2016-01-12, Version 5.4.1 (Stable)

Notable Changes:

* Minor performance improvements:
  - module: move unnecessary work for early return (Andres Suarez) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3579
* Various bug fixes
* Various doc fixes
* Various test improvements

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4626
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>

CHANGELOG.md

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 # Node.js ChangeLog
 
+## 2016-01-12, Version 5.4.1 (Stable), @TheAlphaNerd
+
+### Notable Changes
+
+* Minor performance improvements:
+  - **module**: move unnecessary work for early return (Andres Suarez) [#3579](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3579)
+* Various bug fixes
+* Various doc fixes
+* Various test improvements
+
+### 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
+
+* [[`ff539c5bb5`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ff539c5bb5)] - **cluster**: ignore queryServer msgs on disconnection (Santiago Gimeno) [#4465](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4465)
+* [[`00148b3de1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/00148b3de1)] - **deps**: backport 066747e from upstream V8 (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) [#4625](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4625)
+* [[`3912b5cbda`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3912b5cbda)] - **doc**: adds usage of readline line-by-line parsing (Robert Jefe Lindstaedt) [#4609](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4609)
+* [[`102fb7d3a1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/102fb7d3a1)] - **doc**: remove "above" and "below" references (Richard Sun) [#4499](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4499)
+* [[`df87176ae0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/df87176ae0)] - **doc**: update stylesheet to match frontpage (Roman Reiss) [#4621](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4621)
+* [[`ede98d1f98`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ede98d1f98)] - **doc**: stronger suggestion for userland assert (Wyatt Preul) [#4535](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4535)
+* [[`fdfc72c977`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/fdfc72c977)] - **doc**: label http.IncomingMessage as a Class (Sequoia McDowell) [#4589](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4589)
+* [[`b181e26975`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b181e26975)] - **doc**: document http's server.listen return value (Sequoia McDowell) [#4590](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4590)
+* [[`97aaeb8519`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/97aaeb8519)] - **doc**: fix description about the latest-codename (Minwoo Jung) [#4583](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4583)
+* [[`0126615d1e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0126615d1e)] - **doc**: add Evan Lucas to Release Team (Evan Lucas) [#4579](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4579)
+* [[`ec73c69412`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ec73c69412)] - **doc**: add Myles Borins to Release Team (Myles Borins) [#4578](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4578)
+* [[`e703c9a4e2`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e703c9a4e2)] - **doc**: bring releases.md up to date (cjihrig) [#4540](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4540)
+* [[`ac1108d5e7`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ac1108d5e7)] - **doc**: add missing backtick for readline (Brian White) [#4549](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4549)
+* [[`09bc0c6a05`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/09bc0c6a05)] - **doc**: improvements to crypto.markdown copy (James M Snell) [#4435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4435)
+* [[`787c5d96bd`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/787c5d96bd)] - **http**: remove variable redeclaration (Rich Trott) [#4612](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4612)
+* [[`145b66820f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/145b66820f)] - **module**: move unnecessary work for early return (Andres Suarez) [#3579](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3579)
+* [[`ffb7deb443`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ffb7deb443)] - **net**: remove hot path comment from connect (Evan Lucas) [#4648](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4648)
+* [[`799aa74d90`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/799aa74d90)] - **net**: fix dns lookup for android (Josh Dague) [#4580](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4580)
+* [[`9accebe087`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9accebe087)] - **net, doc**: fix line wrapping lint in net.js (James M Snell) [#4588](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4588)
+* [[`37a546b490`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/37a546b490)] - **src**: remove redeclarations of variables (Rich Trott) [#4605](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4605)
+* [[`b515ccc2a1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b515ccc2a1)] - **stream**: remove useless if test in transform (zoubin) [#4617](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4617)
+* [[`ea6e26d904`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ea6e26d904)] - **test**: remove duplicate fork module import (Rich Trott) [#4634](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4634)
+* [[`b14b2aec5e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b14b2aec5e)] - **test**: require common module only once (Rich Trott) [#4611](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4611)
+* [[`f28a640505`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f28a640505)] - **test**: only include http module once (Rich Trott) [#4606](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4606)
+* [[`6f9a96f497`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/6f9a96f497)] - **test**: fix flaky unrefed timers test (Rich Trott) [#4599](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4599)
+* [[`b70eec8f7b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b70eec8f7b)] - **tls_legacy**: do not read on OpenSSL's stack (Fedor Indutny) [#4624](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4624)
+
 ## 2016-01-06, Version 5.4.0 (Stable), @Fishrock123
 
 ### Notable changes