [#1074](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1074)
* [[`0782c24993`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/0782c24993)] - **test**: fix readfile-zero-byte-liar test (Santiago Gimeno) [#1074](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1074)
* [[`e2c9040995`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/e2c9040995)] - **src**: do not leak handles on debug and exit (Fedor Indutny) [#1133](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1133)
* [[`8c4f0df464`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/8c4f0df464)] - **v8**: fix build on solaris platforms (Johan Bergström) [#1079](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1079)
* [[`41c9daa143`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/41c9daa143)] - **build**: fix incorrect set in vcbuild.bat (Bert Belder)
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