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This release will become the new LTS later in 2016. The following significant changes have been made since the previous Node.js v5.0.0 release. Buffer - New Buffer constructors have been added #4682 and #5833. - Existing Buffer() and SlowBuffer() constructors have been deprecated in docs #4682 and #5833. - Previously deprecated Buffer APIs are removed #5048, #4594. - Improved error handling #4514. - The Buffer.prototype.lastIndexOf() method has been added #4846. Cluster - Worker emitted as first argument in 'message' event #5361. - The worker.exitedAfterDisconnect property replaces worker.suicide #3743. Console - Calling console.timeEnd() with an unknown label now emits a process warning rather than throwing #5901. Crypto - Improved error handling #3100, #5611. - Simplified Certificate class bindings #5382. - Improved control over FIPS mode #5181. - pbkdf2 digest overloading is deprecated #4047. Dependencies - Reintroduce shared c-ares build support #5775. - V8 updated to 5.0.71.35 #6372. DNS - Add dns.resolvePtr() API to query plain DNS PTR records #4921. Domains - Clear stack when no error handler #4659. Events - The EventEmitter.prototype._events object no longer inherits from Object.prototype #6092. - The EventEmitter.prototype.prependListener() and EventEmitter.prototype.prependOnceListener() methods have been added #6032. File System - The fs.realpath() and fs.realpathSync() methods have been updated to use a more efficient libuv-based implementation. This change includes the removal of the cache argument and the method can throw new errors #3594. - FS apis can now accept and return paths as Buffers #5616. - Error handling and type checking improvements #5616, #5590, #4518, #3917. - fs.read's string interface is deprecated #4525. HTTP - 'clientError' can now be used to return custom errors from an HTTP server #4557. |
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