v4.7.0 proposal

2016-12-06, Version 4.7.0 'Argon' (LTS), @thealphanerd

This LTS release comes with 108 commits. This includes 30 which are doc related, 28 which are test related, 16 which are build / tool related, and 4 commits which are updates to dependencies.

Notable Changes

The SEMVER-MINOR changes include:

• build: export openssl symbols on Windows making it possible to build addons linking against the bundled version of openssl (Alex Hultman) #7576
• debugger: make listen address configurable in the debugger server (Ben Noordhuis) #3316
• dgram: generalized send queue to handle close fixing a potential throw when dgram socket is closed in the listening event handler. (Matteo Collina) #7066
• http: Introduce the 451 status code "Unavailable For Legal Reasons" (Max Barinov) #4377
• tls: introduce secureContext for tls.connect which is useful for caching client certificates, key, and CA certificates. (Fedor Indutny) #4246

Notable SEMVER-PATCH changes include:

• build:
  • introduce the configure --shared option for embedders (sxa555) #6994
• gtest: the test reporter now outputs tap comments as yamlish (Johan Bergström) #9262
• src: node no longer aborts when c-ares initialization fails (Ben Noordhuis) #8710
• tls: fix memory leak when writing data to TLSWrap instance during handshake (Fedor Indutny) #9586

Commits

• [ed31f9cc30] - benchmark: add microbenchmarks for ES Map (Rod Vagg) #7581
• [c5181eda4b] - build: reduce noise from doc target (Daniel Bevenius) #9457
• [59d821debe] - build: use wxneeded on openbsd (Aaron Bieber) #9232
• [7c73105606] - build: run cctests as part of test-ci target (Ben Noordhuis) #8034
• [3919edb47e] - build: don't build icu with -fno-rtti (Ben Noordhuis) #8886
• [e97723b18c] - build: abstract out shared library suffix (Stewart Addison) #9385
• [0138b4db7c] - build: windows sharedlib support (Stewart Addison) #9385
• [f21c2b9d3b] - build: configure --shared (sxa555) #6994
• [bb2fdf58f7] - build: cherry pick V8 change for windows DLL support (Stefan Budeanu) #8084
• [84849f186f] - (SEMVER-MINOR) build: export more openssl symbols on Windows (Alex Hultman) #7576
• [3cefd65e90] - build: export openssl symbols on windows (Ben Noordhuis) #6274
• [4de7a6e291] - build: fix config.gypi target (Daniel Bevenius) #9053
• [9389572cbc] - crypto: fix faulty logic in iv size check (Ben Noordhuis) #9032
• [748e424163] - (SEMVER-MINOR) debugger: make listen address configurable (Ben Noordhuis) #3316
• [c1effb1255] - deps: fix build with libc++ 3.8.0 (Johan Bergström) #9763
• [eb34f687d5] - deps: revert default gtest reporter change (Brian White) #8948
• [4c47446133] - deps: make gtest output tap (Ben Noordhuis) #8034
• [91fce10aee] - deps: back port OpenBSD fix in c-ares/c-ares (Aaron Bieber) #9232
• [4571c84c67] - (SEMVER-MINOR) dgram: generalized send queue to handle close (Matteo Collina) #7066
• [d3c25c19ef] - doc: update minute-taking procedure for CTC (Rich Trott) #9425
• [861b689c01] - doc: update GOVERNANCE.md to use "meeting chair" (Rich Trott) #9432
• [5e820ae746] - doc: update Diagnostics WG info (Josh Gavant) #9329
• [e08173a2f1] - doc: fix outdate ninja link (Yangyang Liu) #9278
• [462c640a51] - doc: fix typo in email address in README (Rich Trott) #8941
• [fc77cbb5b1] - doc: make node(1) more consistent with tradition (Alex Jordan) #8902
• [66e26cd253] - doc: child_process.execSync .stdio default is pipe (Kenneth Skovhus) #9701
• [524ebfb5dd] - doc: child_process .stdio accepts a String type (Kenneth Skovhus) #9701
• [475fe96852] - doc: simplify process.memoryUsage() example code (Thomas Watson Steen) #9560
• [c48c318806] - doc: change ./node to node in debugger.md (AnnaMag) #8943
• [00a178257c] - doc: update CONTRIBUTING.md to address editing PRs (Gibson Fahnestock) #9259
• [2b2dde855a] - doc: add italoacasas to collaborators (Italo A. Casas) #9677
• [0f41058e41] - doc: clarify relation between a file and a module (marzelin) #9026
• [d1d207bd75] - doc: add Sakthipriyan to the CTC (Rod Vagg) #9427
• [9dad98bdf1] - doc: add 2016-10-26 CTC meeting minutes (Rich Trott) #9348
• [824009296a] - doc: add 2016-10-05 CTC meeting minutes (Josh Gavant) #9326
• [1a701f1723] - doc: add 2016-09-28 CTC meeting minutes (Josh Gavant) #9325
• [e9c6aff113] - doc: add 2016-10-19 CTC meeting minutes (Josh Gavant) #9193
• [c1e5e663a9] - doc: improve header styling for API docs (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #8811
• [279e30c3ee] - doc: add CTC meeting minutes for 2016-10-12 (Michael Dawson) #9070
• [3b839d1855] - doc: remove confusing reference in governance doc (Rich Trott) #9073
• [e564cb6af4] - doc: add ctc-review label information (Rich Trott) #9072
• [68ccc7a512] - doc: update reference to list hash algorithms in crypto.md (scott stern) #9043
• [132425a058] - doc: specify that errno is a number, not a string (John Vilk) #9007
• [695ee1e77b] - doc: highlight deprecated API in ToC (Ilya Frolov) #7189
• [4f8bf1bcf8] - doc: explains why Reviewed-By is added in PRs (jessicaquynh) #9044
• [af645a0553] - doc: explain why GitHub merge button is not used (jessicaquynh) #9044
• [f472c09e90] - doc: reference signal(7) for the list of signals (Emanuele DelBono) #9323
• [88079817c2] - doc: fix typo in http.md (anu0012) #9144
• [9f0ef5a4f2] - doc: fix heading type for v4.6.2 changelog (Myles Borins) #9515
• [f6f0b387ea] - events: pass the original listener added by once (DavidCai) #6394
• [02e6c84de2] - gitignore: ignore all tap files (Johan Bergström) #9262
• [a7ae8876f9] - governance: expand use of CTC issue tracker (Rich Trott) #8945
• [36abbbe736] - gtest: output tap comments as yamlish (Johan Bergström) #9262
• [50a4471aff] - http: fix connection upgrade checks (Brian White) #8238
• [c94482b167] - (SEMVER-MINOR) http: 451 status code "Unavailable For Legal Reasons" (Max Barinov) #4377
• [12da2581a8] - https: fix memory leak with https.request() (Ilkka Myller) #8647
• [3b448a7f12] - lib: changed var to const in linkedlist (Adri Van Houdt) #8609
• [a3a184d40a] - lib: fix TypeError in v8-polyfill (Wyatt Preul) #8863
• [423846053b] - lib: remove let from for loops (Myles Borins) #8873
• [9a192a9683] - net: fix ambiguity in EOF handling (Fedor Indutny) #9066
• [62e83b363e] - src: Malloc/Calloc size 0 returns non-null pointer (Rich Trott) #8572
• [51e09d00c4] - src: normalize malloc, realloc (Michael Dawson) #7564
• [3b5cedebd1] - src: renaming ares_task struct to node_ares_task (Daniel Bevenius) #7345
• [e5d2a95d68] - src: remove out-of-date TODO comment (Daniel Bevenius) #9000
• [b4353e9017] - src: fix typo in #endif comment (Juan Andres Andrango) #8989
• [f0192ec195] - src: don't abort when c-ares initialization fails (Ben Noordhuis) #8710
• [f669a08b76] - src: fix typo rval to value (Miguel Angel Asencio Hurtado) #9023
• [9b9762ccec] - streams: fix regression in unpipe() (Anna Henningsen) #9171
• [cc36a63205] - test: remove watchdog in test-debug-signal-cluster (Rich Trott) #9476
• [9144d373ba] - test: cleanup test-dgram-error-message-address (Michael Macherey) #8938
• [96bdfae041] - test: improve test-debugger-util-regression (Santiago Gimeno) #9490
• [2c758861c0] - test: move timer-dependent test to sequential (Rich Trott) #9431
• [d9955fbb17] - test: add test for HTTP client "aborted" event (Kyle E. Mitchell) #7376
• [b0476c5590] - test: fix flaky test-fs-watch-recursive on OS X (Rich Trott) #9303
• [bcd156f4ab] - test: refactor test-async-wrap-check-providers (Gerges Beshay) #9297
• [9d5e7f5c85] - test: use strict assertions in module loader test (Ben Noordhuis) #9263
• [6d742b3fdd] - test: remove err timer from test-http-set-timeout (BethGriggs) #9264
• [51b251d8eb] - test: add coverage for spawnSync() killSignal (cjihrig) #8960
• [fafffd4f99] - test: fix test-child-process-fork-regr-gh-2847 (Santiago Gimeno) #8954
• [a2621a25e5] - test: remove FIXME pummel/test-tls-securepair-client (Alfred Cepeda) #8757
• [747013bc39] - test: output tap13 instead of almost-tap (Johan Bergström) #9262
• [790406661d] - test: refactor test-net-server-max-connections (Rich Trott) #8931
• [347547a97e] - test: expand test coverage for url.js (Junshu Okamoto) #8859
• [cec5e36df7] - test: fix test-cluster-worker-init.js flakyness (Ilkka Myller) #8703
• [b3fccc2536] - test: enable cyrillic punycode test case (Ben Noordhuis) #8695
• [03f703177f] - test: remove call to net.Socket.resume() (Alfred Cepeda) #8679
• [527db40932] - test: add coverage for execFileSync() errors (cjihrig) #9211
• [40ef23969d] - test: writable stream needDrain state (Italo A. Casas) #8799
• [ba4a3ede56] - test: writable stream ending state (Italo A. Casas) #8707
• [80a26c7540] - test: writable stream finished state (Italo A. Casas) #8791
• [a64af39c83] - test: remove duplicate required module (Rich Trott) #9169
• [a038fcc307] - test: add regression test for instanceof (Franziska Hinkelmann) #9178
• [bd99b2d4e4] - test: checking if error constructor is assert.AssertionError (larissayvette) #9119
• [4a6bd8683f] - test: fix flaky test-child-process-fork-dgram (Rich Trott) #9098
• [d9c33646e6] - test: add regression test for unpipe() (Niels Nielsen) #9171
• [f9b24f42ba] - test: use npm sandbox in test-npm-install (João Reis) #9079
• [54c38eb22e] - tickprocessor: apply c++filt manually on mac (Fedor Indutny) #8480
• [bf25994308] - tls: fix leak of WriteWrap+TLSWrap combination (Fedor Indutny) #9586
• [9049c1f6b6] - (SEMVER-MINOR) tls: introduce secureContext for tls.connect (Fedor Indutny) #4246
• [b1bd1c42c0] - tools: allow test.py to use full paths of tests (Francis Gulotta) #9694
• [533ce48b6a] - tools: make --repeat work with -j in test.py (Rich Trott) #9249
• [f9baa1119f] - tools: remove dangling eslint symlink (Sam Roberts) #9299
• [c8dccf29dd] - tools: avoid let in for loops (jessicaquynh) #9049
• [620cdc5ce8] - tools: fix release script on macOS 10.12 (Evan Lucas) #8824
• [f18f3b61e3] - util: use template strings (Alejandro Oviedo Garcia) #9120
• [1dfb5b5a09] - v8: update make-v8.sh to use git (Jaideep Bajwa) #9393
• [bdb6cf92c7] - win,msi: mark INSTALLDIR property as secure (João Reis) #8795
• [9a02414a29] - zlib: fix raw inflate with custom dictionary (Tarjei Husøy)