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Node.js v7 ChangeLog

Current
7.2.0
7.1.0
7.0.0

2016-11-22, Version 7.2.0 (Current), @Fishrock123

This is a security release impacting Windows 10 users.

Notable changes

  • crypto: The Decipher methods setAuthTag() and setAAD now return this. (Kirill Fomichev) #9398
  • dns: Implemented {ttl: true} for resolve4() and resolve6(). (Ben Noordhuis) #9296 & #9296
  • libuv: Upgrade to v1.10.1 (cjihrig) #9647
    • Fixed a potential buffer overflow when writing data to console on Windows 10. (CVE-2016-9551)
  • process: Added a new external property to the data returned by memoryUsage(). (Fedor Indutny) #9587
  • tls: Fixed a memory leak when writes were queued on TLS connection that was destroyed during handshake. (Fedor Indutny) #9626
  • V8 (dep): Upgrade to v5.4.500.43 (Michaël Zasso) #9697
  • v8: The data returned by getHeapStatistics() now includes three new fields: malloced_memory, peak_malloced_memory, and does_zap_garbage. (Gareth Ellis) #8610

Commits

  • [819a38df96] - benchmark: split timers benchmark and refactor (Rich Trott) #9497
  • [0083bf2233] - build: default to ppc64 on AIX (Gibson Fahnestock) #9645
  • [3efb43c8ba] - build: Add option to compile for coverage reports (Wayne Andrews) #9463
  • [af74db3961] - crypto: use SSL_get_servername. (Adam Langley) #9347
  • [bcdbf22f0d] - crypto: fix handling of root_cert_store. (Adam Langley) #9409
  • [3f45cc19b0] - crypto: Use reference count to manage cert_store (Adam Majer) #9409
  • [08a7e7b009] - (SEMVER-MINOR) crypto: return this in setAuthTag/setAAD (Kirill Fomichev) #9398
  • [786631c7b4] - deps: upgrade libuv to 1.10.1 (cjihrig) #9647
  • [1520afd336] - deps: update V8 to 5.4.500.43 (Michaël Zasso) #9697
  • [33bcd6fec8] - deps: update V8 to 5.4.500.41 (Michaël Zasso) #9412
  • [0a3e5cc57a] - (SEMVER-MINOR) dns: implement {ttl: true} for dns.resolve6() (Ben Noordhuis) #9296
  • [1bd79368cd] - (SEMVER-MINOR) dns: implement {ttl: true} for dns.resolve4() (Ben Noordhuis) #9296
  • [fa98eec410] - doc: fix typo in assert code example (Vse Mozhet Byt) #9704
  • [409851427a] - doc: fix typo in doc/tls.md (Syuhei Kobayashi) #9566
  • [ebc9c4ba97] - doc: add missing link in changelog (Evan Lucas) #9540
  • [bbd5853236] - doc: v6 is now LTS rather than Current (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #9182
  • [8030994554] - doc: fix some table problems in changelog.md (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #9183
  • [b070df8932] - doc: fix typo in BUILDING.md (monkick) #9569
  • [39f04829d6] - doc: remove backtick escaping for manpage refs (Anna Henningsen) #9632
  • [159799aa1d] - doc: improve description of urlObject.query (Rahat Ahmed) #9625
  • [d62376c8d6] - doc: small improvements in readline code examples (Vse Mozhet Byt) #9628
  • [69ffe0cf8c] - doc: child_process .stdio accepts a String type (Kenneth Skovhus) #9637
  • [c99fb1e0d2] - doc: remove invalid padding from privateEncrypt (JungMinu) #9611
  • [b258a70a40] - doc: add return types and props types to OS module (imatvieiev) #9648
  • [425a8646e2] - doc: add italoacasas to collaborators (Italo A. Casas) #9677
  • [8bf42b4ec4] - doc: strip trailing whitespace (Sam Roberts) #9620
  • [16819d29b0] - doc: fix "either as either" typo (Sam Roberts) #9665
  • [c18ca1593e] - doc: fix tls "the the" typo (Sam Roberts) #9665
  • [f43e47aab2] - doc: describe when a tls server emits 'close' (Sam Roberts) #9665
  • [a086566be6] - doc: fix an SNI mistyped as SNS (Sam Roberts) #9665
  • [4ddc23828d] - doc: move TSC and CTC meeting minutes out of core repo (James M Snell) #9503
  • [474d4aa2e3] - doc: fix typo in doc/repl.md line: 6 (Mitsuo Utano) #9582
  • [7af680e6fe] - doc: make comment indentation consistent (Daniel Bevenius) #9518
  • [d964eacd6a] - doc: remove redundant warning information (Brian White) #9590
  • [25a6f88d98] - doc: improve process.emitWarning() example (Brian White) #9590
  • [d5fa1d5307] - doc: clarify eventType in fs.watch (Nikolai Vavilov) #9318
  • [3014dfd254] - doc: wrap long lines in http.request (Timothy Gu) #9584
  • [89216a45b7] - doc: fix type of http.request's agent option (Timothy Gu) #9584
  • [bff4e88f0b] - doc: fix a typo in the assert.md (Vse Mozhet Byt) #9598
  • [d83cb48b3a] - doc: fix typo e.g., => e.g. (Daijiro Yamada) #9563
  • [d532a57a4b] - doc: consistent 'Returns:' (Roman Reiss) #9554
  • [92bd19e0bd] - doc: simplify process.memoryUsage() example code (Thomas Watson Steen) #9560
  • [4ae4e00ae9] - doc: fix typo about cluster doc, (eg. -> e.g.) (YutamaKotaro) #9568
  • [64dec14502] - doc: fix e.g., to e.g. in doc/http.md (ikasumi_wt) #9564
  • [7c9e8cbd76] - doc: fix the index order in pseudocode of modules (kohta ito) #9562
  • [d09a9f4d27] - doc: remove Roadmap Working Group (William Kapke) #9545
  • [77aded3ba1] - doc: add process api data types to documentation (imatvieiev) #9505
  • [7488b0041f] - doc: added types to path docs (imatvieiev) #9514
  • [549b6f23db] - doc: fix fs constants link (Timothy) #9508
  • [31a34d7992] - doc: fix minor style issue in code examples (Daniel Bevenius) #9482
  • [a412b9fa9a] - doc: grammar and structure revisions of wg doc (Ryan Lewis) #9495
  • [92f163e465] - doc: clarify the exit code part of writing_tests (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #9502
  • [62478eb3d9] - doc: fix link to Event Loop page (timathon) #9527
  • [c07f648662] - doc: Fix inaccuracy in https.request docs (Andreas Lind) #9453
  • [6f513e0b46] - doc: add npm link to README (Oscar Morrison) #7894
  • [f0d40e8be3] - doc: fix link to cli.md in vm.md (Daniel Bevenius) #9481
  • [8a9c45a4a9] - fs: Fix default params for fs.write(Sync) (Andreas Lind) #7856
  • [9a0bcfc452] - fs: export realpathCacheKey from internal/fs (Anna Henningsen) #8862
  • [6b01bfa9d6] - gitignore: ignore all tap files (Johan Bergström) #9262
  • [23584e4ec5] - gtest: output tap comments as yamlish (Johan Bergström) #9262
  • [f5442ece33] - lib,test: remove unneeded escaping of / (Rich Trott) #9485
  • [34c8b0b411] - module: check -e flag in debug break setup (Kelvin Jin) #8876
  • [163397a206] - (SEMVER-MINOR) process: add process.memoryUsage.external (Fedor Indutny) #9587
  • [15af912ab5] - src: fix memory leak introduced in 34febfbf4 (Ben Noordhuis) #9604
  • [30475beef6] - src: use ABORT() macro instead of abort() (Evan Lucas) #9613
  • [c4f33b48f7] - (SEMVER-MINOR) src: extend HeapStatistics with new fields (Gareth Ellis) #8610
  • [4517276c74] - src: fix method name, output format (Josh Gavant) #9627
  • [7420ce8b7e] - src: squelch unused function warnings in util.h (solebox) #9115
  • [a83a286631] - test: add test for broken child process stdio (cjihrig) #9528
  • [7c1a2f56fc] - test: add new.target add-on regression test (Ben Noordhuis) #9689
  • [a220170861] - test: refactor test-async-wrap-* (Rich Trott) #9663
  • [6c63ab7c9a] - test: simplify test-http-client-unescaped-path (Rod Vagg) #9649
  • [731a1fa602] - test: Use strictEqual in test-tls-writewrap-leak (Aaron Petcoff) #9666
  • [a29be5282e] - test: fix memory leaks in malloc cctests (Ben Noordhuis) #9667
  • [776d291a07] - test: run tests even if os.cpus() fails (Bethany Griggs) #9616
  • [51e24e770a] - test: use setImmediate() in test of stream2 (masashi.g) #9583
  • [875d1b93fc] - test: add test case of PassThrough (Yoshiya Hinosawa) #9581
  • [3b4ec5f6c5] - test: check that process.execPath is a realpath (Anna Henningsen) #9229
  • [ccc6e75bea] - test: ensure nextTick is not scheduled in exit (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #9555
  • [00a5490ecd] - test: increase coverage of process.emitWarning (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #9556
  • [f3db5e4720] - test: refactor test-zlib.js (Rich Trott) #9544
  • [58fc7a137c] - test: change from setTimeout to setImmediate (MURAKAMI Masahiko) #9578
  • [e7eb9ccdcf] - test: improve test-stream2-objects.js (Yoshiya Hinosawa) #9565
  • [dae3d3e53c] - test: refactor test-next-tick-error-spin (Rich Trott) #9537
  • [8c859d58ab] - test: refactor test-tls-inception (Rich Trott) #9536
  • [96471556b5] - test: move tick-processor tests to own directory (Rich Trott) #9506
  • [342d8e05cb] - test: refactor inspector-helper.js (Rich Trott) #9499
  • [dab3e451ac] - test: refactor make-callback-recurse test (Rich Trott) #9498
  • [2a9625656d] - test: move timer-dependent test to sequential (Rich Trott) #9487
  • [ee7606940a] - test: fix helper-debugger-repl.js (Rich Trott) #9486
  • [9491352b86] - test: remove watchdog in test-debug-signal-cluster (Rich Trott) #9476
  • [6a94ffb1cf] - test: output tap13 instead of almost-tap (Johan Bergström) #9262
  • [02c2bf7d34] - timers: use consistent checks for canceled timers (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #9685
  • [ee65b4872d] - tls: fix leak of WriteWrap+TLSWrap combination (Fedor Indutny) #9586
  • [19ca6cddcf] - tools: disallow trailing whitespace for markdown (Sam Roberts) #9676
  • [29bf871977] - tools: use better regexp for manpage references (Anna Henningsen) #9632
  • [cc6901d482] - tools: improve docopen target in Makefile (Sakthipriyan Vairamani (thefourtheye)) #9436
  • [deabb5cfaa] - tools: make run-valgrind.py useful (Ben Noordhuis) #9520
  • [887c76a664] - tools: fix run-valgrind.py script (Ben Noordhuis) #9520
  • [65b60801ce] - tools: copy run-valgrind.py to tools/ (Ben Noordhuis) #9520
  • [45df0ee717] - v8: update make-v8.sh to use git (Jaideep Bajwa) #9393
  • [adcc5b15f7] - zlib: fix linting recently-introduced lint error (Rich Trott) #9524
  • [841a2c41d4] - zlib: name every function Ref: #8913 (solebox) #9389

2016-11-08, Version 7.1.0 (Current), @evanlucas

Notable changes

  • buffer: add buffer.transcode to transcode a buffer's content from one encoding to another primarily using ICU (James M Snell) #9038
  • child_process: add public API for IPC channel (cjihrig) #9322
  • icu:
    • Upgraded to ICU 58 - small icu (Steven R. Loomis) #9234
    • Add cldr, tz, and unicode to process.versions (Steven R. Loomis) #9266
  • lib: make String(global) === '\[object global\]' (Anna Henningsen) #9279
  • libuv: Upgraded to 1.10.0 (cjihrig) #9267
  • readline: use icu based string width calculation (James M Snell) #9040
  • src:
    • add NODE_PRESERVE_SYMLINKS environment variable that has the same effect as the --preserve-symlinks flag (Marc Udoff) #8749
    • Fix String#toLocaleUpperCase() and String#toLocaleLowerCase() (Steven R. Loomis)

Commits

  • [dafdb7b069] - benchmark: add trailing newline for consistency (Roman Reiss) #9410
  • [fab8eb660f] - benchmark: add microbenchmarks for ES Map (Rod Vagg) #7581
  • [44792f83bf] - benchmark,lib,test,tools: remove unneeded . escape (Rich Trott) #9449
  • [c70c96a3e2] - buffer: coerce offset using Math.trunc() (cjihrig) #9341
  • [212da12f45] - buffer: use correct name for custom inspect symbol (Charmander) #9289
  • [0939edd4ed] - (SEMVER-MINOR) buffer: add buffer.transcode (James M Snell) #9038
  • [ceec520aef] - build: add MAKEFLAGS="-j1" to node-gyp (Daniel Bevenius) #9450
  • [1109d0b244] - build: reduce noise from doc target (Daniel Bevenius) #9457
  • [90aac7ca28] - build: start comments at beginning of line (Sakthipriyan Vairamani (thefourtheye)) #9375
  • [b51db7120e] - build: make node-gyp output silent (Sakthipriyan Vairamani (thefourtheye)) #8990
  • [d8eaa14c2d] - build: prioritise --shared-X-Y over pkg-config (Rod Vagg) #9368
  • [f7d8481ee2] - build: use wxneeded on openbsd (Aaron Bieber) #9232
  • [7b0e93738b] - (SEMVER-MINOR) child_process: add public API for IPC channel (cjihrig) #9322
  • [4e3731c7e7] - child_process: remove unreachable code (cjihrig) #9307
  • [d573acf96f] - child_process: remove unreachable execSync() code (cjihrig) #9209
  • [f1f00df9bf] - deps: upgrade npm to 3.10.9 (Kat Marchán) #9286
  • [3d1766f492] - (SEMVER-MINOR) deps: Intl: ICU 58 bump - small icu (BIG COMMIT) (Steven R. Loomis) #9234
  • [827000ee62] - (SEMVER-MINOR) deps: Intl: ICU 58 bump: configure/LICENSE/docs (Steven R. Loomis) #9234
  • [0f871e1087] - deps: back port OpenBSD fix in c-ares/c-ares (Aaron Bieber) #9232
  • [106d71914c] - deps: upgrade libuv to 1.10.0 (cjihrig) #9267
  • [4c4132e5d3] - doc: update minute-taking procedure for CTC (Rich Trott) #9425
  • [ed8df17135] - doc: note that tests should include a description (Gibson Fahnestock) #9415
  • [bc2d1c9d91] - doc: do not link in the headings (Sakthipriyan Vairamani (thefourtheye)) #9416
  • [4bb9d21d01] - doc: update GOVERNANCE.md to use "meeting chair" (Rich Trott) #9432
  • [c2fab3c600] - doc: add Sakthipriyan to the CTC (Rod Vagg) #9427
  • [a8295d86d9] - doc: update Diagnostics WG info (Josh Gavant) #9329
  • [3af9453019] - doc: move stray sentences in zlib doc (Rich Trott) #9365
  • [d4b509584f] - doc: use 'an' over 'a', remove redundant sentence (Zeke Sikelianos) #9345
  • [ff69e38070] - doc: add more internal links to fs.Stats object (Zeke Sikelianos) #9345
  • [c554f090df] - doc: fix outdate ninja link (Yangyang Liu) #9278
  • [3d4a829d85] - doc: fix broken links to Buffer.from(string) (Jesse McCarthy) #9294
  • [225a9dfb00] - doc: fs: fix link to mkdtemp (coderaiser) #9379
  • [dbeadd363c] - doc: update OpenSSL links (kobelb) #9338
  • [eeabab3827] - doc: add 2016-10-26 CTC meeting minutes (Rich Trott) #9348
  • [31690a690c] - doc: add 2016-10-05 CTC meeting minutes (Josh Gavant) #9326
  • [7f1a40dbcf] - doc: add 2016-09-28 CTC meeting minutes (Josh Gavant) #9325
  • [edd89265ba] - doc: update CONTRIBUTING.md to address editing PRs (Gibson Fahnestock) #9259
  • [c7458909a7] - doc: reference signal(7) for the list of signals (Emanuele DelBono) #9323
  • [a3f6854724] - doc: more realistic custom inspect example (Ryan Scheel (Havvy)) #8875
  • [a0074e2232] - doc: clarify buffer toString docs. (Olan Byrne) #8984
  • [3f90481e20] - doc: clarify relation between a file and a module (marzelin) #9026
  • [82119049ef] - doc: fix typo in http.md (anu0012) #9144
  • [d2e7882723] - doc: add 2016-10-19 CTC meeting minutes (Josh Gavant) #9193
  • [ce00a9d2b6] - doc: add performance warning to require.extensions (Ben Noordhuis) #9196
  • [d1c32aa335] - doc: mention case-insensitive env on windows (Oliver Salzburg) #9166
  • [c6e429a6bc] - doc: add CTC meeting minutes for 2016-10-12 (Michael Dawson) #9070
  • [355041960d] - events: remove unnecessary checks (cjihrig) #9330
  • [0ce0abf6cb] - events,test: fix TypeError in EventEmitter warning (jseagull) #9021
  • [6f35e4421a] - http: add debug message for invalid header value (Evan Lucas) #9195
  • [173b088e1a] - inspector: do not prompt to use localhost (Eugene Ostroukhov) #9451
  • [939d1023c2] - inspector: switch to new inspector APIs (Eugene Ostroukhov) #9028
  • [2e7b078e7b] - inspector: fix request path nullptr dereference (Ben Noordhuis) #9184
  • [9940666c1b] - (SEMVER-MINOR) intl: Add more versions from ICU (Steven R. Loomis) #9266
  • [5bfefa6063] - lib: change == to === in linkedlist (jedireza) #9362
  • [d24bd20d2b] - lib: make String(global) === '\[object global\]' (Anna Henningsen) #9279
  • [9372aee4a3] - lib: fix beforeExit not working with -e (Ben Noordhuis) #8821
  • [c231130e06] - module: skip directories known not to exist (Ben Noordhuis) #9196
  • [d09eb9c6b2] - net: name anonymous functions (Pedro Victor) #9357
  • [a5c62cb4f2] - (SEMVER-MINOR) readline: use icu based string width calculation (James M Snell) #9040
  • [60461d2d90] - repl: refactor lib/repl.js (Rich Trott) #9374
  • [071836aa42] - repl: name anonymous functions (Pedro Victor) #9356
  • [0b9d80a037] - repl: don’t write to input stream in editor mode (Anna Henningsen) #9207
  • [1c59cefc44] - repl: make key of repl.write() optional always (Anna Henningsen) #9207
  • [b1ef638de3] - (SEMVER-MINOR) src: default --icu_case_mapping on as a v8 option (Steven R. Loomis) #9454
  • [0c236d1d36] - src: replace SetNamedPropertyHandler() (AnnaMag) #9062
  • [5ab172ee8f] - src: fix use of uninitialized variable (James M Snell) #9281
  • [57c0a9b5dc] - src: remove unused function (Brian White) #9243
  • [08e12c7809] - src: remove superfluous env_string string (Ben Noordhuis) #9213
  • [c342bda49e] - src: make cross-context MakeCallback() calls work (Ben Noordhuis) #9221
  • [60a5b515b8] - (SEMVER-MINOR) src: add NODE_PRESERVE_SYMLINKS environment variable (Marc Udoff) #8749
  • [f2a3b24611] - src: clean up program/isolate/env init logic (Ben Noordhuis) #9224
  • [9e753ba782] - src: simplify code, remove NodeInstanceData (Ben Noordhuis) #9224
  • [8b53f3c41c] - src: speed up module loading, don't resize buffer (Ben Noordhuis) #9132
  • [362c307f38] - src: speed up module loading, skip EOF read (Ben Noordhuis) #9132
  • [85a9295813] - src,tools: speed up startup by 2.5% (Ben Noordhuis) #5458
  • [6e1eb59fee] - test: improve test-debugger-util-regression (Santiago Gimeno) #9490
  • [6eb6816e22] - test: fix flaky test-net-GH-5504 (Santiago Gimeno) #9461
  • [f640bafc58] - test: fix flaky test-force-repl-with-eval (Santiago Gimeno) #9460
  • [675a4b20b6] - test: update http-header-obstext (Gibson Fahnestock) #9415
  • [9d9ea8127e] - test: move timer-dependent test to sequential (Rich Trott) #9431
  • [1c3487b5c3] - test: remove timers from streams test (Anna Henningsen)
  • [e696bc33eb] - test: increase test coverage for lib/zlib.js (Rich Trott) #9366
  • [ed3f80a988] - test: add test for HTTP client "aborted" event (Kyle E. Mitchell) #7376
  • [d12ed29f6a] - test: remove timer in test-dgram-send-empty-array (Rich Trott) #9361
  • [e451022dd9] - test: refactor test-http-client-readable (Rich Trott) #9344
  • [01b626a45a] - test: clean up dgram-broadcast-multi-process test (Isobel Redelmeier) #9308
  • [411b1339bc] - test: fix freebsd10-64 CI failures (Rich Trott) #9317
  • [1037463604] - test: add child_process customFds test (cjihrig) #9307
  • [bd9cb40977] - test: run all of test-timers-blocking-callback (Rich Trott) #9305
  • [8b7ce8bd11] - test: fix flaky test-fs-watch-recursive on OS X (Rich Trott) #9303
  • [6c9e4fddf0] - test: refactor test-async-wrap-check-providers (Gerges Beshay) #9297
  • [0ab008e50d] - test: fix lint error regarding unused commons const (Daniel Bevenius) #9334
  • [c9b67c6a91] - test: writable stream needDrain state (Italo A. Casas) #8799
  • [248a3200b2] - test: writable stream ending state (Italo A. Casas) #8707
  • [d6f688ae0d] - test: writable stream finished state (Italo A. Casas) #8791
  • [d49d990c42] - test: prevent workers outliving parent (Sam Roberts) #9257
  • [2ad81ed0e6] - test: refactor /parallel/test-cluster-uncaught-exception.js to ES6 (Deverick) #9239
  • [f39eb05946] - test: use strict assertions in module loader test (Ben Noordhuis) #9263
  • [fc9e6a37fa] - test: remove err timer from test-http-set-timeout (BethGriggs) #9264
  • [53520f06f3] - test: clean up test-child-process-exec-cwd.js (Jeena Lee) #9231
  • [deef2f6079] - test: add child_process.exec() timeout coverage (cjihrig) #9208
  • [5e138fe768] - test: skip whatwg url parse and setter tests when icu is missing (James M Snell) #9246
  • [a39b98ef73] - test: add common.hasIntl (James M Snell) #9246
  • [efb62aa146] - test: fix flaky test by removing timer (Evan Lucas) #9199
  • [44427cc1f7] - test: case sensitivity of env variables (Oliver Salzburg) #9166
  • [63ef0990f3] - test: add coverage for execFileSync() errors (cjihrig) #9211
  • [06b414078e] - test: remove test-v8-inspector-json-protocol test (Ben Noordhuis) #9184
  • [21ba3e3b89] - test: add more module loader test coverage (Ben Noordhuis) #9196
  • [204461925b] - test: make flaky pummel test more reliable (Ben Noordhuis) #9241
  • [4be1ba582a] - test: move flaky test to test/pummel (Ben Noordhuis) #9241
  • [032533954b] - tools: use long format for gpg fingerprint (Myles Borins) #9258
  • [aac4af2b26] - tools: enable final newline in .editorconfig (Roman Reiss) #9410
  • [513da404cb] - tools: enforce function name matching in linter (Rich Trott) #9408
  • [c23ece7056] - tools: remove dangling eslint symlink (Sam Roberts) #9299
  • [bdad1e28fd] - tools: make --repeat work with -j in test.py (Rich Trott) #9249
  • [4f0596fb03] - util: use template strings (Alejandro Oviedo Garcia) #9120
  • [b083086ff2] - vm: name anonymous functions (solebox) #9388

2016-10-25, Version 7.0.0 (Current), @jasnell

Notable changes

  • Buffer
    • Passing invalid input to Buffer.byteLength will now throw an error #8946.
    • Calling Buffer without new is now deprecated and will emit a process warning #8169.
    • Passing a negative number to allocUnsafe will now throw an error #7079.
  • Child Process
    • The fork and execFile methods now have stronger argument validation #7399.
  • Cluster
    • The worker.suicide method is deprecated and will emit a process warning #3747.
  • Deps
    • V8 has been updated to 5.4.500.36 #8317, #8852, #9253.
    • NODE_MODULE_VERSION has been updated to 51 #8808.
  • File System
    • A process warning is emitted if a callback is not passed to async file system methods #7897.
  • Intl
    • Intl.v8BreakIterator constructor has been deprecated and will emit a process warning #8908.
  • Promises
    • Unhandled Promise rejections have been deprecated and will emit a process warning #8217.
  • Punycode
    • The punycode module has been deprecated #7941.
  • URL
    • An Experimental WHATWG URL Parser has been introduced #7448.

Commits

  • [1043f5d08e] - assert: name anonymous functions (Miguel Angel Asencio Hurtado) #9051
  • [06f37471aa] - benchmark: use node v4 syntax in common.js (Andreas Madsen) #9064
  • [8b152fcf47] - benchmark: change the execution order (Andreas Madsen) #9064
  • [a5046bf8ef] - benchmark: fixes csv parsing given no parameters (Andreas Madsen) #9064
  • [af01865d66] - benchmark: add info about required Unix tools (Bartosz Sosnowski) #8788
  • [dfb5f301cf] - benchmark: make v8-bench.js output consistent (Bartosz Sosnowski) #8564
  • [84481f9157] - benchmark: add --expose_internals switch (Bartosz Sosnowski) #8547
  • [d3834a1fa3] - benchmark: ignore significance when using --runs 1 (Andreas Madsen) #8299
  • [b1bbc68fb1] - benchmark: support for multiple http benchmarkers (Bartosz Sosnowski) #8140
  • [474e629ddb] - benchmark: add --format csv option (Adrian Nitu) #7961
  • [4b527a4129] - benchmark: update compare.js exit method (Adrian Nitu) #7961
  • [9e7fd8e810] - benchmark: fix comment typos and code format (Adrian Nitu) #7961
  • [d525e6c92a] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) benchmark: remove broken string-creation.js (Andreas Madsen) #7094
  • [6edef1deb9] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) benchmark: update docs after refactor (Andreas Madsen) #7094
  • [0c0f34e2fe] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) benchmark: add script for creating scatter plot (Andreas Madsen) #7094
  • [855009af7f] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) benchmark: use t-test for comparing node versions (Andreas Madsen) #7094
  • [8bb59fdb12] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) benchmark: missing process.exit after bench.end (Andreas Madsen) #7094
  • [f99471b2ae] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) benchmark: refactor to use process.send (Andreas Madsen) #7094
  • [0f9bfaa7c5] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) benchmark: move cli parts of common.js into run.js (Andreas Madsen) #7094
  • [edbed3f3fd] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) benchmark: move http_simple.js to http directory (Andreas Madsen) #7094
  • [ee2843b4ea] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) benchmark: remove unused files (Andreas Madsen) #7094
  • [60042ca70e] - buffer: fix range checks for slice() (Trevor Norris) #9174
  • [14d1a8a631] - buffer: coerce slice parameters consistently (Sakthipriyan Vairamani (thefourtheye)) #9101
  • [96b501d338] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) buffer: make byteLength throw on invalid input (Brian White) #8946
  • [c21458a15d] - (SEMVER-MINOR) buffer: expose underlying buffer object always (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #8311
  • [2c9a86f01e] - buffer: directly use ArrayBuffer as the pool (Anna Henningsen) #8302
  • [f2fe5583c4] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) buffer: runtime deprecation of calling Buffer without new (Nikolai Vavilov) #8169
  • [9cee8b1b62] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) buffer: alias toLocaleString to toString (James M Snell) #8148
  • [8f90dcc1b8] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) buffer: throw on negative .allocUnsafe() argument (Anna Henningsen) #7079
  • [bd23290657] - buffer: remove obsolete and confusing comment (Nikolai Vavilov) #7264
  • [5292a1358f] - buffer: improve creation performance. (Ingvar Stepanyan) #6893
  • [c5f5bcb331] - build: fix config.gypi target (Daniel Bevenius) #9053
  • [b311906abf] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) build: do not clean V8 gtest directory (Michaël Zasso) #8317
  • [94f68b5b97] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) build: fix mkpeephole configuration (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #8317
  • [8481ea1ca4] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) build: use libc++ on OSX (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #8317
  • [197d18795e] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) build: define icu_use_data_file_flag (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #8317
  • [eab418f7f9] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) build: update V8 gypfile paths (Michaël Zasso) #8317
  • [88e862ba82] - build: windows sharedlib support (Stefan Budeanu) #7487
  • [6eece7773e] - child_process: update outdated comment (Tanuja-Sawant)
  • [0548e5d12a] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) child_process: add fork/execFile arg validation (Rich Trott) #7399
  • [b90f3da9de] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) child_process, win: fix shell spawn with AutoRun (Bartosz Sosnowski) #8063
  • [f44b18f010] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) cluster: deprecate worker.suicide (Evan Lucas) #3747
  • [bd7d7a7e17] - console: name anonymous functions (Tyler Brazier) #9047
  • [c60d43b6d9] - crypto: fix faulty logic in iv size check (Ben Noordhuis) #9032
  • [72f1c41fb6] - crypto: naming anonymous functions (solebox) #8993
  • [89643b645e] - crypto: use SSL_get_SSL_CTX. (Adam Langley) #8995
  • [f4aa2c2c93] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) crypto: remove POINT_CONVERSION_HYBRID from documentation. (Adam Langley) #4956
  • [6bbdd668bd] - deps: update V8 to 5.4.500.36 (Michaël Zasso) #9253
  • [5e3a480ad5] - deps: revert default gtest reporter change (Brian White) #8948
  • [c0a3ac2e94] - deps: cherry-pick missing v8 floating patch (Michael Dawson) #8907
  • [bef4b3bfda] - deps: update V8 to 5.4.500.31 (Michaël Zasso) #8852
  • [a88bb3a758] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) deps: cherry-pick workaround for clang-3.4 ICE (Michaël Zasso) #8317
  • [90efff6000] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) deps: update V8 to 5.4.500.27 (Michaël Zasso) #8317
  • [245ac302f5] - (SEMVER-MINOR) deps: update V8 to 5.1.281.75 (Ben Noordhuis) #7615
  • [dc17432208] - deps: fix V8 5.1 tests (Michaël Zasso) #7488
  • [2cc2951796] - (SEMVER-MINOR) deps: update V8 to 5.1.281.69 (Michaël Zasso) #7016
  • [e9b6fbbf17] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) dgram: prefer strict equality, type validation (Claudio Rodriguez) #8011
  • [260f41f2cc] - dns: name anonymous functions (Miguel Angel Asencio Hurtado) #9052
  • [3238f15234] - doc: change os x tag to macos (Gibson Fahnestock) #9009
  • [1794456ebc] - doc: change solaris tag to smartos (Gibson Fahnestock) #9009
  • [98ca07bfe0] - doc: add teams for platform-specific issues (Gibson Fahnestock) #9009
  • [e4e60b45e1] - doc: add s390 and ppc architecture labels (Gibson Fahnestock) #9009
  • [3b580145c4] - doc: fixes formatting in process (Rod Machen) #9235
  • [3e2bafe053] - doc: improve header styling for API docs (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #8811
  • [0a307f90cd] - doc: clarify fs.link and fs.linkSync arguments (Kyle E. Mitchell) #9145
  • [38cf1d4739] - doc: remove confusing reference in governance doc (Rich Trott) #9073
  • [5bf215d6b9] - doc: suggest nodejs/help for general support (Myles Borins) #9128
  • [5e26980937] - doc: fix header level for crypto.constants (Evan Lucas) #9187
  • [89b920fead] - doc: add ctc-review label information (Rich Trott) #9072
  • [e6d1d54230] - doc: fix typo in zlib.md (Parambir Singh) #9123
  • [3b63b64992] - doc: further improve child_process doc types (Indrek Ardel) #9095
  • [f56bdecde1] - doc: edit Stream api grammar (Benji Marinacci) #9100
  • [95d45d750a] - doc: improved example for http.get (marzelin) #9065
  • [0022bfe42e] - doc: update reference to list hash algorithms in crypto.md (scott stern) #9043
  • [b0da43104f] - doc: specify that errno is a number, not a string (John Vilk) #9007
  • [c258dc89d9] - doc: highlight deprecated API in ToC (Ilya Frolov) #7189
  • [d529a46416] - doc: explains why Reviewed-By is added in PRs (jessicaquynh) #9044
  • [482995e7cc] - doc: explain why GitHub merge button is not used (jessicaquynh) #9044
  • [3735f22480] - doc: fix typo (Nikolai Vavilov) #9089
  • [839f1f02ed] - doc: fix broken links in changelogs (Evan Lucas) #8122
  • [8f6589a0ba] - doc: revise http documentation (Timothy Gu) #8486
  • [f3f5a89a10] - doc: *.md formatting fixes in the benchmark dir (Сковорода Никита Андреевич) #7727
  • [9744928cf5] - doc: fix layout problem in v4 changelog (Myles Borins) #7394
  • [d976d66cfc] - doc: clarify fs.access works on directories too. (Lance Ball) #7113
  • [8c1d5e58d4] - doc: improve rendering of v4.4.5 changelog entry (Myles Borins) #6958
  • [2bceda6493] - doc: get rid of sneaky hard tabs in CHANGELOG (Myles Borins) #6608
  • [29e49fc286] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) doc, punycode: soft-deprecation of the punycode module (James M Snell) #7941
  • [3b8ec68a3a] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) domain: add message for dispose deprecation (Brian White) #7053
  • [983775d457] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) events: make memory leak warning name more verbose (Anna Henningsen) #8341
  • [b7a8a691b4] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) events: unwrap #once listeners in #listeners (Owen Smith) #6881
  • [108c1fbbe2] - fs: clarify fs.link and fs.linkSync arguments (Kyle E. Mitchell) #9145
  • [7f7d1d385d] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) fs: move stringToFlags() to lib/internal (Ben Noordhuis) #7162
  • [fe9f5bcd75] - fs: don't alter user provided options object (Sakthipriyan Vairamani (thefourtheye)) #7831
  • [169f485289] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) fs: refactor "options" processing as a function (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #7165
  • [21124ba23a] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) fs: do not emit 'stop' watch event synchronously (Claudio Rodriguez) #8524
  • [b50557b51b] - fs: use process.emitWarning to print deprecation warning (James M Snell) #8166
  • [dc7277909b] - fs: move SyncWriteStream to internal/fs (James M Snell) #6749
  • [49ef3ae90a] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) Revert "fs: add a temporary fix for re-evaluation support" (James M Snell) #6413
  • [f8f283b8f3] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) fs: warn if no callback is passed to async calls (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #7897
  • [6f27bedfba] - governance: expand use of CTC issue tracker (Rich Trott) #8945
  • [179150091f] - http: name anonymous functions in http (maasencioh) #9055
  • [73a8d3b0da] - http: name anonymous functions in _http_server (maasencioh) #9055
  • [ffa5c9ea30] - http: name anonymous functions in _http_outgoing (maasencioh) #9055
  • [fa035ada90] - http: name anonymous functions in _http_incoming (maasencioh) #9055
  • [ec17e76656] - http: name anonymous functions in _http_client (maasencioh) #9055
  • [9099a43073] - http: name anonymous functions (maasencioh) #9054
  • [cde2ca96e4] - http: reject control characters in http.request() (Ben Noordhuis) #8923
  • [2cc7fa5e7d] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) http: remove deprecated Client interface (Brian White) #8104
  • [31bef6b704] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) http: correct error message for invalid trailer (Bryan English) #6308
  • [a54ec7f49c] - inspector: no URLs when the debugger is connected (Eugene Ostroukhov) #8919
  • [626a07df5b] - inspector: restore 9229 as a default port (Eugene Ostroukhov) #8550
  • [9f1f7e2a34] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) inspector: listen on process.debugPort (cjihrig) #8386
  • [7b73f55902] - internal/util: remove printDeprecationWarning (James M Snell) #8166
  • [9ad3082b1c] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) intl: add deprecation warning for v8BreakIterator (Michaël Zasso) #8908
  • [15eaba98a1] - lib: use emitWarning instead of printDeprecationMessage (James M Snell) #8166
  • [3a3996315c] - lib,src: reset zero fill flag on exception (Ben Noordhuis) #7093
  • [27e84ddd4e] - lib,src: clean up ArrayBufferAllocator (Ben Noordhuis) #7082
  • [334ef4f19d] - lib,src: drop dependency on v8::Private::ForApi() (Ben Noordhuis) #7082
  • [d582193613] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) module: Remove deprecated function requireRepl. (Adri Van Houdt) #8575
  • [6f1cae70eb] - net: fix ambiguity in EOF handling (Fedor Indutny) #9066
  • [fd6af98c2d] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) net: refactor Server.prototype.listen (Jan Schär) #4039
  • [5e5ec2cd1e] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) os: deprecate tmpDir() in favour of tmpdir() (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #6739
  • [aedb72e03b] - process: improve performance of nextTick (Evan Lucas) #8932
  • [bf91035364] - process: fix handling of process.noDeprecation in emitWarning (James M Snell) #8166
  • [62b544290a] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) process: remove deprecated process.EventEmitter (cjihrig) #6862
  • [07dbf7313d] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) promise: hard deprecation for unhandled promise rejection (James M Snell) #8217
  • [ecf474ceba] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) promise: warn on unhandled rejections (Benjamin Gruenbaum) #8217
  • [1a9e247c79] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) readline: show completions only after 2nd TAB (Anna Henningsen) #7754
  • [8a87b29034] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) readline: remove deprecated methods (cjihrig) #6423
  • [488d28d391] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) repl: deprecate unused function convertToContext (Prince J Wesley) #7829
  • [b2be04ac85] - src: refactor contextify (Franziska Hinkelmann) #8909
  • [e175188a94] - src: fix typo rval to value (Miguel Angel Asencio Hurtado) #9023
  • [1fda657cac] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) src: update module version mismatch error message (James M Snell) #8391
  • [96933df2ff] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) src: update NODE_MODULE_VERSION to 51 (Myles Borins) #8808
  • [b032f1cfc3] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) src: no longer need to use std::tr1:: (Michaël Zasso) #8317
  • [ebad04326d] - src: notify V8 for low memory when alloc fails (Anna Henningsen) #8482
  • [aed9792ff4] - src: provide allocation + nullptr check shortcuts (Anna Henningsen) #8482
  • [d2470d4dff] - src: pass desired return type to allocators (Anna Henningsen) #8482
  • [de946013c2] - src: add Malloc() size param + overflow detection (Anna Henningsen) #8482
  • [5bf94357a9] - src: remove unused StringValue macro parameters (Daniel Bevenius) #7905
  • [cc00be6ace] - src: fix -Wunused-result warning (Santiago Gimeno) #8450
  • [8e7cbe2546] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) src: make debugger listen on 127.0.0.1 by default (Ben Noordhuis) #8106
  • [781713d5ef] - src: remove unused isolate member (Ben Noordhuis) #7334
  • [de4161d367] - src: remove unused internals from node.cc (Anna Henningsen) #7117
  • [ac0665c908] - src: fix ArrayBuffer size for zero fill flag (Anna Henningsen) #7142
  • [aac79dfd78] - src: use stack-allocated Environment instances (Ben Noordhuis) #7090
  • [58cec4e85b] - src: move env init logic into Environment class (Ben Noordhuis) #7090
  • [c3cd453cba] - src: make IsolateData creation explicit (Ben Noordhuis) #7082
  • [0301ce9f55] - src: move IsolateData out of Environment (Ben Noordhuis) #7082
  • [a3c5567eb4] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) src,win: use correct exit code in old versions (yorkie) #8204
  • [2f05af4c06] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) stream: improve stream error messages (Italo A. Casas) #8801
  • [9983af0347] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) stream: improve unimplemented _write() error (ratikesh9) #7671
  • [0cd0118334] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) stream: 'data' argument on callback of Transform._flush() (Jesús Leganés Combarro "piranna) #3708
  • [a717be87a3] - test: fix flaky test-timers-blocking-callback (Rich Trott) #9198
  • [5ba02bf5db] - test: remove arbitrary timer (Rich Trott) #9197
  • [1518cc1e70] - test: remove duplicate required module (Rich Trott) #9169
  • [d62e7bd1f9] - test: add regression test for instanceof (Franziska Hinkelmann) #9178
  • [bb1e6064c1] - test: rename target to exports for consistency (Daniel Bevenius) #9135
  • [8788d009f8] - test: checking if error constructor is assert.AssertionError (larissayvette) #9119
  • [68157bd8b9] - test: remove unneeded escaping in template strings (Rich Trott) #9112
  • [0591362887] - test: remove unused common.libDir (Rich Trott) #9124
  • [0f2f4d2425] - test: fix flaky test-child-process-fork-dgram (Rich Trott) #9098
  • [47863a5837] - test: use npm sandbox in test-npm-install (João Reis) #9079
  • [67e2b92e21] - test: enable node-module-version/test.js with debug (Daniel Bevenius) #9093
  • [d5bdd65c6a] - test: move module out of fixture directory (Rich Trott) #9022
  • [0ad0e6addb] - test: fix issues reported by Coverity (Eugene Ostroukhov) #8870
  • [aac93a5c64] - test: refactor test-file-* (Jenna Vuong) #8999
  • [1bb1b3abe4] - test: fixes that do not affect performance (larissayvette) #9011
  • [96faba6ad8] - test: add cluster inspector debug port test (cjihrig) #8958
  • [7926886bf3] - test: fix test-debug-signal-cluster.js flakyness (Julien Gilli) #8568
  • [99cfd53097] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) test: test execFile/fork arg validation (Chuck Langford) #7399
  • [15cd45c6fc] - test: fix tests for non-crypto builds (Anna Henningsen) #7056
  • [fea3070ec4] - test: add buffer testcase for resetting kZeroFill (Сковорода Никита Андреевич) #7093
  • [2cdd5ccef9] - test,lib,benchmark: match function names (Rich Trott) #9113
  • [827660e03e] - tools: enable ES2016 syntax support in ESLint (Michaël Zasso) #9218
  • [a83354a567] - tools: replace custom lint rule for getter/setter (Rich Trott) #9194
  • [3ab8be07cb] - tools: fix release script on macOS 10.12 (Evan Lucas) #8824
  • [72fa9f5663] - tools: update ESLint to v3.8.0 (Rich Trott) #9112
  • [8ac29bd7c1] - tools: avoid let in for loops (jessicaquynh) #9049
  • [1a93e03a0e] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) tools: do not disable ICU's transliteration (Michaël Zasso) #8317
  • [6a3dbdacd6] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) udp: remove ancient check (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé) #8088
  • [1afd7c166e] - url: fix building when using --without-intl (James M Snell) #9041
  • [a8ece149e2] - (SEMVER-MINOR) url: adding WHATWG URL support (James M Snell) #7448
  • [336b027411] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) url: return valid file: urls fom url.format() (Rich Trott) #7234
  • [197a465280] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) zlib: move constants into zlib.constants (James M Snell) #7203