Node.js 8.6.0 Release Proposal

Target Release Date: 2017-09-26

Notable Changes

• crypto
  • Support for multiple ECDH curves. #15206
• dgram
  • Added setMulticastInterface() API. #7855
• n-api
  • The command-line flag is no longer required to use N-API. #14902
• tls
  • Docs-only deprecation of parseCertString(). #14245
• New Contributors
  • Welcome Sebastiaan Deckers (@sebdeckers) as a new Collaborator! #15354

Commits

• [7fa175f6d3] - assert: fix deepEqual inconsistencies (Ruben Bridgewater) #14491
• [81723a9172] - (SEMVER-MINOR) async_hooks,doc: some async_hooks improvements (James M Snell) #15103
• [3bf718c3fe] - benchmark: enable assert benchmark with short len (Rich Trott) #15174
• [d30a5836b6] - benchmark: provide default methods for assert (Rich Trott) #15174
• [142d2ed057] - benchmark: use smaller n value in some http tests (Peter Marshall) #14002
• [5e4f87ae65] - buffer: improve Buffer.from performance (Anatoli Papirovski) #15178
• [354f32040d] - build: remove unused configuration variable (Ben Noordhuis) #15266
• [5d217ad5d7] - build: add support for link-module to vcbuild (Bartosz Sosnowski) #15410
• [607832d3c3] - child_process: set shell to false in fork() (Alex Gresnel) #15352
• [c26e93b309] - crypto: fix Node_SignFinal (David Benjamin) #15024
• [bd07574718] - (SEMVER-MINOR) crypto: support multiple ECDH curves and auto (Roga Pria Sembada) #15206
• [b24ee68133] - (SEMVER-MINOR) dgram: added setMulticastInterface() (Will Young) #7855
• [fcbee7b4bb] - doc: fix some links in http2.md (Vse Mozhet Byt) #15481
• [9d6b0e6f6f] - doc: fix external links with 404 status (Vse Mozhet Byt) #15463
• [29fd88c3e5] - doc: fix new nits in links (Vse Mozhet Byt) #15449
• [4efc6fec6b] - doc: fix some internal links (Vse Mozhet Byt) #15293
• [5ea4b88a29] - doc: adding sebdeckers to collaborators (Sebastiaan Deckers) #15354
• [d5d498b6dc] - doc: update AUTHORS list (Michaël Zasso) #15181
• [950f7f5fe1] - doc: update README with SHASUMS256.txt.sig info (Jon Moss) #15107
• [38422d5963] - doc: fix nits in esm.md (Vse Mozhet Byt) #15315
• [b0f5b2a38c] - doc: fix "added in" for Buffer.allocUnsafeSlow() (Tuan Anh Tran) #15330
• [8112f496dc] - doc: add missing heading for error (Jon Moss) #15325
• [29707afd82] - doc: add missing doc for readable._destroy (Michaël Zasso) #15316
• [9f4480ce90] - doc: use consistent terminology in process doc (Rich Trott) #15321
• [a53a0d8b38] - doc: fix emitKeypressEvents stream type (Oblosys) #15399
• [b5c1a82560] - doc: fix http.ClientRequest method descriptions (Antoine AMARA) #15163
• [f0e411d1b2] - doc: prevent displaying empty version picker (Chris Young) #15420
• [acb0d012b3] - doc: make mkdtemp example work on Windows (Bartosz Sosnowski) #15408
• [bdfed1ad25] - doc: fix entryTypes type and missing link (Mani Maghsoudlou) #15406
• [7fa2bee5e7] - doc: add documentation for the 'timeout' event (Luigi Pinca) #15443
• [b09eeb4a3d] - (SEMVER-MINOR) doc, tls: mark parseCertString() as deprecated (XadillaX) #14245
• [a792ea7709] - docs: update 8.5.0 changelog (Myles Borins) #15384
• [b58a2aae1b] - errors: fix ERR_MODULE_RESOLUTION_LEGACY message (Tobias Nießen) #15290
• [da3265ad82] - errors: backport ERR_INVALID_PROTOCOL to v8.x (Myles Borins) #15388
• [771c2ac7c2] - http: revert #14024 writable is never set to false (Matteo Collina) #15404
• [66a5f99828] - http2: improved coverage of Http2Stream destroy (Simon Brewster) #15461
• [ba9012d4bc] - http2: add tests for push stream error handling (Anatoli Papirovski) #15281
• [b61220ed84] - http2: fix subsequent end calls to not throw (Anatoli Papirovski) #15414
• [2e421ff5c9] - http2: correct behaviour for enablePush unpack (Anatoli Papirovski) #15167
• [9490be353e] - http2: cleanup of h2 compat layer, add tests (Anatoli Papirovski) #15254
• [aa0917cd0a] - http2: improve http2 coverage (James M Snell) #15210
• [a6879bfab6] - http2: custom promisify for http2.connect (James M Snell) #15207
• [2ea2725ce0] - http2: emit close event if request aborted (Anatoli Papirovski) #15415
• [b9a9290e8d] - http2: expand list of known headers (Anatoli Papirovski) #15434
• [a32c8a566e] - http2,async-wrap: introduce AliasedBuffer class (Mike Kaufman) #15077
• [25692a985c] - inspector: break in eval script (Eugene Ostroukhov) #14581
• [8ce0e9a619] - lib: refactor console startup (Ruben Bridgewater) #15111
• [91e96d8f08] - lib,src: fix consistent spacing inside braces (James M Snell) #14162
• [ede09f29d0] - meta: allow vague objections to be dismissed (James M Snell) #15233
• [727d7b5078] - meta: improve contributors guide (James M Snell) #15123
• [c005713d05] - module: check file url passed to top-level import (guybedford) #15389
• [939c8ed084] - module: coverity fixes for ESM C++ (Bradley Farias) #15275
• [cd3a8e8832] - n-api: remove n-api module loading flag (Gabriel Schulhof) #14902
• [526e78f5cd] - n-api: add optional string length parameters (Sampson Gao) #15343
• [87a3162f85] - n-api: Context for custom async operations (Jason Ginchereau) #15189
• [7b7c030adc] - (SEMVER-MINOR) n-api: change async resource name to napi_value (Jason Ginchereau) #14697
• [d5b3002572] - n-api: stop creating references to primitives (Gabriel Schulhof) #15289
• [a47fe692b1] - (SEMVER-MINOR) n-api: use AsyncResource for Work tracking (Anna Henningsen) #14697
• [8f12b9dce4] - n-api: refactor napi_addon_register_func (Taylor Woll) #15088
• [a2d340fb00] - n-api: napi_is_construct_call->napi_get_new_target (Sampson Gao) #14698
• [774e42b575] - (SEMVER-MINOR) src: refactor #include handling (Anna Henningsen) #14697
• [29e38ab2a2] - src: remove unused perf_hooks uv handles (James M Snell) #15368
• [606da2ba43] - (SEMVER-MINOR) src: make in_makecallback() getter const (Anna Henningsen) #14697
• [98967c988f] - (SEMVER-MINOR) src: refactor async callback handling (Anna Henningsen) #14697
• [f60a2aa982] - (SEMVER-MINOR) src: remove virtually unused ExecScope (Anna Henningsen) #14697
• [6c520af6d5] - (SEMVER-MINOR) src: move DomainEnter,DomainExit to node.cc (Anna Henningsen) #14697
• [8c480f9d8c] - src: remove outdated todo from node_crypto.cc (Bartek Szczepański) #15104
• [59f183640b] - test: refactor test for readability (Refael Ackermann) #13003
• [757c34276b] - test: fix actual and expected order (Ruben Bridgewater) #14881
• [5125c08c50] - test: remove obsolete debugger tests (Rich Trott) #15139
• [7dfd570cad] - test: add test-benchmark-assert (Rich Trott) #15174
• [a9066459ad] - test: convert buffer benchmark to runBenchmark (Jon Moss) #15349
• [45cdbcfee6] - test: create shared runBenchmark function (Jon Moss) #15004
• [ba96c8f23e] - test: don't skip when common.mustCall() is pending (cjihrig) #15421
• [50b6203a33] - (SEMVER-MINOR) test: add regression test for 5691 (Anna Henningsen) #14697
• [f0a741d178] - test: kill subprocess only after last ACK (Refael Ackermann) #15186
• [4d68064493] - test: move common.PORT tests to sequential (Jon Moss) #15151
• [a92f3dfd8c] - test: make test-http-agent-maxsockets robust (Rich Trott) #15192
• [edece30930] - test: remove random timer in test-tls-fast-writing (Rich Trott) #15138
• [b1a0bdcdaf] - test: remove faulty test case (Ruben Bridgewater) #15110
• [cd238e2c0e] - test: check inspect array with empty string key (Rahul Mishra) #15258
• [3ce501c8ff] - test: improve process warning coverage (James M Snell) #15212
• [a2c335b973] - test: fix sequential/test-async-wrap-getasyncid (Anna Henningsen) #15319
• [94e2b5c371] - test: refactor test-debug-prompt (Rich Trott) #15141
• [5881033138] - test: remove invalid test (Rich Trott) #15320
• [a1abf62cc3] - test: allow adding known-globals through ENV (Refael Ackermann) #15187
• [427bf80194] - test: add test for fork() + shell (cjihrig) #15352
• [4d26c68b6b] - test: move test-benchmark-buffer to sequential (Rich Trott) #15373
• [1fbdf47742] - test: fix flaky test-http2-session-timeout (Anatoli Papirovski) #15338
• [f20fb4ce40] - test: do not write fixture in test-require-symlink (Rich Trott) #15067
• [389c8c33d7] - test: expand http2 frameError test case (Anatoli Papirovski) #15298
• [d82ae0cb6e] - test: backward compatible api for tty (Gergely Nemeth) #15235
• [6a94c1aa3b] - timers: clarify lib/timer.js comment (Daniel Bevenius) #11018
• [9049f09e0f] - tools: enforce consistent spacing inside braces (Sebastiaan Deckers) #14162
• [539445890b] - util: add fast internal array join method (Ruben Bridgewater) #14881
• [7d95dc385c] - vm: support parsing a script in a specific context (Timothy Gu) #14888