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Giovanny Gioyik
io.js and Node.js News
This week we have one io.js release v2.3.1, complete changelog from previous releases can be found on GitHub.
Notable changes
- module: The number of syscalls made during a
require()have been significantly reduced again (see #1801 from v2.2.0 for previous work), which should lead to a performance improvement (Pierre Inglebert) #1920. - npm:
- zlib: A bug was discovered where the process would abort if the final part of a zlib decompression results in a buffer that would exceed the maximum length of
0x3fffffffbytes (~1GiB). This was likely to only occur during buffered decompression (rather than streaming). This is now fixed and will instead result in a thrownRangeError(Michaël Zasso) #1811.
Known issues
See https://github.com/nodejs/node/labels/confirmed-bug for complete and current list of known issues.
- Some problems with unreferenced timers running during
beforeExitare still to be resolved. See #1264. - Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal #690
process.send()is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760 and fix in #774- Calling
dns.setServers()while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion #894 url.resolvemay transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see #1435.
- Slide deck: Bluemix Webinar: Deploying a Full Stack Node.js Application to IBM Bluemix
- Article by RisingStack: How to Use Rust with Node.js When Performance Matters
- Device Atlas API now supports Node.js
- On Maintaining a Native Node Module by Chris Williams
- nodei.co is running with io.js
- npm 3.0.0 pre-release
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