node/doc/blog/release/v0.8.1.md

version: 0.8.1 title: Version 0.8.1 (stable) category: release slug: node-v0-8-1-stable date: 2012.06.29

2012.06.29, Version 0.8.1 (stable)

• V8: upgrade to v3.11.10.12

• npm: upgrade to v1.1.33

  • Support for parallel use of the cache folder
  • Retry on registry timeouts or network failures (Trent Mick)
  • Reduce 'engines' failures to a warning
  • Use new zsh completion if aviailable (Jeremy Cantrell)

• Fix #3577 Un-break require('sys')

• util: speed up formatting of large arrays/objects (Ben Noordhuis)

• windows: make fs.realpath(Sync) work with UNC paths (Bert Belder)

• build: fix --shared-v8 option (Ben Noordhuis)

• doc: detached is a boolean (Andreas Madsen)

• build: use proper python interpreter (Ben Noordhuis)

• build: expand ~ in ./configure --prefix=~/a/b/c (Ben Noordhuis)

• build: handle CC env var with spaces (Gabriel de Perthuis)

• build: fix V8 build when compiling with gcc 4.5 (Ben Noordhuis)

• build: fix --shared-v8 option (Ben Noordhuis)

• windows msi: Fix icon issue which caused huge file size (Bert Belder)

• unix: assume that dlopen() may clobber dlerror() (Ben Noordhuis)

• sunos: fix memory corruption bugs (Ben Noordhuis)

• windows: better (f)utimes and (f)stat (Bert Belder)

Source Code: http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.1/node-v0.8.1.tar.gz

Macintosh Installer (Universal): http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.1/node-v0.8.1.pkg

Windows Installer: http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.1/node-v0.8.1-x86.msi

Windows x64 Installer: http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.1/x64/node-v0.8.1-x64.msi

Windows x64 Files: http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.1/x64/

Other release files: http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.1/

Website: http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.8.1/

Documentation: http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.8.1/api/

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