Node v0.4.0

[Ryan Dahl]

This is the first release of the second stable branch. For a
high-level description of what has changed since v0.2 see
http://nodejs.org/v0.4_announcement.html

The following are the changes since v0.3.8:

2011.02.10, Version 0.4.0 (stable)

* require() improvements (isaacs)
- understand package.json (isaacs)
- look for 'node_modules' dir

* cmake fixes (Daniel Gröber)

* http: fix buffer writes to outgoing messages (Russell Haering)

* Expose UCS-2 Encoding (Konstantin Käfer)

* Support strings for octal modes (isaacs)

* Support array-ish args to Buffer ctor (isaacs)

* cygwin and mingw improvements (Bert Belder)

* TLS improvements

* Fewer syscalls during require (Bert Belder, isaacs)

* More DTrace probes (Bryan Cantrill, Robert Mustacchi)

* 'pipe' event on pipe() (Mikeal Rogers)

* CRL support in TLS (Theo Schlossnagle)

* HTTP header manipulation methods (Tim Caswell, Charlie Robbins)

* Upgrade V8 to 3.1.2

Download: http://nodejs.org/dist/node-v0.4.0.tar.gz

Website: http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.4.0

Documentation: http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.4.0/api

[Matthias Luebken]

Congratulations!

[Daniel Bartlett]

Excellent news!

[Lee Treveil]

Congrats! Although it isn't building on cygwin...

[Tane Piper]

+1 for awesomenessness

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Lee Treveil <leetr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Congrats! Although it isn't building on cygwin...
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[Lee Treveil]

Got it to build - had to re-run rebase all and theres a newline missing at the end of platform-cygwin.cc

[Nicolas Chambrier]

Very good work, better integration of the de facto standards "node_modules" and "package.json" are very good news for the simplification of the system :)

[phidelta]

Awesome!

And as always there are Mac OS X Packages at https://sites.google.com/site/nodejsmacosx/
(NodeJS 0.4.0 ans NPM 0.2.17)

Regards,
Phil

On Feb 10, 11:48 am, Ryan Dahl <r...@tinyclouds.org> wrote:
> This is the first release of the second stable branch. For a

> high-level description of what has changed since v0.2 seehttp://nodejs.org/v0.4_announcement.html

[maga]

That's great!

Guys, what about 9 challenges, is there any progress? Especially with copying strings out of V8?

[Bert Belder]

This is how I understand it:
I could be incorrect on some points. If so, please correct me.

Problem 1: TLS / SSL
- Fixed in 0.4
Problem 2: Continuous Integration Perf Testing
- There is some thingie at http://arlolra.no.de/ that tests request/
response perf, but nothing really substantial I think.
Problem 3: Debugging
- There is a node interactive debugger
- There is DTrace probes
- No event origin backtrace yet
Problem 4: Windows
- Work in progress, node compiles on mingw but a bunch of features
is missing.
- The switch to iocp (see slides) hasn't been made yet.
Problem 5: V8 on x64 limited to 1 GB heap
- The bar has been raised to 1.9GB. I don't know how close the V8
team is to pushing it further.
Problem 6: Copying Strings out of V8 heap
- Nothing changed I think.
Problem 7: Bunching Writes
- There have been experiments with writev, but it was backed out
because of performance regressions.
Problem 8: File System Event Notification
- No news.
Problem 9: Kernel AIO
- No news.

On Feb 10, 2:56 pm, maga <denel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That's great!
>

> Guys, what about 9 challenges <http://nodejs.org/jsconf-eu-2010.pdf>, is

[dvbportal]

Fantastic, a big step forward.

[dvbportal]

Dan, do you see any problems running it on Nodester? Should I upgrade.

[billywhizz]

great news. well done to all involved. thanks for the summary bert!

[Sean Braithwaite]

Connection pool!

Rad.

[Rafał Pocztarski]

2011/2/10 Ryan Dahl <r...@tinyclouds.org>:

> This is the first release of the second stable branch. For a
> high-level description of what has changed since v0.2 see
> http://nodejs.org/v0.4_announcement.html

Great news! Thanks!

It passes all tests on Ubuntu 10.10 in VirtualBox 3.0.14:

[01:03|% 100|+ 176|- 0]: Done

I've added the sha-1 sum of 0.4.0 tarball to my getnode script in case
someone is using it:
https://github.com/rsp/getnode

Best regards,
Rafał Pocztarski.

[Mikeal Rogers]

I would add that the EventSource work also did not make it in to this release.

[Bert Belder]

You mean, like in "No event origin backtrace yet" :-)

[Mikeal Rogers]

The purpose of EventSource is to give better traces that include all the parent call stacks.

EventSource is also going to unify the interface to the event loop which is a pre-requisite for some other things I, and others, would like to get in, like a way for you to add a listener for new items added to the event loop.