Notable changes
- buffer: fix lastIndexOf and indexOf in various edge cases (Anna Henningsen) #6511
- child_process: use /system/bin/sh on android (Ben Noordhuis) #6745
deps:
- upgrade npm to 3.8.9 (Rebecca Turner) #6664
- upgrade to V8 5.0.71.47 (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #6572
- upgrade libuv to 1.9.1 (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé) #6796
- Intl: ICU 57 bump (Steven R. Loomis) #6088
- repl:
- copying tabs shouldn't trigger completion (Eugene Obrezkov) #5958
- exports Recoverable (Blake Embrey) #3488
- src: add O_NOATIME constant (Rich Trott) #6492
- src,module: add --preserve-symlinks command line flag (James M Snell) #6537
- util: adhere to noDeprecation set at runtime (Anna Henningsen) #6683
As of this release the 6.X line now includes 64-bit binaries for Linux on Power Systems running in big endian mode in addition to the existing 64-bit binaries for running in little endian mode.
Notable Changes
assert: deep{Strict}Equal() now works correctly with circular references. (Rich Trott) #6432
debugger: Arrays are now formatted correctly in the debugger repl. (cjihrig) #6448
deps: Upgrade OpenSSL sources to 1.0.2h (Shigeki Ohtsu) #6550
net: Introduced a Socket#connecting property. (Fedor Indutny) #6404
Previously this information was only available as the undocumented, internal _connecting property.
process: Introduced process.cpuUsage(). (Patrick Mueller) #6157
stream: Writable#setDefaultEncoding() now returns this. (Alexander Makarenko) #5040
util: Two new additions to util.inspect():
Added a maxArrayLength option to truncate the formatting of Arrays. (James M Snell) #6334
This is set to 100 by default.
Added a showProxy option for formatting proxy intercepting handlers. (James M Snell) #6465
Inspecting proxies is non-trivial and as such this is off by default.
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v6.1.0/
* makes changes to almost all main repo files to be in accordance with .editorconfig
* some files in "test\fixtures\..." were left alone to avoid breaking tests
* NOTE: whitespace changes *only* (`git diff -b` shows no changes)
NodeJS is no longer bundling an up to date `NPM` package, currently shipping with v1.4.28, now post install running `npm update -g` will update to NPM v2.1.10 at time of writing
Instead of downloading `npm` separate from `node`, download them together and remove the bundled `npmrc` file that makes global modules get installed in `%appdata%\Roaming\npm`.
