2016-11-08, 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 (James M Snell)
* child_process: add public API for IPC channel (cjihrig)
* icu
  * Upgraded to ICU 58 - small icu (Steven R. Loomis)
  * Add `cldr`, `tz`, and `unicode` to `process.versions` (Steven R. Loomis)
* lib: make `String(global) === '[object global]'` (Anna Henningsen)
* libuv: Upgraded to 1.10.0 (cjihrig)
* readline: use icu based string width calculation (James M Snell)
* src:
  * add NODE_PRESERVE_SYMLINKS environment variable that has the same
    effect as the `--preserve-symlinks` flag (Marc Udoff)
  * Fix `String#toLocaleUpperCase()` and `String#toLocaleLowerCase()`
    (Steven R. Loomis)

PR-URL: #9438

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ release.
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td valign="top">
-    <b><a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V7.md#7.0.0">7.0.0</a></b><br/>
+    <b><a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V7.md#7.1.0">7.1.0</a></b><br/>
+    <a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V7.md#7.0.0">7.0.0</a><br/>
   </td>
   <td valign="top">
 <b><a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V6.md#6.7.0">6.7.0</a></b><br/>

doc/api/buffer.md

@@ -2308,7 +2308,7 @@ On 64-bit architectures, this value is `(2^31)-1` (~2GB).
 
 ## buffer.transcode(source, fromEnc, toEnc)
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-added: REPLACEME
+added: v7.1.0
 -->
 
 * `source` {Buffer} A `Buffer` instance

doc/api/child_process.md

@@ -778,7 +778,7 @@ to send messages.
 
 ### child.channel
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-added: REPLACEME
+added: v7.1.0
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 * {Object} A pipe representing the IPC channel to the child process.

doc/api/cli.md

@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ with small-icu support.
 
 ### `NODE_PRESERVE_SYMLINKS=1`
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-added: REPLACEME
+added: v7.1.0
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 When set to `1`, instructs the module loader to preserve symbolic links when

doc/api/process.md

@@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ $ bash -c 'exec -a customArgv0 ./node'
 
 ## process.channel
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-added: REPLACEME
+added: v7.1.0
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 If the Node.js process was spawned with an IPC channel (see the

src/node_version.h

@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@
 #define SRC_NODE_VERSION_H_
 
 #define NODE_MAJOR_VERSION 7
-#define NODE_MINOR_VERSION 0
-#define NODE_PATCH_VERSION 1
+#define NODE_MINOR_VERSION 1
+#define NODE_PATCH_VERSION 0
 
-#define NODE_VERSION_IS_RELEASE 0
+#define NODE_VERSION_IS_RELEASE 1
 
 #ifndef NODE_STRINGIFY
 #define NODE_STRINGIFY(n) NODE_STRINGIFY_HELPER(n)