Node v4.1.2 (Current)

The Node.js Project

2015-10-05, Version 4.1.2 (Current), @rvagg

This release includes a fix for CVE-2015-7384, a Denial of Service (DoS) bug. Details of the bug can be found on the nodejs-sec group. Please subscribe to nodejs-sec to receive future notifications of security releases.

All users of Node.js v4.x should upgrade to v4.1.2, this is a critical update.

Notable changes

http:
- Fix out-of-order 'finish' event bug in pipelining that can abort execution, fixes DoS vulnerability CVE-2015-7384 (Fedor Indutny) #3128
- Account for pending response data instead of just the data on the current request to decide whether pause the socket or not (Fedor Indutny) #3128
libuv: Upgraded from v1.7.4 to v1.7.5, see release notes for details (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé) #3010
- A better rwlock implementation for all Windows versions
- Improved AIX support
v8:
- Upgraded from v4.5.103.33 to v4.5.103.35 (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #3117
- Backported f782159 from v8's upstream to help speed up Promise introspection (Ben Noordhuis) #3130
- Backported c281c15 from v8's upstream to add JSTypedArray length in post-mortem metadata (Julien Gilli) #3031

Known issues

See https://github.com/nodejs/node/labels/confirmed-bug for complete and current list of known issues.

Some problems with unreferenced timers running during beforeExit are still to be resolved. See #1264.
Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. #690
Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. #894
url.resolve may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see #1435.

Commits

[39b8730e8b] - async_wrap: ensure all objects have internal field (Trevor Norris) #3139
[99e66074d7] - async_wrap: update providers and add test (Trevor Norris) #3139
[7a58157d4e] - benchmark: update comment in common.js (Minwoo Jung) #2399
[9e9bfa4dc0] - build: iojs -> nodejs of release-urlbase (P.S.V.R) #3015
[8335ec7191] - build: fix some typos inside the configure script (P.S.V.R) #3016
[d6ac547d5d] - build,win: fix node.exe resource version (João Reis) #3053
[798dad24f4] - child_process: null channel handle on close (Fedor Indutny) #3041
[e5615854ea] - contextify: use CHECK instead of if (Oguz Bastemur) #3125
[f055a66a38] - crypto: enable FIPS only when configured with it (Fedor Indutny) #3153
[4c8d96bc30] - crypto: add more keylen sanity checks in pbkdf2 (Johann) #3029
[4c5940776c] - deps: upgrade libuv to 1.7.5 (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé) #3010
[5a9e795577] - deps: upgrade V8 to 4.5.103.35 (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #3117
[925b29f959] - deps: backport f782159 from v8's upstream (Ben Noordhuis) #3130
[039f73fa83] - deps: remove and gitignore .bin directory (Ben Noordhuis) #3004
[5fbb24812d] - deps: backport c281c15 from V8's upstream (Julien Gilli) #3031
[6ee5d0f69f] - dns: add missing exports.BADNAME (Roman Reiss) #3051
[f92aee7170] - doc: fix outdated 'try/catch' statement in sync (Minwoo Jung) #3087
[c7161f39e8] - doc: add TSC meeting minutes 2015-09-16 (Rod Vagg) #3023
[928166c4a8] - doc: copyedit fs.watch() information (Rich Trott) #3097
[75d5dcea76] - doc: jenkins-iojs.nodesource.com -> ci.nodejs.org (Michał Gołębiowski) #2886
[5c3f50b21d] - doc: rearrange execSync and execFileSync (Laurent Fortin) #2940
[4fc33ac11a] - doc: make execFileSync in line with execFile (Laurent Fortin) #2940
[a366e84b17] - doc: fix typos in cluster & errors (reggi) #3011
[52031e1bf1] - doc: switch LICENSE from closure-linter to eslint (P.S.V.R) #3018
[b28f6a53bc] - docs: Clarify assert.doesNotThrow behavior (Fabio Oliveira) #2807
[99943e189d] - http: fix out-of-order 'finish' bug in pipelining (Fedor Indutny) #3128
[fb7a491d1c] - http_server: pause socket properly (Fedor Indutny) #3128
[a0b35bfcf3] - i18n: add caller to removal list for bidi in ICU55 (Michael Dawson) #3115
[ac2bce0b0c] - path: improve posixSplitPath performance (Evan Lucas) #3034
[37cdeafa2f] - smalloc: remove module (Brendan Ashworth) #3099
[5ec5d0aa8b] - src: internalize binding function property names (Ben Noordhuis) #3060
[c8175fc2af] - src: internalize per-isolate string properties (Ben Noordhuis) #3060
[9a593abc47] - src: include signal.h in util.h (Cheng Zhao) #3058
[fde0c6f321] - src: fix function and variable names in comments (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #3039
[1cc7b41ba4] - stream_wrap: support empty TryWrites (Fedor Indutny) #3128
[9faf4c6fcf] - test: load common.js to test for global leaks (Rich Trott) #3095
[0858c86374] - test: fix invalid variable name (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #3150
[1167171004] - test: change calls to deprecated util.print() (Rich Trott) #3083
[5ada45bf28] - test: replace deprecated util.debug() calls (Rich Trott) #3082
[d8ab4e185d] - util: optimize promise introspection (Ben Noordhuis) #3130

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