Download Node.js 12.10.0

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, please refer to this page. The development team has released version 12.10.0 in the current branch. The list of important changes looks like this:

Node v12.10.0 (Current) – Notable changes

• deps:
  • Update npm to 6.10.3 (isaacs) #29023

  fs:

  • Add recursive option to rmdir() (cjihrig) #29168
  • Allow passing true to emitClose option (Giorgos Ntemiris) #29212
  • Add *timeNs properties to BigInt Stats objects (Joyee Cheung) #21387

  just:

  • Allow reading data into a static buffer (Brian White) #25436

Node v12.9.1 (Current) – Notable changes

• Fixes an event listener leak in the HTTP client. This resulted in lots of warnings during npm/yarn installs (Robert Nagy) #29245.
• Fixes a regression preventing the ‘end’ event from being emitted for keepalive requests in case the full body was not parsed (Matteo Collina) #29263.

Node v12.9.0 (Current) – Notable changes

• crypto:
  • Added an oaepHash option to asymmetric encryption which allows users to specify a hash function when using OAEP padding (Tobias Nießen) #28335.

  deps:

  • Updated V8 to 7.6.303.29 (Michael Zasso) #28955.
  • Improves the performance of various APIs such as JSON.parse and methods called on frozen arrays.
  • Adds the Promise.allSettled method.
  • Improves support of BigInt in Intl methods.
  • For more information:
  • Updated libuv to 1.31.0 (cjihrig) #29070.
  • UV_FS_O_FILEMAP has been added for faster access to memory mapped files on Windows.
  • uv_fs_mkdir() now returns UV_EINVAL for invalid filenames on Windows. It previously returned UV_ENOENT.
  • The uv_fs_statfs() API has been added.
  • The uv_os_environ() and uv_os_free_environ() APIs have been added.

  fs:

  • Added fs.writev, fs.writevSync and filehandle.writev (promise version) methods. They allow to write an array of ArrayBufferViews to a file descriptor (Anas Aboureada) #25925, (cjihrig) #29186.

  http:

  • Added three properties to OutgoingMessage.prototype: writableObjectMode, writableLength and writableHighWaterMark #29018.

  stream:

  • Added an new property readableEnded to readable streams. Its value is set to true when the ‘end’ event is emitted. (Robert Nagy) #28814.
  • Added an new property writable Ended to writable streams. Its value is set to true after writable.end() has been called. (Robert Nagy) #28934.