V4.4.0 proposal by MylesBorins · Pull Request #5301 · nodejs/node

Notable changes:

This update to the LTS line includes a number of semver minor changes
that have been staged for a number of months. This includes:

  * deps: backport 9da3ab6 from V8 upstream (Ali Ijaz Sheikh)
    - #3609
  * http: handle errors on idle sockets (José F. Romaniello)
    - #4482
  * src: add BE support to StringBytes::Encode() (Bryon Leung)
    - #3410
  * tls: add `options` argument to createSecurePair (Коренберг Марк)
    - #2441

There are also quite a large number of semver patch changes
including over 20 doc fixes and almost 50 test fixes.

Notable semver patch changes include:

  * deps: upgrade to npm 2.14.18 (Kat Marchán)
    - #5245
  * https: evict cached sessions on error (Fedor Indutny)
    - #4982
  * process: support symbol events (cjihrig)
    - #4798
  * querystring: improve parse() performance (Brian White)
    - #4675

PR-URL: #5301

In December we announced that we would be doing a minor release in order to
get a number of voted on SEMVER-MINOR changes into LTS. Our ability to release this
was delayed due to the unforeseen security release v4.3. We are quickly bumping to
v4.4 in order to bring you the features that we had committed to releasing.

This release also includes security updates to openssl. More information can be found [on nodejs.org](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/openssl-march-2016/)

This release also includes over 70 fixes to our docs and over 50 fixes to tests.

The SEMVER-MINOR changes include:
  * deps:
    - An update to v8 that introduces a new flag --perf_basic_prof_only_functions (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #3609
  * http:
    - A new feature in http(s) agent that catches errors on *keep alived* connections (José F. Romaniello) #4482
  * src:
    - Better support for Big-Endian systems (Bryon Leung) #3410
  * tls:
    - A new feature that allows you to pass common SSL options to `tls.createSecurePair` (Коренберг Марк) #2441
  * tools
    - a new flag `--prof-process` which will execute the tick processor on the provided isolate files (Matt Loring) #4021

Notable semver patch changes include:

  * buld:
    - Support python path that includes spaces. This should be of particular interest to our Windows users who may have python living in `c:/Program Files` (Felix Becker) #4841
  * https:
    - A potential fix for #3692 HTTP/HTTPS client requests throwing EPROTO (Fedor Indutny) #4982
  * installer:
    - More readable profiling information from isolate tick logs (Matt Loring) #3032
  * *npm:
    - upgrade to npm 2.14.20 (Kat Marchán) #5510
  * *openssl:
    - upgrade openssl to 1.0.2g (Ben Noordhuis) #5507
  * process:
    - Add support for symbols in event emitters. Symbols didn't exist when it was written ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (cjihrig) #4798
  * querystring:
    - querystring.parse() is now 13-22% faster! (Brian White) #4675
  * streams:
    - performance improvements for moving small buffers that shows a 5% throughput gain. IoT projects have been seen to be as much as 10% faster with this change! (Matteo Collina) #4354
  * tools:
    - eslint has been updated to version 2.1.0 (Rich Trott) #5214

PR-URL: #5301

In December we announced that we would be doing a minor release in order to
get a number of voted on SEMVER-MINOR changes into LTS. Our ability to release this
was delayed due to the unforeseen security release v4.3. We are quickly bumping to
v4.4 in order to bring you the features that we had committed to releasing.

This release also includes security updates to openssl. More information can be found [on nodejs.org](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/openssl-march-2016/)

This release also includes over 70 fixes to our docs and over 50 fixes to tests.

The SEMVER-MINOR changes include:
  * deps:
    - An update to v8 that introduces a new flag --perf_basic_prof_only_functions (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) nodejs#3609
  * http:
    - A new feature in http(s) agent that catches errors on *keep alived* connections (José F. Romaniello) nodejs#4482
  * src:
    - Better support for Big-Endian systems (Bryon Leung) nodejs#3410
  * tls:
    - A new feature that allows you to pass common SSL options to `tls.createSecurePair` (Коренберг Марк) nodejs#2441
  * tools
    - a new flag `--prof-process` which will execute the tick processor on the provided isolate files (Matt Loring) nodejs#4021

Notable semver patch changes include:

  * buld:
    - Support python path that includes spaces. This should be of particular interest to our Windows users who may have python living in `c:/Program Files` (Felix Becker) nodejs#4841
  * https:
    - A potential fix for nodejs#3692 HTTP/HTTPS client requests throwing EPROTO (Fedor Indutny) nodejs#4982
  * installer:
    - More readable profiling information from isolate tick logs (Matt Loring) nodejs#3032
  * *npm:
    - upgrade to npm 2.14.20 (Kat Marchán) nodejs#5510
  * *openssl:
    - upgrade openssl to 1.0.2g (Ben Noordhuis) nodejs#5507
  * process:
    - Add support for symbols in event emitters. Symbols didn't exist when it was written ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (cjihrig) nodejs#4798
  * querystring:
    - querystring.parse() is now 13-22% faster! (Brian White) nodejs#4675
  * streams:
    - performance improvements for moving small buffers that shows a 5% throughput gain. IoT projects have been seen to be as much as 10% faster with this change! (Matteo Collina) nodejs#4354
  * tools:
    - eslint has been updated to version 2.1.0 (Rich Trott) nodejs#5214

PR-URL: nodejs#5301

PR-URL: #5304
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>

There are a few places where tests repeatedly concatenate strings to
themselves in order to make them very long. Using `.repeat()` makes the
code clearer.

For example, before:

    for (var i = 0; i < 8; ++i) lots_of_headers += lots_of_headers;

After:

    lots_of_headers = lots_of_headers.repeat(256);

Using `.repeat()` makes it clear that the string will be repeated 256
times rather than 8 times. ("What?! That first one doesn't repeat 256
times! It only repeats 8... Oh, wait. Yes, I see your point now.")

PR-URL: #5311
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <mic.besace@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>

test-debug-no-context flakiness was worked around in issue 5269 but the
flaky designation was left for the test. This change removes it.

Refs: #5269
PR-URL: #5317
Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>

This adds a paragraph in the Module Caching Caveats section about the
behavior of require when Node is running on top of a file system (e.g.
HFS) or operating system (e.g. Windows) that will not consider the case
of file paths to find files.

Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Alexis Campailla <orangemocha@nodejs.org>
Reviewed-By: Rod Vagg <rod@vagg.org>
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>

Remove indications that an error argument is sent to the `listen()` callback.

Fixes: #5345
PR-URL: #5353
Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Trevor Norris <trev.norris@gmail.com>

PR-URL: #5356
Reviewed-By: Myles Borins <myles.borins@gmail.com>

The docs for assert.deepStrictEqual() do not currently mention
that prototypes are compared for objects. This commit adds that
information to the documentation.

Fixes: #5365
PR-URL: #5367
Reviewed-By: Robert Lindstädt <robert.lindstaedt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <inglor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>

Add verbs to make sentence fragments less fragmentary.

PR-URL: #5399
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>

`vcbuild.bat` already supports both Visual Studio 2013 and 2015.

PR-URL: #5406
Reviewed-By: Alexis Campailla <orangemocha@nodejs.org>
Reviewed-By: Rod Vagg <rod@vagg.org>

Remove out-of-date stability index material from `tools/doc/README.md`.
The stability index is documented in `doc/api/documentation.markdown`.

PR-URL: #5421
Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com>

PR-URL: #5510
Review-by: Myles Borins <mborins@us.ibm.com>

In December we announced that we would be doing a minor release in order to
get a number of voted on SEMVER-MINOR changes into LTS. Our ability to release this
was delayed due to the unforeseen security release v4.3. We are quickly bumping to
v4.4 in order to bring you the features that we had committed to releasing.

This release also includes over 70 fixes to our docs and over 50 fixes to tests.

The SEMVER-MINOR changes include:
  * deps:
    - An update to v8 that introduces a new flag --perf_basic_prof_only_functions (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #3609
  * http:
    - A new feature in http(s) agent that catches errors on *keep alived* connections (José F. Romaniello) #4482
  * src:
    - Better support for Big-Endian systems (Bryon Leung) #3410
  * tls:
    - A new feature that allows you to pass common SSL options to `tls.createSecurePair` (Коренберг Марк) #2441
  * tools
    - a new flag `--prof-process` which will execute the tick processor on the provided isolate files (Matt Loring) #4021

Notable semver patch changes include:

  * buld:
    - Support python path that includes spaces. This should be of particular interest to our Windows users who may have python living in `c:/Program Files` (Felix Becker) #4841
  * https:
    - A potential fix for #3692 HTTP/HTTPS client requests throwing EPROTO (Fedor Indutny) #4982
  * installer:
    - More readable profiling information from isolate tick logs (Matt Loring) #3032
  * *npm:
    - upgrade to npm 2.14.20 (Kat Marchán) #5510
  * process:
    - Add support for symbols in event emitters. Symbols didn't exist when it was written ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (cjihrig) #4798
  * querystring:
    - querystring.parse() is now 13-22% faster! (Brian White) #4675
  * streams:
    - performance improvements for moving small buffers that shows a 5% throughput gain. IoT projects have been seen to be as much as 10% faster with this change! (Matteo Collina) #4354
  * tools:
    - eslint has been updated to version 2.1.0 (Rich Trott) #5214

PR-URL: #5301

In December we announced that we would be doing a minor release in order to
get a number of voted on SEMVER-MINOR changes into LTS. Our ability to release this
was delayed due to the unforeseen security release v4.3. We are quickly bumping to
v4.4 in order to bring you the features that we had committed to releasing.

This release also includes over 70 fixes to our docs and over 50 fixes to tests.

The SEMVER-MINOR changes include:
  * deps:
    - An update to v8 that introduces a new flag --perf_basic_prof_only_functions (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #3609
  * http:
    - A new feature in http(s) agent that catches errors on *keep alived* connections (José F. Romaniello) #4482
  * src:
    - Better support for Big-Endian systems (Bryon Leung) #3410
  * tls:
    - A new feature that allows you to pass common SSL options to `tls.createSecurePair` (Коренберг Марк) #2441
  * tools
    - a new flag `--prof-process` which will execute the tick processor on the provided isolate files (Matt Loring) #4021

Notable semver patch changes include:

  * buld:
    - Support python path that includes spaces. This should be of particular interest to our Windows users who may have python living in `c:/Program Files` (Felix Becker) #4841
  * https:
    - A potential fix for #3692 HTTP/HTTPS client requests throwing EPROTO (Fedor Indutny) #4982
  * installer:
    - More readable profiling information from isolate tick logs (Matt Loring) #3032
  * *npm:
    - upgrade to npm 2.14.20 (Kat Marchán) #5510
  * process:
    - Add support for symbols in event emitters. Symbols didn't exist when it was written ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (cjihrig) #4798
  * querystring:
    - querystring.parse() is now 13-22% faster! (Brian White) #4675
  * streams:
    - performance improvements for moving small buffers that shows a 5% throughput gain. IoT projects have been seen to be as much as 10% faster with this change! (Matteo Collina) #4354
  * tools:
    - eslint has been updated to version 2.1.0 (Rich Trott) #5214

PR-URL: #5301

In December we announced that we would be doing a minor release in order to
get a number of voted on SEMVER-MINOR changes into LTS. Our ability to release this
was delayed due to the unforeseen security release v4.3. We are quickly bumping to
v4.4 in order to bring you the features that we had committed to releasing.

This release also includes over 70 fixes to our docs and over 50 fixes to tests.

The SEMVER-MINOR changes include:
  * deps:
    - An update to v8 that introduces a new flag --perf_basic_prof_only_functions (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #3609
  * http:
    - A new feature in http(s) agent that catches errors on *keep alived* connections (José F. Romaniello) #4482
  * src:
    - Better support for Big-Endian systems (Bryon Leung) #3410
  * tls:
    - A new feature that allows you to pass common SSL options to `tls.createSecurePair` (Коренберг Марк) #2441
  * tools
    - a new flag `--prof-process` which will execute the tick processor on the provided isolate files (Matt Loring) #4021

Notable semver patch changes include:

  * buld:
    - Support python path that includes spaces. This should be of particular interest to our Windows users who may have python living in `c:/Program Files` (Felix Becker) #4841
  * https:
    - A potential fix for #3692 HTTP/HTTPS client requests throwing EPROTO (Fedor Indutny) #4982
  * installer:
    - More readable profiling information from isolate tick logs (Matt Loring) #3032
  * *npm:
    - upgrade to npm 2.14.20 (Kat Marchán) #5510
  * process:
    - Add support for symbols in event emitters. Symbols didn't exist when it was written ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (cjihrig) #4798
  * querystring:
    - querystring.parse() is now 13-22% faster! (Brian White) #4675
  * streams:
    - performance improvements for moving small buffers that shows a 5% throughput gain. IoT projects have been seen to be as much as 10% faster with this change! (Matteo Collina) #4354
  * tools:
    - eslint has been updated to version 2.1.0 (Rich Trott) #5214

PR-URL: #5301