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Release proposal: v5.2.0

Rodrigo Muino Tomonari requested to merge v5.2.0-proposal into master

Since others seem to be busy with Node Interactive and this is long overdue, here's a proposal for release maybe as soon as tomorrow.

Commits list could do with some review, is there anything in here that shouldn't be in v5.x?

  • [08a3f29fd4] - buffer: fix range checking for slowToString (Matt Loring) #4019
  • [e3a8e8bba4] - buffer: Prevent Buffer constructor deopt (Bryce Baril) #4158
  • [0e18e68324] - buffer: fix writeInt{B,L}E for some neg values (Peter A. Bigot) #3994
  • [ab5b529dd2] - buffer: default to UTF8 in byteLength() (Tom Gallacher) #4010
  • [fcf0e8ebdf] - buffer: move checkFloat from lib into src (Matt Loring) #3763
  • [12649f4496] - build: add "--partly-static" build options (Super Zheng) #4152
  • [a76d788119] - build: update signtool description, add url (Rod Vagg) #4011
  • [ed255abdc1] - (SEMVER-MINOR) build,src: add Intel Vtune profiling support (Chunyang Dai) #3785
  • [7793c364fc] - child_process: flush consuming streams (Dave) #4071
  • [f29c5d6e70] - configure: v8_use_snapshot should be true (Fedor Indutny) #3962
  • [da5ac55c83] - (SEMVER-MINOR) crypto: simplify using pre-existing keys with ECDH (Michael Ruddy) #3511
  • [cfc97641ee] - crypto: fix native module compilation with FIPS (Stefan Budeanu) #4023
  • [b81b45dabd] - crypto: update root certificates (Ben Noordhuis) #3951
  • [def681a07e] - crypto: disable crypto.createCipher in FIPS mode (Stefan Budeanu) #3754
  • [ce423f3624] - debugger: introduce exec method for debugger (Jackson Tian)
  • [99fd1ec28d] - deps: backport 819b40a from V8 upstream (Michaël Zasso) #3937
  • [634c5f1f81] - doc: url.format - true slash postfix behaviour (fansworld-claudio) #4119
  • [6f957a70d8] - doc: s/node.js/Node.js in readme (Rod Vagg) #3998
  • [0cd4a52392] - doc: improve child_process.markdown wording (yorkie) #4138
  • [fd5ed6888d] - doc: add JungMinu to collaborators (Minwoo Jung) #4143
  • [fa0cdf75d9] - doc: add iarna to collaborators (Rebecca Turner) #4144
  • [424eb962b1] - doc: add zkat to collaborators (Kat Marchán) #4142
  • [85b601224b] - doc: add HTTP working group (James M Snell) #3919
  • [f4164bd8df] - doc: update links to use https where possible (jpersson) #4054
  • [3169eed1e3] - doc: add links and backticks around names (jpersson) #4054
  • [f3417e2574] - doc: standardize references to node.js in docs (Scott Buchanan) #4136
  • [95dd60c657] - doc: reword https.Agent example text (Jan Krems) #4075
  • [c61237d3ea] - doc: fix internal link to child.send() (Luigi Pinca) #4089
  • [aaeced915e] - doc: fix the exception description (yorkie) #3658
  • [a2b7596ac0] - doc: fix color of linked code blocks (jpersson) #4068
  • [f3c50f5fb5] - doc: fix rare case of misaligned columns (Roman Reiss) #3948
  • [f0a2e2cdec] - doc: message.header duplication correction (Bryan English) #3997
  • [b1dfa8bebb] - doc: fix typo in README (Rich Trott) #4000
  • [4602e01221] - doc: replace sane with reasonable (Lewis Cowper) #3980
  • [4849a54386] - doc: Adding best practises for crypto.pbkdf2 (Tom Gallacher) #3290
  • [77251d99de] - doc: numeric flags to fs.open (Carl Lei) #3641
  • [f4ca007b42] - doc: clarify that fs streams expect blocking fd (Carl Lei) #3641
  • [26eeae8016] - doc: fix broken references (Alexander Gromnitsky) #3944
  • [f90227b0e8] - doc: move fs.existsSync() deprecation message (Martin Forsberg) #3942
  • [bbcb2a2e65] - doc: clarify module loading behavior (cjihrig) #3920
  • [0997178037] - doc: add reference for buffer.inspect() (cjihrig) #3921
  • [6c16c40283] - doc: clarify v5.1.1 notable items (Rod Vagg) #4156
  • [4c8800c2de] - fs,doc: use target instead of destination (yorkie) #3912
  • [1f0e8dca8e] - installer: install the tick processor (Matt Loring) #3032
  • [e8e4e0718b] - meta: remove use of profanity in source (Myles Borins) #4122
  • [13834caa28] - module: fix column offsets in errors (Tristian Flanagan) #2867
  • [8988e1e117] - module,repl: remove repl require() hack (Ben Noordhuis) #4026
  • [baac81d95f] - net: add local address/port for better errors (Jan Schär) #3946
  • [12754c5dc3] - net: small code cleanup (Jan Schär) #3943
  • [8a5e4345fd] - node: s/doNTCallbackX/nextTickCallbackWithXArgs/ (Rod Vagg) #4167
  • [0869ef3c55] - (SEMVER-MINOR) repl: allow leading period in multiline input (Zirak) #3835
  • [aaab108dfe] - repl: attach location info to syntax errors (cjihrig) #4013
  • [9e9346fa32] - src: use GetCurrentProcessId() for process.pid (Ben Noordhuis) #4163
  • [d969c0965c] - src: define Is* util functions with macros (cjihrig) #4118
  • [458facdf66] - src: define getpid() based on OS (cjihrig) #4146
  • [7e18f2ec62] - (SEMVER-MINOR) src: add BE support to StringBytes::Encode() (Bryon Leung) #3410
  • [756ab9caad] - stream: be less eager with readable flag (Brian White) #4141
  • [8f845ba28a] - stream_wrap: error if stream has StringDecoder (Fedor Indutny) #4031
  • [1c1af81ea0] - streams: update .readable/.writable to false (Brian White) #4083
  • [1d50819c85] - test: check range fix for slowToString (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #4019
  • [0c2a0dc859] - test: skip long path tests on non-Windows (Rafał Pocztarski) #4116
  • [8a60aa1303] - test: don't check the # of chunks in test-http-1.0 (Santiago Gimeno) #3961
  • [e84aeec883] - test: mark test-cluster-shared-leak flaky (Rich Trott) #4162
  • [b3f3b2e157] - test: fix cluster-worker-isdead (Santiago Gimeno) #3954
  • [da6be4d31a] - test: fix time resolution constraint (Gireesh Punathil) #3981
  • [9d16729b20] - test: skip instead of fail when mem constrained (Michael Cornacchia) #3697
  • [be41eb751b] - test: refactor test-http-exit-delay (Rich Trott) #4055
  • [4b43bf0385] - test: fix flaky test-net-socket-local-address (Rich Trott) #4109
  • [cb55c67a00] - test: improve cluster-disconnect-handles test (Brian White) #4084
  • [2b5b127e14] - test: fix cluster-disconnect-handles flakiness (Santiago Gimeno) #4009
  • [430264817b] - test: add test for repl.defineCommand() (Bryan English) #3908
  • [22b0971222] - test: eliminate multicast test FreeBSD flakiness (Rich Trott) #4042
  • [c50003746b] - test: mark test flaky on FreeBSD (Rich Trott) #4016
  • [69c95bbdb7] - test: move ArrayStream to common (cjihrig) #4027
  • [d94a70ec51] - test: fix test-domain-exit-dispose-again (Julien Gilli) #3990
  • [00b839a2b8] - test: use platform-based timeout for reliability (Rich Trott) #4015
  • [054a216b6f] - test: mark cluster-net-send test flaky on windows (Rich Trott) #4006
  • [d0621c5649] - test: mark fork regression test flaky on windows (Rich Trott) #4005
  • [19ed33df80] - test: skip test if in FreeBSD jail (Rich Trott) #3995
  • [a863e8d667] - test: remove flaky status for cluster test (Rich Trott) #3975
  • [dd0d15fc47] - test: add TAP diagnostic message for retried tests (Rich Trott) #3960
  • [1fe4d30efc] - test: retry on smartos if ECONNREFUSED (Rich Trott) #3941
  • [665a35d45e] - test: address flaky test-http-client-timeout-event (Rich Trott) #3968
  • [f9fe0aee53] - test: numeric flags to fs.open (Carl Lei) #3641
  • [54aafa17af] - test: http complete list of non-concat headers (Bryan English) #3930
  • [788541b40c] - test: fix race condition in unrefd interval test (Michael Cornacchia) #3550
  • [e129d83996] - test: skip/replace weak crypto tests in FIPS mode (Stefan Budeanu) #3757
  • [bc27379453] - test: avoid test timeouts on rpi (Stefan Budeanu) #3902
  • [272732e76b] - test: fix flaky test-child-process-spawnsync-input (Rich Trott) #3889
  • [781f8c0d1e] - test: add OS X to module loading error test (Evan Lucas) #3901
  • [f99c6363de] - test: module loading error fix solaris #3798 (closed) (fansworld-claudio) #3855
  • [1279adc756] - timers: optimize callback call: bind -> arrow (Andrei Sedoi) #4038
  • [d7a7d3e6f7] - tools: update certdata.txt (Ben Noordhuis) #3951
  • [1b434e0654] - util: determine object types in C++ (cjihrig) #4100
  • [c93e2678f0] - util: fix constructor/instanceof checks (Brian White) #3385
  • [098a3113e1] - util: move .decorateErrorStack to internal/util (Ben Noordhuis) #4026
  • [e68ea16c32] - util: add decorateErrorStack() (cjihrig) #4013
  • [c584c3e08f] - util,src: allow lookup of hidden values (cjihrig) #3988

Commits that are on master since v5.1.0 that are not labelled with semver-major but are not included in v5.x are:

I think we need a label for these to say they shouldn't be cherry-picked to v5.x.

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