2017-10-03, Version 6.11.4 'Boron' (LTS), @MylesBorins

This LTS release comes with 91 commits. This includes 29 which are test related,
28 which are doc related, 11 which are build / tool related and 3 commits which are updates to dependencies.

Notable Changes

• net:
  • support passing undefined to listen() to match behavior in v4.x and v8.x (Sam Roberts) #14234

Commits

• [73416b46e4] - assert: refactor the code (Ruben Bridgewater) #13862
• [a8b917ee2f] - benchmark: fix dgram/bind-params.js benchmark (Rich Trott) #14948
• [855d7ae326] - benchmark: convert var to es6 const (Sebastian Murphy) #12886
• [6a7e46ed9c] - build: add NetBSD support to opensslconf.h (Roy Marples) #14313
• [66dd898be8] - build: better support for python3 systems (Ben Noordhuis) #14737
• [14cc1abb56] - build: split up cpplint to avoid long cmd lines (Kyle Farnung) #14116
• [c9ae894277] - build: add lint option to vcbuild.bat help (Morgan Brenner) #11992
• [66cdcd9d5b] - build: add cpp linting to windows build (liusi) #11856
• [25be2a3be3] - crypto: naming anonymous functions. (solebox) #8993
• [4e1a50a079] - deps: backport 0353a1e from V8 upstream (jBarz) #15287
• [921876dcd1] - deps: backport 071b655 from V8 upstream (Michaël Zasso) #15215
• [a13ac69ff9] - doc: prevent displaying empty version picker (Chris Young) #15420
• [ecea33b277] - doc: add links to alternative versions of doc (Chris Young) #10958
• [feb6863a5c] - doc: document bytes to chars after setEncoding (Jessica Quynh Tran) #13442
• [33fdbb5417] - doc: describe what security issues are (Sam Roberts) #14485
• [a260190717] - doc: instructions for generating coverage reports (Simon Brewster) #15190
• [1b0e660c25] - doc: /s/SHASUM256/SHASUMS256 (Jon Moss) #15101
• [5696223534] - doc: clarify http.get data consumption requirement (AJ Jordan) #15049
• [4c26913dab] - doc: crypto.randomBytes does not block when async (Sam Roberts) #14993
• [605a02b613] - doc: environmental->environment & NodeJS->Node.js (Rod Vagg) #14974
• [b10bc31030] - doc: fix typo in Buffer.from(string, [encoding]) (Michał Wadas) #15013
• [29de000938] - doc: add note for Windows build path (Kyle Lamse) #14354
• [7546eef262] - doc: rephrase text of child_process.execSync() (hafiz) #14953
• [70e9a6ece3] - doc: link to correct "OS Constants" heading in docs (James Kyle) #14969
• [55dc14ec61] - doc: remove misterdjules from the CTC members list (Julien Gilli) #1498
• [c76a54f318] - doc: add missing word (Jon Moss) #14924
• [27b6737d85] - doc: explain what to do if git push is rejected (Rich Trott) #14848
• [d75e9b7d44] - doc: add BridgeAR to collaborators (Ruben Bridgewater) #14862
• [a63cd82003] - doc: fix word wrapping for api stability boxes (Saad Quadri) #14809
• [f8fbac7842] - doc: improve fs.read() doc text (Rich Trott) #14631
• [5a7a49f505] - doc: clarify the position argument for fs.read (dcharbonnier) #14631
• [b5904a2054] - doc: remove undef NDEBUG from addons.md (Daniel Bevenius) #14048
• [c0e47e4f22] - doc: fix order of AtExit callbacks in addons.md (Daniel Bevenius) #14048
• [dcdc9053b4] - doc: fix typo in stream.md (Marc Hernández Cabot) #14364
• [594e3c2115] - doc: add readline.emitKeypressEvents note (Samuel Reed) #9447
• [90fcccd7a3] - doc: add documentation on ICU (Timothy Gu) #13916
• [38ae5c4e34] - doc, lib, test: do not re-require needlessly (Vse Mozhet Byt) #14244
• [abf6355936] - doc,assert: document stackStartFunction in fail (Ruben Bridgewater) #13862
• [f0328f631a] - doc,stream: remove wrong remark on readable.read (Jan Schär) #15014
• [0c670e0339] - http: eliminate capture of ClientRequest in Agent (Evan Torrie) #10134
• [67074113dc] - http: reset stream to unconsumed in unconsume() (Anna Henningsen) #14410
• [e65c9ec7f4] - http: assert parser.consume argument's type (Gireesh Punathil) #12288
• [4e717820a0] - lib: clean up usage of threw (Jackson Tian) #10534
• [e014178362] - meta: merge TSC and CTC back into a single body (James M Snell) #14973
• [4ee066eaba] - meta: considerations for new core modules (James M Snell) #15022
• [948a7d70e7] - meta: improve definition of a collaborator (James M Snell) #14981
• [caeee38b1d] - net: support passing undefined to listen() (Sam Roberts) #14234
• [792acc17bf] - net: fix abort on bad address input (Ruben Bridgewater) #13726
• [8604772960] - readline: remove max limit of crlfDelay (Azard) #13497
• [362a7c0d8b] - repl: do not consider ... as a REPL command (Shivanth MP) #14467
• [968121bbfe] - src: remove unnecessary helper function (Brian White) #14959
• [b2112f8d36] - src: detect nul bytes in InternalModuleReadFile() (Ben Noordhuis) [#14854](https://github.com/node...

2017-09-26, Version 8.6.0 (Current), @jasnell

Notable Changes

• crypto
  • Support for multiple ECDH curves. #15206
• dgram
  • Added setMulticastInterface() API. #7855
  • Custom lookup functions are now supported. #14560
• n-api
  • The command-line flag is no longer required to use N-API. #14902
• tls
  • Docs-only deprecation of parseCertString(). #14245
• New Contributors
  • Welcome Sebastiaan Deckers (@sebdeckers) as a new Collaborator! #15354

Commits

• [4f7d9392e7] - assert: improve AssertionError in case of "Errors" (Ruben Bridgewater) #15025
• [f6c65e6e19] - assert: fix boxed primitives in deepStrictEqual (Ruben Bridgewater) #15050
• [7fa175f6d3] - assert: fix deepEqual inconsistencies (Ruben Bridgewater) #14491
• [17d8dfec70] - async_hooks: support promise resolve hook (Anna Henningsen) #15296
• [81723a9172] - (SEMVER-MINOR) async_hooks,doc: some async_hooks improvements (James M Snell) #15103
• [535f8d5281] - benchmark: var to const (Ruben Bridgewater) #13757
• [0f8f37ed45] - benchmark: improve and add more inspect benchmarks (Ruben Bridgewater) #14881
• [3bf718c3fe] - benchmark: enable assert benchmark with short len (Rich Trott) #15174
• [d30a5836b6] - benchmark: provide default methods for assert (Rich Trott) #15174
• [142d2ed057] - benchmark: use smaller n value in some http tests (Peter Marshall) #14002
• [5e4f87ae65] - buffer: improve Buffer.from performance (Anatoli Papirovski) #15178
• [8bbbda55e4] - build: use generic names for linting tasks (Nikolai Vavilov) #15272
• [9685b9ff2f] - build: don't fail make test on source tarballs (Gibson Fahnestock) #15441
• [354f32040d] - build: remove unused configuration variable (Ben Noordhuis) #15266
• [5d217ad5d7] - build: add support for link-module to vcbuild (Bartosz Sosnowski) #15410
• [607832d3c3] - child_process: set shell to false in fork() (Alex Gresnel) #15352
• [c26e93b309] - crypto: fix Node_SignFinal (David Benjamin) #15024
• [bd07574718] - (SEMVER-MINOR) crypto: support multiple ECDH curves and auto (Roga Pria Sembada) #15206
• [5e043a6c78] - deps: define BUILDING_NGHTTP2 during nghttp2 build (Ben Noordhuis) #15487
• [2e75ac028a] - deps: v8: fix potential segfault in profiler (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #15498
• [2944ea6c6b] - (SEMVER-MINOR) dgram: add custom lookup function in sockets (cjihrig) #14560
• [b24ee68133] - (SEMVER-MINOR) dgram: added setMulticastInterface() (Will Young) #7855
• [f6b484461c] - doc: ctc -> tsc in onboarding extras (Bryan English) #15621
• [f38666a967] - doc: ctc -> tsc in collab guide (Bryan English) #15590
• [02c62df75e] - doc: remove invalid hash in link (Vse Mozhet Byt) #15542
• [6cd64f36bc] - doc: note caveats in process message serialization (Joyee Cheung) #12963
• [1fbb86c64b] - doc: fix 'aborted' event documentation (Luigi Pinca) #15471
• [2326d655de] - doc: fix types and description for dns.resolveTxt (Tobias Nießen) #15472
• [fcbee7b4bb] - doc: fix some links in http2.md (Vse Mozhet Byt) #15481
• [9d6b0e6f6f] - doc: fix external links with 404 status (Vse Mozhet Byt) #15463
• [29fd88c3e5] - doc: fix new nits in links (Vse Mozhet Byt) #15449
• [4efc6fec6b] - doc: fix some internal links (Vse Mozhet Byt) #15293
• [5ea4b88a29] - doc: adding sebdeckers to collaborators (Sebastiaan Deckers) #15354
• [d5d498b6dc] - doc: update AUTHORS list (Michaël Zasso) #15181
• [950f7f5fe1] - doc: update README with SHASUMS256.txt.sig info (Jon Moss) #15107
• [38422d5963] - doc: fix nits in esm.md (Vse Mozhet Byt) #15315
• [b0f5b2a38c] - doc: fix "added in" for Buffer.allocUnsafeSlow() (Tuan Anh Tran) #15330
• [8112f496dc] - doc: add missing heading for error (Jon Moss) #15325
• [29707afd82] - doc: add missing doc for readable._destroy (Michaël Zasso) #15316
• [9f4480ce90] - doc: use consistent terminology in process doc (Rich Trott) #15321
• [a53a0d8b38] - doc: fix emitKeypressEvents stream type (Oblosys) #15399
• [b5c1a82560] - doc: fix http.ClientRequest method descriptions (Antoine AMARA) #15163
• [f0e411d1b2] - doc: prevent displaying empty version picker (Chris Young) #15420
• [acb0d012b3] - doc: make mkdtemp example work on Windows (Bartosz Sosnowski) #15408
• [bdfed1ad25] - doc: fix entryTypes type and missing link (Mani Maghsoudlou) #15406
• [7fa2bee5e7] - doc: add documentation for the 'timeout' event (Luigi Pinca) #15443
• [b09eeb4a3d] - (SEMVER-MINOR) doc, tls: mark parseCertString() as deprecated (XadillaX) #14245
• [e0f5e3a199] - docs: clarify usage cli options -e,-p on windows (Łukasz Szewczak) #15568
• [a792ea7709] - docs: update 8.5.0 changelog (Myles Borins) #15384
• [[0a8258b3de](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0a...

2017-09-12, Version 8.5.0 (Current), @MylesBorins

Notable Changes

• build
  • Snapshots are now re-enabled in V8
    #14875
• console
  • Implement minimal console.group().
    #14910
• deps
  • upgrade libuv to 1.14.1
    #14866
  • update nghttp2 to v1.25.0
    #14955
• dns
  • Add verbatim option to dns.lookup(). When true, results from the DNS
    resolver are passed on as-is, without the reshuffling that Node.js
    otherwise does that puts IPv4 addresses before IPv6 addresses.
    #14731
• fs
  • add fs.copyFile and fs.copyFileSync which allows for more efficient
    copying of files.
    #15034
• inspector
  • Enable async stack traces #13870
• module
  • Add support for ESM. This is currently behind the --experimental-modules flag
    and requires the .mjs extension.
    node --experimental-modules index.mjs
    #14369
• napi
  • implement promise
    #14365
• os
  • Add support for CIDR notation to the output of the networkInterfaces() method.
    #14307
• perf_hooks
  • An initial implementation of the Performance Timing API for Node.js. This is the
    same Performance Timing API implemented by modern browsers with a number of Node.js
    specific properties. The User Timing mark() and measure() APIs are implemented.
    #14680
• tls
  • multiple PFX in createSecureContext
    #14793
• Added new collaborators
  • BridgeAR – Ruben Bridgewater

Commits

• [87c3e1d7de] - fix --prof-process --preprocess flag (davidmarkclements) #14966
• [bcf0e5d676] - assert: handle errors properly with deep*Equal (Ruben Bridgewater) #15001
• [7174dc2e8a] - assert: handle sparse arrays in deepStrictEqual (Ruben Bridgewater) #15027
• [b40105df3b] - async_hooks: don't abort unnecessarily (Trevor Norris) #14722
• [3e73ea8745] - async_hooks: improve comments and function names (Trevor Norris) #14722
• [700d576962] - async_hooks: emitAfter correctly on fatalException (Trevor Norris) #14914
• [78a36e0dd1] - async_wrap: unroll unnecessarily DRY code (Trevor Norris) #14722
• [fadccbaa17] - async_wrap: return undefined if domain is disposed (Trevor Norris) #14722
• [8d11220e0b] - benchmark: add default configs to buffer benchmark (Rich Trott) #15175
• [7feb99455a] - benchmark: fix issues in dns benchmark (Ian Perkins) #14936
• [978889f8c0] - benchmark: fix dgram/bind-params.js benchmark (Rich Trott) #14948
• [7f1ea7c3af] - benchmark: removed unused arguments from callbacks (Abhishek Raj) #14919
• [ca3ec90285] - benchmark: convert var to es6 const (Sebastian Murphy) #12886
• [bda5585012] - buffer: fix MAX_LENGTH constant export (Anna Henningsen) #14821
• [b9e1f60333] - buffer: increase coverage by removing dead code (Marcelo Gobelli) #15100
• [5b8fa29649] - build: display HTTP2 configure --help options (Daniel Bevenius) #15198
• [6de4e10c7a] - build: add NetBSD support to opensslconf.h (Roy Marples) #14313
• [ebb3c2ce6f] - build: add npx to zip and 7z packages (Richard Lau) #15033
• [b946693f4b] - build: fix indentation in node.gyp (Alexey Orlenko) #15051
• [c8be90cabf] - build: for --enable-static, run only cctest (Daniel Bevenius) #14892
• [77dfa73cf2] - build: better support for python3 systems (Ben Noordhuis) #14737
• [8f3537f66a] - build: allow proper generation of html docs (Jon Moss) #14932
• [838d3fef72] - build: don't add libraries when --enable-static (Daniel Bevenius) #14912
• [9d373981f4] - build: remove duplicated code (Ruslan Bekenev) #13482
• [e12a9c567c] - build: re-enable snapshots in v8.x (Myles Borins) #14875
• [3a68b0bb98] - console: improve console.group() (Rich Trott) #14999
• [a46e59d52d] - (SEMVER-MINOR) console: implement minimal console.group() (Rich Trott) #14910
• [78a71aa123] - crypto: fix error of createCipher in wrap mode (Shigeki Ohtsu) #15037
• [41bf40e209] - crypto: warn if counter mode used in createCipher (Shigeki Ohtsu) #13821
• [ba5a697bdb] - deps: cherry-pick 5005faed5 from V8 upstream (Miguel Martins) #15177
• [d18bb3d1dd] - deps: cherry-pick 1aead19 from upstream V8 (Ben Noordhuis) #15184
• [acf9650730] - deps: upgrade libuv to 1.14.1 (cjihrig) #14866
• [296729c41e] - deps: cherry-pick 0ef4a0c64b6 from c-ares upstream (Anna Henningsen) #15023
• [3f7bdc5ab7] - deps: cherry-pick e020aae394 from V8 upstream (Ben Noordhuis) #14913
• [c46e7e1988] - deps: fixup nghttp2 version number (Anna Henningsen) #14955
• [4eb907f26b] - deps: update nghttp2 to v1.25.0 (Anna Henningsen) #14955
• [9f46bde440] - deps: backport d727680 from V8 upstream (Matt Loring) #14947
• [56bb199ef0] - deps: cherry-pick eb306f463e from nghttp2 upstream (Anna Henningsen) #14808
• [55eed604a9] - deps: backport f9c4b7a from upstream V8 (Matt Loring) #14001
• [b7f7d67677] - deps: backport bca8409 from upstream V8 (Matt Loring) #14001
• [a67e7f9b35] - deps: backport 6e9e2e5 from upstream V8 (Matt Loring) #14001
• [6e2f62262d] - deps: backport 3d8e87a from upstream V8 (Matt Loring) #14001
• [6cb718b87a] - deps: backport 5152d97 from upstream V8 (Matt Loring) [#14...

2017-09-05, Version 6.11.3 'Boron' (LTS), @MylesBorins

This LTS release comes with 152 commits. This includes 75 which are test related,
25 which are doc related, 21 which are build / tool related and 3 commits which are updates to dependencies.

Notable Changes

• build:
  • Codesigning is fixed on macOS (Evan Lucas) #14179
• deps:
  • Snapshots are turned back on!!! (Yang Guo) #14385
• path:
  • win32 volume-relative paths are working again! (Timothy Gu) #14440
• tools:
  • v6.x can now build with ICU 59 (Steven R. Loomis) #12078

Commits

• [95be08e3d2] - benchmark: fix typo in inspect-proxy (Vse Mozhet Byt) #14237
• [dbb65203f1] - buffer: remove a wrongly added attribute specifier (Jiajie Hu) #14466
• [977fdce406] - build: codesign tarball binary on macOS (Evan Lucas) #14179
• [a04d4ea8d7] - build: clean up config_fips.gypi (Daniel Bevenius) #13837
• [c7025de6e2] - build: support dtrace on ARM (Bradley T. Hughes) #12193
• [efc0f64c17] - build: reduce one level of spawning in node_gyp (Refael Ackermann) #12653
• [1a7e872302] - build,tools: do not force codesign prefix (Evan Lucas) #14179
• [325813ea97] - build,win: fix python detection script (Jason Ginchereau) #14546
• [c2090a0634] - build,windows: restore DISTTYPEDIR (Refael Ackermann) #13969
• [2a1a93dcbf] - build,windows: implement PEP514 python detection (Refael Ackermann) #13900
• [2bc7c3a8dd] - child_process: fix handleless NODE_HANDLE handling (Santiago Gimeno) #13235
• [5900ebe9e4] - crypto: remove root_cert_store from node_crypto.h (Daniel Bevenius) #13194
• [987332abdf] - deps: cherry-pick 18ea996 from c-ares upstream (Anna Henningsen) #13883
• [7fed989deb] - deps: cherry-pick f5fad6d from upstream v8 (daniel.bevenius) #12826
• [67ce52c740] - deps: backport rehash strings after deserialization (Yang Guo) #14385
• [6518932466] - dns: fix resolve failed starts without network (XadillaX) #13076
• [438a6427e5] - doc: add gabrielschulhof to collaborators (Gabriel Schulhof) #14692
• [c013c545a4] - doc: update experimental status to reflect use (James M Snell) #12723
• [ad2431ce28] - doc: describe labelling process for backports (Anna Henningsen) #12431
• [013155d0b4] - doc: add XadillaX to collaborators (XadillaX) #14388
• [226ef71a1b] - doc: replace dead link in v8 module (Devin Boyer) #14372
• [8b69504e17] - doc: move LTS README link to increase prominence (Gibson Fahnestock) #14259
• [b0286acd52] - doc: update umask for clarity (James Sumners) #14170
• [49d3dee0c2] - doc: correct stream Duplex allowHalfOpen doc (Rich Trott) #14127
• [9599faae18] - doc: note 'resize' event conditions on Windows (Dean Coakley) #13576
• [8dbf827de3] - doc: fix mistake in http.md (Moogen Tian) #14126
• [a3cd733dea] - doc: fix indentation issues in sample code (Rich Trott) #13950
• [3b3d47c483] - doc: add CTC members to Collaborators list (Rich Trott) #13284
• [f1d91ce3d2] - doc: fix example in child_process.md (Ruslan Iusupov) #13716
• [db4fabae27] - doc: note that fs.futimes only works on AIX >7.1 (Gibson Fahnestock) #13659
• [7648cca3de] - doc: add @nodejs/documentation to CC table (Vse Mozhet Byt) #13952
• [b03430b4ec] - doc: add gireeshpunathil to collaborators (Gireesh Punathil) #13967
• [c34a7472d2] - doc: fix mistake in path.relative (Tobias Nießen) #13912
• [7142c92dd6] - doc: fixed formatting issue in cli docs (Chris Young) #13808
• [87906d25d4] - doc: add missing zlib link to stream API docs (Rob Wu) #13838
• [5ba65f2870] - doc: add entry for subprocess.killed property (Rich Trott) #14578
• [73c720dd9e] - doc: change child to subprocess (Rich Trott) #14578
• [7f6f1c2ddc] - doc, util, console: clarify ambiguous docs (Natanael Log) #14027
• [d6ab8e2f43] - doc,stream: _transform happens one at a time (Matteo Collina) #14321
• [c307f03b2b] - doc,test: fs - reserved characters under win32 (XadillaX) #13875
• [1d5ba9c8e9] - docs: add note about fs.rmdir() (Oleksandr Kushchak) #14323
• [f8b60e40a4] - gyp: implement LD/LDXX for ninja and FIPS (Sam Roberts)
• [963ea0e99b] - lib: update indentation of ternaries (Rich Trott) #14247
• [0cacd6c89e] - lib: normalize indentation in parentheses (Rich Trott) #14125
• [4dabeeecdd] - lib: remove excess indentation (Rich Trott) #14090
• [f20ed49b5e] - lib: use consistent indentation for ternaries (Rich Trott) #14078
• [81edf592ae] - lib: fix typos (Ruben Bridgewater) #14044
• [39f62403c7] - linkedlist: correct grammar in comments (alexbostock) #14546
• [e82a9144ed] - path: remove unnecessary string copies (Tobias Nießen) #14438
• [eefd32264e] - path: fix win32 volume-relative paths (Timothy Gu) #14440
• [fe6735cc19] - src: use existing strings ov...