Download Node.js 7.4.0 / 6.9.3 / 4.7.1

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 7.4.0 in the current branch and both 6.9.3 and 4.7.1 in the LTS branch. The Notable Changes of these releases look like this:

Node v7.4.0 (Current)

• buffer:
  • Improve performance of Buffer allocation by ~11%. (Brian White) #10443
  • Improve performance of Buffer.from() by ~50%. (Brian White) #10443
• events: Improve performance of EventEmitter.once() by ~27%. (Brian White) #10445
• fs: Allow passing Uint8Array to fs methods where Buffers are supported. (Anna Henningsen) #10382
• http: Improve performance of http server by ~7%. (Brian White) #6533
• npm: Upgrade to v4.0.5 (Kat Marchán) #10330

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Node v4.7.1 (LTS)

• build: shared library support is now working for AIX builds (Stewart Addison) #9675
• repl: Passing options to the repl will no longer overwrite defaults (cjihrig) #7826
• timers: Re canceling a canceled timers will no longer throw (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #9685

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Node v6.9.3 (LTS)

• build: shared library support is now working for AIX builds (Stewart Addison) #9675
• deps:
  • npm: upgrade npm to 3.10.10 (Rebecca Turner) #9847
  • Q8: Destructuring of arrow function arguments via computed property no longer throws (Michaël Zasso) #10386
• inspector: /json/version returns object, not an object wrapped in an array (Ben Noordhuis) #9762
• module: using –debug-brk and –eval together now works as expected (Kelvin Jin) #8876
• process: improve performance of nextTick up to 20% (Evan Lucas) #8932
• reply:
  • the division operator will no longer be accidentally parsed as regex (Teddy Katz) #10103
  • improved support for generator functions (Teddy Katz) #9852
• timers: Re canceling a canceled timers will no longer throw (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #9685

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