This release marks the transition of Node.js v6 into Long Term Support
(LTS) with the codename 'Boron'. The v6 release line now moves in to
"Active LTS" and will remain so until April 2018. After that time it
will move in to "Maintenance" until end of life in April 2019.
This is also a security release. All Node.js users should consult the
security release summary at
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/october-2016-security-releases/
for details on patched vulnerabilities.
Notable changes:
* crypto: Don't automatically attempt to load an OpenSSL configuration
file, from the `OPENSSL_CONF` environment variable or from the
default location for the current platform. Always triggering a
configuration file load attempt may allow an attacker to load
compromised OpenSSL configuration into a Node.js process if they are
able to place a file in a default location. (Fedor Indutny, Rod Vagg)
* node: Introduce the `process.release.lts` property, set to `"Boron"`.
This value is `"Argon"` for v4 LTS releases and `undefined` for all
other releases. (Rod Vagg)
* V8: Backport fix for CVE-2016-5172, an arbitrary memory read.
The parser in V8 mishandled scopes, potentially allowing an attacker
to obtain sensitive information from arbitrary memory locations via
crafted JavaScript code. This vulnerability would require an
attacker to be able to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in a
Node.js process. (Rod Vagg)
* **v8_inspector**: Generate a UUID for each execution of the
inspector. This provides additional security to prevent unauthorized
clients from connecting to the Node.js process via the v8_inspector
port when running with `--inspect`. Since the debugging protocol
allows extensive access to the internals of a running process, and
the execution of arbitrary code, it is important to limit
connections to authorized tools only. Vulnerability originally
reported by Jann Horn. (Eugene Ostroukhov)
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node-private/pull/81
Some commit links in the changelogs were pointing to incorrect/missing
shas.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8122
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
This is a security release. All Node.js users should consult the
security release summary at
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/september-2016-security-releases/
for details on patched vulnerabilities.
Notable Changes
Semver Minor:
* openssl:
- Upgrade to 1.0.2i, fixes a number of defects impacting Node.js:
CVE-2016-6304 ("OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory
growth", high severity), CVE-2016-2183, CVE-2016-2178, and CVE-2016-6306.
(Shigeki Ohtsu) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8714
- Upgrade to 1.0.2j, fixes a defect included in 1.0.2i resulting in
a crash when using CRLs, CVE-2016-7052.
(Shigeki Ohtsu) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8786
- Remove support for loading dynamic third-party engine modules.
An attacker may be able to hide malicious code to be inserted
into Node.js at runtime by masquerading as one of the dynamic
engine modules. Originally reported by Ahmed Zaki (Skype).
(Ben Noordhuis) https://github.com/nodejs/node-private/pull/73
* http: CVE-2016-5325 - Properly validate for allowable characters in
the `reason` argument in `ServerResponse#writeHead()`. Fixes a
possible response splitting attack vector. This introduces a new
case where `throw` may occur when configuring HTTP responses, users
should already be adopting try/catch here. Originally reported
independently by Evan Lucas and Romain Gaucher.
(Evan Lucas) https://github.com/nodejs/node-private/pull/60
Semver Patch:
* buffer: Zero-fill excess bytes in new `Buffer` objects created with
`Buffer.concat()` while providing a `totalLength` parameter that
exceeds the total length of the original `Buffer` objects being
concatenated.
(Сковорода Никита Андреевич) https://github.com/nodejs/node-private/pull/64
* src: Fix regression where passing an empty password and/or salt to
crypto.pbkdf2() would cause a fatal error
(Rich Trott) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8572
* tls: CVE-2016-7099 - Fix invalid wildcard certificate validation
check whereby a TLS server may be able to serve an invalid wildcard
certificate for its hostname due to improper validation of `*.` in the
wildcard string. Originally reported by Alexander Minozhenko and
James Bunton (Atlassian).
(Ben Noordhuis) https://github.com/nodejs/node-private/pull/75
* v8: Fix regression where a regex on a frozen object was broken
(Myles Borins) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8673
This is a security release. All Node.js users should consult the
security release summary at
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/september-2016-security-releases/
for details on patched vulnerabilities.
Notable Changes
Semver Minor:
* openssl:
- Upgrade to 1.0.2i, fixes a number of defects impacting Node.js:
CVE-2016-6304 ("OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory
growth", high severity), CVE-2016-2183, CVE-2016-6303,
CVE-2016-2178 and CVE-2016-6306.
(Shigeki Ohtsu) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8714
- Upgrade to 1.0.2j, fixes a defect included in 1.0.2i resulting in
a crash when using CRLs, CVE-2016-7052.
(Shigeki Ohtsu) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8786
- Remove support for loading dynamic third-party engine modules.
An attacker may be able to hide malicious code to be inserted into
Node.js at runtime by masquerading as one of the dynamic engine
modules. Originally reported by Ahmed Zaki (Skype).
(Ben Noordhuis) https://github.com/nodejs/node-private/pull/70
* http: CVE-2016-5325 - Properly validate for allowable characters in
the `reason` argument in `ServerResponse#writeHead()`. Fixes a
possible response splitting attack vector. This introduces a new
case where `throw` may occur when configuring HTTP responses, users
should already be adopting try/catch here. Originally reported
independently by Evan Lucas and Romain Gaucher.
(Evan Lucas) https://github.com/nodejs/node-private/pull/46
Semver Patch:
* buffer: Zero-fill excess bytes in new `Buffer` objects created with
`Buffer.concat()` while providing a `totalLength` parameter that
exceeds the total length of the original `Buffer` objects being
concatenated.
(Сковорода Никита Андреевич) https://github.com/nodejs/node-private/pull/65
* tls: CVE-2016-7099 - Fix invalid wildcard certificate validation
check whereby a TLS server may be able to serve an invalid wildcard
certificate for its hostname due to improper validation of `*.` in
the wildcard string. Originally reported by Alexander Minozhenko and
James Bunton (Atlassian).
(Ben Noordhuis) https://github.com/nodejs/node-private/pull/63
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node-private/pull/74
This is a security release. All Node.js users should consult the
security release summary at
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/september-2016-security-releases/
for details on patched vulnerabilities.
Notable changes:
* buffer: Zero-fill excess bytes in new `Buffer` objects created with
`Buffer.concat()` while providing a `totalLength` parameter that
exceeds the total length of the original `Buffer` objects being
concatenated. (Сковорода Никита Андреевич)
* http:
- CVE-2016-5325 - Properly validate for allowable characters in the
`reason` argument in `ServerResponse#writeHead()`. Fixes a
possible response splitting attack vector. This introduces a new
case where `throw` may occur when configuring HTTP responses,
users should already be adopting try/catch here. Originally
reported independently by Evan Lucas and Romain Gaucher.
(Evan Lucas)
- Invalid status codes can no longer be sent. Limited to 3 digit
numbers between 100 - 999. Lack of proper validation may also
serve as a potential response splitting attack vector. Backported
from v4.x. (Brian White)
* openssl:
- Upgrade to 1.0.1u, fixes a number of defects impacting Node.js:
CVE-2016-6304 ("OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory
growth", high severity), CVE-2016-2183, CVE-2016-6303,
CVE-2016-2178 and CVE-2016-6306.
- Remove support for loading dynamic third-party engine modules.
An attacker may be able to hide malicious code to be inserted
into Node.js at runtime by masquerading as one of the dynamic
engine modules. Originally reported by Ahmed Zaki (Skype).
(Ben Noordhuis, Rod Vagg)
* tls: CVE-2016-7099 - Fix invalid wildcard certificate validation
check whereby a TLS server may be able to serve an invalid wildcard
certificate for its hostname due to improper validation of `*.` in
the wildcard string. Originally reported by Alexander Minozhenko
and James Bunton (Atlassian). (Ben Noordhuis)
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node-private/pull/72
This is a security release. All Node.js users should consult the
security release summary at
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/september-2016-security-releases/
for details on patched vulnerabilities.
Notable changes:
* buffer: Zero-fill excess bytes in new `Buffer` objects created with
`Buffer.concat()` while providing a `totalLength` parameter that
exceeds the total length of the original `Buffer` objects being
concatenated. (Сковорода Никита Андреевич)
* http:
- CVE-2016-5325 - Properly validate for allowable characters in the
`reason` argument in `ServerResponse#writeHead()`. Fixes a
possible response splitting attack vector. This introduces a new
case where `throw` may occur when configuring HTTP responses,
users should already be adopting try/catch here. Originally
reported independently by Evan Lucas and Romain Gaucher.
(Evan Lucas)
- Invalid status codes can no longer be sent. Limited to 3 digit
numbers between 100 - 999. Lack of proper validation may also
serve as a potential response splitting attack vector. Backported
from v4.x. (Brian White)
* openssl: Upgrade to 1.0.1u, fixes a number of defects impacting
Node.js: CVE-2016-6304 ("OCSP Status Request extension unbounded
memory growth", high severity), CVE-2016-2183, CVE-2016-6303,
CVE-2016-2178 and CVE-2016-6306.
* tls: CVE-2016-7099 - Fix invalid wildcard certificate validation
check whereby a TLS server may be able to serve an invalid wildcard
certificate for its hostname due to improper validation of `*.` in
the wildcard string. Originally reported by Alexander Minozhenko
and James Bunton (Atlassian). (Ben Noordhuis)
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node-private/pull/71
New rules:
1. rule-style
2. strong-marker
3. no-shell-dollars
4. no-inline-padding
5. code-block-style
6. no-multiple-toplevel-headings
Fixes to the existing files applied.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8708
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Ilkka Myller <ilkka.myller@nodefield.com>
Reviewed-By: Johan Bergström <bugs@bergstroem.nu>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8009
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
This splits one huge commit description into paragraphs, which
supposedly was the intended behavior there.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/7727
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <mic.besace@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
This removes the extra two spaces indentation which was somewhy present
in the iojs changelog from v1.8.1 to v3.3.1.
iojs changelog was the only file affected.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/7727
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <mic.besace@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Convert all instances of tab indentation in *.md files to spaces.
This affects only three files.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/7727
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <mic.besace@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/7878
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com>
Reviewed-By: Minwoo Jung <jmwsoft@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Brian White <mscdex@mscdex.net>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
* Fix markdown code sample in releases.md, it was <a id="x.y.x></a>"
* Fix some markdown errors, e.g. in changelogs
* Fix broken defs links, e.g. in domain-postmortem.md
* Fix other broken refs, by addaleax
* Add links to some defs that were present but not linked to
* Remove dead defs
* Move defs to the bottom (one file affected)
* Add language indicators to all code blocks, using `txt` when no
specific language could be chosen
* Some minor formatting changes (spaces, ident, headings)
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/7637
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
compliment -> complement
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/7568
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
This LTS release comes with 89 commits. This includes 46 commits that
are docs related, 11 commits that are test related, 8 commits that are
build related, and 4 commits that are benchmark related.
Notable Changes:
- debugger:
- All properties of an array (aside from length) can now be printed
in the repl (cjihrig)
https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6448
- npm:
- Upgrade npm to 2.15.8 (Rebecca Turner)
https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/7412
- stream:
- Fix for a bug that became more prevalent with the stream changes
that landed in v4.4.5. (Anna Henningsen)
https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/7160
- V8:
- Fix for a bug in crankshaft that was causing crashes on arm64
(Myles Borins)
https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/7442
- Add missing classes to postmortem info such as JSMap and JSSet
(evan.lucas)
https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3792
The current layout is breaking the release post tool.
This commit also removed erroneous entires in the main CHANGELOG for
v4.4.6 and v5.12.0.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/7394
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
* buffer: Ignore negative lengths in calls to Buffer() and
Buffer.allocUnsafe(). This fixes a possible security concern
(reported by Feross Aboukhadijeh) where user input is passed
unchecked to the Buffer constructor or allocUnsafe() as it can
expose parts of the memory slab used by other Buffers in the
application. Note that negative lengths are not supported by the
Buffer API and user input to the constructor should always be
sanitised and type-checked.
(Anna Henningsen) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/7030
* npm: Upgrade npm to 3.9.3
(Kat Marchán) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/7030
* tty: Default to blocking mode for stdio on OS X. A bug fix
in libuv 1.9.0, introduced in Node.js v6.0.0, exposed problems with
Node's use of non-blocking stdio, particularly on OS X which has a
small output buffer. This change should fix CLI applications that
have been having problems with output since Node.js v6.0.0 on OS X.
The core team is continuing to address stdio concerns that exist
across supported platforms and progress can be tracked at
https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6980.
(Jeremiah Senkpiel) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6895
* V8: Upgrade to V8 5.0.71.52. This includes a fix that addresses
problems experienced by users of node-inspector since Node.js
v6.0.0, see https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/6980 for details.
(Michaël Zasso) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6928
Remove extra newlines that were causing rendering problems.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6958
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
Some references to a few versions were broken, likely in part
due to the transition to a split changelog format.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6942
Reviewed-By: Myles Borins <myles.borins@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
The changelog was getting rather huge and difficult
to manage. It also wasn't very useful in terms of
being able to quickly find specific Node.js versions,
or tracking the history for a single major release
stream.
This reorganizes the changelog by versions separated
out over multiple files. An index of the most recent
versions is provided in the main log.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6503
Reviewed-By: Myles Borins <myles.borins@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Robert Lindstaedt <robert.lindstaedt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rod Vagg <rod@vagg.org>
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
