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This week’s Current release is a relatively small patch while we wait for the security fixes due next week. Some http fixes and an npm upgrade are the only notable things.

As with all releases within major version lines, minor and patch upgrades should be drop-in replacements for previous versions.

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Overview

Of a total of 63 commits:

• 29 were documentation-only commits.
• 11 only modify tests and 2 only affect internal tooling.
• 1 dependency was updated:
  • npm @ 3.9.5 (Kat Marchán) #7139

The remaining significant commits are as follows:

• [d71ede8113] - benchmark: don't convert arguments to numbers (Brian White) #6570
• [32f76983e2] - benchmark: increase http token check iterations (Brian White) #6570
• [23a495a9a9] - benchmark: add benchmark for url.format() (Rich Trott) #7250
• [27ed7fc56c] - benchmark: fix child-process-exec-stdout on Windows (Bartosz Sosnowski) #7178
• [5e5af8b4bb] - benchmark: fix child-process-read on Windows (Bartosz Sosnowski) #6971
• [d24e4095bf] - benchmark: add benchmark for Buffer.concat() (Anna Henningsen) #7054
• [666b6f9302] - build: add REPLACEME tag for version info in docs (Ben Noordhuis) #6864
• [6d3d2d1ae4] - cluster: don't send messages if no IPC channel (Santiago Gimeno) #7132
• [068718c91c] - debugger: remove obsolete setTimeout() (Rich Trott) #7154
• [2961f06f6f] - debugger: fix --debug-brk interaction with -e (Rich Trott) #7089
• [1600966f59] - fs: execute mkdtemp()'s callback with no context (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #7068
• [ad1045c829] - http: fix no dumping after maybeReadMore() (Fedor Indutny) #7211
• [2a462ba1e2] - http: optimize checkInvalidHeaderChar() (Brian White) #6570
• [4a63be031f] - http: optimize checkIsHttpToken() (Brian White) #6570
• [40e49dee82] - http: wait for both prefinish/end to keepAlive (Fedor Indutny) #7149
• [e8c91e7557] - repl: refine handling of illegal tokens (Rich Trott) #7104
• [cf0928ccb7] - src: clean up string_search (Brian White) #7174
• [b0225e5926] - stream: ensure awaitDrain is increased once (David Halls) #7292
• [9c6b69ec1b] - stream: reset awaitDrain after manual .resume() (Anna Henningsen) #7160
• [798a737f45] - Revert "test: change duration_ms to duration" (Rod Vagg) #7216

Notable Changes

• http:
  • Fixed a bug where req.read(0) could cause incoming connections to stall and time out under certain conditions. (Fedor Indutny) #7211
  • When freeing the socket to be reused in keep-alive Agent, wait for both prefinish and end events. (Fedor Indutny) #7149 - This is to prevent the next request from being written before the previous one has finished sending the body, leading to parser errors.
• npm: upgrade npm to 3.9.5 (Kat Marchán) #7139

Git Diffstats

(Showing the delta between v6.2.1 and v6.2.2, ignoring deps/npm.)

Without deps, docs, benchmarks, or tests:

 Makefile                       |  10 +++-
 lib/_debugger.js               |   8 +--
 lib/_http_client.js            |  27 ++++++++--
 lib/_http_common.js            | 114 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 lib/_http_incoming.js          |   9 ++++
 lib/_stream_readable.js        |  10 +++-
 lib/cluster.js                 |   3 ++
 lib/fs.js                      |   4 +-
 lib/internal/bootstrap_node.js |  59 +++++++++++---------
 lib/repl.js                    |  18 +++++--
 src/node_version.h             |   2 +-
 src/string_search.h            |  18 ++-----
 tools/license-builder.sh       |  12 ++++-
 tools/test.py                  |   2 +
 14 files changed, 195 insertions(+), 101 deletions(-)

Docs only:

 .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md |   10 +-
 CHANGELOG.md                     |    3 +-
 CONTRIBUTING.md                  |    6 +
 GOVERNANCE.md                    |    2 +-
 LICENSE                          |    4 +-
 README.md                        |    4 +-
 doc/api/cluster.md               |    3 -
 doc/api/console.md               |    4 +-
 doc/api/dns.md                   |   48 +
 doc/api/fs.md                    |   19 +-
 doc/api/http.md                  |   16 +-
 doc/api/net.md                   |  179 ++-
 doc/api/path.md                  |  421 +++++--
 doc/api/process.md               |  867 ++++++++------
 doc/api/punycode.md              |   78 +-
 doc/api/querystring.md           |  119 +-
 doc/api/readline.md              |  559 +++++----
 doc/api/repl.md                  |  541 +++++----
 doc/api/stream.md                | 2321 +++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 doc/api/url.md                   |   15 +-
 doc/api/util.md                  |    2 +-
 doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V6.md   |   79 +-
 22 files changed, 3209 insertions(+), 2091 deletions(-)

Tests & Benchmarks only:

   0.4% benchmark/buffers/
   1.1% benchmark/child_process/
   0.6% benchmark/http/
   0.6% benchmark/url/
   0.3% benchmark/
   2.8% test/disabled/
   0.8% test/message/
  92.5% test/parallel/
   0.4% test/sequential/
 403 files changed, 2133 insertions(+), 1728 deletions(-)

Most active commit

Of the 63 commits, 2961f06 was the most active: (Excluding docs, npm, eslint, and tests.)

commit 2961f06f6f940306866f988f175e5f38c6fceb59
Author: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue May 31 23:48:32 2016 -0700

    debugger: fix --debug-brk interaction with -e
    
    The command line flag `--debug-brk` was ignored when the `-e` flag was
    also present. This change allows the flags to both be honored when they
    are used in a single command line.
    
    PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/7089
    Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3589
    Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
    Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>

 lib/internal/bootstrap_node.js                    | 59 ++++++++++++---------
 test/message/core_line_numbers.out                |  4 +-
 test/message/error_exit.out                       |  3 +-
 test/message/nexttick_throw.out                   |  3 +-
 .../undefined_reference_in_new_context.out        |  2 +-
 test/message/vm_display_runtime_error.out         |  4 +-
 test/message/vm_display_syntax_error.out          |  8 +--
 test/message/vm_dont_display_runtime_error.out    |  4 +-
 test/message/vm_dont_display_syntax_error.out     |  4 +-
 test/parallel/test-debug-brk.js                   | 36 +++++++++++--
 10 files changed, 81 insertions(+), 46 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.