This release marks the transition of Node.js v6 into Long Term Support
(LTS) with the codename 'Boron'. The v6 release line now moves in to
"Active LTS" and will remain so until April 2018. After that time it
will move in to "Maintenance" until end of life in April 2019.
This is also a security release. All Node.js users should consult the
security release summary at
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/october-2016-security-releases/
for details on patched vulnerabilities.
Notable changes:
* crypto: Don't automatically attempt to load an OpenSSL configuration
file, from the `OPENSSL_CONF` environment variable or from the
default location for the current platform. Always triggering a
configuration file load attempt may allow an attacker to load
compromised OpenSSL configuration into a Node.js process if they are
able to place a file in a default location. (Fedor Indutny, Rod Vagg)
* node: Introduce the `process.release.lts` property, set to `"Boron"`.
This value is `"Argon"` for v4 LTS releases and `undefined` for all
other releases. (Rod Vagg)
* V8: Backport fix for CVE-2016-5172, an arbitrary memory read.
The parser in V8 mishandled scopes, potentially allowing an attacker
to obtain sensitive information from arbitrary memory locations via
crafted JavaScript code. This vulnerability would require an
attacker to be able to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in a
Node.js process. (Rod Vagg)
* **v8_inspector**: Generate a UUID for each execution of the
inspector. This provides additional security to prevent unauthorized
clients from connecting to the Node.js process via the v8_inspector
port when running with `--inspect`. Since the debugging protocol
allows extensive access to the internals of a running process, and
the execution of arbitrary code, it is important to limit
connections to authorized tools only. Vulnerability originally
reported by Jann Horn. (Eugene Ostroukhov)
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node-private/pull/81
Change 'methods with throw an error' to 'methods will throw an error'.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9123
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Teddy Katz <teddy.katz@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Brian White <mscdex@mscdex.net>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9095
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Sections:
- Introduction
- Orginization of this Document
- Object Mode
- Buffering
- API for Stream Implementers
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9100
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9043
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
The documentation erroneously described the errno property as an alias
for the code property, but that is not the case in the implementation.
errno is the error code of the error as a number, and code is the error
code of the error as a string.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9007
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>
Adds documentation and explicit reasons on why
the GitHub web interface button is not used. This was
explained in the referenced issue by @TheAlphaNerd.
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/8893
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9044
Reviewed-By: Myles Borins <myles.borins@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Stephen Belanger <admin@stephenbelanger.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Some commit links in the changelogs were pointing to incorrect/missing
shas.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8122
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8486
Reviewed-By: Сковорода Никита Андреевич <chalkerx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Ilkka Myller <ilkka.myller@nodefield.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Use `[Symbol.hasInstance]()` to return `true` when asking for
`new Duplex() instanceof Writable`.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8834
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Calvin Metcalf <calvin.metcalf@gmail.com>
* Added traditional BUGS, AUTHORS and COPYRIGHT sections
* Fixed some minor issues with the IRC links
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8902
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/8942
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8943
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8940
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Yorkie Liu <yorkiefixer@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
This has been dragged through various long discussions and has been
elevated to the CTC multiple times.
As noted in
https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/7455#issuecomment-228961530,
while this API is still generally considered an anti-pattern, there are
still use-cases it is best suited for, such as checking if a git rebase
is in progress by looking if ".git/rebase-apply/rebasing" exists.
The general consensus is to undeprecate just the sync version, given
that the async version still has the "arguments order inconsistency"
problem.
The consensus at the two last CTC meetings this came up at was also
to undeprecate existsSync() but keep exists() deprecated.
See: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/8242 &
https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/8330
(Description write-up by @Fishrock123)
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1592
Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4217
Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/7455
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8364
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ilkka Myller <ilkka.myller@nodefield.com>
Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Сковорода Никита Андреевич <chalkerx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
Tangentially related to https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/7817
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8933
Reviewed-By: Brian White <mscdex@mscdex.net>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Claudio Rodriguez <cjrodr@yahoo.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
In the 'writing_tests' guide it is recommended to use common.PORT
instead of an arbitrary value, but the recommendation is to use
port 0 instead and the docs should reflect that.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8694
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Santiago Gimeno <santiago.gimeno@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ilkka Myller <ilkka.myller@nodefield.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Add example to show what running Node.js with `--inspect`
should look like.
Some IDEs do not show the link when running with `--inspect`.
This example hints to what the full output looks like.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8845
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Myles Borins <myles.borins@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>
In the onboarding document, add a note to ask the new Collaborator if
they are using two-factor authentication on their GitHub account. If
they are not, suggest that they enable it as their account will have
elevated privileges in many of the Node.js repositories.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8776
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Ilkka Myller <ilkka.myller@nodefield.com>
Reviewed-By: Сковорода Никита Андреевич <chalkerx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Johan Bergstrom <bugs@bergstroem.nu>
Reviewed-By: Robert Jefe Lindstaedt <robert.lindstaedt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Myles Borins <myles.borins@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Include information on how to force push to the contributor's own branch
so that pull requests show as merged in GitHub interface.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8774
Reviewed-By: Robert Jefe Lindstaedt <robert.lindstaedt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Johan Bergstrom <bugs@bergstroem.nu>
Reviewed-By: Ilkka Myller <ilkka.myller@nodefield.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
This is a security release. All Node.js users should consult the
security release summary at
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/september-2016-security-releases/
for details on patched vulnerabilities.
Notable Changes
Semver Minor:
* openssl:
- Upgrade to 1.0.2i, fixes a number of defects impacting Node.js:
CVE-2016-6304 ("OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory
growth", high severity), CVE-2016-2183, CVE-2016-2178, and CVE-2016-6306.
(Shigeki Ohtsu) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8714
- Upgrade to 1.0.2j, fixes a defect included in 1.0.2i resulting in
a crash when using CRLs, CVE-2016-7052.
(Shigeki Ohtsu) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8786
- Remove support for loading dynamic third-party engine modules.
An attacker may be able to hide malicious code to be inserted
into Node.js at runtime by masquerading as one of the dynamic
engine modules. Originally reported by Ahmed Zaki (Skype).
(Ben Noordhuis) https://github.com/nodejs/node-private/pull/73
* http: CVE-2016-5325 - Properly validate for allowable characters in
the `reason` argument in `ServerResponse#writeHead()`. Fixes a
possible response splitting attack vector. This introduces a new
case where `throw` may occur when configuring HTTP responses, users
should already be adopting try/catch here. Originally reported
independently by Evan Lucas and Romain Gaucher.
(Evan Lucas) https://github.com/nodejs/node-private/pull/60
Semver Patch:
* buffer: Zero-fill excess bytes in new `Buffer` objects created with
`Buffer.concat()` while providing a `totalLength` parameter that
exceeds the total length of the original `Buffer` objects being
concatenated.
(Сковорода Никита Андреевич) https://github.com/nodejs/node-private/pull/64
* src: Fix regression where passing an empty password and/or salt to
crypto.pbkdf2() would cause a fatal error
(Rich Trott) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8572
* tls: CVE-2016-7099 - Fix invalid wildcard certificate validation
check whereby a TLS server may be able to serve an invalid wildcard
certificate for its hostname due to improper validation of `*.` in the
wildcard string. Originally reported by Alexander Minozhenko and
James Bunton (Atlassian).
(Ben Noordhuis) https://github.com/nodejs/node-private/pull/75
* v8: Fix regression where a regex on a frozen object was broken
(Myles Borins) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8673
This is a security release. All Node.js users should consult the
security release summary at
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/september-2016-security-releases/
for details on patched vulnerabilities.
Notable Changes
Semver Minor:
* openssl:
- Upgrade to 1.0.2i, fixes a number of defects impacting Node.js:
CVE-2016-6304 ("OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory
growth", high severity), CVE-2016-2183, CVE-2016-6303,
CVE-2016-2178 and CVE-2016-6306.
(Shigeki Ohtsu) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8714
- Upgrade to 1.0.2j, fixes a defect included in 1.0.2i resulting in
a crash when using CRLs, CVE-2016-7052.
(Shigeki Ohtsu) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8786
- Remove support for loading dynamic third-party engine modules.
An attacker may be able to hide malicious code to be inserted into
Node.js at runtime by masquerading as one of the dynamic engine
modules. Originally reported by Ahmed Zaki (Skype).
(Ben Noordhuis) https://github.com/nodejs/node-private/pull/70
* http: CVE-2016-5325 - Properly validate for allowable characters in
the `reason` argument in `ServerResponse#writeHead()`. Fixes a
possible response splitting attack vector. This introduces a new
case where `throw` may occur when configuring HTTP responses, users
should already be adopting try/catch here. Originally reported
independently by Evan Lucas and Romain Gaucher.
(Evan Lucas) https://github.com/nodejs/node-private/pull/46
Semver Patch:
* buffer: Zero-fill excess bytes in new `Buffer` objects created with
`Buffer.concat()` while providing a `totalLength` parameter that
exceeds the total length of the original `Buffer` objects being
concatenated.
(Сковорода Никита Андреевич) https://github.com/nodejs/node-private/pull/65
* tls: CVE-2016-7099 - Fix invalid wildcard certificate validation
check whereby a TLS server may be able to serve an invalid wildcard
certificate for its hostname due to improper validation of `*.` in
the wildcard string. Originally reported by Alexander Minozhenko and
James Bunton (Atlassian).
(Ben Noordhuis) https://github.com/nodejs/node-private/pull/63
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node-private/pull/74
This is a security release. All Node.js users should consult the
security release summary at
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/september-2016-security-releases/
for details on patched vulnerabilities.
Notable changes:
* buffer: Zero-fill excess bytes in new `Buffer` objects created with
`Buffer.concat()` while providing a `totalLength` parameter that
exceeds the total length of the original `Buffer` objects being
concatenated. (Сковорода Никита Андреевич)
* http:
- CVE-2016-5325 - Properly validate for allowable characters in the
`reason` argument in `ServerResponse#writeHead()`. Fixes a
possible response splitting attack vector. This introduces a new
case where `throw` may occur when configuring HTTP responses,
users should already be adopting try/catch here. Originally
reported independently by Evan Lucas and Romain Gaucher.
(Evan Lucas)
- Invalid status codes can no longer be sent. Limited to 3 digit
numbers between 100 - 999. Lack of proper validation may also
serve as a potential response splitting attack vector. Backported
from v4.x. (Brian White)
* openssl:
- Upgrade to 1.0.1u, fixes a number of defects impacting Node.js:
CVE-2016-6304 ("OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory
growth", high severity), CVE-2016-2183, CVE-2016-6303,
CVE-2016-2178 and CVE-2016-6306.
- Remove support for loading dynamic third-party engine modules.
An attacker may be able to hide malicious code to be inserted
into Node.js at runtime by masquerading as one of the dynamic
engine modules. Originally reported by Ahmed Zaki (Skype).
(Ben Noordhuis, Rod Vagg)
* tls: CVE-2016-7099 - Fix invalid wildcard certificate validation
check whereby a TLS server may be able to serve an invalid wildcard
certificate for its hostname due to improper validation of `*.` in
the wildcard string. Originally reported by Alexander Minozhenko
and James Bunton (Atlassian). (Ben Noordhuis)
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node-private/pull/72
This is a security release. All Node.js users should consult the
security release summary at
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/september-2016-security-releases/
for details on patched vulnerabilities.
Notable changes:
* buffer: Zero-fill excess bytes in new `Buffer` objects created with
`Buffer.concat()` while providing a `totalLength` parameter that
exceeds the total length of the original `Buffer` objects being
concatenated. (Сковорода Никита Андреевич)
* http:
- CVE-2016-5325 - Properly validate for allowable characters in the
`reason` argument in `ServerResponse#writeHead()`. Fixes a
possible response splitting attack vector. This introduces a new
case where `throw` may occur when configuring HTTP responses,
users should already be adopting try/catch here. Originally
reported independently by Evan Lucas and Romain Gaucher.
(Evan Lucas)
- Invalid status codes can no longer be sent. Limited to 3 digit
numbers between 100 - 999. Lack of proper validation may also
serve as a potential response splitting attack vector. Backported
from v4.x. (Brian White)
* openssl: Upgrade to 1.0.1u, fixes a number of defects impacting
Node.js: CVE-2016-6304 ("OCSP Status Request extension unbounded
memory growth", high severity), CVE-2016-2183, CVE-2016-6303,
CVE-2016-2178 and CVE-2016-6306.
* tls: CVE-2016-7099 - Fix invalid wildcard certificate validation
check whereby a TLS server may be able to serve an invalid wildcard
certificate for its hostname due to improper validation of `*.` in
the wildcard string. Originally reported by Alexander Minozhenko
and James Bunton (Atlassian). (Ben Noordhuis)
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node-private/pull/71
this commit enhances the guidelines to creating a release blog post, specifically by adding
a commit format that must be adhered to when creating a pull request on the website repository
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/8629
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8631
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Myles Borins <myles.borins@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@keybase.io>
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
crypto.timingSafeEqual() has been added in v6.6.0 cf. #8304
This commit adds the metadata that will display
"Added in: v6.6.0" and that can later be checked on
https://nodejs.org/api/crypto.html#crypto_crypto_timingsafeequal_a_b
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8796
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Teddy Katz <teddy.katz@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
This renames doc/topics/the-event-loop-timers-and-nexttick.md to
doc/topics/event-loop-timers-and-nexttick.md, which looks like a
better name for that file and enables no-file-name-articles remark-lint
rule to prevent such names in the future.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8713
Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: Ilkka Myller <ilkka.myller@nodefield.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
This makes sure that the first heading in all markdown files is h1.
Only three files needed to be changed to conform:
1. BUILDING.md
2. CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
3. doc/onboarding-extras.md
Also, .remarkrc is updated to include the `first-heading-level: 1`
rule in order to catch similar issues in the future.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8716
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8741
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
This allows passing the socket connection timeout to http#request
such that it will be set before the socket is connecting
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8101
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/7580
Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ilkka Myller <ilkka.myller@nodefield.com>
New rules:
1. rule-style
2. strong-marker
3. no-shell-dollars
4. no-inline-padding
5. code-block-style
6. no-multiple-toplevel-headings
Fixes to the existing files applied.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8708
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Ilkka Myller <ilkka.myller@nodefield.com>
Reviewed-By: Johan Bergström <bugs@bergstroem.nu>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8423
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>
Make it clear that atime and mtime should be in seconds.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8651
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Teddy Katz <teddy.katz@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ilkka Myller <ilkka.myller@nodefield.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8562
Reviewed-By: Yorkie Liu <yorkiefixer@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Prince John Wesley <princejohnwesley@gmail.com>
Rod Vagg
Parambir Singh
Indrek Ardel
Benji Marinacci
marzelin
scott stern
John Vilk
Evan Lucas
Ilya Frolov
jessicaquynh
Nikolai Vavilov
Jeremiah Senkpiel
Timothy Gu
Brian White
Anna Henningsen
Alex Jordan
Christopn Noelke
Luigi Pinca
AnnaMag
Josh Gavant
ss22ever
Dan Fabulich
Bryan Bess
Niklas Ingholt
Franziska Hinkelmann
Rich Trott
fen
yorkie
Marc-Aurèle DARCHE
Сковорода Никита Андреевич
Rene Weber
Danny Guo
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