Node v4.2.2 (LTS)

James M Snell

Notable changes

This is an LTS maintenance release that addresses a number of issues:

[1d0f2cbf87] - buffer: fix value check for writeUInt{B,L}E (Trevor Norris) #3500
[2a45b72b4a] - buffer: don't CHECK on zero-sized realloc (Ben Noordhuis) #3499
[a6469e901a] - deps: backport 010897c from V8 upstream (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #3520
[cadee67c25] - deps: backport 8d6a228 from the v8's upstream (Fedor Indutny) #3549
[46c8c94055] - fs: reduced duplicate code in fs.write() (ronkorving) #2947
[0427cdf094] - http: fix stalled pipeline bug (Fedor Indutny) #3342
[2109708186] - lib: fix cluster handle leak (Rich Trott) #3510
[f49c7c6955] - lib: avoid REPL exit on completion error (Rich Trott) #3358
[8a2c4aeeaa] - repl: handle comments properly (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #3515
[a04408acce] - repl: limit persistent history correctly on load (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #2356
[3bafe1a59b] - src: fix race condition in debug signal on exit (Ben Noordhuis) #3528
[fe01d0df7a] - src: fix exception message encoding on Windows (Brian White) #3288
[4bac5d9ddf] - stream: avoid unnecessary concat of a single buffer. (Calvin Metcalf) #3300
[8d78d687d5] - timers: reuse timer in setTimeout().unref() (Fedor Indutny) #3407
[e69c869399] - tls: TLSSocket options default isServer false (Yuval Brik) #2614

Known issues

Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. #690
Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. #894
url.resolve may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see #1435.

Commits

[1d0f2cbf87] - buffer: fix value check for writeUInt{B,L}E (Trevor Norris) #3500
[2a45b72b4a] - buffer: don't CHECK on zero-sized realloc (Ben Noordhuis) #3499
[dc655e1dd2] - build: rectify --link-module help text (P.S.V.R) #3379
[a6469e901a] - deps: backport 010897c from V8 upstream (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #3520
[cadee67c25] - deps: backport 8d6a228 from the v8's upstream (Fedor Indutny) #3549
[1ebd35550b] - doc: fix typos in changelog (reggi) #3291
[fbd93d4c1c] - doc: more use-cases for promise events (Domenic Denicola) #3438
[6ceb9af407] - doc: remove old note, 'cluster' is marked stable (Balázs Galambosi) #3314
[a5f0d64ddc] - doc: createServer's key option can be an array (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #3123
[317e0ec6b3] - doc: binary encoding is not deprecated (Trevor Norris) #3441
[b422f6ee1a] - doc: mention the behaviour if URL is invalid (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #2966
[bc29aad22b] - doc: fix indent in tls resumption example (Roman Reiss) #3372
[313877bd8f] - doc: fix typo in changelog (Timothy Gu) #3353
[4be432862a] - doc: show keylen in pbkdf2 as a byte length (calebboyd) #3334
[23a1140ddb] - doc: add information about Assert behavior and maintenance (Rich Trott) #3330
[e04cb1e1fc] - doc: clarify API buffer.concat (Martii) #3255
[eae714c370] - doc: clarify the use of option.detached (Kyle Smith) #3250
[b884899e67] - doc: label v4.2.1 as LTS in changelog heading (Phillip Johnsen) #3360
[9120a04981] - docs: add missing shell option to execSync (fansworld-claudio) #3440
[46c8c94055] - fs: reduced duplicate code in fs.write() (ronkorving) #2947
[0427cdf094] - http: fix stalled pipeline bug (Fedor Indutny) #3342
[2109708186] - lib: fix cluster handle leak (Rich Trott) #3510
[f49c7c6955] - lib: avoid REPL exit on completion error (Rich Trott) #3358
[8a2c4aeeaa] - repl: handle comments properly (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #3515
[a04408acce] - repl: limit persistent history correctly on load (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #2356
[5d1f1c5fa8] - src: wrap source before doing syntax check (Evan Lucas) #3587
[3bafe1a59b] - src: fix race condition in debug signal on exit (Ben Noordhuis) #3528
[fe01d0df7a] - src: fix exception message encoding on Windows (Brian White) #3288
[4bac5d9ddf] - stream: avoid unnecessary concat of a single buffer. (Calvin Metcalf) #3300
[117fb47a16] - stream: fix signature of _write() in a comment (Fábio Santos) #3248
[c563a34427] - test: split independent tests into separate files (Rich Trott) #3548
[3f62952d42] - test: add node::MakeCallback() test coverage (Ben Noordhuis) #3478
[6b75f10d8a] - test: use port number from env in tls socket test (Stefan Budeanu) #3557
[39ff44e94f] - test: fix heap-profiler link error LNK1194 on win (Junliang Yan) #3572
[a2786dd408] - test: fix missing unistd.h on windows (Junliang Yan) #3532
[5e6f7c9a23] - test: add regression test for --debug-brk -e 0 (Ben Noordhuis) #3585
[7cad182cb6] - test: port domains regression test from v0.10 (Jonas Dohse) #3356
[78d854c6ce] - test: remove util from common (Rich Trott) #3324
[c566c8b8c0] - test: remove util properties from common (Rich Trott) #3304
[eb7c3fb2f4] - test: split up buffer tests for reliability (Rich Trott) #3323
[b398a85e19] - test: parallelize long-running test (Rich Trott) #3287
[b5f3b4956b] - test: change call to deprecated util.isError() (Rich Trott) #3084
[32149cacb5] - test: improve tests for util.inherits (Michaël Zasso) #3507
[5be686fab8] - test: print helpful err msg on test-dns-ipv6.js (Junliang Yan) #3501
[0429131e32] - test: fix domain with abort-on-uncaught on PPC (Julien Gilli) #3354
[788106eee9] - test: cleanup, improve repl-persistent-history (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #2356
[ea58fa0bac] - test: add Symbol test for assert.deepEqual() (Rich Trott) #3327
[d409ac473b] - test: disable test-tick-processor - aix and be ppc (Michael Dawson) #3491
[c1623039dd] - test: harden test-child-process-fork-regr-gh-2847 (Michael Dawson) #3459
[3bb4437abb] - test: fix test-net-keepalive for AIX (Imran Iqbal) #3458
[af55641a69] - test: wrap assert.fail when passed to callback (Myles Borins) #3453
[7c7ef01e65] - test: skip test-dns-ipv6.js if ipv6 is unavailable (Junliang Yan) #3444
[a4d1510ba4] - test: repl-persistent-history is no longer flaky (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #3437
[a5d968b8a2] - test: fix flaky test-child-process-emfile (Rich Trott) #3430
[eac2acca76] - test: remove flaky status from eval_messages test (Rich Trott) #3420
[155c778584] - test: fix flaky test for symlinks (Rich Trott) #3418
[74eb632483] - test: apply correct assert.fail() arguments (Rich Trott) #3378
[0a4323dd82] - test: replace util with backtick strings (Myles Borins) #3359
[93847694ec] - test: add test-child-process-emfile fail message (Rich Trott) #3335
[8d78d687d5] - timers: reuse timer in setTimeout().unref() (Fedor Indutny) #3407
[e69c869399] - tls: TLSSocket options default isServer false (Yuval Brik) #2614
[0b32bbbf69] - v8: pull fix for builtin code size on PPC (Michael Dawson) #3474

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