node/doc/blog/release/node-v0-5-9.md

version: 0.5.9 title: Node v0.5.9 author: ryandahl date: Mon Oct 10 2011 19:06:21 GMT-0700 (PDT) status: publish category: release slug: node-v0-5-9

2011.10.10, Version 0.5.9 (unstable)

• fs.watch interface backed by kqueue, inotify, and ReadDirectoryChangesW (Igor Zinkovsky, Ben Noordhuis)
• add dns.resolveTxt (Christian Tellnes)
• Remove legacy http library (Ben Noordhuis)
• child_process.fork returns and works on Windows. Allows passing handles. (Igor Zinkovsky, Bert Belder)
• #1774 Lint and clean up for --harmony_block_scoping (Tyler Larson, Colton Baker)
• #1813 Fix ctrl+c on Windows (Bert Belder)
• #1844 unbreak --use-legacy (Ben Noordhuis)
• process.stderr now goes through libuv. Both process.stdout and process.stderr are blocking when referencing a TTY.
• net_uv performance improvements (Ben Noordhuis, Bert Belder)

Download: http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.5.9/node-v0.5.9.tar.gz

Windows Executable: http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.5.9/node.exe

Website: http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.5.9/

Documentation: http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.5.9/api/