Software Update: Node.js 10.6.0

Node.js is open source and platform independent, and is focused on developing server-side web applications. Those applications are written in JavaScript and run within the Node.js runtime on the server. It offers an event-driven environment where non-blocking I/O has been an important starting point. For more information, please refer to this page. The development team has released version 10.6.0 in the current branch. The list of changes looks like this:

Node v10.6.0 (Current) – Notable Changes

• dns: An experimental promisified version of the dns module is now available. Give it a try with require(‘dns’).promises. #21264
• fs: fs.lchown has been undeprecated now that libuv supports it. #21498
• lib: Atomics.wake is being renamed to Atomics.notify in the ECMAScript specification (reference). Since Node.js now has experimental support for worker threads, we are being proactive and added a notify alias, while emitting a warning if wake is used. #21413 #21518
• n-api: Add API for asynchronous functions. #17887
• util: util.inspect is now able to return a result instead of throwing when the maximum call stack size is exceeded during inspection. #20725
• vm: Add script.createCachedData(). This API replaces the produceCachedData option of the Script constructor that is now deprecated. #20300
• worker: Support for relative paths has been added to the Worker constructor. Paths are interpreted relative to the current working directory. #21407