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v8.3.0 proposal

Rodrigo Muino Tomonari requested to merge v8.3.0-proposal into v8.x

For real this time.

2017-08-??, Version 8.3.0 (Current), @addaleax

Notable changes

V8 6.0

The V8 engine has been upgraded to version 6.0, which has a significantly changed performance profile. #14574

More detailed information on performance differences can be found at https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/get-ready-a-new-v8-is-coming-node-js-performance-is-changing-46a63d6da4de

Other notable changes

  • DNS

    • Independent DNS resolver instances are supported now, with support for cancelling the corresponding requests. #14518

  • REPL

    • Autocompletion support for require() has been improved. #14409

  • Utilities

    • The WHATWG Encoding Standard (TextDecoder and TextEncoder) has been implemented. #13644

  • Added new collaborators

Commits

  • [e2356e72e7] - assert: improve deepEqual Set and Map worst case (Ruben Bridgewater) #14258
  • [9252b8c057] - assert: refactor to reduce unecessary code paths (Ruben Bridgewater) #13973
  • [89586f6684] - assert: fix incorrect use of ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE (Tobias Nießen) #14011
  • [26785a23bb] - assert: refactor the code (Ruben Bridgewater) #13862
  • [0cf1e22448] - benchmark: remove unused parameters (Matthew Alsup) #14526
  • [9b104b4ea8] - benchmark: add assert map and set benchmarks (Ruben Bridgewater) #14258
  • [2c364ab291] - buffer: remove a wrongly added attribute specifier (Jiajie Hu) #14466
  • [87e108059b] - build: fix build without icu (Jimmy Thomson) #14533
  • [0ebb4dff17] - build: codesign tarball binary on macOS (Evan Lucas) #14179
  • [7f5bcbd2e9] - build,test: run v8 tests on windows (Kunal Pathak) #13992
  • [5ab4471d72] - build,tools: do not force codesign prefix (Evan Lucas) #14179
  • [7b96944254] - build,win: fix python detection script (Jason Ginchereau) #14546
  • [51c1afafa6] - crypto: change segmentation faults to CHECKs (Tobias Nießen) #14548
  • [e2b306c831] - (SEMVER-MINOR) deps: backport rehash strings after deserialization (Yang Guo) #14004
  • [2dbf95d5ee] - (SEMVER-MINOR) deps: backport c0f1ff2 from upstream V8 (Michaël Zasso) #14004
  • [efd297a5c9] - (SEMVER-MINOR) deps: fix addons compilation with VS2013 (Bartosz Sosnowski) #14004
  • [160e2f03d2] - (SEMVER-MINOR) deps: limit regress/regress-crbug-514081 v8 test (Michael Dawson) #14004
  • [44ad55d493] - (SEMVER-MINOR) deps: update V8 to 6.0.286.52 (Myles Borins) #14574
  • [d9273ed5ed] - deps: cherry-pick 18ea996 from c-ares upstream (Anna Henningsen) #13883
  • [32b30d519e] - (SEMVER-MINOR) dns: name generated functions (Anna Henningsen) #14518
  • [0982810208] - (SEMVER-MINOR) dns: add channel.cancel() (Anna Henningsen) #14518
  • [69e41dc5da] - (SEMVER-MINOR) dns: enable usage of independent cares resolvers (Anna Henningsen) #14518
  • [b6bd3cf00f] - doc: cross-link util.TextDecoder and intl.md (Vse Mozhet Byt) #14486
  • [fffd8f5335] - doc: document napi_finalize() signature (cjihrig) #14230
  • [92b0555965] - doc: various small revisions in url (Timothy Gu) #14478
  • [9dd9760951] - doc: update url.origin IDNA behavior (Timothy Gu) #14478
  • [4e2493a20d] - doc: fix minor typos in net.md (Daiki Arai) #14502
  • [e9088f92d8] - doc: fix verify in crypto.md (Ruslan Iusupov) #14469
  • [8a9de1b3c5] - doc: fix typo in using-internal-errors.md (Anton Paras) #14429
  • [ab9bc81b0e] - doc: add docs for module.paths (atever) #14435
  • [bdcd496c98] - doc: update experimental status to reflect use (James M Snell) #12723
  • [6c6da38518] - doc: fix some links (Vse Mozhet Byt) #14400
  • [83c8e5c517] - doc: describe labelling process for backports (Anna Henningsen) #12431
  • [592787ef4d] - doc: error message are still major (Refael Ackermann) #14375
  • [f1b09c0a44] - doc: fix typo in stream.md (Marc Hernández Cabot) #14364
  • [4be373bc4b] - doc: fixes default shell in child_process.md (Henry) #14203
  • [b12924d894] - doc: add XadillaX to collaborators (XadillaX) #14388
  • [dc0a26f254] - doc: replace dead link in v8 module (Devin Boyer) #14372
  • [d2121ab768] - doc: fix minor typo in cluster.md (Lance Ball) #14353
  • [eb023ef7df] - doc, lib, test: do not re-require needlessly (Vse Mozhet Byt) #14244
  • [cfed48e81c] - doc, url: add changelog metadata for url.format (Timothy Gu) #14543
  • [78f0c2aa75] - doc,assert: document stackStartFunction in fail (Ruben Bridgewater) #13862
  • [53ad91c3b1] - doc,stream: _transform happens one at a time (Matteo Collina) #14321
  • [f6a03439d8] - docs: add note about fs.rmdir() (Oleksandr Kushchak) #14323
  • [142ce5ce2c] - errors: order internal errors list alphabetically (Anna Henningsen) #14453
  • [50447e837b] - http: reset stream to unconsumed in unconsume() (Anna Henningsen) #14410
  • [751e87338f] - http: check for handle before running asyncReset() (Trevor Norris) #14419
  • [71cb1cdf69] - inspector: implement V8Inspector timer (Eugene Ostroukhov) #14346
  • [4836f3b9b9] - inspector: send messages after the Node is done (Eugene Ostroukhov) #14463
  • [9e5a08884a] - lib: adjust indentation for impending lint change (Rich Trott) #14403
  • [a7b3e06e9b] - lib: modify destructuring for indentation (Rich Trott) #14417
  • [28f0693796] - lib: include cached modules in module.children (Ben Noordhuis) #14132
  • [19a0e06317] - linkedlist: correct grammar in comments (alexbostock) #14546
  • [60e0f2bb0d] - (SEMVER-MINOR) n-api: add support for DataView (Shivanth MP) #14382
  • [b849b3d223] - n-api: re-use napi_env between modules (Gabriel Schulhof) #14217
  • [6078dea35d] - n-api: directly create Local from Persistent (Kyle Farnung) #14211
  • [f2efdc880f] - (SEMVER-MINOR) n-api: add code parameter to error helpers (Michael Dawson) #13988
  • [fa134dd60c] - n-api: add fast paths for integer getters (Anna Henningsen) #14393
  • [58446912a6] - net: fix bytesWritten during writev (Brendan Ashworth) #14236
  • [b41ae9847e] - path: fix win32 volume-relative paths (Timothy Gu) #14440
  • [509039fcaf] - path: remove unnecessary string copies (Tobias Nießen) #14438
  • [37e55bf559] - readline: remove max limit of crlfDelay (Azard) #13497
  • [e54f75b831] - readline: remove the caching variable (Lyall Sun) #14275
  • [1a5927fc27] - repl: do not consider ... as a REPL command (Shivanth MP) #14467
  • [5a8862bfa3] - (SEMVER-MINOR) repl: improve require() autocompletion (Alexey Orlenko) #14409
  • [34821f6400] - repl: don't terminate on null thrown (Benjamin Gruenbaum) #14306
  • [32ba8aea0b] - repl: fix old history error handling (Ruben Bridgewater) #13733
  • [8a3bc874fa] - src: fix process.abort() interaction with V8 (Anna Henningsen) #13985
  • [997204a213] - (SEMVER-MINOR) src: fix new V8 compiler warnings (Michaël Zasso) #14004
  • [fa3aa2e1f7] - src: return MaybeLocal in AsyncWrap::MakeCallback (Tobias Nießen) #14549
  • [d90a5e0069] - src: replace deprecated ForceSet() method (Franziska Hinkelmann) #14450
  • [eb7faf6734] - src: replace ASSERT with CHECK (Ben Noordhuis) #14474
  • [106a23bd27] - (SEMVER-MINOR) src,dns: refactor cares_wrap to avoid global state (Anna Henningsen) #14518
  • [b1fef05446] - test: improvements to various http tests (James M Snell) #14315
  • [ce9e3cfe10] - test: refactor test/sequential/test-fs-watch.js (Rich Trott) #14534
  • [9f50db2450] - test: refactor test-vm-new-script-new-context (Rich Trott) #14536
  • [f40b9062fc] - test: add check on an addon that does not register (Ezequiel Garcia) #13954
  • [ddd97fe15c] - test: fix error when foo in path to git clone (Matt Woicik) #14506
  • [8fea17484d] - test: add DISABLED_ prefix to commented out test (Daniel Bevenius) #14317
  • [7b6a77403c] - test: remove disabled tests directory (Rich Trott) #14505
  • [15b9aa1359] - test: improve error logging for inspector test (Rich Trott) #14508
  • [451e643cf2] - test: remove --no-crankshaft (Myles Borins) #14531
  • [7c51240b1a] - test: adjust indentation for stricter linting (Rich Trott) #14431
  • [c704c02290] - test: increase coverage for path.parse (Tobias Nießen) #14438
  • [23cd934d71] - test: refactor test-httpparser.response.js (erdun) #14290
  • [91b6ba1973] - test: refactor test-benchmark-timers (Rich Trott) #14464
  • [c2853893cf] - test: refactor test-http-parser.js (Rich Trott) #14431
  • [4ff562f41e] - test: make flaky crypto test more deterministic (Ben Noordhuis) #14451
  • [100e862dfa] - test: rename crypto test (Ben Noordhuis) #14451
  • [f8c2302a66] - test: use common.mustCall() instead of exit handle (笑斌) #14262
  • [0ff19b0c4c] - test: changed error message validator (Pratik Jain) #14443
  • [14f6a5a367] - test: fix flaky test-force-repl (Rich Trott) #14439
  • [5057c7a953] - test: replace concatenation with template literal (rockcoder23) #14270
  • [6420a73f3e] - test: replace concatenation with template literal (Ching Hsu) #14284
  • [cd0fffd86a] - test: convert table in test doc to markdown table (vixony) #14291
  • [1c6135f431] - test: fix flaky http(s)-set-server-timeout tests (Rich Trott) #14380
  • [de3d73c88c] - test: replace CRLF by LF in a fixture (Vse Mozhet Byt) #14437
  • [aeb8d66eec] - test: fix test-async-wrap-getasyncid flakyness (Julien Gilli) #14329
  • [3c50c592a5] - test: replace concatenation with template literals (笑斌) #14293
  • [1813467d27] - test: upgrade tests to work with master’s common (Anna Henningsen) #14459
  • [d89bb1c6f3] - test: bump test/common to master (Anna Henningsen) #14459
  • [d7a1637897] - test: change isAix to isAIX (章礼平) #14263
  • [552d2be625] - test: improve test-util-inspect (Peter Marshall) #14003
  • [0418a70d7c] - test: add non-internet resolveAny tests (Anna Henningsen) #13883
  • [265f159881] - test: replace concatenation with template literals (Song, Bintao Garfield) #14295
  • [3414e42127] - test: replace concatenation with template literals (Zongmin Lei) #14298
  • [953736cdde] - test: move timing-dependent tests to sequential (Alexey Orlenko) #14377
  • [9b22acc29e] - test: fix flaky test-net-write-after-close (Rich Trott) #14361
  • [11ae8c33bd] - test: delete obsolete test-sendfd.js (decareano) #14334
  • [99104e1b58] - test: improve fs.exists coverage (jkzing) #14301
  • [e237720537] - test: replace string concatenation with template (ziyun) #14286
  • [3c92b787d7] - test: use path.join in async-hooks/test-tlswrap.js (Vincent Xue) #14319
  • [0197ba00a5] - test: add comments for whatwg-url tests (Gautam Arora) #14355
  • [956a473107] - test: move test-fs-largefile to pummel (Rich Trott) #14338
  • [c866c9078b] - test: use path.join for long path concatenation (zzz) #14280
  • [94c7331277] - test: replace string concatenation with path.join (jkzing) #14272
  • [def98c6959] - test: replace string concatenation with template (Nathan Jiang) #14342
  • [3bc7d2a5ea] - test: replace string concat in test-fs-watchfile.js (Helianthus21) #14287
  • [72febfd3b6] - test: replace concatenation with template literals (SkyAo) #14296
  • [b5d0a03a9e] - test: fix error handling test-http-full-response (Rich Trott) #14252
  • [e90af29604] - tls: fix empty issuer/subject/infoAccess parsing (Ben Noordhuis) #14473
  • [fa8c5f4372] - tools: remove legacy indentation linting (Rich Trott) #14515
  • [d11840c180] - tools: enable stricter linting in lib directory (Rich Trott) #14403
  • [5e952182e7] - tools: update to ESLint 4.3.0 (Rich Trott) #14417
  • [ebb90900af] - tools: skip workaround for newer llvm (nanaya) #14077
  • [c0ea5d8ce5] - tools: always include llvm_version in config (nanaya) #14077
  • [32259421ca] - url: update sort() behavior with no params (Timothy Gu) #14185
  • [9a3fc10dd4] - (SEMVER-MINOR) util: implement WHATWG Encoding Standard API (James M Snell) #13644
  • [f593960d35] - util: refactor util module (James M Snell) #13803
  • [357873ddb0] - (SEMVER-MINOR) v8: fix stack overflow in recursive method (Ben Noordhuis) #14004
  • [e529914e70] - zlib: fix interaction of flushing and needDrain (Anna Henningsen) #14527

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