Download Node.js 7.2.0

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 7.2.0 with the following notes:

Version 7.2.0 (Current)

Notable changes:

• crypto: The Decipher methods setAuthTag() and setAAD now return this.
• dns: Implemented {ttl: true} for resolve4() and resolve6().
• libuv: Upgrade to v1.10.1
  Fixed a potential buffer overflow when writing data to console on Windows 10. (CVE-2016-9551)
• process: Added a new external property to the data returned by memoryUsage().
• tls: Fixed a memory leak when writes were queued on TLS connection that was destroyed during handshake.
• V8 (dep): Upgrade to v5.4.500.43
• v8: The data returned by getHeapStatistics() now includes three new fields: malloced_memory, peak_malloced_memory, and does_zap_garbage.

Version 7.1.0 (Current)

Notable changes:

• buffer: add buffer.transcode to transcode a buffer’s content from one encoding to another primarily using ICU
• child_process: add public API for IPC channel
• icu: Upgraded to ICU 58 – small icu
• icu: Add cldr, tz, and unicode to process.versions
• lib: make String(global) === ‘\[object global\]†
• libuv: Upgraded to 1.10.0
• readline: use icu based string width calculation
• src: add NODE_PRESERVE_SYMLINKS environment variable that has the same effect as the –preserve-symlinks flag
• src: Fix String#toLocaleUpperCase() and String#toLocaleLowerCase()