* Older experimental APIs have been removed.
[[`d731369b1d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d731369b1d)]
[#14414](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14414)
* **Errors**
* Improvements have been made to `buffer` module error messages.
* The assignment of static error codes to Node.js error continues:
* `buffer`
* `child_process`
* `console`
* `crypto`
* `dns`
* `events`
* `fs`
* `http`
* `inspector`
* `net`
* `path`
* `process`
* `querystring`
* `readline`
* `repl`
* `streams`
* `string_decoder`
* `timers`
* `tls`
* `url`
* `util`
* `v8`
* `zlib`
* **Child Processes**
* Errors are emitted on process nextTick.
* **Domains**
* The long-deprecated `.dispose()` method has been removed.
* **fs**
* The `fs.ReadStream` and `fs.WriteStream` classes now use `destroy()`.
* `fs` module callbacks are now invoked with an undefined context.
* **HTTP/1**
* A 400 Bad Request response will now be sent when parsing fails.
* Socket timeout will be set when the socket connects.
* A bug causing the request `'error'` event to fire twice was fixed.
* HTTP clients may now use generic `Duplex` streams in addition to `net.Socket`.
* **Intl**
* The deprecated `Intl.v8BreakIterator` has been removed.
* **Modules**
* The `require.resolve()` method now supports using custom lookup paths.
* **OS**
* The `os.EOL` property is now read-only.
* **Timers**
* `setTimeout()` will emit a warning if the timeout is larger that the maximum
32-bit unsigned integer.
When V8 was updated on master to 5.4 there were ABI breaking changes.
In the past we have not landed these types of changes before a release,
and as such have only bumped the NODE_MODULE_VERSION number in the
release commit.
Since we are going to be keeping the V8 5.4 beta on master and in the
v7 betas I think it makes sense for us to bump the module number prior
to a release commit being made. It is possible that this commit should
be reverted prior to v7.0.0 being cut. Alternatively we may want to
modify our release process for V8 to include a NODE_MODULE_VERSION
bump before landing on master when applicable.
NODE_MODULE_VERSION is being bumped to 51 instead of 49 to avoid
conflicts with NODE_MODULE_VERSIONs being used in electron.
Ref: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/5851#issuecomment-246920775
Ref: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8317
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8808
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <mic.besace@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
This list of changes is relative to the last io.js v3.x branch
release, v3.3.0. Please see the list of notable changes in the v3.x,
v2.x and v1.x releases for a more complete list of changes from
0.12.x. Note, that some changes in the v3.x series as well as major
breaking changes in this release constitute changes required for full
convergence of the Node.js and io.js projects.
* child_process: ChildProcess.prototype.send() and process.send()
operate asynchronously across all platforms so an optional callback
parameter has been introduced that will be invoked once the message
has been sent, i.e. .send(message[, sendHandle][, callback])
(Ben Noordhuis) #2620.
* node: Rename "io.js" code to "Node.js" (cjihrig) #2367.
* node-gyp: This release bundles an updated version of node-gyp that
works with all versions of Node.js and io.js including nightly and
release candidate builds. From io.js v3 and Node.js v4 onward, it
will only download a headers tarball when building addons rather
than the entire source. (Rod Vagg) #2700.
* npm: Upgrade to version 2.14.2 from 2.13.3, includes a security
update, see https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.14.2 for more
details, (Kat Marchán) #2696.
* timers: Improved timer performance from porting the 0.12
implementation, plus minor fixes (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #2540,
(Julien Gilli) nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#8751nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#8905
* util: The util.is*() functions have been deprecated, beginning with
deprecation warnings in the documentation for this release, users
are encouraged to seek more robust alternatives in the npm registry,
(Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #2447.
* v8: Upgrade to version 4.5.103.30 from 4.4.63.30 (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #2632.
- Implement new TypedArray prototype methods: copyWithin(), every(),
fill(), filter(), find(), findIndex(), forEach(), indexOf(),
join(), lastIndexOf(), map(), reduce(), reduceRight(), reverse(),
slice(), some(), sort(). See
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/TypedArray
for further information.
- Implement new TypedArray.from() and TypedArray.of() functions. See
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/TypedArray
for further information.
- Implement arrow functions. See
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Functions/Arrow_functions
for further information.
- Full ChangeLog available at
https://github.com/v8/v8-git-mirror/blob/4.5.103/ChangeLog
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2742
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Brian White <mscdex@mscdex.net>
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
Notable changes:
* buffer:
- Due to changes in V8, it has been necessary to reimplement Buffer
on top of V8's Uint8Array. While every effort has been made to
maintain performance, users are likely to experience a different
performance profile depending on how Buffer is used.
(Trevor Norris) #1825.
- Buffer can now take ArrayBuffers as a constructor argument
(Trevor Norris) #2002.
- When a single buffer is passed to Buffer.concat(), a new, copied
Buffer object will be returned; previous behavior was to return
the original Buffer object (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #1937.
* build: PPC support has been added to core to allow compiling on
pLinux BE and LE (AIX support coming soon) (Michael Dawson) #2124.
* dgram: If an error occurs within socket.send() and a callback has
been provided, the error is only passed as the first argument to the
callback and not emitted on the socket object; previous behavior was
to do both (Matteo Collina & Chris Dickinson) #1796
* freelist: Deprecate the undocumented freelist core module
(Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #2176.
* http:
- Status codes now all use the official IANA names as per RFC7231,
e.g. http.STATUS_CODES[414] now returns 'URI Too Long' rather than
'Request-URI Too Large' (jomo) #1470.
- Calling .getName() on an HTTP agent no longer returns a trailing
colon, HTTPS agents will no longer return an extra colon near the
middle of the string (Brendan Ashworth) #1617.
* node:
- NODE_MODULE_VERSION has been bumped to 45 to reflect the break in
ABI (Rod Vagg) #2096.
- Introduce a new process.release object that contains a name
property set to 'io.js' and sourceUrl, headersUrl and libUrl
(Windows only) properties containing URLs for the relevant
resources; this is intended to be used by node-gyp
(Rod Vagg) #2154.
- The version of node-gyp bundled with io.js now downloads and uses
a tarball of header files from iojs.org rather than the full
source for compiling native add-ons; it is hoped this is a
temporary floating patch and the change will be upstreamed to
node-gyp soon (Rod Vagg) #2066.
* repl: Persistent history is now enabled by default. The history file
is located at ~/.node_repl_history, which can be overridden by the
new environment variable NODE_REPL_HISTORY. This deprecates the
previous NODE_REPL_HISTORY_FILE variable. Additionally, the format
of the file has been changed to plain text to better handle file
corruption. (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #2224.
* smalloc: The smalloc module has been removed as it is no longer
possible to provide the API due to changes in V8
(Ben Noordhuis) #2022.
* tls: Add server.getTicketKeys() and server.setTicketKeys() methods
for TLS session key rotation (Fedor Indutny) #2227.
* v8: Upgraded to 4.4.63.26
- ES6: Enabled computed property names
- ES6: Array can now be subclassed in strict mode
- ES6: Implement rest parameters in staging, use the
--harmony-rest-parameters command line flag
- ES6: Implement the spread operator in staging, use the
--harmony-spreadcalls command line flag
- Removed SetIndexedPropertiesToExternalArrayData and related APIs,
forcing a shift to Buffer to be reimplemented based on Uint8Array
- Introduction of Maybe and MaybeLocal C++ API for objects which may
or may not have a value.
- Added support for PPC
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/2299
Notable changes
* deps: Fixed an out-of-band write in utf8 decoder.
This is an important security update as it can be used to cause a
denial of service attack.
Notable changes
build:
- Added support for compiling with Microsoft Visual C++ 2015
- Started building and distributing headers-only tarballs along with binaries
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/1996
Notable changes
* module: The number of syscalls made during a require() have been
significantly reduced again (see #1801 from v2.2.0 for previous
work), which should lead to a performance improvement
(Pierre Inglebert) #1920.
* npm:
- Upgrade to v2.11.2 (Rebecca Turner) #1956.
- Upgrade to v2.11.3 (Forrest L Norvell) #2018.
* zlib: A bug was discovered where the process would abort if the
final part of a zlib decompression results in a buffer that would
exceed the maximum length of 0x3fffffff bytes (~1GiB). This was
likely to only occur during buffered decompression (rather than
streaming). This is now fixed and will instead result in a thrown
RangeError (Michaël Zasso) #1811.
Notable Changes:
* libuv: Upgraded to 1.6.0 and 1.6.1, see full ChangeLog for details.
(Saúl Ibarra Corretgé) #1905#1889. Highlights include:
- Fix TTY becoming blocked on OS X
- Fix UDP send callbacks to not to be synchronous
- Add uv_os_homedir() (exposed as os.homedir(), see below)
* npm: See full release notes for details. (Kat Marchán) #1899. Highlight:
- Use GIT_SSH_COMMAND (available as of Git 2.3)
* openssl:
- Upgrade to 1.0.2b and 1.0.2c, introduces DHE man-in-the-middle protection
(Logjam) and fixes malformed ECParameters causing infinite loop
(CVE-2015-1788). See the security advisory for full details.
(Shigeki Ohtsu) #1950#1958
- Support FIPS mode of OpenSSL, see README for instructions.
(Fedor Indutny) #1890
* os: Add os.homedir() method. (Colin Ihrig) #1791
* smalloc: Deprecate whole module. (Vladimir Kurchatkin) #1822
* Add new collaborators:
- Alex Kocharin (@rlidwka)
- Christopher Monsanto (@monsanto)
- Ali Ijaz Sheikh (@ofrobots)
- Oleg Elifantiev (@Olegas)
- Domenic Denicola (@domenic)
- Rich Trott (@Trott)
Michaël Zasso