* **npm**: Upgraded to v2.12.1, release notes can be found in <https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.12.0> and <https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.12.1> (Kat Marchán) [#2112](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/2112).
### 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
* [[`0d15161c24`](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/commit/0d15161c24)] - **benchmark**: Add some path benchmarks for #1778 (Nathan Woltman) [#1778](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/1778)
* [[`b18c841ec1`](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/commit/b18c841ec1)] - **deps**: make node-gyp work with io.js (cjihrig) [iojs/io.js#990](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/990)
* [[`fb05c8e27d`](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/commit/fb05c8e27d)] - ***Revert*** "**test**: add test for missing `close`/`finish` event" (Fedor Indutny)
* [[`9436a860cb`](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/commit/9436a860cb)] - **test**: add test for missing `close`/`finish` event (Mark Plomer) [iojs/io.js#1373](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1373)
* [[`ee3ce2ed88`](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/commit/ee3ce2ed88)] - **tools**: install gdbinit from v8 to $PREFIX/share (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) [#2123](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/2123)