v8.1.1 proposal

@nodejs/release I’ve never done this before, so, uh, please take a good look. Also, obviously one of you will need to do the actual release.

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2017-06-13, Version 8.1.1 (Current), @addaleax

Notable changes

• Child processes

  • stdout and stderr are now available on the error output of a failed call to the util.promisify()ed version of child_process.exec. [d66d4fc94c] #13388

• HTTP

  • A regression that broke certain scenarios in which HTTP is used together with the cluster module has been fixed. [fff8a56d6f] #13578

• HTTPS

  • The rejectUnauthorized option now works properly for unix sockets. [c4cbd99d37] #13505

• Readline

  • A change that broke npm init and other code which uses readline multiple times on the same input stream is reverted. [0df6c0b5f0] #13560

Commits

• [61c73085ba] - async_hooks: minor refactor to callback invocation (Anna Henningsen) #13419
• [bf61d97742] - async_hooks: make sure .{en|dis}able() === this (Anna Henningsen) #13418
• [32c87ac6f3] - benchmark: fix some RegExp nits (Vse Mozhet Byt) #13551
• [b967b4cbc5] - build: merge test suite groups (Refael Ackermann) #13378
• [00d2f7c818] - build,windows: check for VS version and arch (Refael Ackermann) #13485
• [d66d4fc94c] - child_process: promisify includes stdio in error (Gil Tayar) #13388
• [0ca4bd1e18] - child_process: reduce nextTick() usage (Brian White) #13459
• [d1fa59fbb7] - child_process: simplify send() result handling (Brian White) #13459
• [d51b1c2e6f] - cluster, dns, repl, tls, util: fix RegExp nits (Vse Mozhet Byt) #13536
• [68c0518e48] - doc: fix links and typos in fs.md (Vse Mozhet Byt) #13573
• [70432f2111] - doc: fix incorrect fs.utimes() link (Justin Beckwith) #13608
• [26d76307d5] - doc: fs constants for Node < v6.3.0 in fs.md (Anshul Guleria) #12690
• [52f5e3f804] - doc: use HTTPS URL for suggested upstream remote (Nikolai Vavilov) #13602
• [2c1133d5fe] - doc: add readline.emitKeypressEvents note (Samuel Reed) #9447
• [53ec50d971] - doc: fix napi_create_*_error signatures in n-api (Jamen Marzonie) #13544
• [98d7f25181] - doc: fix out of date sections in n-api doc (Michael Dawson) #13508
• [85cac4ed53] - doc: update new CTC members (Refael Ackermann) #13534
• [8c5407d321] - doc: corrects reference to tlsClientError (Tarun) #13533
• [3d12e1b455] - doc: emphasize Collaborators in GOVERNANCE.md (Rich Trott) #13423
• [a9be8fff58] - doc: minimal documentation for Emeritus status (Rich Trott) #13421
• [2778256680] - doc: remove note highlighting in GOVERNANCE doc (Rich Trott) #13420
• [fff8a56d6f] - http: handle cases where socket.server is null (Luigi Pinca) #13578
• [c4cbd99d37] - https: support rejectUnauthorized for unix sockets (cjihrig) #13505
• [6a696d15ff] - inspector: fix crash on exception (Nikolai Vavilov) #13455
• [50e1f931a9] - profiler: declare missing printErr (Fedor Indutny) #13590
• [0df6c0b5f0] - Revert "readline: clean up event listener in onNewListener" (Anna Henningsen) #13560
• [a5f415fe83] - src: merge fn_name in NODE_SET_PROTOTYPE_METHOD (XadillaX) #13547
• [4a96ed4896] - src: check whether inspector is doing io (Sam Roberts) #13504
• [f134c9d147] - src: correct indentation for X509ToObject (Daniel Bevenius) #13543
• [dd158b096f] - src: make IsConstructCall checks consistent (Daniel Bevenius) #13473
• [bf065344cf] - stream: ensure that instanceof fast-path is hit. (Benedikt Meurer) #13403
• [e713482147] - test: fix typo in test-cli-node-options.js (Vse Mozhet Byt) #13558
• [4c5457fae5] - test: fix flaky test-http-client-get-url (Sebastian Plesciuc) #13516
• [812e0b0fbf] - test: refactor async-hooks test-callback-error (Rich Trott) #13554
• [2ea529b797] - test: add regression test for 13557 (Anna Henningsen) #13560
• [4d27930faf] - test: fix flaky test-tls-socket-close (Rich Trott) #13529
• [3da56ac9fb] - test: harden test-dgram-bind-shared-ports (Refael Ackermann) #13100
• [f686f73465] - test: add coverage for AsyncResource constructor (Gergely Nemeth) #13327
• [12036a1d73] - test: exercise once() with varying arguments (cjihrig) #13524
• [1f88cbd620] - test: refactor test-http-server-keep-alive-timeout (realwakka) #13448
• [bdbeb33dcb] - test: add hijackStdout and hijackStderr (XadillaX) #13439
• [1c7f9171c0] - test: add coverage for napi_property_descriptor (Michael Dawson) #13510
• [c8db0475e0] - test: refactor test-fs-read-* (Rich Trott) #13501
• [ad07c46b00] - test: refactor domain tests (Rich Trott) #13480
• [fe5ea3feb0] - test: check callback not invoked on lookup error (Rich Trott) #13456
• [216cb3f6e9] - test,benchmark: stabilize child-process (Refael Ackermann) #13457
• [a0f8faa3a4] - v8: fix debug builds on Windows (Bartosz Sosnowski) #13634
• [38a1cfb5e6] - v8: add a js class for Serializer/Dserializer (Rajaram Gaunker) #13541

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CI: https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-commit/10488/ CITGM: https://ci.nodejs.org/view/Node.js-citgm/job/citgm-smoker/866/

Not included are semver-minors (#13452, #13137) and #13509 which depends on one of them; I think it would be best to focus on getting the readline fix out. We can do those with the next release, which I assume will contain V8 5.9, therefore be a minor anyway, and for which we might want to do an RC process as we’ve done with V8 bumps before (but especially this one).