Weekly io.js, March 6, 2015

Release 1.5.0, Buffer.indexOf (), Tessel 2 and more.

Release io.js 1.5.0

On Friday, March 6th, @rvagg released io.js v1.5.0 . A complete list of changes can be found on GitHub .

Major changes

• buffer : New Buffer#indexOf() method, similar to Array#indexOf() . May take a string, Buffer, or number as an argument. Strings are interpreted as UTF8. (Trevor Norris) # 561
• fs : The options parameter object in the 'fs' module methods no longer performs the hasOwnProperty() check, allowing the parameter objects to have properties in the prototypes to be applied. (Jonathan Ong) # 635
• tls : PayPal has reported a possible memory leak in TLS. Some recent changes to stream_wrap have been guilty of this. The original edit is at # 1078 , you can follow the progress of fixing the leak in # 1075 (Fedor Indutny).
• npm : Update npm to 2.7.0. See npm CHANGELOG.md for more details, including why this is a minor version increase, although it could be a major one.
• TC : Colin Ihrig (@cjihrig) refused to participate in the Technical Committee because of the desire to write more code and less to attend meetings.

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Known Issues

• Possible memory leak in TLS, more details can be found in # 1075 .
• Some tests in Windows still fail. Correction of errors associated with them is a priority for us. See # 1005 .
• A surrogate couple at a REPL may cause terminal # 690 to hang .
• Unable to build io.js as static library # 686
• process.send() not synchronous, as the documentation suggests, rollback is introduced in 1.0.2, reading # 760 and editing in # 774

Community News

• You can sleep well, knowing that io.js and the last node.js are not affected by the FREAK Attack . You are running io.js or the latest version of node.js, aren't you?
• Walmart is now sponsoring an io.js Jenkins CI assembly machine. The @ iojs / build team is working on creating SunOS io.js binaries (similar to those you can get at nodejs.org). V8 must be edited ( iojs / io.js # 1079 ) to continue.
• We would also like to thank the following companies for their contributions to technology / support / design / equipment for io.js assemblies:
  
  • Digital Ocean (Linux)
  • Rackspace (Windows)
  • Voxer (OS X and FreeBSD)
  • NodeSource (ARMv6 & ARMv7)
  • Linaro (ARMv8)
  • Walmart (SmartOS / Solaris)
• The io.js community is working hard to internationalize all of its content. More than 20 languages ​​are published on iojs.org and international community sites. In addition to this, links to translations ( iojs / website # 258 ) have been added to the website footer for easier access. Is your language missing? Help us add it!
• Speaking of translations, links to translations into other languages ​​were added to the presentation of the development plan for io.js.
• It seems that PayPal is experimenting by comparing the work of Kappa on io.js, node.js 0.12, node.js v0.10. The PayPal team discovered a potential memory leak in TLS. The initial edit is at # 1078 , and the progress of work regarding the elimination of leakage at # 1075
• NodeSource now supports io.js. The Linux binary package for Ubuntu / Debian, and for the distribution of RHEL / Fedora.
• io.js Docker build is one of the thirteen new official Docker repositories added in January and February.
• People interested in NodeBots and IoT should be happy to hear that Tessel2 now launches io.js natively .
• @maxbeatty is working on a new version of the jsperf.com backend that runs on io.js and is completely open source . Those who want to help, welcome!
• @eranhammer wrote a post called The Node Version Dilemma , which discusses the different versions of node.js / io.js and suggests when and which ones you can use.

Added support for io.js

• scrypt now supports io.js. Learn more from the GitHub issue.
• proxyquire v1.3.2 published with iojs support.