v6.11.4 proposal

2017-10-03, Version 6.11.4 'Boron' (LTS), @MylesBorins

This LTS release comes with 91 commits. This includes 29 which are test related, 28 which are doc related, 11 which are build / tool related and 3 commits which are updates to dependencies.

Notable Changes

• net:
  • support passing undefined to listen() to match behavior in v4.x and v8.x (Sam Roberts) #14234

Commits

• [73416b46e4] - assert: refactor the code (Ruben Bridgewater) #13862
• [a8b917ee2f] - benchmark: fix dgram/bind-params.js benchmark (Rich Trott) #14948
• [855d7ae326] - benchmark: convert var to es6 const (Sebastian Murphy) #12886
• [6a7e46ed9c] - build: add NetBSD support to opensslconf.h (Roy Marples) #14313
• [66dd898be8] - build: better support for python3 systems (Ben Noordhuis) #14737
• [14cc1abb56] - build: split up cpplint to avoid long cmd lines (Kyle Farnung) #14116
• [c9ae894277] - build: add lint option to vcbuild.bat help (Morgan Brenner) #11992
• [66cdcd9d5b] - build: add cpp linting to windows build (liusi) #11856
• [25be2a3be3] - crypto: naming anonymous functions. (solebox) #8993
• [4e1a50a079] - deps: backport 0353a1e from V8 upstream (jBarz) #15287
• [921876dcd1] - deps: backport 071b655 from V8 upstream (Michaël Zasso) #15215
• [a13ac69ff9] - doc: prevent displaying empty version picker (Chris Young) #15420
• [ecea33b277] - doc: add links to alternative versions of doc (Chris Young) #10958
• [feb6863a5c] - doc: document bytes to chars after setEncoding (Jessica Quynh Tran) #13442
• [33fdbb5417] - doc: describe what security issues are (Sam Roberts) #14485
• [a260190717] - doc: instructions for generating coverage reports (Simon Brewster) #15190
• [1b0e660c25] - doc: /s/SHASUM256/SHASUMS256 (Jon Moss) #15101
• [5696223534] - doc: clarify http.get data consumption requirement (AJ Jordan) #15049
• [4c26913dab] - doc: crypto.randomBytes does not block when async (Sam Roberts) #14993
• [605a02b613] - doc: environmental->environment & NodeJS->Node.js (Rod Vagg) #14974
• [b10bc31030] - doc: fix typo in Buffer.from(string, [encoding]) (Michał Wadas) #15013
• [29de000938] - doc: add note for Windows build path (Kyle Lamse) #14354
• [7546eef262] - doc: rephrase text of child_process.execSync() (hafiz) #14953
• [70e9a6ece3] - doc: link to correct "OS Constants" heading in docs (James Kyle) #14969
• [55dc14ec61] - doc: remove misterdjules from the CTC members list (Julien Gilli) #1498
• [c76a54f318] - doc: add missing word (Jon Moss) #14924
• [27b6737d85] - doc: explain what to do if git push is rejected (Rich Trott) #14848
• [d75e9b7d44] - doc: add BridgeAR to collaborators (Ruben Bridgewater) #14862
• [a63cd82003] - doc: fix word wrapping for api stability boxes (Saad Quadri) #14809
• [f8fbac7842] - doc: improve fs.read() doc text (Rich Trott) #14631
• [5a7a49f505] - doc: clarify the position argument for fs.read (dcharbonnier) #14631
• [b5904a2054] - doc: remove undef NDEBUG from addons.md (Daniel Bevenius) #14048
• [c0e47e4f22] - doc: fix order of AtExit callbacks in addons.md (Daniel Bevenius) #14048
• [dcdc9053b4] - doc: fix typo in stream.md (Marc Hernández Cabot) #14364
• [594e3c2115] - doc: add readline.emitKeypressEvents note (Samuel Reed) #9447
• [90fcccd7a3] - doc: add documentation on ICU (Timothy Gu) #13916
• [38ae5c4e34] - doc, lib, test: do not re-require needlessly (Vse Mozhet Byt) #14244
• [abf6355936] - doc,assert: document stackStartFunction in fail (Ruben Bridgewater) #13862
• [f0328f631a] - doc,stream: remove wrong remark on readable.read (Jan Schär) #15014
• [0c670e0339] - http: eliminate capture of ClientRequest in Agent (Evan Torrie) #10134
• [67074113dc] - http: reset stream to unconsumed in unconsume() (Anna Henningsen) #14410
• [e65c9ec7f4] - http: assert parser.consume argument's type (Gireesh Punathil) #12288
• [4e717820a0] - lib: clean up usage of threw (Jackson Tian) #10534
• [e014178362] - meta: merge TSC and CTC back into a single body (James M Snell) #14973
• [4ee066eaba] - meta: considerations for new core modules (James M Snell) #15022
• [948a7d70e7] - meta: improve definition of a collaborator (James M Snell) #14981
• [caeee38b1d] - net: support passing undefined to listen() (Sam Roberts) #14234
• [792acc17bf] - net: fix abort on bad address input (Ruben Bridgewater) #13726
• [8604772960] - readline: remove max limit of crlfDelay (Azard) #13497
• [362a7c0d8b] - repl: do not consider ... as a REPL command (Shivanth MP) #14467
• [968121bbfe] - src: remove unnecessary helper function (Brian White) #14959
• [b2112f8d36] - src: detect nul bytes in InternalModuleReadFile() (Ben Noordhuis) #14854
• [d20b7bfb6e] - src: use local isolate instead of args.GetIsolate (Daniel Bevenius) #14768
• [66187fa044] - stream: fix Writable instanceof for subclasses (Anna Henningsen) #14945
• [2c8fe9748c] - test: remove envPlus, use Object.assign everywhere (Gibson Fahnestock) #14845
• [8e00315506] - test: check zlib version for createDeflateRaw (Daniel Bevenius) #13697
• [2babae4cd4] - test: refactor test-fs-readfile-unlink (Rich Trott) #15173
• [8b045747e0] - test: pipe some error output if npm fails (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #12490
• [6540e99547] - test: simplify test-tls-client-default-ciphers (Jon Moss) #14928
• [ad1d745498] - test: extend async addon test (Anna Henningsen) #14922
• [1e231ba8c7] - test: add known issue for vm module (Franziska Hinkelmann) #14661
• [644d9905a0] - test: do not modify fixtures in test-fs-chmod (Rich Trott) #14926
• [168f73c5f4] - test: improve assertion fail messages (Refael Ackermann) #14949
• [915b56b963] - test: remove unused arguments from function (Ankit Parashar) #14931
• [724508295d] - test: make timers-blocking-callback more reliable (Rich Trott) #14831
• [4fb4fbea1c] - test: add missing console.error to exec-maxBuffer (Beth Griggs) #14796
• [a284ee6129] - test: invoke callback with common.mustCall() (Griffith Tchenpan) #8597
• [32260b91f2] - test: check crypto before requiring tls module (Daniel Bevenius) #14708
• [68cf7f0b30] - test: improve multiple zlib tests (James M Snell) #14455
• [f35f06d04c] - test: improve multiple vm tests (James M Snell) #14458
• [1aac05b087] - test: cover all HTTP methods that parser supports (Oky Antoro) #14773
• [9f330250b5] - test: remove redundant using in cctest (XadillaX) #14739
• [91649b913c] - test: make test-tls-connect checks more strict (Rich Trott) #14695
• [9ed2c4cb0e] - test: add block scoping to test-readline-interface (Rich Trott) #14615
• [4fb755c432] - test: set module loading error for aix (Prakash Palaniappan) #14511
• [9d8464161e] - test: fix conversion of microseconds in test (Nick Stanish) #14706
• [28b77d1f8b] - test: improve check in test-os (Rich Trott) #14655
• [fc49cf41ea] - test: improve multiple timers tests (James M Snell) #14616
• [c88f99f1f3] - test: improvements to various http tests (James M Snell) #14315
• [860c6198c0] - test: use ciphers supported by shared OpenSSL (Jérémy Lal) #14566
• [8b9a05c04b] - test: read proper inspector message size (Bartosz Sosnowski) #14596
• [86497f1acc] - test: mark inspector-port-zero-cluster as flaky (Refael Ackermann)
• [8dfc2838c8] - test: fix test-readline-interface (Azard) #14677
• [3a6392b283] - tls: fix empty issuer/subject/infoAccess parsing (Ben Noordhuis) #14473
• [37dd2adbac] - tools: fix linter error in html.js (Michaël Zasso) #15063
• [8b3ac4b2a2] - tools: add custom private key option (Ruslan Bekenev) #14401
• [cac4beb764] - tools: fix update-eslint.sh (Myles Borins) #14850
• [debea1c531] - tools: delete an unused argument (phisixersai) #14251
• [ca61f3bd80] - tools: fix tools/addon-verify.js (Daniel Bevenius) #14048
• [f7b6d198b9] - tools: eslint - use error and off (Refael Ackermann) #14061
• [f8b85e16cd] - tools: replace assert-throw-arguments custom lint (Rich Trott) #14547