PR-URL: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1532
Notable Changes:
* crypto: significantly reduced memory usage for TLS (Fedor Indutny & Сковорода
Никита Андреевич) #1529
* net: socket.connect() now accepts a 'lookup' option for a custom DNS
resolution mechanism, defaults to dns.lookup() (Evan Lucas) #1505
* npm: Upgrade npm to 2.9.0. See the v2.8.4 and v2.9.0 release notes for
details. Notable items:
- Add support for default author field to make npm init -y work without
user-input (@othiym23) npm/npm/d8eee6cf9d
- Include local modules in npm outdated and npm update (@ArnaudRinquin)
npm/npm#7426
- The prefix used before the version number on npm version is now configurable
via tag-version-prefix (@kkragenbrink) npm/npm#8014
* os: os.tmpdir() is now cross-platform consistent and will no longer returns a
path with a trailling slash on any platform (Christian Tellnes) #747
* process:
- process.nextTick() performance has been improved by between 2-42% across the
benchmark suite, notable because this is heavily used across core (Brian White) #1548
- New process.geteuid(), process.seteuid(id), process.getegid() and
process.setegid(id) methods allow you to get and set effective UID and GID
of the process (Evan Lucas) #1536
* repl:
- REPL history can be persisted across sessions if the NODE_REPL_HISTORY_FILE
environment variable is set to a user accessible file,
NODE_REPL_HISTORY_SIZE can set the maximum history size and defaults to 1000
(Chris Dickinson) #1513
- The REPL can be placed in to one of three modes using the NODE_REPL_MODE
environment variable: sloppy, strict or magic (default); the new magic mode
will automatically run "strict mode only" statements in strict mode
(Chris Dickinson) #1513
* smalloc: the 'smalloc' module has been deprecated due to changes coming in V8
4.4 that will render it unusable
* util: add Promise, Map and Set inspection support (Christopher Monsanto) #1471
* V8: upgrade to 4.2.77.18, see the ChangeLog for full details. Notable items:
- Classes have moved out of staging; the class keyword is now usable in strict
mode without flags
- Object literal enhancements have moved out of staging; shorthand method and
property syntax is now usable ({ method() { }, property })
- Rest parameters (function(...args) {}) are implemented in staging behind the
--harmony-rest-parameters flag
- Computed property names ({['foo'+'bar']:'bam'}) are implemented in staging
behind the --harmony-computed-property-names flag
- Unicode escapes ('\u{xxxx}') are implemented in staging behind the
--harmony_unicode flag and the --harmony_unicode_regexps flag for use in
regular expressions
* Windows:
- Random process termination on Windows fixed (Fedor Indutny) #1512 / #1563
- The delay-load hook introduced to fix issues with process naming (iojs.exe /
node.exe) has been made opt-out for native add-ons. Native add-ons should
include 'win_delay_load_hook': 'false' in their binding.gyp to disable this
feature if they experience problems . (Bert Belder) #1433
* Governance:
- Rod Vagg (@rvagg) was added to the Technical Committee (TC)
- Jeremiah Senkpiel (@Fishrock123) was added to the Technical Committee (TC)
V8 4.2 introduces some minor C++ API changes that make it necessary for
many native add-ons to recompile in order to be usable in v2.0.0+
PR-URL: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1532
Notable Changes:
* build: revert vcbuild.bat changes
* changes inherited from v1.8.0:
* build: Support for building io.js as a static
library (Marat Abdullin) #1341
* npm: Upgrade npm to 2.8.3. (Forrest L Norvell) #1448
* deps: upgrade openssl to 1.0.2a (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1389
* src: allow multiple arguments to be passed to
process.nextTick (Trevor Norris) #1077
* module: the interaction of require('.') with NODE_PATH has been
restored and deprecated. This functionality will be removed at
a later point. (Roman Reiss) #1363
Notable Changes:
* build: Support for building io.js as a static
library (Marat Abdullin) #1341
* deps: upgrade openssl to 1.0.2a (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1389
* npm: Upgrade npm to 2.8.3. (Forrest L Norvell) #1448
* src: allow multiple arguments to be passed to
process.nextTick (Trevor Norris) #1077
* module: the interaction of require('.') with NODE_PATH has been
restored and deprecated. This functionality will be removed at
a later point. (Roman Reiss) #1363
Notable changes:
* C++ API: Fedor Indutny contributed a feature to V8 which has been
backported to the V8 bundled in io.js. SealHandleScope allows a C++
add-on author to seal a HandleScope to prevent further, unintended
allocations within it. Currently only enabled for debug builds of
io.js. This feature helped detect the leak in #1075 and is now
activated on the root HandleScope in io.js. (Fedor Indutny) #1395.
* ARM: This release includes significant work to improve the state of
ARM support for builds and tests. The io.js CI cluster's ARMv6,
ARMv7 and ARMv8 build servers are now all (mostly) reporting passing
builds and tests.
- ARMv8 64-bit (AARCH64) is now properly supported, including a
backported fix in libuv that was mistakenly detecting the
existence of `epoll_wait()`. (Ben Noordhuis) #1365.
- ARMv6: #1376 reported a problem with Math.exp() on ARMv6 (incl
Raspberry Pi). The culprit is erroneous codegen for ARMv6 when
using the "fast math" feature of V8. --nofast_math has been turned
on for all ARMv6 variants by default to avoid this, fast math can
be turned back on with --fast_math. (Ben Noordhuis) #1398.
- Tests: timeouts have been tuned specifically for slower platforms,
detected as ARMv6 and ARMv7. (Roman Reiss) #1366.
* npm: Upgrade npm to 2.7.6. See the release notes
(https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.7.6) for details.
Notable changes:
* npm: upgrade npm to 2.7.5. See the npm CHANGELOG.md for details.
Includes two important security fixes.
https://github.com/npm/npm/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v275-2015-03-26
* openssl: preliminary work has been done for an upcoming upgrade to
OpenSSL 1.0.2a #1325 (Shigeki Ohtsu). See #589 for additional details.
* timers: a minor memory leak when timers are unreferenced was fixed,
alongside some related timers issues #1330 (Fedor Indutny). This
appears to have fixed the remaining leak reported in #1075.
* android: it is now possible to compile io.js for Android and related
devices #1307 (Giovanny Andres Gongora Granada).
Notable changes:
* fs: corruption can be caused by fs.writeFileSync() and append-mode
fs.writeFile() and fs.writeFileSync() under certain circumstances,
reported in #1058, fixed in #1063 (Olov Lassus).
* iojs: an "internal modules" API has been introduced to allow core
code to share JavaScript modules internally only without having to
expose them as a public API, this feature is for core-only #848
(Vladimir Kurchatkin).
* timers: two minor problems with timers have been fixed:
- Timer#close() is now properly idempotent #1288 (Petka Antonov).
- setTimeout() will only run the callback once now after an
unref() during the callback #1231 (Roman Reiss).
* Windows: a "delay-load hook" has been added for compiled add-ons
on Windows that should alleviate some of the problems that Windows
users may be experiencing with add-ons in io.js #1251
(Bert Belder).
* V8: minor bug-fix upgrade for V8 to 4.1.0.27.
* npm: upgrade npm to 2.7.4. See npm CHANGELOG.md for details.
Notable Changes:
* Windows: The ongoing work in improving the state of Windows support
has resulted in full test suite passes once again. As noted in the
release notes for v1.4.2, CI system and configuration problems
prevented it from properly reporting problems with the Windows
tests, the problems with the CI and the codebase appear to have been
fully resolved.
* FreeBSD: A kernel bug impacting io.js/Node.js was discovered and a
patch has been introduced to prevent it causing problems for io.js
(Fedor Indutny) #1218.
* module: you can now require('.') instead of having to require('./'),
this is considered a bugfix (Michaël Zasso) #1185.
* v8: updated to 4.1.0.25 including patches for --max_old_space_size
values above 4096 and Solaris support, both of which are already
included in io.js.
Notable Changes:
* node: a new -r or --require command-line option can be used to
pre-load modules at start-up (Ali Ijaz Sheikh)
* querystring: parse() and stringify() are now faster (Brian White)
* http: the http.ClientRequest#flush() method has been deprecated and
replaced with http.ClientRequest#flushHeaders() to match the same
change now in Node.js v0.12 as per
https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/9048 (Yosuke Furukawa)
* net: allow server.listen() to accept a String option for port, e.g.
{ port: "1234" }, to match the same option being accepted in
net.connect() as of https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/9268 (Ben
Noordhuis)
* tls: further work on the reported memory leak although there appears
to be a minor leak remaining for the use-case in question, track
progress at https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/1075.
* v8: backport a fix for an integer overflow when --max_old_space_size
values above 4096 are used (Ben Noordhuis)
* platforms: the io.js CI system now reports passes on FreeBSD and
SmartOS (_Solaris_).
* npm: upgrade npm to 2.7.1. See the npm CHANGELOG.md for details.
https://github.com/npm/npm/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v271-2015-03-05
Notable changes:
* buffer: New `Buffer#indexOf()` method, modelled off `Array#indexOf()`.
Accepts a String, Buffer or a Number. Strings are interpreted as UTF8.
(Trevor Norris) https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/561
* fs: `options` object properties in `'fs'` methods no longer perform a
`hasOwnProperty()` check, thereby allowing options objects to have
prototype properties that apply. (Jonathan Ong)
https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/635
* tls: A likely TLS memory leak was reported by PayPal. Some of the recent
changes in stream_wrap appear to be to blame. The initial fix is in
https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1078, you can track the progress
toward closing the leak at
https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/1075 (Fedor Indutny).
* npm: Upgrade npm to 2.7.0. See npm CHANGELOG.md:
https://github.com/npm/npm/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v270-2015-02-26
for details including why this is a semver-minor when it could have
been semver-major.
* TC: Colin Ihrig (@cjihrig) resigned from the TC due to his desire to do
more code and fewer meetings.
Notable changes:
* stream: Fixed problems for platforms without `writev()` support,
particularly Windows. Changes introduced in 1.4.1, via
https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/926, broke some
functionality for these platforms, this has now been addressed.
https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1008 (Fedor Indutny)
* arm: We have the very beginnings of ARMv8 / ARM64 / AARCH64
support. An upgrade to OpenSSL 1.0.2 is one requirement for full
support. https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1028
(Ben Noordhuis)
* Add new collaborator: Julian Duque @julianduque
Notable changes:
* process / promises: An'unhandledRejection' event is now emitted on
process whenever a Promise is rejected and no error handler is
attached to the Promise within a turn of the event loop. A
'rejectionHandled' event is now emitted whenever a Promise was
rejected and an error handler was attached to it later than after an
event loop turn. See the process documentation for more detail.
https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/758 (Petka Antonov)
* streams: you can now use regular streams as an underlying socket for
tls.connect() https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/758 (Fedor Indutny)
* http: A new 'abort' event emitted when a http.ClientRequest is
aborted by the client. https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/945
(Evan Lucas)
* V8: Upgrade V8 to 4.1.0.21. Includes an embargoed fix, details
should be available at
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=430201
when embargo is lifted. A breaking ABI change has been held back
from this upgrade, possibly to be included when io.js merges V8 4.2.
See https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/952 for discussion.
* npm: Upgrade npm to 2.6.0. Includes features to support the new
registry and to prepare for npm@3. See npm CHANGELOG.md
https://github.com/npm/npm/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v260-2015-02-12
for details.
* libuv: Upgrade to 1.4.2. See libuv ChangeLog
https://github.com/libuv/libuv/blob/v1.x/ChangeLog for details of
fixes.
Notable changes:
* url: `url.resolve('/path/to/file', '.')` now returns `/path/to/`
with the trailing slash, `url.resolve('/', '.')` returns `/`.
https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/278 (Amir Saboury)
* tls: tls (and in turn https) now rely on a stronger default
cipher suite which excludes the RC4 cipher. If you still want to
use RC4, you have to specify your own ciphers suite.
https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/826 (Roman Reiss)
Notable changes:
* stream:
- Simpler stream construction, see
https://github.com/iojs/readable-stream/issues/102 for details.
This extends the streams base objects to make their constructors
accept default implementation methods, reducing the boilerplate
required to implement custom streams. An updated version of
readable-stream will eventually be released to match this change
in core. (@sonewman)
* dns:
- `lookup()` now supports an `'all'` boolean option, default to
`false` but when turned on will cause the method to return an
array of *all* resolved names for an address, see,
https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/744 (@silverwind)
* assert:
- Remove `prototype` property comparison in `deepEqual()`,
considered a bugfix, see https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/636
(@vkurchatkin)
- Introduce a `deepStrictEqual()` method to mirror `deepEqual()`
but performs strict equality checks on primitives, see
https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/639 (@vkurchatkin)
* **tracing**:
- Add LTTng (Linux Trace Toolkit Next Generation) when compiled
with the `--with-lttng` option. Trace points match those
available for DTrace and ETW.
https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/702 (@thekemkid)
* npm upgrade to 2.5.1
* **libuv** upgrade to 1.4.0
* Add new collaborators:
- Aleksey Smolenchuk (@lxe)
- Shigeki Ohtsu (@shigeki)
Notable changes:
* debug: fix v8 post-mortem debugging.
* crypto: publicEncrypt now supports password-protected private keys.
* crypto: ~30% speedup on hashing functions.
* errors
- better formatting via util.inspect
- more descriptive errors from fs. This necessitated a
NODE_MODULE_VERSION bump.
- more descriptive errors from http.setHeader
* dep updates:
- npm: upgrade to 2.4.1
- http-parser: rollback to 2.3.0
- libuv: update to 1.3.0
- v8: update to 4.1.0.14
* http.request: inherited properties on options are now respected
* add iterable interface to buffers.
* fs: fix fd leak on `fs.createReadStream`. See 497fd72 for details.
* installer: on Windows, emit WM_SETTINGCHANGE after install to make
other running processes aware of the PATH changes.
* Added new collaborators:
- Vladimir Kurchatkin (@vkurchatkin)
- Micleușanu Nicu (@micnic)
Notable changes:
* npm upgrade to 2.3.0 fixes Windows "uid is undefined" errors
* crypto.pseudoRandomBytes() is now an alias for crypto.randomBytes()
and will block if there is insufficient entropy to produce secure
values. See https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/e5e5980 for details.
* Patch for V8 to properly detect ARMv6; binaries now work again on
ARMv6 (Raspberry Pi etc.)
* Minor V8 upgrade from 4.1.0.7 to 4.1.0.12
* 'punycode' core module bumped from stability level 2-Unstable,
to 3-Stable
* Added new collaborators:
- Thorsten Lorenz (@thlorenz)
- Stephen Belanger (@qard)
- Jeremiah Senkpiel (@fishrock123)
- Evan Lucas (@evanlucas)
- Brendan Ashworth (@brendanashworth)
Notable changes
* V8 upgrade from 3.31 to 4.1, this is not a major upgrade, the version number "4.1" signifies tracking towards Chrome 41. The 3.31 branch is now not tracking towards a stable release.
* Re-enable Windows XP / 2003 support
* npm upgrade to 2.2.0
* Improved FreeBSD support
Rod Vagg
Chris Dickinson
Jeremiah Senkpiel
Vladimir Kurchatkin