Last week we began a return to a normalized amount of activity in the Node.js WGs and surrounding projects. We did have a set of updates, but few were directly related to the Node.js 8 release - meaning most of the needed post-release updates are complete or nearing completion. 🎉

📰 News from the Node.js Working Groups

• The Node.js Build WG is working on updating gcc to use the same version (gcc 4.9.4) that recently landed in Node Core
• An issue was opened in the Build WG to discuss and track any ongoing problems Raspberry Pi 3 NFS performance, regarding speed, after an unexpected outage two weeks ago
• There’s ongoing discussion around dropping support for Node.js v0.10 and v0.12 in nan
• A PR was submitted to kick off the Node.js Collection team’s README.md, and has had quite a bit of discussion

📦 Node.js Project Releases

• readable-stream
  • readable-stream@2.3.0
• Canary in the Gold Mine (CITGM)
  • citgm@2.0.2

📺 Live Node.js Meetings

• Post-mortem with Promises Discussion
  • Video
  • Issue