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Node v8.4.0 (Current)

Anna Henningsen

Notable changes

  • HTTP2

    • Experimental support for the built-in http2 has been added via the --expose-http2 flag. #14239

  • Inspector

    • require() is available in the inspector console now. #8837
    • Multiple contexts, as created by the vm module, are supported now. #14465

  • N-API

    • New APIs for creating number values have been introduced. #14573

  • Stream

    • For Duplex streams, the high water mark option can now be set independently for the readable and the writable side. #14636

  • Util

    • util.format now supports the %o and %O specifiers for printing objects. #14558

Commits

  • [a6539ece2c] - assert: optimize code path for deepEqual Maps (Ruben Bridgewater) #14501
  • [2716b626b0] - async_hooks: CHECK that resource is not empty (Anna Henningsen) #14694
  • [b3c1c6ff7f] - benchmark: fix and extend assert benchmarks (Ruben Bridgewater) #14147
  • [139b08863e] - benchmark: Correct constructor for freelist (Gareth Ellis) #14627
  • [574cc379b9] - benchmark: remove unused parameters (nishijayaraj) #14640
  • [fef2aa7e27] - (SEMVER-MINOR) deps: add nghttp2 dependency (James M Snell) #14239
  • [2d806f4f71] - deps: cherry-pick f19b889 from V8 upstream (Alexey Kozyatinskiy) #14465
  • [dd521d0a28] - deps,tools: add missing nghttp2 license (Anna Henningsen) #14806
  • [621c03acfe] - doc: delint (Refael Ackermann) #14707
  • [230cb55574] - doc: fix header level typo (Refael Ackermann) #14707
  • [af85b6e058] - doc: fix http2 sample code for http2.md (Keita Akutsu) #14667
  • [1e7ddb200f] - doc: explain browser support of http/2 without SSL (Gil Tayar) #14670
  • [be716d00cc] - (SEMVER-MINOR) doc: include http2.md in all.md (James M Snell) #14239
  • [9e51802f53] - doc: add missing changes: metadata for util (Anna Henningsen) #14810
  • [4811fea553] - doc: add missing changes: metadata for streams (Anna Henningsen) #14810
  • [20fb69063a] - doc: fix docs style in util.md (Daijiro Wachi) #14711
  • [0de63e6888] - doc: fix docs style in intl.md (Daijiro Wachi) #14711
  • [ee2ae0f30b] - doc: expanded description of buffer.slice (Vishal Bisht) #14720
  • [9888bb1238] - doc: improve fs.read() doc text (Rich Trott) #14631
  • [d604173a66] - doc: clarify the position argument for fs.read (dcharbonnier) #14631
  • [d3b072276b] - doc: add docs for AssertionError (Mandeep Singh) #14261
  • [4e15a6b76a] - doc: fix order of AtExit callbacks in addons.md (Daniel Bevenius) #14048
  • [e07dfffad0] - doc: remove undef NDEBUG from addons.md (Daniel Bevenius) #14048
  • [c5ee34e39b] - encoding: rudimentary TextDecoder support w/o ICU (Timothy Gu) #14489
  • [e0001dc601] - (SEMVER-MINOR) http: move utcDate to internal/http.js (James M Snell) #14239
  • [1d40850338] - http2: fix [kInspect]() output for Http2Stream (Evan Lucas) #14753
  • [c5740f9111] - http2: name padding buffer fields (Anna Henningsen) #14744
  • [8a0d101adf] - http2: use per-environment buffers (Anna Henningsen) #14744
  • [92c37fe5fd] - http2: improve perf of passing headers to C++ (Anna Henningsen) #14723
  • [47bf705f75] - http2: rename some nghttp2 stream flags (Kelvin Jin) #14637
  • [723d1af5e7] - (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: fix flakiness in timeout (James M Snell) #14239
  • [6a30448bac] - (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: fix linting after rebase (James M Snell) #14239
  • [efd929e402] - (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: fix compilation error after V8 update (James M Snell) #14239
  • [f46c50b3e2] - (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: add some doc detail for invalid header chars (James M Snell) #14239
  • [b43caf92c0] - (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: fix documentation errors (James M Snell) #14239
  • [33b03b2ab2] - (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: minor cleanup (James M Snell) #14239
  • [174ab6fda0] - (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: use static allocated arrays (James M Snell) #14239
  • [9a4be4adc4] - (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: get trailers working with the compat api (James M Snell) #14239
  • [3e5b07a8fb] - (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: refactor trailers API (James M Snell) #14239
  • [26e1f8e01c] - (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: address initial pr feedback (James M Snell) #14239
  • [7824fa0b40] - (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: make writeHead behave like HTTP/1. (Matteo Collina) #14239
  • [b778838337] - (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: doc and fixes to the Compatibility API (Matteo Collina) #14239
  • [8f3bbd9b68] - (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: add range support for respondWith{File|FD} (James M Snell) #14239
  • [61696f1215] - (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: fix socketOnTimeout and a segfault (James M Snell) #14239
  • [2620769e7f] - (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: refinement and test for socketError (James M Snell) #14239
  • [cd0f4c6652] - (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: fix abort when client.destroy inside end event (James M Snell) #14239
  • [e8cc193bcc] - (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: fix documentation nits (James M Snell) #14239
  • [a49146e446] - (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: remove redundant return in test (James M Snell) #14239
  • [3eb61b00de] - (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: add tests and benchmarks (James M Snell) #14239
  • [9623ee0f99] - (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: introducing HTTP/2 (James M Snell) #14239
  • [029567a460] - inspector: support extra contexts (Eugene Ostroukhov) #14465
  • [d89f9f82b0] - (SEMVER-MINOR) inspector: allow require in Runtime.evaluate (Jan Krems) #8837
  • [ac1b81ad75] - lib: move deprecationWarned var (Daniel Bevenius) #14769
  • [8433b1ad37] - lib: use Timer.now() in readline module (Rich Trott) #14681
  • [917ace283f] - (SEMVER-MINOR) n-api: add napi_get_node_version (Anna Henningsen) #14696
  • [5e2cce59ef] - (SEMVER-MINOR) n-api: optimize number API performance (Jason Ginchereau) #14573
  • [c94f346b93] - net: use rest parameters instead of arguments (Tobias Nießen) #13472
  • [1c00875747] - repl: include folder extensions in autocomplete (Teddy Katz) #14727
  • [59d1d56da6] - src: remove unused http2_socket_buffer from env (Anna Henningsen) #14740
  • [268a1ff3f1] - src: mention that node options are space-separated (Gabriel Schulhof) #14709
  • [9237ef868e] - src: avoid creating local data variable (Daniel Bevenius) #14732
  • [f83827d64b] - src: use local isolate instead of args.GetIsolate (Daniel Bevenius) #14768
  • [d7d22ead2b] - src: add comments for cares library init refcount (Anna Henningsen) #14743
  • [b87fae927d] - src: remove duplicate loop (Anna Henningsen) #14750
  • [033773c17b] - src: add overlooked handle to cleanup (Anna Henningsen) #14749
  • [dd6444d401] - src,http2: DRY header/trailer handling code up (Anna Henningsen) #14688
  • [ef8ac7b5ac] - (SEMVER-MINOR) stream: support readable/writableHWM for Duplex (Guy Margalit) #14636
  • [6d9f94f93f] - test: cover all HTTP methods that parser supports (Oky Antoro) #14773
  • [e4854fccfc] - test: use regular expressions in throw assertions (Vincent Xue) #14318
  • [66788fc4d0] - test: increase http2 coverage (Michael Albert) #14701
  • [dbb9c370d4] - test: add crypto check to http2 tests (Daniel Bevenius) #14657
  • [97f622b99e] - (SEMVER-MINOR) test: fix flaky test-http2-client-unescaped-path on osx (James M Snell) #14239
  • [9d752d5282] - (SEMVER-MINOR) test: fix flakiness in test-http2-client-upload (James M Snell) #14239
  • [82c63a55ea] - test: add test-benchmark-arrays (Rich Trott) #14728
  • [0eab77c86f] - test: allow inspector to reopen with same port (Gibson Fahnestock) #14320
  • [9bbbf12827] - test: remove redundant using in cctest (XadillaX) #14739
  • [7eb9f6f6e4] - test: make totalLen snake case (Daniel Bevenius) #14765
  • [977e22857a] - test: make test-tls-connect checks more strict (Rich Trott) #14695
  • [a781bb4508] - Revert "test: disable MultipleEnvironmentsPerIsolate" (Anna Henningsen) #14749
  • [8ff2a5c338] - Revert "test: add DISABLED_ prefix to commented out test" (Anna Henningsen) #14749
  • [0bc3124c80] - test: properly order freeing resources in cctest (Anna Henningsen) #14749
  • [3f1bb0a551] - test: split out load-sensitive readline tests (Rich Trott) #14681
  • [5d99d7dff2] - test: add block scoping to test-readline-interface (Rich Trott) #14615
  • [58742729da] - test: set module loading error for aix (Prakash Palaniappan) #14511
  • [06ba2dae30] - test: fix conversion of microseconds in test (Nick Stanish) #14706
  • [30837b3b90] - test: improve check in test-os (Rich Trott) #14655
  • [55aba6aee7] - test: replace indexOf with includes (Miguel Angel Asencio Hurtado) #14630
  • [935d34bd6b] - test: fix test-readline-interface (Azard) #14677
  • [2ee3320f2c] - test: improve multiple timers tests (James M Snell) #14616
  • [71f2e76353] - test: use ciphers supported by shared OpenSSL (Jérémy Lal) #14566
  • [f73f659186] - test: mitigate RegEx exceeding 80 chars (Aditya Anand) #14607
  • [96147c980c] - test: read proper inspector message size (Bartosz Sosnowski) #14596
  • [e84c9d7176] - (SEMVER-MINOR) tls: add tlsSocket.disableRenegotiation() (James M Snell) #14239
  • [a0e05e884e] - tools: fix tools/addon-verify.js (Daniel Bevenius) #14048
  • [116841056a] - util: improve util.inspect performance (Ruben Bridgewater) #14492
  • [7203924fea] - (SEMVER-MINOR) util: implement %o and %O as formatting specifiers (Greg Alexander) #14558

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