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

version: 0.5.5 title: Node v0.5.5 author: bennoordhuis date: Fri Aug 26 2011 23:20:10 GMT-0700 (PDT) status: publish category: release slug: node-v0-5-5

2011.08.26, Version 0.5.5 (unstable)

• typed arrays, implementation from Plesk
• fix IP multicast on SunOS
• fix DNS lookup order: IPv4 first, IPv6 second (--use-uv only)
• remove support for UNIX datagram sockets (--use-uv only)
• UDP support for Windows (Bert Belder)
• #1572 improve tab completion for objects in the REPL (Nathan Rajlich)
• #1563 fix buffer overflow in child_process module (reported by Dean McNamee)
• #1546 fix performance regression in http module (reported by Brian Geffon)
• #1491 add PBKDF2 crypto support (Glen Low)
• #1447 remove deprecated http.cat() function (Mikeal Rogers)
• #1140 fix incorrect dispatch of vm.runInContext's filename argument
  (Antranig Basman)

• #1140 document vm.runInContext() and vm.createContext() (Antranig Basman)
• #1428 fix os.freemem() on 64 bits freebsd (Artem Zaytsev)
• #1164 make all DNS lookups async, fixes uncatchable exceptions
  (Koichi Kobayashi)

• fix incorrect ssl shutdown check (Tom Hughes)
• various cmake fixes (Tom Hughes)
• improved documentation (Koichi Kobayashi, Logan Smyth, Fedor Indutny,
  Mikeal Rogers, Maciej Małecki, Antranig Basman, Mickaël Delahaye)

• upgrade libuv to commit 835782a
• upgrade V8 to 3.5.8

Download: http://nodejs.org/dist/node-v0.5.5.tar.gz

Windows Executable: http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.5.5/node.exe

Website: http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.5.5/

Documentation: http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.5.5/api/

Update: The .exe has a bug that results in incompatibility with Windows XP and Server 2003. This has been reported in issue #1592 and fixed. A new binary was made that is compatibile with the older Windows: http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.5.5/node-186364e.exe.