Node.js News — January 1st

Node.js Node v4.2.4 (LTS) is released

Node.js Node v4.2.4 (LTS) Releases

This week we have one release: Node.js Node v4.2.4 (LTS). Complete changelog from previous releases can be found on GitHub.

Notable changes

Node.js v4.2.4 is a Long Term Support Maintenance Update. There are a number of fixes and documentation updates.

• Roughly 78% of the commits are documentation and test improvements
• domains:
  • Fix handling of uncaught exceptions (Julien Gilli) #3884
• deps:
  • Upgrade to npm 2.14.12 (Kat Marchán) #4110
  • Backport 819b40a from V8 upstream (Michaël Zasso) #3938
  • Updated node LICENSE file with new npm license (Kat Marchán) #4110

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