* **buffer**: Fixed a couple large memory leaks (Ben Noordhuis) [#2352](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2352).
* **crypto**:
- Fixed a couple of minor memory leaks (Karl Skomski) [#2375](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2375).
- Signing now checks for OpenSSL errors (P.S.V.R) [#2342](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2342). **Note that this may expose previously hidden errors in user code.**
* **intl**: Intl support using small-icu is now enabled by default in builds (Steven R. Loomis) [#2264](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2264).
- [`String#normalize()`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/normalize) can now be used for unicode normalization.
- The [`Intl`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Intl) object and various `String` and `Number` methods are present, but only support the English locale.
- For support of all locales, node must be built with [full-icu](https://github.com/nodejs/node#build-with-full-icu-support-all-locales-supported-by-icu).
* **tls**: Fixed tls throughput being much lower after an incorrect merge (Fedor Indutny) [#2381](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2381).
* **tools**: The v8 tick processor now comes bundled with node (Matt Loring) [#2090](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2090).
- This can be used by producing performance profiling output by running node with `--perf`, then running your appropriate platform's script on the output as found in [tools/v8-prof](https://github.com/nodejs/node/tree/master/tools/v8-prof).
* **util**: `util.inspect(obj)` now prints the constructor name of the object if there is one (Christopher Monsanto) [#1935](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/1935).
### Known issues
See https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/labels/confirmed-bug for complete and current list of known issues.
* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/issues/1264).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/issues/690)
* `process.send()` is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see [#760](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/issues/760).
* 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/io.js/issues/894)
* `url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/issues/1435).
### Commits
* [[`3645dc62ed`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3645dc62ed)] - **build**: work around VS2015 issue in ICU <56(StevenR.Loomis) [#2283](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2283)
* [[`1f12e03266`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1f12e03266)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **build**: intl: converge from joyent/node (Steven R. Loomis) [#2264](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2264)
* [[`071640abdd`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/071640abdd)] - **build**: Intl: bump ICU4C from 54 to 55 (Steven R. Loomis) [#2293](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2293)
* [[`07a88b0c8b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/07a88b0c8b)] - **build**: update manifest to include Windows 10 (Lucien Greathouse) [#2332](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/2332)
* [[`0bb099f444`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0bb099f444)] - **build**: expand ~ in install prefix early (Ben Noordhuis) [#2307](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/2307)
* [[`7fe6dd8f5d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7fe6dd8f5d)] - **crypto**: check for OpenSSL errors when signing (P.S.V.R) [#2342](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2342)
* [[`e76822f454`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e76822f454)] - **doc**: multiple documentation updates cherry picked from v0.12 (James M Snell) [#2302](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/2302)
* [[`1738c9680b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1738c9680b)] - **net**: ensure Socket reported address is current (Ryan Graham) [#2095](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/2095)
* [[`844d3f0e3e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/844d3f0e3e)] - **path**: use '===' instead of '==' for comparison (Sam Stites) [#2388](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2388)
* [[`7118b8a882`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7118b8a882)] - **path**: remove dead code in favor of unit tests (Nathan Woltman) [#2282](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/2282)
* [[`d1307b2995`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d1307b2995)] - **src**: don't use fopen() in require() fast path (Ben Noordhuis) [#2377](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2377)
* [[`a3160c0a33`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a3160c0a33)] - **test**: correct spelling of 'childProcess' (muddletoes) [#2389](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2389)
* [[`e51f90d747`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e51f90d747)] - **test**: option to run a subset of tests (João Reis) [#2260](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/2260)
* [[`fb0f5d733f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/fb0f5d733f)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **tools**: run the tick processor without building v8 (Matt Loring) [#2090](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2090)