First of all my excuse for not posting the past 2 days. I had a few days off from my day job because I went to a concert of Bullet For My Valentine(for those of you that might me interested). This also caused me to mis this new release of Node.js so here is a small roundup of the notable changes.
buffer (#3767)
The noAssert option for many buffer functions will now silently drop invalid write values rather than crashing This makes the behavior match what the docs suggest.
child_process (#3577)
child.send() now properly returns a boolean like the docs suggest.
http_parser (#3569)
update http-parser to 2.6.0 from 2.5.0 (James M Snell) .
Now supports the following HTTP methods: LINK, UNLINK, BIND, REBIND, UNBIND.
Also added ACL and IPv6 Zone ID support.
npm (#3685)
upgrade npm to 3.3.12 from v3.3.6. See the release notes for v3.3.7, v3.3.8, v3.3.9, v3.3.10, v3.3.11, and v3.3.12 for more details.
REPL (#3630)
The REPL no longer crashes if the persistent history file cannot be opened.
tls (#3755)
The default sessionIdContext now uses SHA1 in FIPS mode rather than MD5.
v8(#3779)
Added some more useful post-mortem data.
Documentation (#3662)
All of the API docs have been re-ordered so as to read in alphabetical order.
The known issues that are still in there are:
- Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. #690
- 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.
- Unicode characters in filesystem paths are not handled consistently across platforms or Node.js APIs. See #2088, #3401 and #3519.