The transition of Node.js under the wing of Joyent, the release of versions v0.2.5 and v0.3.1

In recent months, it has become clear that the growing popularity of Node requires a larger and better organized development team. Indeed, in order for Node to become more popular, and possibly to become the next PHP, an investment in a full-time development team is required. We need a company that supports them and allows them to build relationships with large companies that can use Node in their projects and contribute to the project.



The core business of Joyent (cloud computing) is fully in keeping with the spirit of the free and open Node. For these reasons, I entered into an agreement with Joyent for the official support of Node.js. The only change that will affect the developers - CLA will not sign with me, but with Joyent. Node will continue to be regularly released under the MIT license. As part of the agreement - in addition to supporting my development - we hired Isaac Schlueter and plan to expand the team by one more person in the near future. Soon we will start renting our minimalistic no.de instances (hosting with Node support) and develop custom-made various modules and add-ons for Node.
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Under a cat the description of changes in the versions of Node.js v0.2.5 and v0.3.1 released yesterday.

Changes in version 0.2.5:

• Fixed bug with premature removal of buffers by the garbage collector.
• Fixed bug with streaming large amounts of data via HTTP.
• Correct process EMFILE and server.maxConnections.
• “Node --eval” executes code in the global namespace.
• Simplified handling of circular references in fs.realpath.
• Fixed error handling in libeio “After” -callback.
• Removed not used libeio optimizations.
• The entry in process.env now changes the environment.
• Set the FD_CLOEXEC flag on stdio before creating child processes.
• Fixed segfault in test-crypto.
• Updated http-parser.
• Added the --profile flag to configure, which includes the ability to profile a node with gprof.
• Fixed OS :: GetExecutablePath function for platform_none, used to return garbage.
• Other minor changes.

Download distribution: nodejs.org/dist/node-v0.2.5.tar.gz
Documentation: nodejs.org/docs/v0.2.5/api.html

Changes in version 0.3.1:

• All the above fixes for version 0.2.5.
• Improved work with TLS (centralized error handling in SecureStream, added SecurePair class for working with ssl / tls streams.
• Reorganized documentation.
• allowHalfOpen is disabled by default for TCP connections.
• Added C ++ API to create buffers from strings in add-ons.
• Idle-timers are allocated in a separate module.
• Removed a separate executable file for node-repl.
• Removed the aggressive warning of obsolescence of the 'sys' module.
• ev_loop moved to C ++ code, moving to libnode library.
• Added cross-compilation feature.
• Changed the behavior of path.join.
• API: Renaming process.binding ('evals') to require ('vm').
• Fixed V8 build in Cygwin.
• V8 updated to 2.5.3.
• Other minor changes.

Download distribution: nodejs.org/dist/node-v0.3.1.tar.gz
Documentation: nodejs.org/docs/v0.3.1/api

From the translator: my Linux packages have already been updated, you can find them at bit.ly/nodejs_repos and bit.ly/nodejs3_repos .