io.js and Node.js News — August 21st

io.js v3.1.0 and the v0.12 LTS plan, ARM build, nodeday event.

io.js v3.1.0 Release

Notable changes

• buffer: Fixed a couple large memory leaks (Ben Noordhuis) #2352.
• crypto:
  • Fixed a couple of minor memory leaks (Karl Skomski) #2375.
  • Signing now checks for OpenSSL errors (P.S.V.R) #2342. Note that this may expose previously hidden errors in user code.
• intl: Intl support using small-icu is now enabled by default in builds (Steven R. Loomis) #2264.
  • String#normalize() can now be used for unicode normalization.
  • The Intl object and various String and Number methods are present, but only support the English locale.
  • For support of all locales, node must be built with full-icu.
• tls: Fixed tls throughput being much lower after an incorrect merge (Fedor Indutny) #2381.
• tools: The v8 tick processor now comes bundled with node (Matt Loring) #2090.
  • This can be used by producing performance profiling output by running node with --perf, then running your appropriate platform's script on the output as found in tools/v8-prof.
• util: util.inspect(obj) now prints the constructor name of the object if there is one (Christopher Monsanto) #1935.

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 beforeExit are 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.resolve may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see #1435.

Node.js v0.12 LTS plan has been shortened

• Node.js v0.12 LTS plan has been shortened to end at the end of 2016, because OpenSSL 1.0.1 LTS is scheduled until the end of 2016. The detail is here.

• We still need a V8 maintainer for our LTS build! Head on over to GitHub to see if the requirements match your capabilities.
• Marko Bonaći published his blog post about his first useful Node.js product which can search log files.
• Rod Vagg updated his post about the state of the Node.js build on ARM. In the entry, Rod details how Node core members test and build Node.js for ARM hardware.

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Upcoming Events

• BrazilJS Conf tickets are on sale, August 21st - 22nd at Shopping Center BarraShoppingSul
• nodeday tickets are on sale, September 10th at Karnataka, India
• 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
• Nodevember, November 14th - 15th at Nashville, Tennessee, US.

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