Node.js 7.7.2 Release Brief
This is a routine patch release with a relatively small assortment of fixes and documentation improvements.
As with all releases within major version lines, minor and patch upgrades should be drop-in replacements for previous versions.
Overview
Of a total of 47 commits:
- 16 were documentation-only commits.
- 14 only modify tests and 1 only affects internal tooling.
- 1 patch was backported from upstream zlib:
- [
ed6d7412a7] - FixCLEAR_HASHmacro to be usable as a single statement. (Sam Roberts) #11616
- [
The remaining significant commits are as follows:
- [
02dbae6b3f] - buffer: refactorBuffer.prototype.inspect()(Rich Trott) #11600 - [
e5b530cb62] - build: fixllvmversion detection in freebsd-10 (Shigeki Ohtsu) #11668 - [
039a1a97d8] - dns: minor refactor of dns module (James M Snell) #11597 - [
f972bd81c6] - inspector: libuv notification on incoming message (Eugene Ostroukhov) #11617 - [
a7eba9c71c] - meta: moveWORKING_GROUPS.mdto CTC repo (James M Snell) #11555 - [
5963566367] - meta: remove out of dateROADMAP.mdfile (James M Snell) #11556 - [
b56e851c48] - net: refactor overloaded argument handling (Joyee Cheung) #11667 - [
13cb8a69e4] - net: remove misleading comment (Ben Noordhuis) #11573 - [
e2133f3e57] - os: improvecpus()performance (Brian White) #11564 - [
821d713a38] - src: remove outdatedFIXMEinnode_crypto.cc(Daniel Bevenius) #11669 - [
1b6ba9effb] - src: do not ignore IDNA conversion error (Timothy Gu) #11549 - [
d6ac192fa3] - tls: fix macro to check NPN feature (Shigeki Ohtsu) #11655 - [
3c54f8199c] - tty: addref()soprocess.stdin.ref()etc. work (Ben Schmidt) #7360 - [
24e6fcce8b] - url: usehasIntlinstead oftry-catch(Daijiro Wachi) #11571 - [
7b84363636] - util: fix inspecting symbol key in string (Ali BARIN) #11672
Notable Changes
- meta: Added
Daijiro Wachias a collaborator. (Daijiro Wachi) #11676 - tty:
tty_wrapnow has aref()method for consistency. (Ben Schmidt) #7360 - util:
inspect()now correctly formats Symbol properties whenshowHidden: trueis set. (Ali BARIN) #11672
Git Diffstats
(Showing the delta between v7.7.1 and v7.7.2, ignoring deps/npm.)
Without deps, tools, docs, benchmarks, or tests:
configure | 6 +-
lib/buffer.js | 10 ++-
lib/dns.js | 130 ++++++++++++++++++++---------------
lib/net.js | 174 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
lib/os.js | 23 ++++++-
lib/url.js | 17 ++---
lib/util.js | 4 ++
src/debug-agent.cc | 2 +-
src/inspector_agent.cc | 17 +++--
src/node.cc | 4 +-
src/node_constants.cc | 2 +-
src/node_crypto.cc | 19 +++---
src/node_crypto.h | 6 +-
src/node_i18n.cc | 20 ++++--
src/node_i18n.h | 6 +-
src/node_os.cc | 58 +++++++++-------
src/node_util.cc | 6 ++
src/node_version.h | 2 +-
src/string_search.h | 12 ++--
src/tls_wrap.cc | 2 +-
src/tty_wrap.cc | 1 +
21 files changed, 311 insertions(+), 210 deletions(-)
Tools only:
tools/test.py | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Deps only:
deps/zlib/deflate.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Docs only:
CHANGELOG.md | 3 +-
CONTRIBUTING.md | 9 --
README.md | 7 +
ROADMAP.md | 84 ----------
WORKING_GROUPS.md | 281 ----------------------------------
doc/STYLE_GUIDE.md | 2 +-
doc/api/buffer.md | 12 +-
doc/api/cli.md | 2 +-
doc/api/console.md | 24 ++-
doc/api/documentation.md | 6 -
doc/api/errors.md | 45 ++----
doc/api/modules.md | 2 +-
doc/api/net.md | 3 +-
doc/api/stream.md | 4 +-
doc/api/timers.md | 4 +-
doc/api/url.md | 38 ++++-
doc/api_assets/dnt_helper.js | 2 +-
doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_ARCHIVE.md | 2 +-
doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V5.md | 2 +-
doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V7.md | 59 +++++++
20 files changed, 158 insertions(+), 433 deletions(-)
Tests & Benchmarks only:
benchmark/compare.R | 2 +-
benchmark/compare.js | 2 +-
benchmark/os/cpus.js | 17 ++
test/fixtures/url-idna.js | 217 ++++++++++++++++++++
test/fixtures/url-tests.js | 90 +++++---
test/inspector/inspector-helper.js | 21 +-
test/inspector/test-not-blocked-on-idle.js | 20 ++
.../test-dgram-broadcast-multi-process.js | 2 +-
test/parallel/test-buffer-prototype-inspect.js | 23 +++
test/parallel/test-child-process-fork-dgram.js | 2 +-
test/parallel/test-cluster-message.js | 2 +-
.../test-cluster-setup-master-multiple.js | 2 +-
test/parallel/test-crypto-authenticated.js | 2 +-
test/parallel/test-crypto-binary-default.js | 4 +-
test/parallel/test-crypto-cipheriv-decipheriv.js | 4 +-
test/parallel/test-event-emitter-add-listeners.js | 12 +-
test/parallel/test-fs-access.js | 4 +-
test/parallel/test-fs-null-bytes.js | 12 +-
test/parallel/test-handle-wrap-isrefed-tty.js | 33 ---
test/parallel/test-handle-wrap-isrefed.js | 129 +++++++-----
test/parallel/test-http-parser-bad-ref.js | 2 -
.../test-https-agent-create-connection.js | 146 +++++++++++++
test/parallel/test-icu-punycode.js | 85 +++-----
test/parallel/test-internal-util-assertCrypto.js | 2 +-
test/parallel/test-process-no-deprecation.js | 2 +-
test/parallel/test-repl.js | 71 ++++---
test/parallel/test-setproctitle.js | 8 +-
.../parallel/test-stream-readable-needReadable.js | 2 +-
...et-timeout-removes-other-socket-unref-timer.js | 2 +-
test/parallel/test-tls-alpn-server-client.js | 8 +-
test/parallel/test-tls-check-server-identity.js | 2 +-
test/parallel/test-tls-empty-sni-context.js | 6 +-
test/parallel/test-tls-npn-server-client.js | 4 +-
test/parallel/test-util-inspect.js | 3 +
test/parallel/test-vm-timeout.js | 2 +-
test/parallel/test-whatwg-url-domainto.js | 36 ++++
test/pseudo-tty/ref_keeps_node_running.js | 27 +++
test/pseudo-tty/ref_keeps_node_running.out | 0
test/pseudo-tty/test-handle-wrap-isrefed-tty.js | 23 +++
test/pseudo-tty/test-handle-wrap-isrefed-tty.out | 0
40 files changed, 786 insertions(+), 245 deletions(-)
Most active commit
Of the 47 commits, 3c54f81 was the most active:
(Excluding docs, npm, eslint, and tests.)
commit 3c54f8199c80fbc5b5d710938e1eaf3c8b84019e
Author: Ben Schmidt <insightfuls@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue Jul 19 13:50:27 2016 +1000
tty: add ref() so process.stdin.ref() etc. work
Also squashed from:
* test: move tty-wrap isrefed test to pseudo-tty/
* test: test tty-wrap handle isrefed properly
* test: improve failure messages in isrefed tests
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/7360
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell.gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
src/tty_wrap.cc | 1 +
test/README.md | 5 +
test/parallel/test-handle-wrap-isrefed-tty.js | 33 ------
test/parallel/test-handle-wrap-isrefed.js | 129 +++++++++++++--------
test/pseudo-tty/ref_keeps_node_running.js | 27 +++++
test/pseudo-tty/ref_keeps_node_running.out | 0
test/pseudo-tty/test-handle-wrap-isrefed-tty.js | 23 ++++
test/pseudo-tty/test-handle-wrap-isrefed-tty.out | 0
8 files changed, 135 insertions(+), 83 deletions(-)
This is a regular and routine release for a Node.js Current release line. We will be sure to let you know when a release contains a critical update and a recommendation to upgrade. Of course, we'd love you to upgrade, but this release is not critical unless you are experiencing one of the issues identified and fixed above.