Download Node.js 8.4.0

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 in which non-blocking I/O has been an important starting point. For more information, please refer to this page. The development team has released version 8.4.0 in the current branch, with the following changes:

Node v8.4.0 (Current)

Notable changes

• HTTP2
  • Experimental support for the built-in http2 has been added via the –expose-http2 flag.
• Inspector
  • require() is available in the inspector console now.
  • Multiple contexts, as created by the vm module, are supported now.
• N API
  • New APIs for creating number values ​​have been introduced.
• Stream
  • For Duplex streams, the high water mark option can now be set independently for the readable and the writable side.
• Util
  • util.format now supports the %o and %O specifiers for printing objects.

commit

• assert: optimize code path for deepEqual Maps
• async_hooks: CHECK that resource is not empty
• benchmark: fix and extend assert benchmarks
• benchmark: Correct constructor for freelist
• benchmark: remove unused parameters
• (SEMVER-MINOR) deps: add nghttp2 dependency
• deps: cherry-pick f19b889 from V8 upstream
• deps,tools: add missing nghttp2 license
• doc: delint
• doc: fix header level typo
• doc: fix http2 sample code for http2.md
• doc: explain browser support of http/2 without SSL
• (SEMVER-MINOR) doc: include http2.md in all.md
• doc: add missing changes: metadata for util
• doc: add missing changes: metadata for streams
• doc: fix docs style in util.md
• doc: fix docs style in intl.md
• doc: expanded description of buffer.slice
• doc: improve fs.read() doc text
• doc: clarify the position argument for fs.read
• doc: add docs for AssertionError
• doc: fix order of AtExit callbacks in addons.md
• doc: remove undef NDEBUG from addons.md
• encoding: rudimentary TextDecoder support w/o ICU
• (SEMVER-MINOR) http: move utcDate to internal/http.js
• http2: fix [kInspect]() output for Http2Stream
• http2: name padding buffer fields
• http2: use per environment buffers
• http2: improve perf of passing headers to C++
• http2: rename some nghttp2 stream flags
• (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: fix flakiness in timeout
• (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: fix linting after rebase
• (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: fix compilation error after V8 update
• (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: add some doc detail for invalid header chars
• (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: fix documentation errors
• (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: minor cleanup
• (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: use static allocated arrays
• (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: get trailers working with the compat api
• (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: refactor trailers API
• (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: address initial pr feedback
• (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: make writeHead behave like HTTP/1.
• (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: doc and fixes to the Compatibility API
• (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: add range support for respondWith{File|FD}
• (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: fix socketOnTimeout and a segfault
• (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: refinement and test for socketError
• (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: fix abort when client.destroy inside end event
• (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: fix documentation nits
• (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: remove redundant return in test
• (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: add tests and benchmarks
• (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: introducing HTTP/2
• inspector: support extra contexts
• (SEMVER-MINOR) inspector: allow require in Runtime.evaluate
• lib: move deprecationWarned var
• lib: use Timer.now() in readline module
• (SEMVER-MINOR) n-api: add napi_get_node_version
• (SEMVER-MINOR) n-api: optimize number API performance
• net: use rest parameters instead of arguments
• repl: include folder extensions in autocomplete
• src: remove unused http2_socket_buffer from env
• src: mention that node options are space-separated
• src: avoid creating local data variable
• src: use local isolate instead of args.GetIsolate
• src: add comments for cares library init refcount
• src: remove duplicate loop
• src: add overlooked handle to cleanup
• src,http2: DRY header/trailer handling code up
• (SEMVER-MINOR) stream: support readable/writableHWM for Duplex
• test: cover all HTTP methods that parser supports
• test: use regular expressions in throw assertions
• test: increase http2 coverage
• test: add crypto check to http2 tests
• (SEMVER-MINOR) test: fix flaky test-http2-client-unescaped-path on osx
• (SEMVER-MINOR) test: fix flakiness in test http2 client upload
• test: add test benchmark arrays
• test: allow inspector to reopen with same port
• test: remove redundant using in cctest
• test: make totalLen snake case
• test: make test-tls-connect checks more strict
• Revert “test: disable MultipleEnvironmentsPerIsolate”
• Revert “test: add DISABLED_ prefix to commented out test”
• test: properly order freeing resources in cctest
• test: split out load-sensitive readline tests
• test: add block scoping to test-readline interface
• test: set module loading error for aix
• test: fix conversion of microseconds in test
• test: improve check in test os
• test: replace indexOf with includes
• test: fix test readline interface
• test: improve multiple timers tests
• test: use ciphers supported by shared OpenSSL
• test: mitigate RegEx exceeding 80 chars
• test: read proper inspector message size
• (SEMVER-MINOR) tls: add tlsSocket.disableRenegotiation()
• tools: fix tools/addon-verify.js
• util: improve util.inspect performance
• (SEMVER-MINOR) util: implement %o and %O as formatting specifiers