node/doc/blog/release/node-v0-5-3.md

version: 0.5.3 title: Node v0.5.3 author: ryandahl date: Tue Aug 02 2011 08:03:06 GMT-0700 (PDT) status: publish category: release slug: node-v0-5-3

2011.08.01, Version 0.5.3 (unstable)

• Fix crypto encryption/decryption with Base64. (SAWADA Tadashi)
• #243 Add an optional length argument to Buffer.write() (koichik)
• #657 convert nonbuffer data to string in fs.writeFile/Sync (Daniel Pihlström)
• Add process.features, remove process.useUV (Ben Noordhuis)
• #324 Fix crypto hmac to accept binary keys + add test cases from rfc 2202 and 4231 (Stefan Bühler)
• Add Socket::bytesRead, Socket::bytesWritten (Alexander Uvarov)
• #572 Don't print result of --eval in CLI (Ben Noordhuis)
• #1223 Fix http.ClientRequest crashes if end() was called twice (koichik)
• #1383 Emit 'close' after all connections have closed (Felix Geisendörfer)
• Add sprintf-like util.format() function (Ben Noordhuis)
• Add support for TLS SNI (Fedor Indutny)
• New http agent implementation. Off by default the command line flag --use-http2 will enable it. make test-http2 will run the tests for the new implementation. (Mikeal Rogers)
• Revert AMD compatibility. (isaacs)
• Windows: improvements, child_process support.
• Remove pkg-config file.
• Fix startup time regressions.
• doc improvements

Download: http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.5.3/node-v0.5.3.tar.gz

Windows Executable: http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.5.3/node.exe

Website: http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.5.3/docs

Documentation: http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.5.3/docs/api