Node.js v6.3.1 Release Brief

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in Community on Jul 22 2016

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This week’s Current release comes with an assortment of fixes and other improvements to help ensure stability, as well as a V8 patch upgrade.

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 84 commits:

23 were documentation-only commits.
22 only modify tests and 8 only affect internal tooling.
One dependency was upgraded:
- V8 @ 5.0.71.54 - (Ben Noordhuis) #7531
5 patches were backported from V8 upstream:
- 5b5d24b as 287006149b - A fix for X87 platforms - (Franziska Hinkelmann) #7638
- 3a903c4 as e5cce7acfe - A fix for PPC platforms - (Franziska Hinkelmann) #7638
- 2aa070be as e23904523f - (Franziska Hinkelmann) #7638
- 1f53e42 as d3f0a6a52f - (Ben Noordhuis) #7612
- d721121 as abf86adee1 - (Ben Noordhuis) #7633

The remaining significant commits are as follows:

[3747d910ec] - benchmark: remove unused variables (Rich Trott) #7600
[41582722c8] - buffer: optimize hex_decode (Christopher Jeffrey) #7602
[4a3300e66b] - buffer: fix creating from zero-length ArrayBuffer (Ingvar Stepanyan) #7176
[71f84b5e6c] - build: add conflict marker check during CI lint (Brian White) #7625
[4480b14fda] - build: use BUILDTYPE when building V8 in Makefile (Michaël Zasso) #7482
[94a486a388] - build: add v8 requirement to test-v8* in Makefile (Michaël Zasso) #7482
[e5627278f1] - build: add --enable-d8 configure option (Ben Noordhuis) #7538
[933ff62fa5] - build: respect --shared-* flags for inspector deps (Сковорода Никита Андреевич) #7569
[9bb1024dc3] - child_process: Check stderr before accessing it (Robert Chiras) #6877
[f574bd4cec] - cluster: remove bind() and self (cjihrig) #7710
[164981af5f] - deps: bump V8 patchlevel for instanceof cherry-picks (Franziska Hinkelmann) #7638
[cf8a4889db] - deps: v8_inspector no longer depends on wtf (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #7751
[939cf6ddb2] - deps: no /safeseh for ml64.exe (Fedor Indutny) #7759
[11d6f1af59] - fs: rename event to eventType in fs.watch() listener (Claudio Rodriguez) #7506
[989a2a1c92] - inspector: Unify event queues (Eugene Ostroukhov) #7271
[fc0ed2e8c7] - lib,benchmark,test: implement consistent braces (Rich Trott) #7630
[80ca0630a6] - net: export isIPv4(), isIPv6() directly from cares (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #7481
[72fc4ebca2] - repl: Mitigate vm #548 function redefinition issue (Prince J Wesley) #7794
[f97aa4be39] - src: remove unnecessary HandleScopes (Ben Noordhuis) #7711
[78dcf0d641] - src: fix handle leak in UDPWrap::Instantiate() (Ben Noordhuis) #7711
[dc766e6a6f] - src: fix handle leak in BuildStatsObject() (Ben Noordhuis) #7711
[96882e14d1] - src: fix handle leak in Buffer::New() (Ben Noordhuis) #7711
[fbc9ef84b8] - src: disable stdio buffering (Ben Noordhuis) #7610
[49a6ea1b73] - timers: fix processing of nested timers (Jeremy Whitlock) #3063
[0858e620e9] - util: inspect boxed Symbols like other primitives (Anna Henningsen) #7641

Notable Changes

buffer:
- Improved performance of Buffer#from(str, 'hex') and Buffer#write(str, 'hex') by up to 100%. (Christopher Jeffrey) #7602
- Fixed creating new Buffers when passing an empty ArrayBuffer. (Ingvar Stepanyan) #7176
repl: Fixed a function redeclaration bug in the repl. (Prince J Wesley) #7794
util: Symbols now format like other primitives when inspected. (Anna Henningsen) #7641
V8:
- Upgraded to V8 5.0.71.xx. (Ben Noordhuis) #7531
- Backported a V8 instanceof bugfix (Franziska Hinkelmann) #7638

Git Diffstats

(Showing the delta between v6.3.0 and v6.3.1, ignoring deps/npm.)

Without deps, docs, benchmarks, or tests:

 .eslintignore                     |   4 +-
 .eslintrc                         |  65 +++++------
 Makefile                          |  23 ++--
 configure                         |  15 ++-
 lib/_stream_readable.js           |   8 +-
 lib/buffer.js                     |   2 +-
 lib/child_process.js              |   4 +-
 lib/cluster.js                    |  34 +++---
 lib/fs.js                         |   4 +-
 lib/module.js                     |   3 +-
 lib/net.js                        |  11 +-
 lib/repl.js                       |  34 +++---
 lib/timers.js                     |   8 +-
 lib/util.js                       |   4 +
 node.gyp                          |  25 ++++-
 src/inspector_agent.cc            | 213 +++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 src/node_buffer.cc                |   6 +-
 src/node_crypto.cc                |   7 --
 src/node_file.cc                  |   4 +-
 src/node_main.cc                  |   5 +-
 src/node_version.h                |   2 +-
 src/string_bytes.cc               |  37 ++++---
 src/udp_wrap.cc                   |   2 +-
 tools/configure.d/nodedownload.py |   2 +-
 tools/icu/shrink-icu-src.py       |   6 +-
 tools/license2rtf.js              | 100 +++++++++--------
 tools/specialize_node_d.py        |   2 -
 tools/test.py                     |  39 -------
 vcbuild.bat                       |   4 +-
 29 files changed, 342 insertions(+), 331 deletions(-)

Deps only:

 deps/openssl/openssl.gyp                          |   8 +-
 deps/v8/include/v8-version.h                      |   2 +-
 deps/v8/src/arm/code-stubs-arm.cc                 |   6 +-
 deps/v8/src/arm64/code-stubs-arm64.cc             |   5 +-
 deps/v8/src/bootstrapper.cc                       |   4 +
 deps/v8/src/builtins.cc                           |  68 +++++
 deps/v8/src/builtins.h                            |   2 +
 deps/v8/src/compiler/access-info.cc               |   8 +-
 deps/v8/src/crankshaft/hydrogen.cc                |  63 ++--
 deps/v8/src/debug/mirrors.js                      |  10 +-
 deps/v8/src/ia32/code-stubs-ia32.cc               |   5 +
 deps/v8/src/ic/ic-compiler.cc                     |   7 +-
 deps/v8/src/ic/ic.cc                              |  11 +-
 deps/v8/src/js/string.js                          |  13 -
 deps/v8/src/mips/code-stubs-mips.cc               |   6 +-
 deps/v8/src/mips64/code-stubs-mips64.cc           |   6 +-
 deps/v8/src/objects-inl.h                         |  20 ++
 deps/v8/src/objects.cc                            | 154 ++++++----
 deps/v8/src/objects.h                             |  53 ++--
 deps/v8/src/ppc/code-stubs-ppc.cc                 |   6 +-
 deps/v8/src/runtime/runtime-literals.cc           |   9 +-
 deps/v8/src/runtime/runtime.h                     |   5 -
 deps/v8/src/x64/code-stubs-x64.cc                 |   5 +
 deps/v8/src/x87/code-stubs-x87.cc                 |   5 +
 deps/v8/test/cctest/test-field-type-tracking.cc   | 320 +++++++++++++++++++-
 deps/v8/test/cctest/test-strings.cc               |  22 ++
 deps/v8/test/mjsunit/debug-backtrace-text.js      |  80 +++--
 .../test/mjsunit/regress/regress-crbug-573858.js  |   2 +-
 .../test/mjsunit/regress/regress-crbug-617524.js  |  18 ++
 .../mjsunit/regress/regress-seqstrsetchar-ex2.js  |  34 ---
 deps/v8/test/mjsunit/regress/regress-v8-5009.js   |  61 ++++
 deps/v8/test/mjsunit/string-fromcharcode.js       |   5 -
 deps/v8_inspector/deps/wtf/README.md              |   1 -
 deps/v8_inspector/deps/wtf/wtf/Assertions.h       |  40 ---
 deps/v8_inspector/deps/wtf/wtf/Compiler.h         |  54 ----
 deps/v8_inspector/deps/wtf/wtf/PtrUtil.h          | 275 -----------------
 36 files changed, 782 insertions(+), 611 deletions(-)

Docs only:

 CHANGELOG.md                                     |   3 +-
 CONTRIBUTING.md                                  |   3 +
 GOVERNANCE.md                                    |  45 +++---
 README.md                                        |   2 +
 doc/api/assert.md                                |   4 +-
 doc/api/buffer.md                                |  10 +-
 doc/api/child_process.md                         |   2 +-
 doc/api/crypto.md                                |   2 +-
 doc/api/dgram.md                                 |   9 +-
 doc/api/dns.md                                   |   5 +-
 doc/api/events.md                                |  56 +++----
 doc/api/fs.md                                    |  28 ++--
 doc/api/http.md                                  |  24 +--
 doc/api/https.md                                 |   4 +-
 doc/api/path.md                                  |   2 +-
 doc/api/process.md                               |  29 ++--
 doc/api/readline.md                              |   6 +-
 doc/api/repl.md                                  |   2 +-
 doc/api/stream.md                                | 103 +++++++++++-
 doc/api/tls.md                                   |   4 +-
 doc/api/util.md                                  |  15 +-
 doc/api/zlib.md                                  |   7 -
 doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V6.md                   | 105 ++++++++++++-
 doc/onboarding-extras.md                         |   3 +-
 doc/releases.md                                  |  16 +-
 doc/topics/the-event-loop-timers-and-nexttick.md | 172 +++++++++++----------
 26 files changed, 440 insertions(+), 221 deletions(-)

Tests & Benchmarks only:

   0.2% benchmark/buffers/
   0.0% benchmark/child_process/
   0.0% benchmark/dgram/
   0.0% benchmark/http/
   0.0% benchmark/
   0.2% test/addons/async-hello-world/
   0.2% test/doctool/
   0.0% test/fixtures/
   0.2% test/gc/
   1.1% test/internet/
   1.1% test/known_issues/
   0.0% test/message/
  92.0% test/parallel/
   0.3% test/pseudo-tty/
   2.3% test/pummel/
   1.2% test/sequential/
   0.0% test/testpy/
   0.0% test/timers/
   0.2% test/
 326 files changed, 2275 insertions(+), 3889 deletions(-)

Most active commit

Of the 84 commits, 49a6ea1 was the most active: (Excluding docs, deps, and tests.)

commit 49a6ea1b7321ab3d98e2f77a0bc50317bfe4ab59
Author: Jeremy Whitlock <jwhitlock@apache.org>
Date:   Thu Jul 23 18:09:21 2015 -0600

    timers: fix processing of nested timers
    
    Whenever a timer is scheduled within another timer, there are a few
    known issues that we are fixing:
    
    * Whenever the timer being scheduled has the same timeout value as the
    outer timer, the newly created timer can fire on the same tick of the
    event loop instead of during the next tick of the event loop
    * Whenever a timer is added in another timer's callback, its underlying
    timer handle will be started with a timeout that is actually incorrect
    
    This commit consists of
    https://github.com/nodejs/node-v0.x-archive/pull/17203 and
    https://github.com/nodejs/node-v0.x-archive/pull/25763.
    
    Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node-v0.x-archive/issues/9333
    Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node-v0.x-archive/issues/15447
    Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node-v0.x-archive/issues/25607
    Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/5426
    PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3063

 lib/timers.js                                  |  8 ++-
 test/common.js                                 |  7 ++
 test/parallel/test-timers-blocking-callback.js | 81 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 test/parallel/test-timers-nested.js            | 39 ++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 133 insertions(+), 2 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.

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