2011.09.08, Version 0.5.6 (unstable)

• #345, #1635, #1648 Documentation improvements (Thomas Shinnick, Abimanyu Raja, AJ ONeal, Koichi Kobayashi, Michael Jackson, Logan Smyth, Ben Noordhuis)
• #650 Improve path parsing on windows (Bert Belder)
• #752 Remove headers sent check in OutgoingMessage.getHeader() (Peter Lyons)
• #1236, #1438, #1506, #1513, #1621, #1640, #1647 Libuv-related bugs fixed (Jorge Chamorro Bieling, Peter Bright, Luis Lavena, Igor Zinkovsky)
• #1296, #1612 crypto: Fix BIO's usage. (Koichi Kobayashi)
• #1345 Correctly set socket.remoteAddress with libuv backend (Bert Belder)
• #1429 Don't clobber quick edit mode on windows (Peter Bright)
• #1503 Make libuv backend default on unix, override with node --use-legacy
• #1565 Fix fs.stat for paths ending with \ on windows (Igor Zinkovsky)
• #1568 Fix x509 certificate subject parsing (Koichi Kobayashi)
• #1586 Make socket write encoding case-insensitive (Koichi Kobayashi)
• #1591, #1656, #1657 Implement fs in libuv, remove libeio and pthread-win32 dependency on windows (Igor Zinkovsky, Ben Noordhuis, Ryan Dahl, Isaac Schlueter)
• #1592 Don't load-time link against CreateSymbolicLink on windows (Peter Bright)
• #1601 Improve API consistency when dealing with the socket underlying a HTTP client request (Mikeal Rogers)
• #1610 Remove DigiNotar CA from trusted list (Isaac Schlueter)
• #1617 Added some win32 os functions (Karl Skomski)
• #1624 avoid buffer overrun with 'binary' encoding (Koichi Kobayashi)
• #1633 make Buffer.write() always set _charsWritten (Koichi Kobayashi)
• #1644 Windows: set executables to be console programs (Peter Bright)
• #1651 improve inspection for sparse array (Koichi Kobayashi)
• #1672 set .code='ECONNRESET' on socket hang up errors (Ben Noordhuis)
• Add test case for foaf+ssl client certificate (Niclas Hoyer)
• Added RPATH environment variable to override run-time library paths (Ashok Mudukutore)
• Added TLS client-side session resumption support (Sean Cunningham)
• Added additional properties to getPeerCertificate (Nathan Rixham, Niclas Hoyer)
• Don't eval repl command twice when an error is thrown (Nathan Rajlich)
• Improve util.isDate() (Nathan Rajlich)
• Improvements in libuv backend and bindings, upgrade libuv to bd6066cb349a9b3a1b0d87b146ddaee06db31d10
• Show warning when using lib/sys.js (Maciej Malecki)
• Support plus sign in url protocol (Maciej Malecki)
• Upgrade V8 to 3.6.2

Download: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.5.6/node-v0.5.6.tar.gz

Windows Executable: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.5.6/node.exe

Website: https://nodejs.org/docs/v0.5.6/

Documentation: https://nodejs.org/docs/v0.5.6/api/