Notable Changes crypto: add optional callback to crypto.sign and crypto.verify (Filip Skokan) #37500 support JWK objects in create*Key (Filip Skokan) #37254 deps: switch openssl to quictls/openssl (James M Snell) #37601 update to cjs-module-lexer@1.1.0 (Guy Bedford) #37712 fs: improve fsPromises writeFile performance (Nitzan Uziely) #37610 improve fsPromises readFile performance (Nitzan Uziely) Read more…
#379 — March 11, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly The Death of a Node.js Process — Writing code to do stuff is fun, but do you ever think about what happens when your creation is either ready to terminate or gets cut off in its prime? Thomas looks Read more…
#378 — March 4, 2021 Read on the Web 👋 To help with the ‘no big news in the Node world this week’ problem we’re encountering sometimes, we’re interviewing maintainers of different Node projects so you can get a look behind the scenes of their work. This week we have Read more…
Deno 1.8, released on March 2, offers preliminary support for an API to bring enhanced machine learning to the secure JavaScript/TypeScript runtime. Experimental backing for the WebGPU API, for performing operations such as rendering and computation on a GPU, provides a path toward out-of-the-box GPU accelerated machine learning in Deno, Read more…
Notable Changes [ 1a3e3156b52 ] – (SEMVER-MINOR) crypto: make FIPS related options always awailable (Vít Ondruch) #36341 [ 19ba5c0f9ba ] – (SEMVER-MINOR) errors: remove experimental from –enable-source-maps (Benjamin Coe) #37362 Commits [ 1d039e6fa80 ] – assert: refactor to avoid unsafe array iteration (Antoine du Hamel) #37344 [ 1d2e5529e08 ] – Read more…
#377 — February 25, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly Tauri: A New(ish) Framework for Building Desktop Apps with a Web Frontend — Electron is the big cheese in the ‘build desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML and CSS’ space but other contenders are now coming along including this Rust-based one. Read more…
Notable changes Vulnerabilities fixed: CVE-2021-22883: HTTP2 ‘unknownProtocol’ cause Denial of Service by resource exhaustion Affected Node.js versions are vulnerable to denial of service attacks when too many connection attempts with an ‘unknownProtocol’ are established. This leads to a leak of file descriptors. If a file descriptor limit is configured on Read more…
Notable changes Vulnerabilities fixed: CVE-2021-22883: HTTP2 ‘unknownProtocol’ cause Denial of Service by resource exhaustion Affected Node.js versions are vulnerable to denial of service attacks when too many connection attempts with an ‘unknownProtocol’ are established. This leads to a leak of file descriptors. If a file descriptor limit is configured on Read more…
Notable changes Vulnerabilities fixed: CVE-2021-22883: HTTP2 ‘unknownProtocol’ cause Denial of Service by resource exhaustion Affected Node.js versions are vulnerable to denial of service attacks when too many connection attempts with an ‘unknownProtocol’ are established. This leads to a leak of file descriptors. If a file descriptor limit is configured on Read more…
Notable changes Vulnerabilities fixed: CVE-2021-22883: HTTP2 ‘unknownProtocol’ cause Denial of Service by resource exhaustion Affected Node.js versions are vulnerable to denial of service attacks when too many connection attempts with an ‘unknownProtocol’ are established. This leads to a leak of file descriptors. If a file descriptor limit is configured on Read more…
