Node.js ChangeLog

2010.02.22, Version 0.1.30

  * Major API Changes

    - Promises removed. See
      http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs/msg/426f3071f3eec16b
      http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs/msg/df199d233ff17efa
      The API for fs was

         fs.readdir("/usr").addCallback(function (files) {
           puts("/usr files: " + files);
         });

      It is now

         fs.readdir("/usr", function (err, files) {
           if (err) throw err;
           puts("/usr files: " + files);
         });

    - Synchronous fs operations exposed, use with care.

    - tcp.Connection.prototype.readPause() and readResume()
      renamed to pause() and resume()

    - http.ServerResponse.prototype.sendHeader() renamed to
      writeHeader(). Now accepts reasonPhrase.

  * Compact garbage on idle.

  * Configurable debug ports, and --debug-brk (Zoran Tomicic)

  * Better command line option parsing (Jeremy Ashkenas)

  * Add fs.chmod (Micheil Smith), fs.lstat (Isaac Z. Schlueter)

  * Fixes to process.mixin (Rasmus Andersson, Benjamin Thomas)

  * Upgrade V8 to 2.1.1


2010.02.17, Version 0.1.29, 87d5e5b316a4276bcf881f176971c1a237dcdc7a

  * Major API Changes
    - Remove 'file' module
    - require('posix') -----------------> require('fs')
    - fs.cat ---------------------------> fs.readFile
    - file.write -----------------------> fs.writeFile
    - TCP 'receive' event --------------> 'data'
    - TCP 'eof' event ------------------> 'end'
    - TCP send() -----------------------> write()
    - HTTP sendBody() ------------------> write()
    - HTTP finish() --------------------> close()
    - HTTP 'body' event ----------------> 'data'
    - HTTP 'complete' event ------------> 'end'
    - http.Client.prototype.close() (formerly finish()) no longer
      takes an argument. Add the 'response' listener manually.
    - Allow strings for the flag argument to fs.open
      ("r", "r+", "w", "w+", "a", "a+")

  * Added multiple arg support for sys.puts(), print(), etc.
    (tj@vision-media.ca)

  * sys.inspect(Date) now shows the date value (Mark Hansen)

  * Calculate page size with getpagesize for armel (Jérémy Lal)

  * Bugfix: stderr flushing.

  * Bugfix: Promise late chain (Yuichiro MASUI)

  * Bugfix: wait() on fired promises
    (Felix Geisendörfer, Jonas Pfenniger)

  * Bugfix: Use InstanceTemplate() instead of PrototypeTemplate() for
    accessor methods. Was causing a crash with Eclipse debugger.
    (Zoran Tomicic)

  * Bugfix: Throw from connection.connect if resolving.
    (Reported by James Golick)


2010.02.09, Version 0.1.28, 49de41ef463292988ddacfb01a20543b963d9669

  * Use Google's jsmin.py which can be used for evil.

  * Add posix.truncate()

  * Throw errors from server.listen()

  * stdio bugfix (test by Mikeal Rogers)

  * Module system refactor (Felix Geisendörfer, Blaine Cook)

  * Add process.setuid(), getuid() (Michael Carter)

  * sys.inspect refactor (Tim Caswell)

  * Multipart library rewrite (isaacs)


2010.02.03, Version 0.1.27, 0cfa789cc530848725a8cb5595224e78ae7b9dd0

  * Implemented __dirname (Felix Geisendörfer)

  * Downcase process.ARGV, process.ENV, GLOBAL
    (now process.argv, process.env, global)

  * Bug Fix: Late promise promise callbacks firing
    (Felix Geisendörfer, Jonas Pfenniger)

  * Make assert.AssertionError instance of Error

  * Removed inline require call for querystring
    (self@cloudhead.net)

  * Add support for MX, TXT, and SRV records in DNS module.
    (Blaine Cook)

  * Bugfix: HTTP client automatically reconnecting

  * Adding OS X .dmg build scripts. (Standa Opichal)

  * Bugfix: ObjectWrap memory leak

  * Bugfix: Multipart handle Content-Type headers with charset
    (Felix Geisendörfer)

  * Upgrade http-parser to fix header overflow attack.

  * Upgrade V8 to 2.1.0

  * Various other bug fixes, performance improvements.


2010.01.20, Version 0.1.26, da00413196e432247346d9e587f8c78ce5ceb087

  * Bugfix, HTTP eof causing crash (Ben Williamson)

  * Better error message on SyntaxError

  * API: Move Promise and EventEmitter into 'events' module

  * API: Add process.nextTick()

  * Allow optional params to setTimeout, setInterval
    (Micheil Smith)

  * API: change some Promise behavior (Felix Geisendörfer)
    - Removed Promise.cancel()
    - Support late callback binding
    - Make unhandled Promise errors throw an exception

  * Upgrade V8 to 2.0.6.1

  * Solaris port (Erich Ocean)


2010.01.09, Version 0.1.25, 39ca93549af91575ca9d4cbafd1e170fbcef3dfa

  * sys.inspect() improvements (Tim Caswell)

  * path module improvements (isaacs, Benjamin Thomas)

  * API: request.uri -> request.url
    It is no longer an object, but a string. The 'url' module
    was addded to parse that string. That is, node no longer
    parses the request URL automatically.

       require('url').parse(request.url)

    is roughly equivlent to the old request.uri object.
    (isaacs)

  * Bugfix: Several libeio related race conditions.

  * Better errors for multipart library (Felix Geisendörfer)

  * Bugfix: Update node-waf version to 1.5.10

  * getmem for freebsd (Vanilla Hsu)


2009.12.31, Version 0.1.24, 642c2773a7eb2034f597af1cd404b9e086b59632

  * Bugfix: don't chunk responses to HTTP/1.0 clients, even if
    they send Connection: Keep-Alive (e.g. wget)

  * Bugfix: libeio race condition

  * Bugfix: Don't segfault on unknown http method

  * Simplify exception reporting

  * Upgrade V8 to 2.0.5.4


2009.12.22, Version 0.1.23, f91e347eeeeac1a8bd6a7b462df0321b60f3affc

  * Bugfix: require("../blah") issues (isaacs)

  * Bugfix: posix.cat (Jonas Pfenniger)

  * Do not pause request for multipart parsing (Felix Geisendörfer)


2009.12.19, Version 0.1.22, a2d809fe902f6c4102dba8f2e3e9551aad137c0f

  * Bugfix: child modules get wrong id with "index.js" (isaacs)

  * Bugfix: require("../foo") cycles (isaacs)

  * Bugfix: require() should throw error if module does.

  * New URI parser stolen from Narwhal (isaacs)

  * Bugfix: correctly check kqueue and epoll. (Rasmus Andersson)

  * Upgrade WAF to 1.5.10 

  * Bugfix: posix.statSync() was crashing

  * Statically define string symbols for performance improvement

  * Bugfix: ARGV[0] weirdness

  * Added superCtor to ctor.super_ instead superCtor.prototype.
    (Johan Dahlberg)

  * http-parser supports webdav methods

  * API: http.Client.prototype.request() (Christopher Lenz)


2009.12.06, Version 0.1.21, c6affb64f96a403a14d20035e7fbd6d0ce089db5

  * Feature: Add HTTP client TLS support (Rhys Jones)

  * Bugfix: use --jobs=1 with WAF

  * Bugfix: Don't use chunked encoding for 1.0 requests

  * Bugfix: Duplicated header weren't handled correctly

  * Improve sys.inspect (Xavier Shay)

  * Upgrade v8 to 2.0.3

  * Use CommonJS assert API (Felix Geisendörfer, Karl Guertin)


2009.11.28, Version 0.1.20, aa42c6790da8ed2cd2b72051c07f6251fe1724d8

  * Add gnutls version to configure script

  * Add V8 heap info to process.memoryUsage()

  * process.watchFile callback has 2 arguments with the stat object
    (choonkeat@gmail.com)


2009.11.28, Version 0.1.19, 633d6be328708055897b72327b88ac88e158935f

  * Feature: Initial TLS support for TCP servers and clients.
    (Rhys Jones)

  * Add options to process.watchFile()

  * Add process.umask() (Friedemann Altrock)

  * Bugfix: only detach timers when active.

  * Bugfix: lib/file.js write(), shouldn't always emit errors or success
    (onne@onnlucky.com)

  * Bugfix: Memory leak in fs.write
    (Reported by onne@onnlucky.com)

  * Bugfix: Fix regular expressions detecting outgoing message headers.
    (Reported by Elliott Cable)

  * Improvements to Multipart parser (Felix Geisendörfer)

  * New HTTP parser

  * Upgrade v8 to 2.0.2


2009.11.17, Version 0.1.18, 027829d2853a14490e6de9fc5f7094652d045ab8

  * Feature: process.watchFile() process.unwatchFile()

  * Feature: "uncaughtException" event on process
    (Felix Geisendörfer)

  * Feature: 'drain' event to tcp.Connection

  * Bugfix: Promise.timeout() blocked the event loop
    (Felix Geisendörfer)

  * Bugfix: sendBody() and chunked utf8 strings
    (Felix Geisendörfer)

  * Supply the strerror as a second arg to the tcp.Connection close
    event (Johan Sørensen)

  * Add EventEmitter.removeListener (frodenius@gmail.com)

  * Format JSON for inspecting objects (Felix Geisendörfer)

  * Upgrade libev to latest CVS


2009.11.07, Version 0.1.17, d1f69ef35dac810530df8249d523add168e09f03

  * Feature: process.chdir() (Brandon Beacher)

  * Revert http parser upgrade. (b893859c34f05db5c45f416949ebc0eee665cca6)
    Broke keep-alive.

  * API: rename process.inherits to sys.inherits


2009.11.03, Version 0.1.16, 726865af7bbafe58435986f4a193ff11c84e4bfe

  * API: Use CommonJS-style module requiring
    - require("/sys.js") becomes require("sys")
    - require("circle.js") becomes require("./circle")
    - process.path.join() becomes require("path").join()
    - __module becomes module

  * API: Many namespacing changes
    - Move node.* into process.* 
    - Move node.dns into module "dns"
    - Move node.fs into module "posix"
    - process is no longer the global object. GLOBAL is.

  For more information on the API changes see: 
    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.javascript.nodejs/6
    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.javascript.nodejs/14

  * Feature: process.platform, process.memoryUsage()

  * Feature: promise.cancel() (Felix Geisendörfer)

  * Upgrade V8 to 1.3.18


2009.10.28, Version 0.1.15, eca2de73ed786b935507fd1c6faccd8df9938fd3

  * Many build system fixes (esp. for OSX users)

  * Feature: promise.timeout() (Felix Geisendörfer)

  * Feature: Added external interface for signal handlers, process.pid, and
    process.kill() (Brandon Beacher)

  * API: Rename node.libraryPaths to require.paths

  * Bugfix: 'data' event for stdio should emit a string

  * Large file support

  * Upgrade http_parser

  * Upgrade v8 to 1.3.16


2009.10.09, Version 0.1.14, b12c809bb84d1265b6a4d970a5b54ee8a4890513

  * Feature: Improved addon builds with node-waf

  * Feature: node.SignalHandler (Brandon Beacher)

  * Feature: Enable V8 debugging (but still need to make a debugger)

  * API: Rename library /utils.js to /sys.js

  * Clean up Node's build system

  * Don't use parseUri for HTTP server

  * Remove node.pc

  * Don't use /bin/sh to create child process except with exec()

  * API: Add __module to reference current module

  * API: Remove include() add node.mixin()

  * Normalize http headers; "Content-Length" becomes "content-length"

  * Upgrade V8 to 1.3.15


2009.09.30, Version 0.1.13, 58493bb05b3da3dc8051fabc0bdea9e575c1a107

  * Feature: Multipart stream parser (Felix Geisendörfer)

  * API: Move node.puts(), node.exec() and others to /utils.js 

  * API: Move http, tcp libraries to /http.js and /tcp.js

  * API: Rename node.exit() to process.exit()

  * Bugfix: require() and include() should work in callbacks.

  * Pass the Host header in http.cat calls

  * Add warning when coroutine stack size grows too large.

  * Enhance repl library (Ray Morgan)

  * Bugfix: build script for
      GCC 4.4 (removed -Werror in V8),
      on Linux 2.4,
      and with Python 2.4.4.

  * Add read() and write() to /file.js to read and write
    whole files at once.


2009.09.24, Version 0.1.12, 2f56ccb45e87510de712f56705598b3b4e3548ec 

  * Feature: System modules, node.libraryPaths

  * API: Remove "raw" encoding, rename "raws" to "binary".

  * API: Added connection.setNoDElay() to disable Nagle algo.

  * Decrease default TCP server backlog to 128

  * Bugfix: memory leak involving node.fs.* methods.

  * Upgrade v8 to 1.3.13


2009.09.18, Version 0.1.11, 5ddc4f5d0c002bac0ae3d62fc0dc58f0d2d83ec4

  * API: default to utf8 encoding for node.fs.cat()

  * API: add node.exec() 

  * API: node.fs.read() takes a normal encoding parameter.

  * API: Change arguments of emit(), emitSuccess(), emitError()

  * Bugfix: node.fs.write() was stack allocating buffer.

  * Bugfix: ReportException shouldn't forget the top frame.

  * Improve buffering for HTTP outgoing messages

  * Fix and reenable x64 macintosh build.

  * Upgrade v8 to 1.3.11


2009.09.11, Version 0.1.10, 12bb0d46ce761e3d00a27170e63b40408c15b558

  * Feature: raw string encoding "raws"

  * Feature: access to environ through "ENV"

  * Feature: add isDirectory, isFile, isSocket, ... methods
    to stats object.

  * Bugfix: Internally use full paths when loading modules
    this fixes a shebang loading problem.

  * Bugfix: Add '--' command line argument for seperating v8
    args from program args.

  * Add man page.

  * Add node-repl

  * Upgrade v8 to 1.3.10

2009.09.05, Version 0.1.9, d029764bb32058389ecb31ed54a5d24d2915ad4c

  * Bugfix: Compile on Snow Leopard.

  * Bugfix: Malformed URIs raising exceptions.

2009.09.04, Version 0.1.8, e6d712a937b61567e81b15085edba863be16ba96

  * Feature: External modules

  * Feature: setTimeout() for node.tcp.Connection

  * Feature: add node.cwd(), node.fs.readdir(), node.fs.mkdir()

  * Bugfix: promise.wait() releasing out of order.

  * Bugfix: Asyncly do getaddrinfo() on Apple.

  * Disable useless evcom error messages.

  * Better stack traces.

  * Built natively on x64.

  * Upgrade v8 to 1.3.9

2009.08.27, Version 0.1.7, f7acef9acf8ba8433d697ad5ed99d2e857387e4b

  * Feature: global 'process' object. Emits "exit".

  * Feature: promise.wait()

  * Feature: node.stdio

  * Feature: EventEmitters emit "newListener" when listeners are
    added

  * API:  Use flat object instead of array-of-arrays for HTTP
    headers.

  * API: Remove buffered file object (node.File)

  * API: require(), include() are synchronous. (Uses
    continuations.)

  * API: Deprecate onLoad and onExit.

  * API: Rename node.Process to node.ChildProcess

  * Refactor node.Process to take advantage of evcom_reader/writer.

  * Upgrade v8 to 1.3.7

2009.08.22, Version 0.1.6, 9c97b1db3099d61cd292aa59ec2227a619f3a7ab

  * Bugfix: Ignore SIGPIPE.

2009.08.21, Version 0.1.5, b0fd3e281cb5f7cd8d3a26bd2b89e1b59998e5ed

  * Bugfix: Buggy connections could crash node.js. Now check
    connection before sending data every time (Kevin van Zonneveld)

  * Bugfix: stdin fd (0) being ignored by node.File. (Abe Fettig)

  * API: Remove connnection.fullClose()

  * API: Return the EventEmitter from addListener for chaining.

  * API: tcp.Connection "disconnect" event renamed to "close"

  * Upgrade evcom
    Upgrade v8 to 1.3.6

2009.08.13, Version 0.1.4, 0f888ed6de153f68c17005211d7e0f960a5e34f3

  * Major refactor to evcom.

  * Enable test-tcp-many-clients.

  * Add -m32 gcc flag to udns.

  * Add connection.readPause() and connection.readResume()
    Add IncomingMessage.prototype.pause() and resume().

  * Fix http benchmark. Wasn't correctly dispatching.

  * Bugfix: response.setBodyEncoding("ascii") not working.

  * Bugfix: Negative ints in HTTP's on_body and node.fs.read()

  * Upgrade v8 to 1.3.4
    Upgrade libev to 3.8
    Upgrade http_parser to v0.2

2009.08.06, Version 0.1.3, 695f0296e35b30cf8322fd1bd934810403cca9f3

  * Upgrade v8 to 1.3.2

  * Bugfix: node.http.ServerRequest.setBodyEncoding('ascii') not
    working

  * Bugfix: node.encodeUtf8 was broken. (Connor Dunn)

  * Add ranlib to udns Makefile.

  * Upgrade evcom - fix accepting too many connections issue.

  * Initial support for shebang

  * Add simple command line switches

  * Add node.version API


2009.08.01, Version 0.1.2, 025a34244d1cea94d6d40ad7bf92671cb909a96c

  * Add DNS API

  * node.tcp.Server's backlog option is now an argument to listen()

  * Upgrade V8 to 1.3.1

  * Bugfix: Default to chunked for client requests without
    Content-Length.

  * Bugfix: Line numbers in stack traces.

  * Bugfix: negative integers in raw encoding stream

  * Bugfix: node.fs.File was not passing args to promise callbacks.


2009.07.27, Version 0.1.1, 77d407df2826b20e9177c26c0d2bb4481e497937

  * Simplify and clean up ObjectWrap.

  * Upgrade liboi (which is now called evcom)
    Upgrade libev to 3.7
    Upgrade V8 to 1.2.14

  * Array.prototype.encodeUtf8 renamed to node.encodeUtf8(array)

  * Move EventEmitter.prototype.emit() completely into C++.

  * Bugfix: Fix memory leak in event emitters.
    http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs/browse_thread/thread/a8d1dfc2fd57a6d1

  * Bugfix: Had problems reading scripts with non-ascii characters.

  * Bugfix: Fix Detach() in node::Server

  * Bugfix: Sockets not properly reattached if reconnected during
    disconnect event.

  * Bugfix: Server-side clients not attached between creation and
    on_connect.

  * Add 'close' event to node.tcp.Server

  * Simplify and clean up http.js. (Takes more advantage of event
    infrastructure.)

  * Add benchmark scripts. Run with "make benchmark".


2009.06.30, Version 0.1.0, 0fe44d52fe75f151bceb59534394658aae6ac328

  * Update documentation, use asciidoc.

  * EventEmitter and Promise interfaces. (Breaks previous API.)

  * Remove node.Process constructor in favor of node.createProcess

  * Add -m32 flags for compiling on x64 platforms.
    (Thanks to András Bártházi)

  * Upgrade v8 to 1.2.10 and libev to 3.6

  * Bugfix: Timer::RepeatSetter wasn't working.

  * Bugfix: Spawning many processes in a loop
    (reported by Felix Geisendörfer)


2009.06.24, Version 0.0.6, fbe0be19ebfb422d8fa20ea5204c1713e9214d5f

  * Load modules via HTTP URLs (Urban Hafner)

  * Bugfix: Add HTTPConnection->size() and HTTPServer->size()

  * New node.Process API

  * Clean up build tools, use v8's test runner.

  * Use ev_unref() instead of starting/stopping the eio thread
    pool watcher.


2009.06.18, Version 0.0.5, 3a2b41de74b6c343b8464a68eff04c4bfd9aebea

  * Support for IPv6

  * Remove namespace node.constants

  * Upgrade v8 to 1.2.8.1

  * Accept ports as strings in the TCP client and server.

  * Bugfix: HTTP Client race

  * Bugfix: freeaddrinfo() wasn't getting called after
    getaddrinfo() for TCP servers

  * Add "opening" to TCP client readyState

  * Add remoteAddress to TCP client

  * Add global print() function.


2009.06.13, Version 0.0.4, 916b9ca715b229b0703f0ed6c2fc065410fb189c

 * Add interrupt() method to server-side HTTP requests.

 * Bugfix: onBodyComplete was not getting called on server-side
   HTTP


2009.06.11, Version 0.0.3, 6e0dfe50006ae4f5dac987f055e0c9338662f40a

 * Many bug fixes including the problem with http.Client on
   macintosh

 * Upgrades v8 to 1.2.7

 * Adds onExit hook

 * Guard against buffer overflow in http parser

 * require() and include() now need the ".js" extension

 * http.Client uses identity transfer encoding by default.