v7.7.4 Release Proposal

2017-03-21, Version 7.7.4 (Current), @cjihrig

Not landing right now:

https://gist.github.com/italoacasas/d3212151d158a8a7792e76b5e1efd38c

Notable changes

// comming soon

CI

• Tests: https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-pull-request/6958/console
• CI including release commit: https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-pull-request/6961/
• CITGM: https://ci.nodejs.org/view/Node.js-citgm/job/citgm-smoker/667/console

Commits

• [f48763c5b9] - benchmark: remove benchmarks forced optimizations (Bartosz Sosnowski)
• [dcac2d8f04] - benchmark: benchmark comparing forEach with for (James M Snell) #11582
• [80949f3d88] - build: add cpp linting to windows build (liusi) #11856
• [5244ee346b] - build: mac OBJ_DIR should point to obj.target (Daniel Bevenius) #11857
• [5b1d61ce09] - child_process: fix deoptimizing use of arguments (Vse Mozhet Byt) #11748
• [ca319862fd] - deps: cherry-pick ca0f9573 from V8 upstream (Ali Ijaz Sheikh)
• [a7e4b029da] - deps: Add node-inspect 1.10.6 (Jan Krems) #11869
• [0c00b655d8] - doc: Fix #7065 (closed): cli help documentation for --inspect (Noj Vek) #11660
• [60ad7af65e] - doc: deprecate debug protocol (Jan Krems) #10320
• [a5f7393541] - doc: add vsemozhetbyt to collaborators (Vse Mozhet Byt) #11932
• [0c091262bd] - doc: add note that vm module is not a security mechanism (Ruslan Bekenev) #11557
• [6d6a65e2ad] - doc: linkable commit message guidelines (Sam Roberts) #11792
• [7c7228ed4b] - doc: gcc version is at least 4.8.5 in BUILDING.md (detailyang) #11840
• [9861ec93d4] - doc: increase Buffer.concat() documentation (cjihrig) #11845
• [54879ab7d1] - doc: fix mistakes in stream doc (object mode) (Christian d'Heureuse) #11807
• [78ca15dd78] - doc: argument types for dns methods (Amelia Clarke) #11764
• [e84e33c87c] - doc: fix a typo in api/process.md (Gaara) #11780
• [75fcf53173] - doc: missing argument types for events methods (Amelia Clarke) #11802
• [ae52b63df2] - doc: correct comment error in stream.md (Alexander) #11804
• [e6f113d3d5] - doc: console.log() -> console.error() in events.md (Vse Mozhet Byt) #11810
• [cde5d71db1] - doc: var -> let / const in events.md (Vse Mozhet Byt) #11810
• [d0fb578d64] - fs: avoid using forEach (James M Snell) #11582
• [14e3ad0c5e] - inspector: proper WS URLs when bound to 0.0.0.0 (Eugene Ostroukhov) #11850
• [fbbcd1aa89] - lib: Fix swallowed events in inspect integration (Jan Krems) #11869
• [9cc712ca18] - lib: remove unused msg parameter in debug_agent (mr-spd) #11833
• [77c69f7ace] - lib, test: add duplicate symbol checking in E() (DavidCai) #11829
• [7e230727fc] - module: avoid using forEach (James M Snell) #11582
• [c0a2e02f51] - net: avoid using forEach (James M Snell) #11582
• [a0b1aa1161] - readline: avoid using forEach (James M Snell) #11582
• [e19ca8ba11] - readline: remove unneeded eslint-disable comment (Rich Trott) #11836
• [62e726109a] - repl: avoid using forEach (James M Snell) #11582
• [90be5a1f19] - stream: avoid using forEach (James M Snell) #11582
• [2cab00aec0] - test: fix assertion in vm test (AnnaMag) #11862
• [8bda7b8d39] - test: add coverage for child_process bounds check (Rich Trott) #11800
• [3ae58acd29] - test: failing behaviour on sandboxed Proxy (AnnaMag) #11671
• [560d8eed9a] - test: delay child exit in AIX for pseudo-tty tests (Gireesh Punathil) #11715
• [f9c831f4b1] - test: fix flaky test-domain-abort-on-uncaught (Rich Trott) #11817
• [2649dab274] - test: added test for indexed properties (AnnaMag) #11769
• [2df662c95a] - test: test resolveObject with an empty path (Daijiro Wachi) #11811
• [d2c9111614] - test: fix repl-function-redefinition-edge-case (Alexey Orlenko) #11772
• [c9cf922248] - test: add regex to assert.throws (Matej Krajčovič) #11815
• [5f6025ba68] - test: fail when child dies in fork-net (Joyee Cheung) #11684
• [c626734409] - tls: fix segfault on destroy after partial read (Ben Noordhuis) #11898
• [646ee559df] - tls: avoid using forEach (James M Snell) #11582
• [540830116b] - tls: keep track of stream that is closed (jBarz) #11776
• [9a59913039] - util: avoid using forEach (James M Snell) #11582