Skip to content
2011.07.05, Version 0.5.0 (unstable)

* New non-default libuv backend to support IOCP on Windows.
  Use --use-uv to enable.

* deprecate http.cat

* docs improved.

* add child_process.fork

* add fs.utimes() and fs.futimes() support (Ben Noordhuis)

* add process.uptime() (Tom Huges)

* add path.relative (Tony Huang)

* add os.getNetworkInterfaces()

* add remoteAddress and remotePort for client TCP connections
  (Brian White)

* add secureOptions flag, setting ciphers,
  SSL_OP_CRYPTOPRO_TLSEXT_BUG to TLS (Theo Schlossnagle)

* add process.arch (Nathan Rajlich)

* add reading/writing of floats and doubles from/to buffers (Brian White)

* Allow script to be read from stdin

* #477 add Buffer::fill method to do memset (Konstantin Käfer)

* #573 Diffie-Hellman support to crypto module (Håvard Stranden)

* #695 add 'hex' encoding to buffer (isaacs)

* #851 Update how REPLServer uses contexts (Ben Weaver)

* #853 add fs.lchow, fs.lchmod, fs.fchmod, fs.fchown (isaacs)

* #889 Allow to remove all EventEmitter listeners at once
  (Felix Geisendörfer)

* #926 OpenSSL NPN support (Fedor Indutny)

* #955 Change ^C handling in REPL (isaacs)

* #979 add support for Unix Domain Sockets to HTTP (Mark Cavage)

* #1173 #1170 add AMD, asynchronous module definition (isaacs)

* DTrace probes: support X-Forwarded-For (Dave Pacheco)