V4.4.0 proposal #5301

MylesBorins · 2016-02-18T16:57:59Z

2016-03-01, Version 4.4.0 'Argon' (LTS), @thealphanerd

In December we announced that we would be doing a minor release in order to
get a number of voted on SEMVER-MINOR changes into LTS. Our ability to release this
was delayed due to the unforeseen security release v4.3. We are quickly bumping to
v4.4 in order to bring you the features that we had committed to releasing.

This release also includes security updates to openssl. More information can be found on nodejs.org

This release also includes over 70 fixes to our docs and over 50 fixes to tests.

Notable changes

The SEMVER-MINOR changes include:

deps:
- An update to v8 that introduces a new flag --perf_basic_prof_only_functions (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #3609
http:
- A new feature in http(s) agent that catches errors on keep alived connections (José F. Romaniello) #4482
src:
- Better support for Big-Endian systems (Bryon Leung) #3410
tls:
- A new feature that allows you to pass common SSL options to tls.createSecurePair (Коренберг Марк) #2441
tools:
- a new flag --prof-process which will execute the tick processor on the provided isolate files (Matt Loring) #4021

Notable semver patch changes include:

buld:
- Support python path that includes spaces. This should be of particular interest to our Windows users who may have python living in c:/Program Files (Felix Becker) #4841
https:
- A potential fix for #3692 HTTP/HTTPS client requests throwing EPROTO (Fedor Indutny) #4982
installer:
- More readable profiling information from isolate tick logs (Matt Loring) #3032
npm:
- upgrade to npm 2.14.20 (Kat Marchán) #5510
openssl:
- upgrade openssl to 1.0.2g (Ben Noordhuis) #5507
process:
- Add support for symbols in event emitters. Symbols didn't exist when it was written ¯_(ツ)_/¯ (cjihrig) #4798
querystring:
- querystring.parse() is now 13-22% faster! (Brian White) #4675
streams:
- performance improvements for moving small buffers that shows a 5% throughput gain. IoT projects have been seen to be as much as 10% faster with this change! (Matteo Collina) #4354
tools:
- eslint has been updated to version 2.1.0 (Rich Trott) #5214

Notable changes: This update to the LTS line includes a number of semver minor changes that have been staged for a number of months. This includes: * deps: backport 9da3ab6 from V8 upstream (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) - #3609 * http: handle errors on idle sockets (José F. Romaniello) - #4482 * src: add BE support to StringBytes::Encode() (Bryon Leung) - #3410 * tls: add `options` argument to createSecurePair (Коренберг Марк) - #2441 There are also quite a large number of semver patch changes including over 20 doc fixes and almost 50 test fixes. Notable semver patch changes include: * deps: upgrade to npm 2.14.18 (Kat Marchán) - #5245 * https: evict cached sessions on error (Fedor Indutny) - #4982 * process: support symbol events (cjihrig) - #4798 * querystring: improve parse() performance (Brian White) - #4675 PR-URL: #5301

MylesBorins · 2016-02-18T17:01:57Z

CI: https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-pull-request/1701/
citgm: https://ci.nodejs.org/job/thealphanerd-smoker/85/

/cc @nodejs/lts

edit:
only CI failure is infra related.
Only citgm failure is expected on ppc

MylesBorins · 2016-02-18T18:03:45Z

rc.1 build --> https://ci.nodejs.org/job/iojs+release/405/

rvagg · 2016-02-19T04:21:30Z

What timeframe are you aiming for with this @thealphanerd? We have 5.6.0 queued up and I need to get both 0.10 and 0.12 out ASAP but would rather not bunch releases up too much when they aren't security related.

jasnell · 2016-02-19T04:22:54Z

We were looking at a 2 week RC cycle given the minors.
On Feb 18, 2016 8:21 PM, "Rod Vagg" [email protected] wrote:

What timeframe are you aiming for with this @thealphanerd
https://github.com/TheAlphaNerd? We have 5.6.0 queued up and I need to
get both 0.10 and 0.12 out ASAP but would rather not bunch releases up too
much when they aren't security related.

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MylesBorins · 2016-02-22T23:09:35Z

A new batch of commits added... running tests

ci: https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-pull-request/1727/
citgm: https://ci.nodejs.org/job/thealphanerd-smoker/94/

In December we announced that we would be doing a minor release in order to get a number of voted on SEMVER-MINOR changes into LTS. Our ability to release this was delayed due to the unforeseen security release v4.3. We are quickly bumping to v4.4 in order to bring you the features that we had committed to releasing. Notable changes: The SEMVER-MINOR changes include: * **deps**: - An update to v8 that introduces a new flag --perf_basic_prof_only_functions (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #3609 * **http**: - A new feature in http(s) agent that catches errors on *keep alived* connections (José F. Romaniello) #4482 * **src**: - Better support for Big-Endian systems (Bryon Leung) #3410 * **tls**: - A new feature that allows you to pass common SSL options to `tls.createSecurePair` (Коренберг Марк) #2441 Notable semver patch changes include: * **npm** - upgrade to npm 2.14.19 (Kat Marchán) #5335 * **https**: - A potential fix for #3692) HTTP/HTTPS client requests throwing EPROTO (Fedor Indutny) #4982 * **process**: - Add support for symbols in event emitters. Symbols didn't exist when it was written ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (cjihrig) #4798 * **querystring**: - querystring.parse() is now 13-22% faster! (Brian White) #4675 PR-URL: #5301

MylesBorins · 2016-02-23T00:22:15Z

Build Job for rc.2: https://ci.nodejs.org/job/iojs+release/408/

jasnell · 2016-02-23T00:41:34Z

+1 looking good. Initial tests yesterday looked good to me. Will queue this
RC up for tomorrow.
On Feb 22, 2016 4:22 PM, "Myles Borins" [email protected] wrote:

Build Job for rc.2: https://ci.nodejs.org/job/iojs+release/407/

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MylesBorins · 2016-02-23T01:13:06Z

RC 2 is live: https://nodejs.org/download/rc/v4.4.0-rc.2/

In December we announced that we would be doing a minor release in order to get a number of voted on SEMVER-MINOR changes into LTS. Our ability to release this was delayed due to the unforeseen security release v4.3. We are quickly bumping to v4.4 in order to bring you the features that we had committed to releasing. This release also includes security updates to openssl. More information can be found [on nodejs.org](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/openssl-march-2016/) This release also includes over 70 fixes to our docs and over 50 fixes to tests. The SEMVER-MINOR changes include: * deps: - An update to v8 that introduces a new flag --perf_basic_prof_only_functions (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #3609 * http: - A new feature in http(s) agent that catches errors on *keep alived* connections (José F. Romaniello) #4482 * src: - Better support for Big-Endian systems (Bryon Leung) #3410 * tls: - A new feature that allows you to pass common SSL options to `tls.createSecurePair` (Коренберг Марк) #2441 * tools - a new flag `--prof-process` which will execute the tick processor on the provided isolate files (Matt Loring) #4021 Notable semver patch changes include: * buld: - Support python path that includes spaces. This should be of particular interest to our Windows users who may have python living in `c:/Program Files` (Felix Becker) #4841 * https: - A potential fix for #3692 HTTP/HTTPS client requests throwing EPROTO (Fedor Indutny) #4982 * installer: - More readable profiling information from isolate tick logs (Matt Loring) #3032 * *npm: - upgrade to npm 2.14.20 (Kat Marchán) #5510 * *openssl: - upgrade openssl to 1.0.2g (Ben Noordhuis) #5507 * process: - Add support for symbols in event emitters. Symbols didn't exist when it was written ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (cjihrig) #4798 * querystring: - querystring.parse() is now 13-22% faster! (Brian White) #4675 * streams: - performance improvements for moving small buffers that shows a 5% throughput gain. IoT projects have been seen to be as much as 10% faster with this change! (Matteo Collina) #4354 * tools: - eslint has been updated to version 2.1.0 (Rich Trott) #5214 PR-URL: #5301

In December we announced that we would be doing a minor release in order to get a number of voted on SEMVER-MINOR changes into LTS. Our ability to release this was delayed due to the unforeseen security release v4.3. We are quickly bumping to v4.4 in order to bring you the features that we had committed to releasing. This release also includes security updates to openssl. More information can be found [on nodejs.org](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/openssl-march-2016/) This release also includes over 70 fixes to our docs and over 50 fixes to tests. The SEMVER-MINOR changes include: * deps: - An update to v8 that introduces a new flag --perf_basic_prof_only_functions (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) nodejs#3609 * http: - A new feature in http(s) agent that catches errors on *keep alived* connections (José F. Romaniello) nodejs#4482 * src: - Better support for Big-Endian systems (Bryon Leung) nodejs#3410 * tls: - A new feature that allows you to pass common SSL options to `tls.createSecurePair` (Коренберг Марк) nodejs#2441 * tools - a new flag `--prof-process` which will execute the tick processor on the provided isolate files (Matt Loring) nodejs#4021 Notable semver patch changes include: * buld: - Support python path that includes spaces. This should be of particular interest to our Windows users who may have python living in `c:/Program Files` (Felix Becker) nodejs#4841 * https: - A potential fix for nodejs#3692 HTTP/HTTPS client requests throwing EPROTO (Fedor Indutny) nodejs#4982 * installer: - More readable profiling information from isolate tick logs (Matt Loring) nodejs#3032 * *npm: - upgrade to npm 2.14.20 (Kat Marchán) nodejs#5510 * *openssl: - upgrade openssl to 1.0.2g (Ben Noordhuis) nodejs#5507 * process: - Add support for symbols in event emitters. Symbols didn't exist when it was written ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (cjihrig) nodejs#4798 * querystring: - querystring.parse() is now 13-22% faster! (Brian White) nodejs#4675 * streams: - performance improvements for moving small buffers that shows a 5% throughput gain. IoT projects have been seen to be as much as 10% faster with this change! (Matteo Collina) nodejs#4354 * tools: - eslint has been updated to version 2.1.0 (Rich Trott) nodejs#5214 PR-URL: nodejs#5301

MylesBorins · 2016-03-01T22:24:05Z

Just finished updated with the new backlog. Over 50 new commits including an update to npm and the openssl security update.

CI: https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-pull-request/1799/
CITGM: https://ci.nodejs.org/job/thealphanerd-smoker/

PR-URL: #5304 Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <[email protected]>

There are a few places where tests repeatedly concatenate strings to themselves in order to make them very long. Using `.repeat()` makes the code clearer. For example, before: for (var i = 0; i < 8; ++i) lots_of_headers += lots_of_headers; After: lots_of_headers = lots_of_headers.repeat(256); Using `.repeat()` makes it clear that the string will be repeated 256 times rather than 8 times. ("What?! That first one doesn't repeat 256 times! It only repeats 8... Oh, wait. Yes, I see your point now.") PR-URL: #5311 Reviewed-By: James M Snell <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <[email protected]>

PR-URL: #5106 Reviewed-By: James M Snell <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Fedor Indutny <[email protected]>

test-debug-no-context flakiness was worked around in issue 5269 but the flaky designation was left for the test. This change removes it. Refs: #5269 PR-URL: #5317 Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <[email protected]>

This adds a paragraph in the Module Caching Caveats section about the behavior of require when Node is running on top of a file system (e.g. HFS) or operating system (e.g. Windows) that will not consider the case of file paths to find files. Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Alexis Campailla <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Rod Vagg <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <[email protected]>

Remove indications that an error argument is sent to the `listen()` callback. Fixes: #5345 PR-URL: #5353 Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Trevor Norris <[email protected]>

PR-URL: #5356 Reviewed-By: Myles Borins <[email protected]>

The docs for assert.deepStrictEqual() do not currently mention that prototypes are compared for objects. This commit adds that information to the documentation. Fixes: #5365 PR-URL: #5367 Reviewed-By: Robert Lindstädt <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <[email protected]>

Add verbs to make sentence fragments less fragmentary. PR-URL: #5399 Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <[email protected]>

`vcbuild.bat` already supports both Visual Studio 2013 and 2015. PR-URL: #5406 Reviewed-By: Alexis Campailla <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Rod Vagg <[email protected]>

Remove out-of-date stability index material from `tools/doc/README.md`. The stability index is documented in `doc/api/documentation.markdown`. PR-URL: #5421 Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <[email protected]>

PR-URL: #5510 Review-by: Myles Borins <[email protected]>

In December we announced that we would be doing a minor release in order to get a number of voted on SEMVER-MINOR changes into LTS. Our ability to release this was delayed due to the unforeseen security release v4.3. We are quickly bumping to v4.4 in order to bring you the features that we had committed to releasing. This release also includes over 70 fixes to our docs and over 50 fixes to tests. The SEMVER-MINOR changes include: * deps: - An update to v8 that introduces a new flag --perf_basic_prof_only_functions (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #3609 * http: - A new feature in http(s) agent that catches errors on *keep alived* connections (José F. Romaniello) #4482 * src: - Better support for Big-Endian systems (Bryon Leung) #3410 * tls: - A new feature that allows you to pass common SSL options to `tls.createSecurePair` (Коренберг Марк) #2441 * tools - a new flag `--prof-process` which will execute the tick processor on the provided isolate files (Matt Loring) #4021 Notable semver patch changes include: * buld: - Support python path that includes spaces. This should be of particular interest to our Windows users who may have python living in `c:/Program Files` (Felix Becker) #4841 * https: - A potential fix for #3692 HTTP/HTTPS client requests throwing EPROTO (Fedor Indutny) #4982 * installer: - More readable profiling information from isolate tick logs (Matt Loring) #3032 * *npm: - upgrade to npm 2.14.20 (Kat Marchán) #5510 * process: - Add support for symbols in event emitters. Symbols didn't exist when it was written ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (cjihrig) #4798 * querystring: - querystring.parse() is now 13-22% faster! (Brian White) #4675 * streams: - performance improvements for moving small buffers that shows a 5% throughput gain. IoT projects have been seen to be as much as 10% faster with this change! (Matteo Collina) #4354 * tools: - eslint has been updated to version 2.1.0 (Rich Trott) #5214 PR-URL: #5301

MylesBorins · 2016-03-03T16:07:31Z

rc.4 build --> https://ci.nodejs.org/job/iojs+release/442/

In December we announced that we would be doing a minor release in order to get a number of voted on SEMVER-MINOR changes into LTS. Our ability to release this was delayed due to the unforeseen security release v4.3. We are quickly bumping to v4.4 in order to bring you the features that we had committed to releasing. This release also includes over 70 fixes to our docs and over 50 fixes to tests. The SEMVER-MINOR changes include: * deps: - An update to v8 that introduces a new flag --perf_basic_prof_only_functions (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #3609 * http: - A new feature in http(s) agent that catches errors on *keep alived* connections (José F. Romaniello) #4482 * src: - Better support for Big-Endian systems (Bryon Leung) #3410 * tls: - A new feature that allows you to pass common SSL options to `tls.createSecurePair` (Коренберг Марк) #2441 * tools - a new flag `--prof-process` which will execute the tick processor on the provided isolate files (Matt Loring) #4021 Notable semver patch changes include: * buld: - Support python path that includes spaces. This should be of particular interest to our Windows users who may have python living in `c:/Program Files` (Felix Becker) #4841 * https: - A potential fix for #3692 HTTP/HTTPS client requests throwing EPROTO (Fedor Indutny) #4982 * installer: - More readable profiling information from isolate tick logs (Matt Loring) #3032 * *npm: - upgrade to npm 2.14.20 (Kat Marchán) #5510 * process: - Add support for symbols in event emitters. Symbols didn't exist when it was written ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (cjihrig) #4798 * querystring: - querystring.parse() is now 13-22% faster! (Brian White) #4675 * streams: - performance improvements for moving small buffers that shows a 5% throughput gain. IoT projects have been seen to be as much as 10% faster with this change! (Matteo Collina) #4354 * tools: - eslint has been updated to version 2.1.0 (Rich Trott) #5214 PR-URL: #5301

MylesBorins · 2016-03-08T22:48:10Z

Build Job: https://ci-release.nodejs.org/job/iojs+release/462/

(edit @jbergstroem -- added job id to link)

edit: running build job again, rpi seems to have halted in build

PR-URL: #5301

In December we announced that we would be doing a minor release in order to get a number of voted on SEMVER-MINOR changes into LTS. Our ability to release this was delayed due to the unforeseen security release v4.3. We are quickly bumping to v4.4 in order to bring you the features that we had committed to releasing. This release also includes over 70 fixes to our docs and over 50 fixes to tests. The SEMVER-MINOR changes include: * deps: - An update to v8 that introduces a new flag --perf_basic_prof_only_functions (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #3609 * http: - A new feature in http(s) agent that catches errors on *keep alived* connections (José F. Romaniello) #4482 * src: - Better support for Big-Endian systems (Bryon Leung) #3410 * tls: - A new feature that allows you to pass common SSL options to `tls.createSecurePair` (Коренберг Марк) #2441 * tools - a new flag `--prof-process` which will execute the tick processor on the provided isolate files (Matt Loring) #4021 Notable semver patch changes include: * buld: - Support python path that includes spaces. This should be of particular interest to our Windows users who may have python living in `c:/Program Files` (Felix Becker) #4841 * https: - A potential fix for #3692 HTTP/HTTPS client requests throwing EPROTO (Fedor Indutny) #4982 * installer: - More readable profiling information from isolate tick logs (Matt Loring) #3032 * *npm: - upgrade to npm 2.14.20 (Kat Marchán) #5510 * process: - Add support for symbols in event emitters. Symbols didn't exist when it was written ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (cjihrig) #4798 * querystring: - querystring.parse() is now 13-22% faster! (Brian White) #4675 * streams: - performance improvements for moving small buffers that shows a 5% throughput gain. IoT projects have been seen to be as much as 10% faster with this change! (Matteo Collina) #4354 * tools: - eslint has been updated to version 2.1.0 (Rich Trott) #5214 PR-URL: #5301

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OpenSSL upgrades: March 1st 2016 [1.0.2g, 1.0.1s] #5433

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doc: update repo docs to use 'CTC'

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PR-URL: #5304 Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <[email protected]>

test: add test for https server close event

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doc: s/http/https in Myles Borins' GitHub link

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PR-URL: #5356 Reviewed-By: Myles Borins <[email protected]>

doc: copyedit util doc

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Add verbs to make sentence fragments less fragmentary. PR-URL: #5399 Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <[email protected]>

doc: explicit about VS 2015 support in readme

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`vcbuild.bat` already supports both Visual Studio 2013 and 2015. PR-URL: #5406 Reviewed-By: Alexis Campailla <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Rod Vagg <[email protected]>

doc: remove out-of-date matter from internal docs

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Remove out-of-date stability index material from `tools/doc/README.md`. The stability index is documented in `doc/api/documentation.markdown`. PR-URL: #5421 Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <[email protected]>

deps: upgrade to npm 2.14.20

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PR-URL: #5510 Review-by: Myles Borins <[email protected]>

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