Node v5.2.0 (Current)

Notable changes

• build:
  • Add support for Intel's VTune JIT profiling when compiled with --enable-vtune-profiling. For more information about VTune, see https://software.intel.com/en-us/node/544211. (Chunyang Dai) #3785.
  • Properly enable V8 snapshots by default. Due to a configuration error, snapshots have been kept off by default when the intention is for the feature to be enabled. (Fedor Indutny) #3962.
• crypto:
  • Simplify use of ECDH (Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman) objects (created via crypto.createECDH(curve_name)) with private keys that are not dynamically generated via generateKeys(). The public key is now computed when explicitly setting a private key. Added validity checks to reduce the possibility of computing weak or invalid shared secrets. Also, deprecated the setPublicKey() method for ECDH objects as its usage is unnecessary and can lead to inconsistent state. (Michael Ruddy) #3511.
  • Update root certificates from the current list stored maintained by Mozilla NSS. (Ben Noordhuis) #3951.
  • Multiple CA certificates can now be passed with the ca option to TLS methods as an array of strings or in a single new-line separated string. (Ben Noordhuis) #4099
• tools: Include a tick processor in core, exposed via the --prof-process command-line argument which can be used to process V8 profiling output files generated when using the --prof command-line argument. (Matt Loring) #4021.

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

• [08a3f29fd4] - buffer: fix range checking for slowToString (Matt Loring) #4019
• [e3a8e8bba4] - buffer: Prevent Buffer constructor deopt (Bryce Baril) #4158
• [0e18e68324] - buffer: fix writeInt{B,L}E for some neg values (Peter A. Bigot) #3994
• [ab5b529dd2] - buffer: default to UTF8 in byteLength() (Tom Gallacher) #4010
• [fcf0e8ebdf] - buffer: move checkFloat from lib into src (Matt Loring) #3763
• [12649f4496] - build: add "--partly-static" build options (Super Zheng) #4152
• [a76d788119] - build: update signtool description, add url (Rod Vagg) #4011
• [ed255abdc1] - (SEMVER-MINOR) build,src: add Intel Vtune profiling support (Chunyang Dai) #3785
• [7793c364fc] - child_process: flush consuming streams (Dave) #4071
• [f29c5d6e70] - configure: v8_use_snapshot should be true (Fedor Indutny) #3962
• [da5ac55c83] - (SEMVER-MINOR) crypto: simplify using pre-existing keys with ECDH (Michael Ruddy) #3511
• [cfc97641ee] - crypto: fix native module compilation with FIPS (Stefan Budeanu) #4023
• [b81b45dabd] - crypto: update root certificates (Ben Noordhuis) #3951
• [def681a07e] - crypto: disable crypto.createCipher in FIPS mode (Stefan Budeanu) #3754
• [ce423f3624] - debugger: introduce exec method for debugger (Jackson Tian)
• [99fd1ec28d] - deps: backport 819b40a from V8 upstream (Michaël Zasso) #3937
• [82252b2a17] - doc: add brief Node.js overview to README (wurde) #4174
• [634c5f1f81] - doc: url.format - true slash postfix behaviour (fansworld-claudio) #4119
• [6f957a70d8] - doc: s/node.js/Node.js in readme (Rod Vagg) #3998
• [0cd4a52392] - doc: improve child_process.markdown wording (yorkie) #4138
• [fd5ed6888d] - doc: add JungMinu to collaborators (Minwoo Jung) #4143
• [fa0cdf75d9] - doc: add iarna to collaborators (Rebecca Turner) #4144
• [424eb962b1] - doc: add zkat to collaborators (Kat Marchán) #4142
• [85b601224b] - doc: add HTTP working group (James M Snell) #3919
• [f4164bd8df] - doc: update links to use https where possible (jpersson) #4054
• [3169eed1e3] - doc: add links and backticks around names (jpersson) #4054
• [f3417e2574] - doc: standardize references to node.js in docs (Scott Buchanan) #4136
• [95dd60c657] - doc: reword https.Agent example text (Jan Krems) #4075
• [c61237d3ea] - doc: fix internal link to child.send() (Luigi Pinca) #4089
• [aaeced915e] - doc: fix the exception description (yorkie) #3658
• [a2b7596ac0] - doc: fix color of linked code blocks (jpersson) #4068
• [f3c50f5fb5] - doc: fix rare case of misaligned columns (Roman Reiss) #3948
• [f0a2e2cdec] - doc: message.header duplication correction (Bryan English) #3997
• [b1dfa8bebb] - doc: fix typo in README (Rich Trott) #4000
• [4602e01221] - doc: replace sane with reasonable (Lewis Cowper) #3980
• [4849a54386] - doc: Adding best practises for crypto.pbkdf2 (Tom Gallacher) #3290
• [77251d99de] - doc: numeric flags to fs.open (Carl Lei) #3641
• [f4ca007b42] - doc: clarify that fs streams expect blocking fd (Carl Lei) #3641
• [26eeae8016] - doc: fix broken references (Alexander Gromnitsky) #3944
• [f90227b0e8] - doc: move fs.existsSync() deprecation message (Martin Forsberg) #3942
• [bbcb2a2e65] - doc: clarify module loading behavior (cjihrig) #3920
• [0997178037] - doc: add reference for buffer.inspect() (cjihrig) #3921
• [6c16c40283] - doc: clarify v5.1.1 notable items (Rod Vagg) #4156
• [4c8800c2de] - fs,doc: use target instead of destination (yorkie) #3912
• [1f0e8dca8e] - installer: install the tick processor (Matt Loring) #3032
• [e8e4e0718b] - meta: remove use of profanity in source (Myles Borins) #4122
• [13834caa28] - module: fix column offsets in errors (Tristian Flanagan) #2867
• [8988e1e117] - module,repl: remove repl require() hack (Ben Noordhuis) #4026
• [baac81d95f] - net: add local address/port for better errors (Jan Schär) #3946
• [12754c5dc3] - net: small code cleanup (Jan Schär) #3943
• [8a5e4345fd] - node: s/doNTCallbackX/nextTickCallbackWithXArgs/ (Rod Vagg) #4167
• [0869ef3c55] - (SEMVER-MINOR) repl: allow leading period in multiline input (Zirak) #3835
• [aaab108dfe] - repl: attach location info to syntax errors (cjihrig) #4013
• [b08126dc9d] - src: refactor vcbuild configure args creation (Rod Vagg) #3399
• [da3137d0c5] - src: don't print garbage errors (cjihrig) #4112
• [9e9346fa32] - src: use GetCurrentProcessId() for process.pid (Ben Noordhuis) #4163
• [d969c0965c] - src: define Is* util functions with macros (cjihrig) #4118
• [458facdf66] - src: define getpid() based on OS (cjihrig) #4146
• [7e18f2ec62] - (SEMVER-MINOR) src: add BE support to StringBytes::Encode() (Bryon Leung) #3410
• [756ab9caad] - stream: be less eager with readable flag (Brian White) #4141
• [8f845ba28a] - stream_wrap: error if stream has StringDecoder (Fedor Indutny) #4031
• [1c1af81ea0] - streams: update .readable/.writable to false (Brian White) #4083
• [1d50819c85] - test: check range fix for slowToString (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #4019
• [0c2a0dc859] - test: skip long path tests on non-Windows (Rafał Pocztarski) #4116
• [8a60aa1303] - test: don't check the # of chunks in test-http-1.0 (Santiago Gimeno) #3961
• [e84aeec883] - test: mark test-cluster-shared-leak flaky (Rich Trott) #4162
• [b3f3b2e157] - test: fix cluster-worker-isdead (Santiago Gimeno) #3954
• [da6be4d31a] - test: fix time resolution constraint (Gireesh Punathil) #3981
• [9d16729b20] - test: skip instead of fail when mem constrained (Michael Cornacchia) #3697
• [be41eb751b] - test: refactor test-http-exit-delay (Rich Trott) #4055
• [4b43bf0385] - test: fix flaky test-net-socket-local-address (Rich Trott) #4109
• [cb55c67a00] - test: improve cluster-disconnect-handles test (Brian White) #4084
• [2b5b127e14] - test: fix cluster-disconnect-handles flakiness (Santiago Gimeno) #4009
• [430264817b] - test: add test for repl.defineCommand() (Bryan English) #3908
• [22b0971222] - test: eliminate multicast test FreeBSD flakiness (Rich Trott) #4042
• [c50003746b] - test: mark test flaky on FreeBSD (Rich Trott) #4016
• [69c95bbdb7] - test: move ArrayStream to common (cjihrig) #4027
• [d94a70ec51] - test: fix test-domain-exit-dispose-again (Julien Gilli) #3990
• [00b839a2b8] - test: use platform-based timeout for reliability (Rich Trott) #4015
• [054a216b6f] - test: mark cluster-net-send test flaky on windows (Rich Trott) #4006
• [d0621c5649] - test: mark fork regression test flaky on windows (Rich Trott) #4005
• [19ed33df80] - test: skip test if in FreeBSD jail (Rich Trott) #3995
• [a863e8d667] - test: remove flaky status for cluster test (Rich Trott) #3975
• [dd0d15fc47] - test: add TAP diagnostic message for retried tests (Rich Trott) #3960
• [1fe4d30efc] - test: retry on smartos if ECONNREFUSED (Rich Trott) #3941
• [665a35d45e] - test: address flaky test-http-client-timeout-event (Rich Trott) #3968
• [f9fe0aee53] - test: numeric flags to fs.open (Carl Lei) #3641
• [54aafa17af] - test: http complete list of non-concat headers (Bryan English) #3930
• [788541b40c] - test: fix race condition in unrefd interval test (Michael Cornacchia) #3550
• [e129d83996] - test: skip/replace weak crypto tests in FIPS mode (Stefan Budeanu) #3757
• [bc27379453] - test: avoid test timeouts on rpi (Stefan Budeanu) #3902
• [272732e76b] - test: fix flaky test-child-process-spawnsync-input (Rich Trott) #3889
• [781f8c0d1e] - test: add OS X to module loading error test (Evan Lucas) #3901
• [f99c6363de] - test: module loading error fix solaris #3798 (fansworld-claudio) #3855
• [1279adc756] - timers: optimize callback call: bind -> arrow (Andrei Sedoi) #4038
• [80f7f65464] - (SEMVER-MINOR) tls: support reading multiple cas from one input (Ben Noordhuis) #4099
• [939f305d56] - tls_wrap: slice buffer properly in ClearOut (Fedor Indutny) #4184
• [6d4a03d3d2] - (SEMVER-MINOR) tools: list missing whitespace/if-one-line cpplint (Ben Noordhuis) #4099
• [1c1c1a0f2b] - (SEMVER-MINOR) tools: add --prof-process flag to node binary (Matt Loring) #4021
• [d7a7d3e6f7] - tools: update certdata.txt (Ben Noordhuis) #3951
• [1b434e0654] - util: determine object types in C++ (cjihrig) #4100
• [c93e2678f0] - util: fix constructor/instanceof checks (Brian White) #3385
• [098a3113e1] - util: move .decorateErrorStack to internal/util (Ben Noordhuis) #4026
• [e68ea16c32] - util: add decorateErrorStack() (cjihrig) #4013
• [c584c3e08f] - util,src: allow lookup of hidden values (cjihrig) #3988

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