Node v7.1.0 (Current)

Notable changes

• buffer: add buffer.transcode to transcode a buffer's content from one encoding to another primarily using ICU (James M Snell) #9038
• child_process: add public API for IPC channel (cjihrig) #9322
• icu:
  • Upgraded to ICU 58 - small icu (Steven R. Loomis) #9234
  • Add cldr, tz, and unicode to process.versions (Steven R. Loomis) #9266
• lib: make String(global) === '[object global]' (Anna Henningsen) #9279
• libuv: Upgraded to 1.10.0 (cjihrig) #9267
• readline: use icu based string width calculation (James M Snell) #9040
• src:
  • add NODE_PRESERVE_SYMLINKS environment variable that has the same effect as the --preserve-symlinks flag (Marc Udoff) #8749
  • Fix String#toLocaleUpperCase() and String#toLocaleLowerCase() (Steven R. Loomis)

Commits

• [dafdb7b069] - benchmark: add trailing newline for consistency (Roman Reiss) #9410
• [fab8eb660f] - benchmark: add microbenchmarks for ES Map (Rod Vagg) #7581
• [44792f83bf] - benchmark,lib,test,tools: remove unneeded . escape (Rich Trott) #9449
• [c70c96a3e2] - buffer: coerce offset using Math.trunc() (cjihrig) #9341
• [212da12f45] - buffer: use correct name for custom inspect symbol (Charmander) #9289
• [0939edd4ed] - (SEMVER-MINOR) buffer: add buffer.transcode (James M Snell) #9038
• [ceec520aef] - build: add MAKEFLAGS="-j1" to node-gyp (Daniel Bevenius) #9450
• [1109d0b244] - build: reduce noise from doc target (Daniel Bevenius) #9457
• [90aac7ca28] - build: start comments at beginning of line (Sakthipriyan Vairamani (thefourtheye)) #9375
• [b51db7120e] - build: make node-gyp output silent (Sakthipriyan Vairamani (thefourtheye)) #8990
• [d8eaa14c2d] - build: prioritise --shared-X-Y over pkg-config (Rod Vagg) #9368
• [f7d8481ee2] - build: use wxneeded on openbsd (Aaron Bieber) #9232
• [7b0e93738b] - (SEMVER-MINOR) child_process: add public API for IPC channel (cjihrig) #9322
• [4e3731c7e7] - child_process: remove unreachable code (cjihrig) #9307
• [d573acf96f] - child_process: remove unreachable execSync() code (cjihrig) #9209
• [f1f00df9bf] - deps: upgrade npm to 3.10.9 (Kat Marchán) #9286
• [3d1766f492] - (SEMVER-MINOR) deps: Intl: ICU 58 bump - small icu (BIG COMMIT) (Steven R. Loomis) #9234
• [827000ee62] - (SEMVER-MINOR) deps: Intl: ICU 58 bump: configure/LICENSE/docs (Steven R. Loomis) #9234
• [0f871e1087] - deps: back port OpenBSD fix in c-ares/c-ares (Aaron Bieber) #9232
• [106d71914c] - deps: upgrade libuv to 1.10.0 (cjihrig) #9267
• [4c4132e5d3] - doc: update minute-taking procedure for CTC (Rich Trott) #9425
• [ed8df17135] - doc: note that tests should include a description (Gibson Fahnestock) #9415
• [bc2d1c9d91] - doc: do not link in the headings (Sakthipriyan Vairamani (thefourtheye)) #9416
• [4bb9d21d01] - doc: update GOVERNANCE.md to use "meeting chair" (Rich Trott) #9432
• [c2fab3c600] - doc: add Sakthipriyan to the CTC (Rod Vagg) #9427
• [a8295d86d9] - doc: update Diagnostics WG info (Josh Gavant) #9329
• [3af9453019] - doc: move stray sentences in zlib doc (Rich Trott) #9365
• [d4b509584f] - doc: use 'an' over 'a', remove redundant sentence (Zeke Sikelianos) #9345
• [ff69e38070] - doc: add more internal links to fs.Stats object (Zeke Sikelianos) #9345
• [c554f090df] - doc: fix outdate ninja link (Yangyang Liu) #9278
• [3d4a829d85] - doc: fix broken links to Buffer.from(string) (Jesse McCarthy) #9294
• [225a9dfb00] - doc: fs: fix link to mkdtemp (coderaiser) #9379
• [dbeadd363c] - doc: update OpenSSL links (kobelb) #9338
• [eeabab3827] - doc: add 2016-10-26 CTC meeting minutes (Rich Trott) #9348
• [31690a690c] - doc: add 2016-10-05 CTC meeting minutes (Josh Gavant) #9326
• [7f1a40dbcf] - doc: add 2016-09-28 CTC meeting minutes (Josh Gavant) #9325
• [edd89265ba] - doc: update CONTRIBUTING.md to address editing PRs (Gibson Fahnestock) #9259
• [c7458909a7] - doc: reference signal(7) for the list of signals (Emanuele DelBono) #9323
• [a3f6854724] - doc: more realistic custom inspect example (Ryan Scheel (Havvy)) #8875
• [a0074e2232] - doc: clarify buffer toString docs. (Olan Byrne) #8984
• [3f90481e20] - doc: clarify relation between a file and a module (marzelin) #9026
• [82119049ef] - doc: fix typo in http.md (anu0012) #9144
• [d2e7882723] - doc: add 2016-10-19 CTC meeting minutes (Josh Gavant) #9193
• [ce00a9d2b6] - doc: add performance warning to require.extensions (Ben Noordhuis) #9196
• [d1c32aa335] - doc: mention case-insensitive env on windows (Oliver Salzburg) #9166
• [c6e429a6bc] - doc: add CTC meeting minutes for 2016-10-12 (Michael Dawson) #9070
• [355041960d] - events: remove unnecessary checks (cjihrig) #9330
• [0ce0abf6cb] - events,test: fix TypeError in EventEmitter warning (jseagull) #9021
• [6f35e4421a] - http: add debug message for invalid header value (Evan Lucas) #9195
• [173b088e1a] - inspector: do not prompt to use localhost (Eugene Ostroukhov) #9451
• [939d1023c2] - inspector: switch to new inspector APIs (Eugene Ostroukhov) #9028
• [2e7b078e7b] - inspector: fix request path nullptr dereference (Ben Noordhuis) #9184
• [9940666c1b] - (SEMVER-MINOR) intl: Add more versions from ICU (Steven R. Loomis) #9266
• [5bfefa6063] - lib: change == to === in linkedlist (jedireza) #9362
• [d24bd20d2b] - lib: make String(global) === '[object global]' (Anna Henningsen) #9279
• [9372aee4a3] - lib: fix beforeExit not working with -e (Ben Noordhuis) #8821
• [c231130e06] - module: skip directories known not to exist (Ben Noordhuis) #9196
• [d09eb9c6b2] - net: name anonymous functions (Pedro Victor) #9357
• [a5c62cb4f2] - (SEMVER-MINOR) readline: use icu based string width calculation (James M Snell) #9040
• [60461d2d90] - repl: refactor lib/repl.js (Rich Trott) #9374
• [071836aa42] - repl: name anonymous functions (Pedro Victor) #9356
• [0b9d80a037] - repl: don’t write to input stream in editor mode (Anna Henningsen) #9207
• [1c59cefc44] - repl: make key of repl.write() optional always (Anna Henningsen) #9207
• [b1ef638de3] - (SEMVER-MINOR) src: default --icu_case_mapping on as a v8 option (Steven R. Loomis) #9454
• [0c236d1d36] - src: replace SetNamedPropertyHandler() (AnnaMag) #9062
• [5ab172ee8f] - src: fix use of uninitialized variable (James M Snell) #9281
• [57c0a9b5dc] - src: remove unused function (Brian White) #9243
• [08e12c7809] - src: remove superfluous env_string string (Ben Noordhuis) #9213
• [c342bda49e] - src: make cross-context MakeCallback() calls work (Ben Noordhuis) #9221
• [60a5b515b8] - (SEMVER-MINOR) src: add NODE_PRESERVE_SYMLINKS environment variable (Marc Udoff) #8749
• [f2a3b24611] - src: clean up program/isolate/env init logic (Ben Noordhuis) #9224
• [9e753ba782] - src: simplify code, remove NodeInstanceData (Ben Noordhuis) #9224
• [8b53f3c41c] - src: speed up module loading, don't resize buffer (Ben Noordhuis) #9132
• [362c307f38] - src: speed up module loading, skip EOF read (Ben Noordhuis) #9132
• [85a9295813] - src,tools: speed up startup by 2.5% (Ben Noordhuis) #5458
• [6e1eb59fee] - test: improve test-debugger-util-regression (Santiago Gimeno) #9490
• [6eb6816e22] - test: fix flaky test-net-GH-5504 (Santiago Gimeno) #9461
• [f640bafc58] - test: fix flaky test-force-repl-with-eval (Santiago Gimeno) #9460
• [675a4b20b6] - test: update http-header-obstext (Gibson Fahnestock) #9415
• [9d9ea8127e] - test: move timer-dependent test to sequential (Rich Trott) #9431
• [1c3487b5c3] - test: remove timers from streams test (Anna Henningsen)
• [e696bc33eb] - test: increase test coverage for lib/zlib.js (Rich Trott) #9366
• [ed3f80a988] - test: add test for HTTP client "aborted" event (Kyle E. Mitchell) #7376
• [d12ed29f6a] - test: remove timer in test-dgram-send-empty-array (Rich Trott) #9361
• [e451022dd9] - test: refactor test-http-client-readable (Rich Trott) #9344
• [01b626a45a] - test: clean up dgram-broadcast-multi-process test (Isobel Redelmeier) #9308
• [411b1339bc] - test: fix freebsd10-64 CI failures (Rich Trott) #9317
• [1037463604] - test: add child_process customFds test (cjihrig) #9307
• [bd9cb40977] - test: run all of test-timers-blocking-callback (Rich Trott) #9305
• [8b7ce8bd11] - test: fix flaky test-fs-watch-recursive on OS X (Rich Trott) #9303
• [6c9e4fddf0] - test: refactor test-async-wrap-check-providers (Gerges Beshay) #9297
• [0ab008e50d] - test: fix lint error regarding unused commons const (Daniel Bevenius) #9334
• [c9b67c6a91] - test: writable stream needDrain state (Italo A. Casas) #8799
• [248a3200b2] - test: writable stream ending state (Italo A. Casas) #8707
• [d6f688ae0d] - test: writable stream finished state (Italo A. Casas) #8791
• [d49d990c42] - test: prevent workers outliving parent (Sam Roberts) #9257
• [2ad81ed0e6] - test: refactor /parallel/test-cluster-uncaught-exception.js to ES6 (Deverick) #9239
• [f39eb05946] - test: use strict assertions in module loader test (Ben Noordhuis) #9263
• [fc9e6a37fa] - test: remove err timer from test-http-set-timeout (BethGriggs) #9264
• [53520f06f3] - test: clean up test-child-process-exec-cwd.js (Jeena Lee) #9231
• [deef2f6079] - test: add child_process.exec() timeout coverage (cjihrig) #9208
• [5e138fe768] - test: skip whatwg url parse and setter tests when icu is missing (James M Snell) #9246
• [a39b98ef73] - test: add common.hasIntl (James M Snell) #9246
• [efb62aa146] - test: fix flaky test by removing timer (Evan Lucas) #9199
• [44427cc1f7] - test: case sensitivity of env variables (Oliver Salzburg) #9166
• [63ef0990f3] - test: add coverage for execFileSync() errors (cjihrig) #9211
• [06b414078e] - test: remove test-v8-inspector-json-protocol test (Ben Noordhuis) #9184
• [21ba3e3b89] - test: add more module loader test coverage (Ben Noordhuis) #9196
• [204461925b] - test: make flaky pummel test more reliable (Ben Noordhuis) #9241
• [4be1ba582a] - test: move flaky test to test/pummel (Ben Noordhuis) #9241
• [032533954b] - tools: use long format for gpg fingerprint (Myles Borins) #9258
• [aac4af2b26] - tools: enable final newline in .editorconfig (Roman Reiss) #9410
• [513da404cb] - tools: enforce function name matching in linter (Rich Trott) #9408
• [c23ece7056] - tools: remove dangling eslint symlink (Sam Roberts) #9299
• [bdad1e28fd] - tools: make --repeat work with -j in test.py (Rich Trott) #9249
• [4f0596fb03] - util: use template strings (Alejandro Oviedo Garcia) #9120
• [b083086ff2] - vm: name anonymous functions (solebox) #9388

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