Notable Changes Diagnostics channel (experimental module) 1diagnostics_channel is a new experimental module that provides an API to create named channels to report arbitrary message data for diagnostics purposes. With 1diagnostics_channel , Node.js core and module authors can publish contextual data about what they are doing at a given time. This Read more…
Notable changes Vulnerabilities fixed: CVE-2020-8265: use-after-free in TLSWrap (High) Affected Node.js versions are vulnerable to a use-after-free bug in its TLS implementation. When writing to a TLS enabled socket, node::StreamBase::Write calls node::TLSWrap::DoWrite with a freshly allocated WriteWrap object as first argument. If the DoWrite method does not return an error, Read more…
Notable Changes OpenSSL-1.1.1i OpenSSL-1.1.1i contains a fix for CVE-2020-1971: OpenSSL – EDIPARTYNAME NULL pointer de-reference (High). This is a vulnerability in OpenSSL which may be exploited through Node.js. You can read more about it in https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20201208.txt Contributed by Myles Borins #36520. Extended support for 1AbortSignal in child_process and stream The Read more…
Notable Changes Node.js v14.15.2 included a commit that has caused reported breakages when cloning request objects. This release reverts the commit that introduced the behaviour change. See https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/36550 for more details. Commits [ 14264d9aa67 ] – Revert “http: lazy create IncomingMessage.headers” (Beth Griggs) #36553 Windows 32-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v14.15.3/node-v14.15.3-x86.msi Windows 64-bit Read more…
Notable Changes deps: upgrade npm to 6.14.9 (Myles Borins) #36450 update acorn to v8.0.4 (Michaël Zasso) #35791 doc: add release key for Danielle Adams (Danielle Adams) #35545 http2: check write not scheduled in scope destructor (David Halls) #36241 stream: fix regression on duplex end (Momtchil Momtchev) #35941 Commits [ 1c508bfc66b Read more…
Notable Changes child_processes: add AbortSignal support (Benjamin Gruenbaum) #36308 deps: update ICU to 68.1 (Michaël Zasso) #36187 events: support signal in EventTarget (Benjamin Gruenbaum) #36258 graduate Event, EventTarget, AbortController (James M Snell) #35949 http: enable call chaining with setHeader() (pooja d.p) #35924 module: add isPreloading indicator (James M Snell) #36263 Read more…
Notable Changes crypto: update certdata to NSS 3.56 (Shelley Vohr) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/35546 deps: update llhttp to 2.1.3 (Fedor Indutny) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/35435 (SEMVER-MINOR) upgrade to libuv 1.40.0 (Colin Ihrig) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/35333 doc: add aduh95 to collaborators (Antoine du Hamel) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/35542 fs: (SEMVER-MINOR) add .ref() and .unref() methods to watcher classes (rickyes) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/33134 http: (SEMVER-MINOR) Read more…
Notable Changes [ 1110063d694 ] – (SEMVER-MINOR) crypto: add generatePrime/checkPrime (James M Snell) #36997 [ 153a0bdff47 ] – (SEMVER-MINOR) crypto: experimental (Ed/X)25519/(Ed/X)448 support (James M Snell) #36879 [ 103460432af ] – deps: upgrade npm to 7.5.0 (Ruy Adorno) #37117 This update adds a new 1npm diff command. [ 12c7ad38c75 ] Read more…
Notable changes Release keys have been synchronized with the main branch. deps: upgrade npm to 6.14.11 (Darcy Clarke) #36838 Commits [ 1cc6b69557a ] – deps: upgrade npm to 6.14.11 (Darcy Clarke) #36838 [ 1aefb66528a ] – doc: update contact information for @BethGriggs (Beth Griggs) #35451 [ 108931481d8 ] – doc: Read more…
Notable changes buffer: introduce Blob (James M Snell) #36811 add base64url encoding option (Filip Skokan) #36952 doc: add @iansu to collaborators (Ian Sutherland) #36951 add @RaisinTen to collaborators (Darshan Sen) #36998 add @miladfarca to collaborators (Milad Fa) #36934 fs: allow 1position parameter to be a 1BigInt in read and readSync Read more…
