io.js 1.5.1 Release

On Monday, March 9th, @rvagg released io.js v1.5.1. The complete change log can be found on GitHub.

Notable changes

• tls: The reported TLS memory leak has been resolved via various commits in this release. Current testing indicated that there may still be some leak problems. Track complete progress at #1075.
• http: Fixed an error reported at joyent/node#9348 and npm/npm#7349. Pending data was not being fully read upon an 'error' event leading to an assertion failure on socket.destroy(). (Fedor Indutny) #1103

Known issues

• Possible remaining TLS-related memory leak(s), details at #1075.
• Windows still reports some minor test failures and we are continuing to address all of these as a priority. See #1005.
• Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal #690
• Not possible to build io.js as a static library #686
• 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

• Tony Pujals gave the io.js roadmap presentation to BayNode. The video was posted to vimeo on March 9. Slides are available for anyone to give at their local meetup.
• Johan Bergström is working on getting a patch into V8 on behalf of io.js to bring Solaris support back into the latest version
• NodeUp Episode 84 it's io.js update #1 with Mikeal Rogers, Trevor Norris and Bradley Meck
• Mikeal Rogers was interviewed for Descriptive podcast on an episoded called We've Never Had This Many Active Contributors to Core Before
• Mark Wolfe gave a talk about io.js at @melbjs meetup, slides are published here
• dockeri.co now runs on io.js, you can see the announcement here
• Node.js Advisory Board are talking about the io.js/Node.js reconciliation proposal, you can check the meeting minutes here

Upcoming Events

• NodeConf tickets are on sale, June 8th and 9th at Oakland, CA and NodeConf Adventure for June 11th - 14th at Walker Creek Ranch, CA
• CascadiaJS tickets are on sale, July 8th - 10th at Washington State
• NodeConf EU tickets are on sale, September 6th - 9th at Waterford, Ireland