io.js 1.6.4 release

This week we had one io.js release v1.6.4, complete changelog can be found on GitHub.

Notable changes

• npm: upgrade npm to 2.7.5. See npm CHANGELOG.md for details. Includes two important security fixes.
• openssl: preliminary work has been done for an upcoming upgrade to OpenSSL 1.0.2a #1325 (Shigeki Ohtsu). See #589 for additional details.
• timers: a minor memory leak when timers are unreferenced was fixed, alongside some related timers issues #1330 (Fedor Indutny). This appears to have fixed the remaining leak reported in #1075.
• android: it is now possible to compile io.js for Android and related devices #1307 (Giovanny Andres Gongora Granada).

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
• 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

• Node Foundation dev policy draft is here
• ARMv8 / ARM64 support on io.js
• Continued work on a new dev policy for Node.js/io.js
• TC call from Wednesday

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