Weekly io.js, March 13, 2015

io.js 1.5.1 and community events.

Release io.js 1.5.1

On Monday, March 9th, @rvagg released io.js v1.5.1 . A complete list of changes can be found on GitHub .
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Major changes

• tls : In this release, thanks to many commits, the problem with the previously announced memory leak in TLS was solved. Current tests indicate that there may still be any problems with memory leaks. Watch for full progress at # 1075 .
• http : Solved the problem stated in joyent / node # 9348 and npm / npm # 7349 . Pending data was not fully processed on the 'error' event, resulting in an error in socket.destroy() . (Fedor Indutny) # 1103 .

Known Issues

• There may still be a memory leak problem in TLS, details are # 1075 .
• Some tests in Windows still fail. The correction of errors associated with them continues to be our priority task. See # 1005 .
• A surrogate pair at the REPL may cause the # 690 terminal to hang.
• Unable to build io.js as static library # 686 .
• process.send() not synchronous, as described in the documentation, rollback introduced in 1.0.2, see # 760 and edit in # 774 .
• Calling dns.setServers() during the execution of a DNS query may crash process # 894 .

Community News

• [Tony Pujals] (https://twitter.com/subfuzion) showed a presentation of the io.js development plan in BayNode . The video was published in vimeo on March 9th.
• Johan Bergström is working on a patch for V8 on the io.js side to bring Solaris support back to the latest version.
• In the 84th episode of NodeUp , the first podcast of a series devoted to the current state of affairs in io.js was released. The hosts were Mikeal Rogers , Trevor Norris and Bradley Meck .
• Mikeal Rogers gave an interview for the Descriptive podcast in the episode entitled We never had so many active contributors .
• Mark Wolfe talked about io.js at the @melbjs conference, the slides are posted here .
• dockeri.co now works on io.js. You can see the ad here .
• Node.js Advisory Board is discussing a reconciliation proposal by io.js / Node.js. You can read the discussion here .

Expected events

• NodeConf on June 8th and 9th in Oakland, California, tickets are available for sale. And also NodeConf Adventure from June 11th through June 14th at Walker Creek Ranch, California.
• CascadiaJS from June 8th to 10th in Washington State, tickets are available for sale.
• NodeConf EU from September 6th to 9th in Waterford, Ireland, tickets are available for sale.