#419 — December 23, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly The Best of Node Weekly in 2021 This is the last issue of the year (we’re back on January 13 as we’re taking a two week break) so we’re taking Read more…
Notable changes OpenSSL-3.0.1 OpenSSL-3.0.1 contains a fix for CVE-2021-4044: Invalid handling of X509_verify_cert() internal errors in libssl (Moderate). This is a vulnerability in OpenSSL that may be exploited through Node.js. More information can be read here: https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20211214.txt. Contributed by Richard Read more…
Notable Changes This release contains a c-ares update to fix a regression introduced in Node.js 12.22.5 resolving CNAME records containing underscores #39780. Root certificates have been updated to those from Mozilla’s Network Security Services 3.71 #40281. Commits [ 12d42295d2a ] Read more…
#418 — December 16, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly How To Write Shell Scripts in Node with Google’s 1zx — zx is a utility that makes it easier to write command line scripts based around Node. This tutorial Read more…
Developers of Deno, the TypeScript/JavaScript runtime positioned as an alternative to Node.js, have joined the standards body overseeing development of the JavaScript standard. In a December 13 blog post on the Deno company website, engineer Luca Casonato noted the company Read more…
#417 — December 9, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly GitHub Rolling Out Enforced 2FA and More for npm Registry — Many public code package registries have suffered issues with user security in recent years, and a single compromised Read more…
#416 — December 2, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly The Best Starting Word in WORDLE? — WORDLE is an online word game that’s a bit like ‘Mastermind’ but with 5 letter words. And, of course, if you’re a Read more…
Notable Changes [ 1c14eb2325d ] – deps: upgrade npm to 8.1.2 (npm team) #40643 [ 1a901b6c53c ] – deps: update c-ares to 1.18.1 (Richard Lau) #40660 This release contains a c-ares update to fix a regression introduced in Node.js v16.6.2 Read more…
Notable Changes [ 106916490af ] – (SEMVER-MINOR) async_hooks: expose async_wrap providers (Rafael Gonzaga) #40760 [ 1371ee64c92 ] – (SEMVER-MINOR) deps: update V8 to 9.6.180.14 (Michaël Zasso) #40488 [ 1675c210b04 ] – (SEMVER-MINOR) lib: add reason to AbortSignal (James M Snell) Read more…
Notable changes This release contains a c-ares update to fix a regression introduced in Node.js 14.17.5 resolving CNAME records containing underscores #39780. Also included are commits to allow Node.js 14 to continue to build and pass tests on our Jenkins Read more…
