Download Node.js 7.0.0

Node.js is open source and platform independent and is focused on developing server-side web applications. Those applications are written in JavaScript and run within the Node.js runtime on the server. It offers an event-driven environment where non-blocking I/O has been an important starting point. For more information, we refer you to this page† The development team has released version 7.0 and the main changes in it are listed below for you:

Buffer

• Passing invalid input to Buffer.byteLength will now throw an error #8946†
• Calling Buffer without new is now deprecated and will emit a process warning #8169†
• Passing a negative number to allocUnsafe will now throw an error #7079†

Child Process

• The fork and execFile methods now have stronger argument validation #7399†

cluster

• The worker.suicide method is deprecated and will emit a process warning #3747†

Deps

• V8 has been updated to 5.4.500.36 #8317† #8852† #9253†
• NODE_MODULE_VERSION has been updated to 51 #8808†

File System

• A process warning is emitted if a callback is not passed to async file system methods #7897†

intl

• Intl.v8BreakIterator constructor has been deprecated and will emit a process warning #8908†

promises

• Unhandled Promise rejections have been deprecated and will emit a process warning #8217†

Puny code

• The punycode module has been deprecated #7941†

URL

• An Experimental WHATWG URL Parser has been introduced #7448†