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2011.09.08, Version 0.5.6 (unstable)

* #345, #1635, #1648 Documentation improvements (Thomas Shinnick,
  Abimanyu Raja, AJ ONeal, Koichi Kobayashi, Michael Jackson, Logan Smyth,
  Ben Noordhuis)

* #650 Improve path parsing on windows (Bert Belder)

* #752 Remove headers sent check in OutgoingMessage.getHeader()
  (Peter Lyons)

* #1236, #1438, #1506, #1513, #1621, #1640, #1647 Libuv-related bugs fixed
  (Jorge Chamorro Bieling, Peter Bright, Luis Lavena, Igor Zinkovsky)

* #1296, #1612 crypto: Fix BIO's usage. (Koichi Kobayashi)

* #1345 Correctly set socket.remoteAddress with libuv backend (Bert Belder)

* #1429 Don't clobber quick edit mode on windows (Peter Bright)

* #1503 Make libuv backend default on unix, override with `node --use-legacy`

* #1565 Fix fs.stat for paths ending with \ on windows (Igor Zinkovsky)

* #1568 Fix x509 certificate subject parsing (Koichi Kobayashi)

* #1586 Make socket write encoding case-insensitive (Koichi Kobayashi)

* #1591, #1656, #1657 Implement fs in libuv, remove libeio and pthread-win32
  dependency on windows (Igor Zinkovsky, Ben Noordhuis, Ryan Dahl,
  Isaac Schlueter)

* #1592 Don't load-time link against CreateSymbolicLink on windows
  (Peter Bright)

* #1601 Improve API consistency when dealing with the socket underlying a HTTP
  client request (Mikeal Rogers)

* #1610 Remove DigiNotar CA from trusted list (Isaac Schlueter)

* #1617 Added some win32 os functions (Karl Skomski)

* #1624 avoid buffer overrun with 'binary' encoding (Koichi Kobayashi)

* #1633 make Buffer.write() always set _charsWritten (Koichi Kobayashi)

* #1644 Windows: set executables to be console programs (Peter Bright)

* #1651 improve inspection for sparse array (Koichi Kobayashi)

* #1672 set .code='ECONNRESET' on socket hang up errors (Ben Noordhuis)

* Add test case for foaf+ssl client certificate (Niclas Hoyer)

* Added RPATH environment variable to override run-time library paths
  (Ashok Mudukutore)

* Added TLS client-side session resumption support (Sean Cunningham)

* Added additional properties to getPeerCertificate (Nathan Rixham,
  Niclas Hoyer)

* Don't eval repl command twice when an error is thrown (Nathan Rajlich)

* Improve util.isDate() (Nathan Rajlich)

* Improvements in libuv backend and bindings, upgrade libuv to
  bd6066cb349a9b3a1b0d87b146ddaee06db31d10

* Show warning when using lib/sys.js (Maciej Malecki)

* Support plus sign in url protocol (Maciej Malecki)

* Upgrade V8 to 3.6.2