version: 0.6.1
title: Node v0.6.1
author: ryandahl
date: Fri Nov 11 2011 15:34:15 GMT-0800 (PST)
status: publish
category: release
slug: node-v0-6-1

2011.11.11, Version 0.6.1 (stable)
<ul><li>doc improvements (Eric Lovett, Ben Noordhuis, Scott Anderson, Yoji SHIDARA)</li>
<li>crypto: make thread-safe (Ben Noordhuis)</li>
<li>fix process.kill error object</li>
<li>debugger: correctly handle source with multi-byte characters (Shigeki Ohtsu)</li>
<li>make stdout and stderr non-destroyable (Igor Zinkovsky)</li>
<li>fs: don't close uninitialized fs.watch handle (Ben Noordhuis)</li>
<li>#2026 fix man page install on BSDs (Ben Noordhuis)</li>
<li>#2040 fix unrecognized errno assert in uv_err_name</li>
<li>#2043 fs: mkdir() should call callback if mode is omitted</li>
<li>#2045 fs: fix fs.realpath on windows to return on error (Benjamin Pasero)</li>
<li>#2047 minor cluster improvements</li>
<li>#2052 readline get window columns correctly</li>
<li>Upgrade V8 to 3.6.6.7</li></ul>


Source Code: <a href="http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.6.1/node-v0.6.1.tar.gz">http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.6.1/node-v0.6.1.tar.gz</a>

Windows Installer: <a href="http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.6.1/node-v0.6.1.msi">http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.6.1/node-v0.6.1.msi</a>

Macintosh Installer: <a href="http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.6.1/node-v0.6.1.pkg">http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.6.1/node-v0.6.1.pkg</a>

Website: <a href="http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.6.1/">http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.6.1/</a>

Documentation: <a href="http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.6.1/api/">http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.6.1/api/</a>