V4.4.3 proposal

2016-04-11, Version 4.4.3 'Argon' (LTS), @thealphanerd

Notable Changes

• deps:
  • Fix --gdbjit for embedders. Backported from v8 upstream. (Ben Noordhuis) #5577
• etw:
  • Correctly display descriptors for ETW events 9 and 23 on the windows platform. (João Reis) #5742
• querystring:
  • Restore throw when attempting to stringify bad surrogate pair. (Brian White) #5858

Commits

• [f949c273cd] - assert: Check typed array view type in deepEqual (Anna Henningsen) #5910
• [132acea0d4] - build: introduce ci targets for lint/benchmark (Johan Bergström) #5921
• [9a8f922dee] - build: add missing openssl_fips% to common.gypi (Fedor Indutny) #5919
• [d275cdf202] - child_process: refactor self=this in socket_list (Benjamin Gruenbaum) #5860
• [aadf356aa2] - deps: backport 8d00c2c from v8 upstream (Ben Noordhuis) #5577
• [200f763c43] - deps: completely upgrade npm in LTS to 2.15.1 (Forrest L Norvell) #5989
• [86e3903626] - dns: Use object without protoype for map (Benjamin Gruenbaum) #5843
• [9a33f43f73] - doc: update openssl LICENSE using license-builder.sh (Steven R. Loomis) #6065
• [9679e2dc70] - doc: clarify that __dirname is module local (James M Snell) #6018
• [86d2af58d6] - doc: simple doc typo fix (Brendon Pierson) #6041
• [f16802f3ca] - doc: note about Android support (Rich Trott) #6040
• [8c2befe176] - doc: note assert.throws() pitfall (Rich Trott) #6029
• [0870ac65f2] - doc: use HTTPS for links where possible (Rich Trott) #6019
• [56755de96e] - doc: clarify stdout/stderr arguments to callback (James M Snell) #6015
• [bb603b89a2] - doc: add 'Command Line Options' to 'View on single page' (firedfox) #6011
• [c91f3d897a] - doc: add copy about how to curl SHA256.txt (Myles Borins) #6120
• [f9cf232284] - doc: add example using algorithms not directly exposed (Brad Hill) #6108
• [f60ce1078d] - doc: document unspecified behavior for buf.write* methods (James M Snell) #5925
• [02401a6cbd] - doc: fix scrolling on iOS devices (Luigi Pinca) #5878
• [aed22d0855] - doc: path.format provide more examples (John Eversole) #5838
• [6e2bfbe1fd] - doc: fix doc for Buffer.readInt32LE() (ghaiklor) #5890
• [940d204401] - doc: consolidate timers docs in timers.markdown (Bryan English) #5837
• [505faf6360] - doc: refine child_process detach behaviour (Robert Jefe Lindstaedt) #5330
• [feedca7879] - doc: add topic - event loop, timers, nextTick() (Jeff Harris) #4936
• [6d3822c12b] - etw: fix descriptors of events 9 and 23 (João Reis) #5742
• [56dda6f336] - fs: Remove unused branches (Benjamin Gruenbaum) #5289
• [dfe9e157c1] - governance: remove target size for CTC (Rich Trott) #5879
• [c4103b154f] - lib: refactor code with startsWith/endsWith (Jackson Tian) #5753
• [16216a81de] - meta: add "joining a wg" section to WORKING_GROUPS.md (Matteo Collina) #5488
• [65fc4e36ce] - querystring: don't stringify bad surrogate pair (Brian White) #5858
• [4f683ab912] - src,tools: use template literals (Rich Trott) #5778
• [ac40a4510d] - test: explicitly set global in test-repl (Rich Trott) #6026
• [a7b3a7533a] - test: be explicit about polluting of global (Rich Trott) #6017
• [73e3b7b9a8] - test: make use of globals explicit (Rich Trott) #6014
• [e7877e61b6] - test: fix flaky test-net-socket-timeout-unref (Rich Trott) #6003
• [a39051f5b3] - test: make arch available in status files (Santiago Gimeno) #5997
• [ccf90b651a] - test: fix test-dns.js flakiness (Rich Trott) #5996
• [1994ac0912] - test: add test for piping large input from stdin (Anna Henningsen) #5949
• [cc1aab9f6a] - test: mitigate flaky test-https-agent (Rich Trott) #5939
• [10fe79b809] - test: fix offending max-len linter error (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #5980
• [63d82960fd] - test: stdin is not always a net.Socket (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #5935
• [fe0233b923] - test: add known_issues test for GH-2148 (Rich Trott) #5920
• [d59be4d248] - test: ensure _handle property existence (Rich Trott) #5916
• [9702153107] - test: fix flaky test-repl (Brian White) #5914
• [a0a2e69097] - test: move dns test to test/internet (Ben Noordhuis) #5905
• [8462d8f465] - test: fix flaky test-net-socket-timeout (Brian White) #5902
• [e0b283af73] - test: fix flaky test-http-set-timeout (Rich Trott) #5856
• [5853fec36f] - test: fix test-debugger-client.js (Rich Trott) #5851
• [ea83c382f9] - test: ensure win32.isAbsolute() is consistent (Brian White) #6043
• [c33a23fd1e] - tools: fix json doc generation (firedfox) #5943
• [6f0bd64122] - tools,doc: fix incomplete json produced by doctool (firedfox) #5966
• [f7eb48302c] - win,build: build and test add-ons on test-ci (Bogdan Lobor) #5886