nodejs/doc/blog/release/node-version-0-7-9-unstable.md

version: 0.7.9 title: Node Version 0.7.9 (unstable) author: Isaac Schlueter date: Tue May 29 2012 10:11:45 GMT-0700 (PDT) status: publish category: release slug: node-version-0-7-9-unstable

2012.05.28, Version 0.7.9 (unstable)

• Upgrade V8 to 3.11.1

• Upgrade npm to 1.1.23

• uv: rework reference counting scheme (Ben Noordhuis)

• uv: add interface for joining external event loops (Bert Belder)

• repl, readline: Handle Ctrl+Z and SIGCONT better (Nathan Rajlich)

• fs: 64bit offsets for fs calls (Igor Zinkovsky)

• fs: add sync open flags 'rs' and 'rs+' (Kevin Bowman)

• windows: enable creating directory junctions with fs.symlink (Igor Zinkovsky, Bert Belder)

• windows: fix fs.lstat to properly detect symlinks. (Igor Zinkovsky)

• Fix #3270 Escape url.parse delims (isaacs)

• http: make http.get() accept a URL (Adam Malcontenti-Wilson)

• Cleanup vm module memory leakage (Marcel Laverdet)

• Optimize writing strings with Socket.write (Bert Belder)

• add support for CESU-8 and UTF-16LE encodings (koichik)

• path: add path.sep to get the path separator. (Yi, EungJun)

• net, http: add backlog parameter to .listen() (Erik Dubbelboer)

• debugger: support mirroring Date objects (Fedor Indutny)

• addon: add AtExit() function (Ben Noordhuis)

• net: signal localAddress bind failure in connect (Brian Schroeder)

• util: handle non-string return value in .inspect() (Alex Kocharin)

Source Code: http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.9/node-v0.7.9.tar.gz

Windows Installer: http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.9/node-v0.7.9.msi

Windows x64 Files: http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.9/x64/

Macintosh Installer (Universal): http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.9/node-v0.7.9.pkg

Other release files: http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.9/

Website: http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.7.9/

Documentation: http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.7.9/api/