Node v5.5.0 (Current)

Evan Lucas

Notable Changes

events: make sure console functions exist (Dave) #4479
fs: add autoClose option to fs.createWriteStream (Saquib) #3679
http: improves expect header handling (Daniel Sellers) #4501
node: allow preload modules with -i (Evan Lucas) #4696
v8,src: expose statistics about heap spaces (v8.getHeapSpaceStatistics()) (Ben Ripkens) #4463
Minor performance improvements:
- lib: Use arrow functions instead of bind where possible (Minwoo Jung) #3622.
  - (Mistakenly missing from v5.4.0)
- module: cache stat() results more aggressively (Ben Noordhuis) #4575
- querystring: improve parse() performance (Brian White) #4675

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.
Unicode characters in filesystem paths are not handled consistently across platforms or Node.js APIs. See #2088, #3401 and #3519.

Commits

[8d0ca10752] - buffer: make byteLength work with Buffer correctly (Jackson Tian) #4738
[83d2b7707e] - buffer: remove unnecessary TODO comments (Peter Geiss) #4719
[8182ec094d] - build: add option to select VS version (julien.waechter) #4645
[4383acd9f4] - build: fix and refactor VTune config in vcbuild.bat (Rod Vagg) #4192
[be0b0b8cb9] - build: minor corrections in VTune configure text (Rod Vagg) #4192
[9571be12f6] - cluster: fix race condition setting suicide prop (Santiago Gimeno) #4349
[ebd9addcd1] - crypto: clear error stack in ECDH::Initialize (Fedor Indutny) #4689
[66b9c0d8bd] - debugger: remove variable redeclarations (Rich Trott) #4633
[88b2889679] - dgram: prevent disabled optimization of bind() (Brian White) #4613
[d56e3f8b67] - doc: restore ICU third-party software licenses (Richard Lau) #4762
[212a44df03] - doc: clarify protocol default in http.request() (cjihrig) #4714
[3297036345] - doc: update branch-diff arguments in release doc (Rod Vagg) #4691
[666c089e68] - doc: fix named anchors in addons.markdown and http.markdown (Michael Theriot) #4708
[310530b7ec] - doc: add path property to Write/ReadStream in fs.markdown (Claudio Rodriguez) #4368
[3470574cb6] - doc: clarify explanation of first stream section (Vitor Cortez) #4234
[d91646b9c7] - doc: rebuild LICENSE using tools/license-builder.sh (Rod Vagg) #4194
[265e2f557b] - doc: fix typo in doc/node.1 (Jérémy Lal) #4680
[4c132fe61e] - doc: make references clickable (Roman Klauke) #4654
[d139704ff7] - doc: improve child_process.execFile() code example (Ryan Sobol) #4504
[eeb6fdcd0f] - doc: add docs for more stream options (zoubin) #4639
[b6ab6d2de5] - doc: add branch-diff example to releases.md (Myles Borins) #4636
[287325c5e8] - docs: update gpg key for Myles Borins (Myles Borins) #4657
[65825b79aa] - docs: fix npm command in releases.md (Myles Borins) #4656
[f9a59c1d3b] - (SEMVER-MINOR) events: make sure console functions exist (Dave) #4479
[6039a7c1b5] - (SEMVER-MINOR) fs: add autoClose option to fs.createWriteStream (Saquib) #3679
[ed55169834] - gitignore: never ignore debug module (Michaël Zasso) #2286
[d755432fa9] - (SEMVER-MINOR) http: improves expect header handling (Daniel Sellers) #4501
[7ce0e04f44] - lib: fix style issues after eslint update (Michaël Zasso) nodejs/io.js#2286
[ae5bcf9528] - lib: use arrow functions instead of bind (Minwoo Jung) #3622
[0ec093cd41] - lib,test: remove extra semicolons (Michaël Zasso) #2205
[d8f5bd4fe1] - module: avoid ArgumentsAdaptorTrampoline frame (Ben Noordhuis) #4575
[83f8d98806] - module: cache stat() results more aggressively (Ben Noordhuis) #4575
[ff64a4c395] - (SEMVER-MINOR) node: allow preload modules with -i (Evan Lucas) #4696
[4bc1a47761] - querystring: improve parse() performance (Brian White) #4675
[ad63d350d4] - readline: Remove XXX and output debuglog (Kohei TAKATA) #4690
[da550aa063] - repl: make sure historyPath is trimmed (Evan Lucas) #4539
[1a6e7d1b52] - src: fix negative values in process.hrtime() (Ben Noordhuis) #4757
[8bad51977a] - src: return UV_EAI_NODATA on empty lookup (cjihrig) #4715
[761cf2bf6a] - src: don't check failure with ERR_peek_error() (Ben Noordhuis) #4731
[953f4a3999] - stream: prevent object map change in ReadableState (Evan Lucas) #4761
[e65f1f7954] - test: fix tls-multi-key race condition (Santiago Gimeno) #3966
[3727ae0d7d] - test: use addon.md block headings as test dir names (Rod Vagg) #4412
[47960a07c0] - test: make test-cluster-disconnect-leak reliable (Rich Trott) #4736
[9926b5a25f] - test: fix issues for space-in-parens ESLint rule (Roman Reiss) #4753
[d1aabd6264] - test: fix style issues after eslint update (Michaël Zasso) nodejs/io.js#2286
[e98bcfa2cb] - test: remove 1 second delay from test (Rich Trott) #4616
[6cfd0b5a32] - test: fix flaky test-net-socket-local-address (cjihrig) #4650
[e22cc6c2eb] - test: fix race in test-net-server-pause-on-connect (Rich Trott) #4637
[9164c00bdb] - test: move resource intensive tests to sequential (Rich Trott) #4615
[d8ba2c0de4] - test: fix http-upgrade-client flakiness (Santiago Gimeno) #4602
[6018fa1f57] - test: fix http-upgrade-agent flakiness (Santiago Gimeno) #4520
[c33f6a87d0] - tools: enable space-in-parens ESLint rule (Roman Reiss) #4753
[162e16afdb] - tools: enable no-extra-semi rule in eslint (Michaël Zasso) #2205
[031b87d42d] - tools: add license-builder.sh to construct LICENSE (Rod Vagg) #4194
[ec8e0ae697] - tools: fix style issue after eslint update (Michaël Zasso) nodejs/io.js#2286
[4d5ee7a512] - tools: update eslint config (Michaël Zasso) nodejs/io.js#2286
[2d441493a4] - tools: update eslint to v1.10.3 (Michaël Zasso) nodejs/io.js#2286
[aba3cc834e] - tools: fix license-builder.sh for ICU (Richard Lau) #4762
[5f57005ec9] - (SEMVER-MINOR) v8,src: expose statistics about heap spaces (Ben Ripkens) #4463

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