Node.js News — November 6th

Node.js v4.2.2 (LTS) is released

Node.js v4.2.2 (LTS) Releases

This week we have one release: Node.js v4.2.2 (LTS). Complete changelog from previous releases can be found on GitHub.

Notable changes

This is an LTS maintenance release that addresses a number of issues:

• [1d0f2cbf87] - buffer: fix value check for writeUInt{B,L}E (Trevor Norris) #3500
• [2a45b72b4a] - buffer: don't CHECK on zero-sized realloc (Ben Noordhuis) #3499

NodeUp Podcast

• NodeUp podcast episode 93, 94 were published this week: http://nodeup.com/ninetythree, http://nodeup.com/ninetyfour.
• The subjects of the podcast are "An LTS Show with Kat Marchán, James Snell, and Rich Trott", "A Node.js Interactive Show with Dan Shaw, Mikeal Rogers, and Kassandra Perch.".

• Understanding Garbage Collection and hunting Memory Leaks in Node.js, "Covers how Node.js manages memory and how to trace down memory-related problems"
• Node.js v4 gets an A+ for SSL Labs with no configuration, "Node has one of the best out-of-the-box SSL setups of any web server."

If you have spotted or written something about Node.js, do come over to our Evangelism team repo and suggest it on the Issues page, specifically the Weekly Updates issue.

Upcoming Events

• NodeFest, November 7th at Tokyo, Japan
• Node Knockout, November 7th - 8th, Worldwide
• Node Girls London, November 7th at London, UK
• Playnode, November 12nd at Seoul, South Korea
• Nodevember, November 14th - 15th at Nashville, Tennessee, US.
• JSConf.Asia, November 19th - 20th in Singapore.
• NodeConf Barcelona, November 21st at Barcelona, Spain
• CampJS VI, November 20th – 23th at Queensland, Australia
• Node.js Interactive, December 8th - 9th at Portland, US.

Have an event about Node.js coming up? You can put your events here through the Evangelism team repo and announce it in the Issues page, specifically the Weekly Updates issue.