[Node.js Long Term Support Plan](https://github.com/nodejs/LTS) and
[Node.js Long Term Support Plan](https://github.com/nodejs/LTS) and
will be supported actively until April 2018 and maintained until April 2019.
will be supported actively until April 2018 and maintained until April 2019.
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## 2017-05-02, Version 6.10.2 'Boron' (LTS), @MylesBorins
### Notable Changes
* **module**:
- The [module loading global fallback](https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v4.x/docs/api/modules.html#modules_loading_from_the_global_folders) to the Node executable's directory now works correctly on Windows. (Richard Lau) [#9283](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9283)
* **src**:
- fix base64 decoding in rare edgecase (Nikolai Vavilov) [#11995](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11995)
* [[`e7e83f6f10`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e7e83f6f10)] - **build**: use $(RM) in Makefile for consistency (Gibson Fahnestock) [#12157](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/12157)
* [[`f4dd304c32`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f4dd304c32)] - **doc**: add table of contents to README.md (Jason Marsh) [#11635](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11635)
* [[`d007427c63`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d007427c63)] - **doc**: add logo to README (Roman Reiss) [#12148](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/12148)
* [[`9dda771c1f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9dda771c1f)] - **doc**: update and modernize examples in fs.ms (Vse Mozhet Byt) [#12035](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/12035)
* [[`81f561bed8`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/81f561bed8)] - **doc**: stdout/err/in are all Duplex streams (Sebastian Van Sande) [#11194](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11194)
* [[`c10a4a2a7a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c10a4a2a7a)] - **doc**: add note that vm module is not a security mechanism (Ruslan Bekenev) [#11557](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11557)
* [[`b8e3a5f109`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b8e3a5f109)] - **doc**: fix a typo in api/process.md (Gaara) [#11780](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11780)
* [[`8a521fe0dc`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8a521fe0dc)] - **doc**: var -\> let / const in events.md (Vse Mozhet Byt) [#11810](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11810)
* [[`82d2f13680`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/82d2f13680)] - **doc**: update to current V8 versions (Franziska Hinkelmann) [#11787](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11787)
* [[`be537d0062`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/be537d0062)] - **doc**: package main can be directory with an index (Bradley Farias) [#11581](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11581)
* [[`0e13887421`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0e13887421)] - **doc**: reduce font size on smaller screens (Gibson Fahnestock) [#11695](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11695)
* [[`0acebb985f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0acebb985f)] - **doc**: fix occurences of "the the" (Jeroen Mandersloot) [#11711](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11711)
* [[`8de856b191`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8de856b191)] - **doc**: fix process links to console.log/error (Sam Roberts) [#11718](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11718)
* [[`12760339dc`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/12760339dc)] - **doc**: add Franziska Hinkelmann to the CTC (Rod Vagg) [#11488](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11488)
* [[`0aab0503be`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0aab0503be)] - **doc**: add link to references in net.Socket (Joyee Cheung) [#11625](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11625)
* [[`109fd72f11`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/109fd72f11)] - **doc**: use common malformed instead of misformatted (James Sumners) [#11518](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11518)
* [[`c9b302b96e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c9b302b96e)] - **doc**: make os api doc more consistent (Evan Lucas) [#10994](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10994)
* [[`cbfc3fcd9d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/cbfc3fcd9d)] - **doc**: use correct tls certificate property name (Sam Roberts) [#10389](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10389)
* [[`c138ba3684`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c138ba3684)] - **doc**: new TLSSocket has no secure context options (Sam Roberts) [#10545](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10545)
* [[`e3105cf50a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e3105cf50a)] - **meta**: move WORKING_GROUPS.md to CTC repo (James M Snell) [#11555](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11555)
* [[`f0288f3969`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f0288f3969)] - **meta**: remove out of date ROADMAP.md file (James M Snell) [#11556](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11556)
* [[`500d17b071`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/500d17b071)] - **module**: fix loading from global folders on Windows (Richard Lau) [#9283](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9283)
* [[`1434e7ff11`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1434e7ff11)] - **src**: ensure that fd 0-2 are valid on windows (Bartosz Sosnowski) [#11863](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11863)
* [[`c33933eb6d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c33933eb6d)] - **src, buffer**: do not segfault on out-of-range index (Timothy Gu) [#11927](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11927)
* [[`8c922736d0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8c922736d0)] - **test**: add a second argument to assert.throws() (dave-k) [#12139](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/12139)
* [[`a30ae72350`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a30ae72350)] - **test**: skip irrelevant test on Windows (Rich Trott) [#12261](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/12261)
* [[`49ee30b8ac`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/49ee30b8ac)] - **test**: more robust check for location of `node.exe` (Refael Ackermann) [#12120](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/12120)
* [[`f23377c82d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f23377c82d)] - **test**: test validity of prefix in mkdtempSync (Luca Maraschi) [#12009](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/12009)
* [[`c65de59f52`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c65de59f52)] - **test**: add regex for expected error message (John F. Mercer) [#12011](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/12011)
* [[`fcc19e1637`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/fcc19e1637)] - **test**: add second argument to assert.throws() (Rj Bernaldo) [#12016](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/12016)
* [[`9dd918b0ab`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9dd918b0ab)] - **test**: fix assertion in vm test (AnnaMag) [#11862](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11862)
* [[`4d916da0d7`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4d916da0d7)] - **test**: fail when child dies in fork-net (Joyee Cheung) [#11684](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11684)
* [[`67b6d7d123`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/67b6d7d123)] - **test**: add test for loading from global folders (Richard Lau) [#9283](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9283)
* [[`5a93eab30d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5a93eab30d)] - **test**: increase coverage of console (DavidCai) [#11653](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11653)
* [[`4befdd1c13`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4befdd1c13)] - **test**: limit lint rule disabling in message test (Rich Trott) [#11724](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11724)
* [[`91b8da67a5`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/91b8da67a5)] - **test**: skip the test with proper TAP message (Sakthipriyan Vairamani (thefourtheye)) [#11584](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11584)
* [[`a43aa0eaa9`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a43aa0eaa9)] - **test**: changed test1 of test-vm-timeout.js (maurice_hayward) [#11590](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11590)
* [[`db61c952de`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/db61c952de)] - **test**: use eslint to fix var-\>const/let (Gibson Fahnestock) [#10685](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10685)
* [[`632aee186d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/632aee186d)] - **timers**: fix not to close reused timer handle (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#11646](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11646)
* [[`39f7aaa290`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/39f7aaa290)] - **timers**: unlock the timers API (Rich Trott) [#11580](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11580)
* [[`d0868ff36c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d0868ff36c)] - **tls**: fix segfault on destroy after partial read (Ben Noordhuis) [#11898](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11898)
* [[`1baee1829b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1baee1829b)] - **tls**: keep track of stream that is closed (jBarz) [#11776](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11776)
* [[`3858861463`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3858861463)] - **tools**: add links to the stability index reference (Michael Cox) [#11664](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11664)
* [[`3e6d9922b9`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3e6d9922b9)] - **tools**: remove NODE_PATH from environment for tests (Rich Trott) [#11612](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11612)
* [[`de63698066`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/de63698066)] - **tools, test**: require const/let in test (Gibson Fahnestock) [#10685](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10685)
* [[`63449972d1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/63449972d1)] - **url**: use `hasIntl` instead of `try-catch` (Daijiro Wachi) [#11571](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11571)
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## 2017-04-04, Version 6.10.2 'Boron' (LTS), @MylesBorins
## 2017-04-04, Version 6.10.2 'Boron' (LTS), @MylesBorins