Yosuke Furukawa
io.js and Node.js News — July 17th
io.js 2.4.0 is released, Apigee joined our foundation and Intl WG start.
io.js 2.4 Release
This week we have one io.js release: v2.4.0, complete changelog from previous releases can be found on GitHub.
Notable Changes
2.4.0
- src: Added a new
--track-heap-objectsflag to track heap object allocations for heap snapshots (Bradley Meck) #2135. - readline: Fixed a freeze that affected the repl if the keypress event handler threw (Alex Kocharin) #2107.
- npm: Upgraded to v2.13.0, release notes can be found in https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.13.0 (Forrest L Norvell) #2152.
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.- 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.
- NodeSource announces N|Support on their blog post. N|Support is a premium support offering for Node.js developers, DevOps and IT operations teams. To learn more about N|Support offerings, check out the solution page.
- Apigee is added to the Node Foundation
- joyent/docker-node team is moved to nodejs/docker team. As a result, @chorrell and @dcrudgington joined @nodejs/docker team.
- Intl WG is launched. They are dedicated to support and improvement of Internationalization and Localization in Node. Intl WG calls for participants in their issue.
Upcoming Events
- BrazilJS Conf tickets are on sale, August 21st - 22nd at Shopping Center BarraShoppingSul
- NodeConf EU tickets are on sale, September 6th - 9th at Waterford, Ireland
- Node.js Italian Conference tickets are on sale, October 10th at Desenzano - Brescia, Italy
- JSConf CO, October 16th - 17th at Ruta N, Medellin