Node.js v7.4.0 (Current)

Evan Lucas

Notable changes

buffer:
- Improve performance of Buffer allocation by ~11%. (Brian White) #10443
- Improve performance of Buffer.from() by ~50%. (Brian White) #10443
events: Improve performance of EventEmitter.once() by ~27%. (Brian White) #10445
fs: Allow passing Uint8Array to fs methods where Buffers are supported. (Anna Henningsen) #10382
http: Improve performance of http server by ~7%. (Brian White) #6533
npm: Upgrade to v4.0.5 (Kat Marchán) #10330

Commits

[d1843ec3a7] - async_wrap: clear destroy_ids vector (Trevor Norris) #10400
[6a4e6e9a42] - benchmark: allow benchmarks to specify flags (Joyee Cheung) #10448
[0b2bc5e27b] - benchmark: add benchmark for WHATWG URL properties (Joyee Cheung) #10408
[10b3297e8f] - benchmark: use commas in non-csv rate output (Brian White) #10360
[6d15e7b528] - benchmark: refactor buffer benchmarks (Troy Connor) #10175
[797495a84a] - buffer: improve allocation performance (Brian White) #10443
[ad5ae922ce] - build: add /opt/freeware/... to AIX library path (Stewart X Addison) #10128
[cff57be2b6] - build: add (not) cross-compiled configure flags (Jesús Leganés-Combarro 'piranna) #10287
[80e798e324] - crypto: use CHECK_NE instead of ABORT or abort (Sam Roberts) #10413
[92eacdb5c6] - (SEMVER-MINOR) deps: upgrade npm to 4.0.5 (Kat Marchán) #10330
[785975d922] - deps: ICU 58.2 bump download URL (Steven R. Loomis) #10206
[bce0013dd8] - deps: ICU 58.2 bump (Steven R. Loomis) #10206
[dcc20f12a6] - doc: clarify the statement in vm.createContext() (AnnaMag) #10519
[8e78953c88] - doc: add joyeecheung to collaborators (Joyee Cheung) #10603
[d08463a9e3] - doc: unify dirname and filename description (Sam Roberts) #10527
[7ad0f7bc32] - doc: redirect 'Start a Working Group' to TSC repo (William Kapke) #9655
[deb0917f76] - doc: warn about unvalidated input in child_process (Matthew Garrett) #10466
[96c3c65a86] - doc: require two-factor authentication (Rich Trott) #10529
[a7c12fef6c] - doc: add Working Group dissolution text (William Kapke) #9656
[e86bf27fe8] - doc: improve rinfo object documentation (Matt Crummey) #10050
[5b7b457643] - doc: add tls.DEFAULT_ECDH_CURVE (Sam Roberts) #10264
[cf3f75f6f0] - doc: fixup errors in stream.md (Fumiya KARASAWA) #10411
[89fb82214f] - doc: use "Node.js" in V8 guide (Rich Trott) #10438
[aabaef0aa7] - doc: more efficient example in the console.md (Vse Mozhet Byt) #10451
[3d181ce4fd] - doc: var -> const / let in the console.md (Vse Mozhet Byt) #10451
[9ce28ec3c5] - doc: add the valid link for curl(1) in repl.md (Vse Mozhet Byt) #10244
[cffbfba4df] - doc: replace anonymous functions in repl.md (Vse Mozhet Byt) #10244
[f281b190d5] - doc: fix a function name in repl.md (Vse Mozhet Byt) #10244
[b8e2711ddd] - doc: fix an output example in repl.md (Vse Mozhet Byt) #10244
[ae61232493] - doc: white space unification in repl.md (Vse Mozhet Byt) #10244
[37cb971c65] - doc: var => let / const in repl.md (Vse Mozhet Byt) #10244
[6f8c6133e3] - doc: update CONTRIBUTING.MD with link to V8 guide (sarahmeyer) #10070
[8a9d68ad7c] - doc: improve common.mustCall() explanation (Rich Trott) #10390
[4365bb45b8] - doc: consistent 'Returns:' part two (Myles Borins) #10391
[21fca4bdda] - doc: require() tries first core not native modules (Vicente Jimenez Aguilar) #10324
[6284d83092] - doc: clarify macosx-firewall suggestion BUILDING (Chase Starr) #10311
[0c4cf24f70] - doc: update process.versions.modules documentation (Kevin Zurawel) #9901
[b67879f6f4] - doc: clarify the review and landing process (Joyee Cheung) #10202
[9044423bb6] - doc: modernize code examples in the cluster.md (Vse Mozhet Byt) #10270
[2eec9afdb1] - doc: add Michaël Zasso to the CTC (Michaël Zasso)
[85d2a2abcf] - doc: update writable.write return value (Tanuja-Sawant) #9468
[37563fafca] - doc: fix broken link in COLLABORATOR_GUIDE.md (Emanuel Buholzer) #10337
[f9a5c13ff3] - dtrace: resolve conversion warnings from SLURP_INT (Christopher J. Brody) #10143
[bc379fda75] - events: optimize arrayClone by copying forward (Benedikt Meurer) #10571
[7ece950ffe] - events: improve once() performance (Brian White) #10445
[6629f8f83f] - fs: cache non-symlinks in realpathSync. (Jeremy Yallop) #10253
[abde7644a5] - (SEMVER-MINOR) fs: support Uint8Array input to methods (Anna Henningsen) #10382
[32b6bcdd83] - http: optimize headers iteration (Brian White) #6533
[a760d707ad] - http: simplify boolean checks (Brian White) #6533
[c8ad127abc] - http: extract validation functions (Brian White) #6533
[8a2a763f13] - http: improve validation performance (Brian White) #6533
[df8b8b257d] - http: refactor server connection handling (Brian White) #6533
[1f0fd7b35d] - http: misc cleanup and minor optimizations (Brian White) #6533
[b094b49659] - http: reuse existing headers array for raw values (Brian White) #6533
[4bed9475d1] - inspector: fix Coverity defects (Eugene Ostroukhov) #10240
[023956187e] - inspector: split HTTP/WS server from the inspector (Eugene Ostroukhov) #9630
[aed5e27451] - lib: avoid recompilation of anonymous functions (Brian White) #6533
[064607be58] - meta: modify pull request template for prepending (Rich Trott) #10484
[75efdeb635] - os: fix os.release() for aix and add test (jBarz) #10245
[6796bf4829] - repl: allow autocompletion for scoped packages (Evan Lucas) #10296
[11ed8007df] - src: describe what NODE_MODULE_VERSION is for (Sam Roberts) #10414
[5e5b1f8b89] - src: return early if nextTickQueue is empty (Trevor Norris) #10274
[5852336207] - test: add tests for clearBuffer state machine (Safia Abdalla) #9922
[6ec798bdd6] - test: update test-cluster-shared-handle-bind-error (cjihrig) #10547
[32401b5069] - test: avoid assigning this to variables (cjihrig) #10548
[e1fbd72ae7] - test: s/ASSERT/assert/ (cjihrig) #10544
[05b0092230] - test: refactor test-debugger-remote (Sakthipriyan Vairamani (thefourtheye)) #10455
[82575f9341] - test: refactor test-stream-unshift-read-race (Rich Trott) #10532
[4d984ecadb] - test: refactor test-stream-pipe-error-handling (Rich Trott) #10530
[2619236212] - test: refactor test-tls-alert-handling (Rich Trott) #10482
[8ac9d07805] - test: fix flaky test-http-client-timeout-with-data (Rich Trott) #10431
[ef5a43a0e3] - test: improve test-http-allow-req-after-204-res (Adrian Estrada) #10503
[4a16f9b054] - test: improve test-fs-empty-readStream.js (Adrian Estrada) #10479
[5fc93ee841] - test: refactor the code in test-http-connect (Adrian Estrada) #10397
[78e8aa81c9] - test: refactor test-stream-pipe-after-end (Rich Trott) #10483
[0a0c190db5] - test: use strictEqual in test-http-server (Fabrice Tatieze) #10478
[04d82a5122] - test: refactor test-stdin-from-file (Rob Adelmann) #10331
[00f791af74] - test: refactor test-stream2-unpipe-drain (Chris Story) #10033
[eb1adbb48e] - test: refactor the code in test-dns-ipv4 (Adrian Estrada) #10200
[dff48af67f] - test: add regex to text-crypto-random (Nate) #10020
[5164b56224] - test: add test for SIGWINCH handling by stdio.js (Sarah Meyer) #10063
[1aa3ab1ec6] - test: refactor the code in test-fs-chmod (Adrian Estrada) #10440
[4f1d9452de] - test: swap var for let/const throughout (Paul Graham) #10177
[f6ed233546] - test: improve the code in test-pipe.js (Adrian Estrada) #10452
[011bd4675a] - test: improve code in test-fs-readfile-error (Adrian Estrada) #10367
[98fcb221d5] - test: improve code in test-vm-preserves-property (Adrian Estrada) #10428
[cdf028c5a6] - test: improve code in test-vm-symbols (Adrian Estrada) #10429
[94a894acf2] - test: fix and improve debugger-client test (Sakthipriyan Vairamani (thefourtheye)) #10371
[d4c888df88] - test: basic functionality of readUIntLE() (larissayvette) #10359
[a5b8d097c5] - test: clean up repl-reset-event file (Kailean Courtney) #9931
[599a2a956b] - test: refactor test-child-process-ipc (malen) #9990
[d33e560929] - test: fix and improve debug-break-on-uncaught (Sakthipriyan Vairamani (thefourtheye)) #10370
[9349f086d9] - test: refactor test-internal-modules (Christy Leung) #10016
[2ad9faa19e] - test: add second argument to assert.throws() (Ken Russo) #9987
[4bfd9c0a35] - test: refactor test-pipe-file-to-http (Josh Mays) #10054
[1b9f548e7d] - test: refactor test-tls-interleave (Brian Chirgwin) #10017
[db3ac5d6e7] - test: refactor test-tls-client-getephemeralkeyinfo (Harish Tejwani) #9954
[bbe618d3e2] - test: refactor test-cluster-send-handle-twice.js (Amar Zavery) #10049
[5d64f3d76f] - test: update test-tls-check-server-identity.js (Kevin Cox) #9986
[e6702d6d9b] - test: fix flaky test-https-timeout (Rich Trott) #10404
[44f4d6001f] - test: improve test-cluster-net-listen.js (Rico Cai) #9953
[d3bef30b5f] - test: refactor test-child-process-stdin (Segu Riluvan) #10420
[e9b2325d68] - test: test error messages in test-dns-regress-7070 (Wallace Zhang) #10058
[826decf8e5] - test: basic functionality of readUIntBE() (larissayvette) #10417
[91a2dc216d] - test: improve test-cluster-worker-constructor.js (Adrian Estrada) #10396
[a82be5d44c] - test: refactor test-init.js (Sakthipriyan Vairamani (thefourtheye)) #10384
[ed76bfa7ba] - test: refactor code in test-cluster-http-pipe (Adrian Estrada) #10297
[9a0711d37f] - test: improve code in test-http-bind-twice.js (Adrian Estrada) #10318
[9d0220c4de] - test: fix linter error in whatwg-url-parsing (Sakthipriyan Vairamani (thefourtheye)) #10421
[bee7d7e32c] - test: change var declarations, add mustCall check (Daniel Sims) #9962
[a2ec794d3b] - test: added validation regex argument to test (Avery, Frank) #9918
[14826d0569] - test: refactoring test-cluster-worker-constructor (Christopher Rokita) #9956
[274eef4da0] - test: refactoring test-pipe-head (Travis Bretton) #10036
[7c406e819b] - test: refactor test-stdin-script-child (Emanuel Buholzer) #10321
[501165f0c1] - test: fix timers-same-timeout-wrong-list-deleted (Rich Trott) #10362
[ba63363512] - test: refactor test-stream2-writable (Rich Trott) #10353
[a5a738cca7] - test: refactor test-tls-0-dns-altname (Richard Karmazin) #9948
[12a3b189da] - test: refactor test-cluster-net-listen (Segu Riluvan) #10047
[18a75a085d] - test: test: refactor test-sync-fileread (Jason Wohlgemuth) #9941
[815b5bdcf4] - test: change assert.strict to assert.strictEqual() (Ashita Nagesh) #9988
[f1cc0a4d26] - test: add regex check in test-buffer-bad-overload (Sam Shull) #10038
[0684211d12] - test: refactor the code in test-http-keep-alive (Adrian Estrada) #10350
[a815a23631] - test: improve domain-top-level-error-handler-throw (CodeVana) #9950
[3448e8e522] - test: use strictEqual in test-cwd-enoent-repl.js (Neeraj Sharma) #9952
[fc2fd920ab] - test: refactor test-net-reconnect-error (Duy Le) #9903
[a7c9c5685e] - test: add test-require-invalid-package (Duy Le) #9903
[d1b4c5dc61] - test: refactor test-child-process-kill (Duy Le) #9903
[2f92945a70] - test: use consistent block spacing (Rich Trott) #10377
[9a9e530291] - test: add known_issues test for #5350 (AnnaMag) #10319
[76b0e5bfbe] - test: refactor test-timers-this (Rich Trott) #10315
[797d9a8e79] - tools: refactor json.js (Rich Trott) #10442
[05332942e2] - tools: enforce linebreak after ternary operators (Michaël Zasso) #10213
[3a7b63b81b] - tools: enable block-spacing rule in .eslintrc (Rich Trott) #10377
[3195fb45ae] - url: set toStringTag for the URL class (James M Snell) #10562
[659d522d7c] - url: fix accidental filemode change (James M Snell) #10549
[6977224059] - url: fix URL query update if searchParams changes (Michaël Zasso) #10486
[78e867492a] - url: improve spec compliance of WHATWG URL (Michaël Zasso) #10317
[2b98ea0dec] - url: move originFor, domainToAscii and domainToUnicode (James M Snell) #10512
[e210efad9e] - url: performance improvement in URL implementation (James M Snell) #10469
[7fbd12f876] - url: make WHATWG URL properties spec compliant (Joyee Cheung) #10408
[495213e545] - url: mark ignored return value in node::url::Parse(...) (Christopher J. Brody) #10141
[ba46374cb9] - watchdog: add flag to mark handler as disabled (Bartosz Sosnowski) #10248

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