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2010.12.16, Version 0.3.2 (unstable)

• Rip out the old (broken) TLS implementation introduce new tested implementation and API. See docs. HTTPS not supported in this release.

• Introduce 'os' and 'tty' modules.

• Callback parameters for socket.write() and socket.connect().

• Support CNAME lookups in DNS module. (Ben Noordhuis)

• cmake support (Tom Hughes)

• 'make lint'

• oprofile support (./configure --oprofile)

• Lots of bug fixes, including:

  • Memory leak in ChildProcess:Spawn(). (Tom Hughes)
  • buffer.slice(0, 0)
  • Global variable leaks
  • clearTimeouts calling multiple times (Michael W)
  • utils.inspect's detection of circular structures (Tim Cooijmans)
  • Apple's threaded write()s bug (Jorge Chamorro Bieling)

  • Make sure raw mode is disabled when exiting a terminal-based REPL. (Brian White)

• Deprecate process.compile, process.ENV

• Upgrade V8 to 3.0.3, upgrade http-parser.

2010.11.16, Version 0.3.1 (unstable), ce9a54aa1fbf709dd30316af8a2f14d83150e947

• TLS improvments (Paul Querna)

  • Centralize error handling in SecureStream

  • Add SecurePair for handling of a ssl/tls stream.

• New documentation organization (Micheil Smith)

• allowHalfOpen TCP connections disabled by default.

• Add C++ API for constructing fast buffer from string

• Move idle timers into its own module

• Gracefully handle EMFILE and server.maxConnections

• make "node --eval" eval in the global scope. (Jorge Chamorro Bieling)

• Let exit listeners know the exit code (isaacs)

• Handle cyclic links smarter in fs.realpath (isaacs)

• Remove node-repl (just use 'node' without args)

• Rewrite libeio After callback to use req->result instead of req->errorno for error checking (Micheil Smith)

• Remove warning about deprecating 'sys' - too aggressive

• Make writes to process.env update the real environment. (Ben Noordhuis)

• Set FD_CLOEXEC flag on stdio FDs before spawning. (Guillaume Tuton)

• Move ev_loop out of javascript

• Switch \n with \r\n for all strings printed out.

• Added support for cross compilation (Rasmus Andersson)

• Add --profile flag to configure script, enables gprof profiling. (Ben Noordhuis)

• writeFileSync could exhibit pathological behavior when a buffer could not be written to the file in a single write() call.

• new path.join behavior (isaacs)

  • Express desired path.join behavior in tests.
  • Update fs.realpath to reflect new path.join behavior

  • Update url.resolve() to use new path.join behavior.

• API: Move process.binding('evals') to require('vm')

• Fix V8 build on Cygwin (Bert Belder)

• Add ref to buffer during fs.write and fs.read

• Fix segfault on test-crypto

• Upgrade http-parser to latest and V8 to 2.5.3

2010.10.23, Version 0.3.0 (unstable) 1582cfebd6719b2d2373547994b3dca5c8c569c0

• Bugfix: Do not spin on aceept() with EMFILE

• Improvments to readline.js (Trent Mick, Johan Euphrosine, Brian White)

• Safe constructors (missing 'new' doesn't segfault)

• Fix process.nextTick so thrown errors don't confuse it. (Benjamin Thomas)

• Allow Strings for ports on net.Server.listen (Bradley Meck)

• fs bugfixes (Tj Holowaychuk, Tobie Langel, Marco Rogers, isaacs)

• http bug fixes (Fedor Indutny, Mikeal Rogers)

• Faster buffers; breaks C++ API (Tim-Smart, Stéphan Kochen)

• crypto, tls improvements (Paul Querna)

• Add lfs flags to node addon script

• Simpler querystring parsing; breaks API (Peter Griess)

• HTTP trailers (Mark Nottingham)

• http 100-continue support (Mark Nottingham)

• Module system simplifications (Herbert Vojčík, isaacs, Tim-Smart)

  • remove require.async
  • remove registerExtension, add .extensions
  • expose require.resolve
  • expose require.cache

  • require looks in node_modules folders

• Add --eval command line option (TJ Holowaychuk)

• Commas last in sys.inspect

• Constatnts moved from process object to require('constants')

• Fix parsing of linux memory (Vitali Lovich)

• inspect shows function names (Jorge Chamorro Bieling)

• uncaughtException corner cases (Felix Geisendörfer)

• TCP clients now buffer writes before connection

• Rename sys module to 'util' (Micheil Smith)

• Properly set stdio handlers to blocking on SIGTERM and SIGINT (Tom Hughes)

• Add destroy methods to HTTP messages

• base64 improvements (isaacs, Jorge Chamorro Bieling)

• API for defining REPL commands (Sami Samhuri)

• child_process.exec timeout fix (Aaron Heckmann)

• Upgrade V8 to 2.5.1, Libev to 4.00, libeio, http-parser

2010.08.20, Version 0.2.0, 9283e134e558900ba89d9a33c18a9bdedab07cb9

• process.title support for FreeBSD, Macintosh, Linux

• Fix OpenSSL 100% CPU usage on error (Illarionov Oleg)

• Implement net.Server.maxConnections.

• Fix process.platform, add process.version.

• Add --without-snapshot configure option.

• Readline REPL improvements (Trent Mick)

• Bug fixes.

• Upgrade V8 to 2.3.8

2010.08.13, Version 0.1.104

• Various bug fixes (console, querystring, require)

• Set cwd for child processes (Bert Belder)

• Tab completion for readline (Trent Mick)

• process.title getter/setter for OSX, Linux, Cygwin. (Rasmus Andersson, Bert Belder)

• Upgrade V8 to 2.3.6

2010.08.04, Version 0.1.103, 0b925d075d359d03426f0b32bb58a5e05825b4ea

• Implement keep-alive for http.Client (Mikeal Rogers)

• base64 fixes. (Ben Noordhuis)

• Fix --debug-brk (Danny Coates)

• Don't let path.normalize get above the root. (Isaac Schlueter)

• Allow signals to be used with process.on in addition to process.addListener. (Brian White)

• Globalize the Buffer object

• Use kqueue on recent macintosh builds

• Fix addrlen for unix_dgram sockets (Benjamin Kramer)

• Fix stats.isDirectory() and friends (Benjamin Kramer)

• Upgrade http-parser, V8 to 2.3.5

2010.07.25, Version 0.1.102, 2a4568c85f33869c75ff43ccd30f0ec188b43eab

• base64 encoding for Buffers.

• Buffer support for Cipher, Decipher, Hmac, Sign and Verify (Andrew Naylor)

• Support for reading byte ranges from files using fs.createReadStream. (Chandra Sekar)

• Fix Buffer.toString() on 0-length slices. (Peter Griess)

• Cache modules based on filename rather than ID (Isaac Schlueter)

• querystring improvments (Jan Kassens, Micheil Smith)

• Support DEL in the REPL. (Jérémy Lal)

• Upgrade http-parser, upgrade V8 to 2.3.2

2010.07.16, Version 0.1.101, 0174ceb6b24caa0bdfc523934c56af9600fa9b58

• Added env to child_process.exec (Сергей Крыжановский)

• Allow modules to optionally be loaded in separate contexts with env var NODEMODULECONTEXTS=1.

• setTTL and setBroadcast for dgram (Matt Ranney)

• Use execPath for default NODE_PATH, not installPrefix (Isaac Schlueter)

• Support of console.dir + console.assert (Jerome Etienne)

• on() as alias to addListener()

• Use javascript port of Ronn to build docs (Jérémy Lal)

• Upgrade V8 to 2.3.0

2010.07.03, Version 0.1.100, a6b8586e947f9c3ced180fe68c233d0c252add8b

• process.execPath (Marshall Culpepper)

• sys.pump (Mikeal Rogers)

• Remove ini and mjsunit libraries.

• Introduce console.log() and friends.

• Switch order of arguments for Buffer.write (Blake Mizerany)

• On overlapping buffers use memmove (Matt Ranney)

• Resolve .local domains with getaddrinfo()

• Upgrade http-parser, V8 to 2.2.21

2010.06.21, Version 0.1.99, a620b7298f68f68a855306437a3b60b650d61d78

• Datagram sockets (Paul Querna)

• fs.writeFile could not handle utf8 (Felix Geisendörfer) and now accepts Buffers (Aaron Heckmann)

• Fix crypto memory leaks.

• A replacement for decodeURIComponent that doesn't throw. (Isaac Schlueter)

• Only concatenate some incoming HTTP headers. (Peter Griess)

• Upgrade V8 to 2.2.18

2010.06.11, Version 0.1.98, 10d8adb08933d1d4cea60192c2a31c56d896733d

• Port to Windows/Cygwin (Raffaele Sena)

• File descriptor passing on unix sockets. (Peter Griess)

• Simple, builtin readline library. REPL is now entered by executing "node" without arguments.

• Add a parameter to spawn() that sets the child's stdio file descriptors. (Orlando Vazquez)

• Upgrade V8 to 2.2.16, http-parser fixes, upgrade c-ares to 1.7.3.

2010.05.29, Version 0.1.97, 0c1aa36835fa6a3557843dcbc6ed6714d353a783

• HTTP throttling: outgoing messages emit 'drain' and write() returns false when send buffer is full.

• API: readFileSync without encoding argument now returns a Buffer

• Improve Buffer C++ API; addons now compile with debugging symbols.

• Improvements to path.extname() and REPL; add fs.chown().

• fs.ReadStream now emits buffers, fs.readFileSync returns buffers.

• Bugfix: parsing HTTP responses to HEAD requests.

• Port to OpenBSD.

• Upgrade V8 to 2.2.12, libeio, http-parser.

2010.05.21, Version 0.1.96, 9514a4d5476225e8c8310ce5acae2857033bcaaa

• Thrown errors in http and socket call back get bubbled up.

• Add fs.fsync (Andrew Johnston)

• Bugfix: signal unregistering (Jonas Pfenniger)

• Added better error messages for async and sync fs calls with paths (TJ Holowaychuk)

• Support arrays and strings in buffer constructor. (Felix Geisendörfer)

• Fix errno reporting in DNS exceptions.

• Support buffers in fs.WriteStream.write.

• Bugfix: Safely decode a utf8 streams that are broken on a multbyte character (http and net). (Felix Geisendörfer)

• Make Buffer's C++ constructor public.

• Deprecate sys.p()

• FIX path.dirname('/tmp') => '/'. (Jonathan Rentzsch)

2010.05.13, Version 0.1.95, 0914d33842976c2c870df06573b68f9192a1fb7a

• Change GC idle notify so that it runs alongside setInterval

• Install node_buffer.h on make install

• fs.readFile returns Buffer by default (Tim Caswell)

• Fix error reporting in child_process callbacks

• Better logic for testing if an argument is a port

• Improve error reporting (single line "node.js:176:9" errors)

• Bugfix: Some http responses being truncated (appeared in 0.1.94)

• Fix long standing net idle timeout bugs. Enable 2 minute timeout by default in HTTP servers.

• Add fs.fstat (Ben Noordhuis)

• Upgrade to V8 2.2.9

2010.05.06, Version 0.1.94, f711d5343b29d1e72e87107315708e40951a7826

• Look in /usr/local/lib/node for modules, so that there's a way to install modules globally (Issac Schlueter)

• SSL improvements (Rhys Jones, Paulo Matias)

• Added c-ares headers for linux-arm (Jonathan Knezek)

• Add symbols to release build

• HTTP upgrade improvements, docs (Micheil Smith)

• HTTP server emits 'clientError' instead of printing message

• Bugfix: Don't emit 'error' twice from http.Client

• Bugfix: Ignore SIGPIPE

• Bugfix: destroy() instead of end() http connection at end of pipeline

• Bugfix: http.Client may be prematurely released back to the free pool. (Thomas Lee)

• Upgrade V8 to 2.2.8

2010.04.29, Version 0.1.93, 557ba6bd97bad3afe0f9bd3ac07efac0a39978c1

• Fixed no 'end' event on long chunked HTTP messages http://github.com/ry/node/issues/#issue/77

• Remove legacy modules httpold and tcpold

• Support DNS MX queries (Jérémy Lal)

• Fix large socket write (tlb@tlb.org)

• Fix child process exit codes (Felix Geisendörfer)

• Allow callers to disable PHP/Rails style parameter munging in querystring.stringify (Thomas Lee)

• Upgrade V8 to 2.2.6

2010.04.23, Version 0.1.92, caa828a242f39b6158084ef4376355161c14fe34

• OpenSSL support. Still undocumented (see tests). (Rhys Jones)

• API: Unhandled 'error' events throw.

• Script class with eval-function-family in binding('evals') plus tests. (Herbert Vojcik)

• stream.setKeepAlive (Julian Lamb)

• Bugfix: Force no body on http 204 and 304

• Upgrade Waf to 1.5.16, V8 to 2.2.4.2

2010.04.15, Version 0.1.91, 311d7dee19034ff1c6bc9098c36973b8d687eaba

• Add incoming.httpVersion

• Object.prototype problem with C-Ares binding

• REPL can be run from multiple different streams. (Matt Ranney)

• After V8 heap is compact, don't use a timer every 2 seconds.

• Improve nextTick implementation.

• Add primative support for Upgrading HTTP connections. (See commit log for docs 760bba5)

• Add timeout and maxBuffer options to child_process.exec

• Fix bugs.

• Upgrade V8 to 2.2.3.1

2010.04.09, Version 0.1.90, 07e64d45ffa1856e824c4fa6afd0442ba61d6fd8

• Merge writing of networking system (net2)

  • New Buffer object for binary data.
  • Support UNIX sockets, Pipes
  • Uniform stream API
  • Currently no SSL

  • Legacy modules can be accessed at 'httpold' and 'tcpold'

• Replace udns with c-ares. (Krishna Rajendran)

• New documentation system using Markdown and Ronn (Tim Caswell, Micheil Smith)

• Better idle-time GC

• Countless small bug fixes.

• Upgrade V8 to 2.2.X, WAF 1.5.15

2010.03.19, Version 0.1.33, 618296ef571e873976f608d91a3d6b9e65fe8284

• Include lib/ directory in node executable. Compile on demand.

• evalcx clean ups (Isaac Z. Schlueter, Tim-Smart)

• Various fixes, clean ups

• V8 upgraded to 2.1.5

2010.03.12, Version 0.1.32, 61c801413544a50000faa7f58376e9b33ba6254f

• Optimize event emitter for single listener

• Add process.evalcx, require.registerExtension (Tim Smart)

• Replace --cflags with --vars

• Fix bugs in fs.create*Stream (Felix Geisendörfer)

• Deprecate process.mixin, process.unloop

• Remove the 'Error: (no message)' exceptions, print stack trace instead

• INI parser bug fixes (Isaac Schlueter)

• FreeBSD fixes (Vanilla Hsu)

• Upgrade to V8 2.1.3, WAF 1.5.14a, libev

2010.03.05, Version 0.1.31, 39b63dfe1737d46a8c8818c92773ef181fd174b3

• API: - Move process.watchFile into fs module - Move process.inherits to sys

• Improve Solaris port

• tcp.Connection.prototype.write now returns boolean to indicate if argument was flushed to the kernel buffer.

• Added fs.link, fs.symlink, fs.readlink, fs.realpath (Rasmus Andersson)

• Add setgid,getgid (James Duncan)

• Improve sys.inspect (Benjamin Thomas)

• Allow passing env to child process (Isaac Schlueter)

• fs.createWriteStream, fs.createReadStream (Felix Geisendörfer)

• Add INI parser (Rob Ellis)

• Bugfix: fs.readFile handling encoding (Jacek Becela)

• Upgrade V8 to 2.1.2

2010.02.22, Version 0.1.30, bb0d1e65e1671aaeb21fac186b066701da0bc33b

• 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.