2015-10-08, Version 4.2.0 'argon' (LTS) Release

Author: jasnell

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,65 @@
 # Node.js ChangeLog
 
+## 2015-10-07, Version 4.2.0 'argon' (Stable), @jasnell
+
+### Notable changes
+
+* ICU - updated to version 56 with significant performance improvements.
+* CLI - new `-c` command line switch for checking script syntax
+
+### Known Issues
+
+See https://github.com/nodejs/node/labels/confirmed-bug for complete and current list of known issues.
+
+* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1264).
+* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
+* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
+* `url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
+
+### Commits
+
+* [[`3eaa593a32`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3eaa593a32)] - **async_wrap**: correctly pass parent to init callback (Trevor Norris) [#3216](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3216)
+* [[`660f7591c8`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/660f7591c8)] - **buffer**: FreeCallback should be tied to ArrayBuffer (Fedor Indutny) [#3198](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3198)
+* [[`651a5b51eb`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/651a5b51eb)] - **buffer**: only check if instance is Uint8Array (Trevor Norris) [#3080](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3080)
+* [[`d5a1b1ad7c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d5a1b1ad7c)] - **buffer**: clean up usage of __proto__ (Trevor Norris) [#3080](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3080)
+* [[`af24376e18`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/af24376e18)] - **build**: Intl: deps: bump ICU to 56.1 (GA) (Steven R. Loomis) [#3281](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3281)
+* [[`9136359d57`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9136359d57)] - **build**: make icu download path customizable (Johan Bergström) [#3200](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3200)
+* [[`b3c5ad10a8`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b3c5ad10a8)] - **build**: add --with-arm-fpu option (Jérémy Lal) [#3228](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3228)
+* [[`f00f3268e4`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f00f3268e4)] - **build**: intl: avoid 'duplicate main()' on ICU 56 (Steven R. Loomis) [#3066](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3066)
+* [[`8b50e95f06`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8b50e95f06)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **deps**: backport 1ee712a from V8 upstream (Julien Gilli) [#3036](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3036)
+* [[`d4fc6d93ef`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d4fc6d93ef)] - **doc**: add help repo link to CONTRIBUTING.md (Doug Shamoo) [#3233](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3233)
+* [[`28aac7f19d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/28aac7f19d)] - **doc**: add TLS session resumption example (Roman Reiss) [#3147](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3147)
+* [[`365cf22cce`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/365cf22cce)] - **doc**: update AUTHORS list (Rod Vagg) [#3211](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3211)
+* [[`d4399613b7`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d4399613b7)] - **doc**: standardize references to userland (Martial) [#3192](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3192)
+* [[`75de258376`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/75de258376)] - **doc**: fix spelling in Buffer documentation (Rod Machen) [#3226](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3226)
+* [[`725c7276dd`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/725c7276dd)] - **doc**: fix README.md link to joyent/node intl wiki (Steven R. Loomis) [#3067](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3067)
+* [[`4a35ba4966`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4a35ba4966)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **fs**: include filename in watch errors (charlierudolph) [#2748](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2748)
+* [[`2ddbbfd164`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2ddbbfd164)] - **http**: cork/uncork before flushing pipelined res (Fedor Indutny) [#3172](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3172)
+* [[`f638402e2f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f638402e2f)] - **http**: add comment about `outputSize` in res/server (Fedor Indutny) [#3128](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3128)
+* [[`1850879b0e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1850879b0e)] - **js_stream**: prevent abort if isalive doesn't exist (Trevor Norris) [#3282](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3282)
+* [[`63644dd1cd`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/63644dd1cd)] - **lib**: remove redundant code, add tests in timers.js (Rich Trott) [#3143](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3143)
+* [[`74f443583c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/74f443583c)] - **module**: use UNC paths when loading native addons (Justin Chase) [#2965](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2965)
+* [[`9d65528b01`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9d65528b01)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **node**: add -c|--check CLI arg to syntax check script (Dave Eddy) [#2411](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2411)
+* [[`d99336a391`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d99336a391)] - **src**: replace naive search in Buffer::IndexOf (Karl Skomski) [#2539](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2539)
+* [[`546e8333ba`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/546e8333ba)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **src**: fix --abort-on-uncaught-exception (Jeremy Whitlock) [#3036](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3036)
+* [[`7271cb047c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7271cb047c)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **src**: add process.versions.icu (Evan Lucas) [#3102](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3102)
+* [[`7c85557ef0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7c85557ef0)] - **test**: Fix test-fs-read-stream-fd-leak race cond (Junliang Yan) [#3218](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3218)
+* [[`26a7ec6960`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/26a7ec6960)] - **test**: fix losing original env vars issue (Junliang Yan) [#3190](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3190)
+* [[`e922716192`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e922716192)] - **test**: remove deprecated error logging (Rich Trott) [#3079](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3079)
+* [[`8f29d95a8c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8f29d95a8c)] - **test**: report timeout in TapReporter (Karl Skomski) [#2647](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2647)
+* [[`2d0fe4c657`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2d0fe4c657)] - **test**: linting for buffer-free-callback test (Rich Trott) [#3230](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3230)
+* [[`70c9e4337e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/70c9e4337e)] - **test**: make common.js mandatory via linting rule (Rich Trott) [#3157](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3157)
+* [[`b7179562aa`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b7179562aa)] - **test**: load common.js in all tests (Rich Trott) [#3157](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3157)
+* [[`bab555a1c1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/bab555a1c1)] - **test**: speed up stringbytes-external test (Evan Lucas) [#3005](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3005)
+* [[`ddf258376d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ddf258376d)] - **test**: use normalize() for unicode paths (Roman Reiss) [#3007](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3007)
+* [[`46876d519c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/46876d519c)] - **test**: remove arguments.callee usage (Roman Reiss) [#3167](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3167)
+* [[`9c2748bad1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9c2748bad1)] - **tools**: remove leftover license boilerplate (Nathan Rajlich) [#3225](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3225)
+* [[`5d9f83ff2a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5d9f83ff2a)] - **tools**: apply linting to custom rules code (Rich Trott) [#3195](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3195)
+* [[`18a8b2ec73`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/18a8b2ec73)] - **tools**: remove unused gflags module (Ben Noordhuis) [#3220](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3220)
+* [[`e0fffca836`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e0fffca836)] - **util**: fix for inspecting promises (Evan Lucas) [#3221](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3221)
+* [[`8dfdee3733`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8dfdee3733)] - **util**: correctly inspect Map/Set Iterators (Evan Lucas) [#3119](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3119)
+* [[`b5c51fdba0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b5c51fdba0)] - **util**: fix check for Array constructor (Evan Lucas) [#3119](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3119)
+
 ## 2015-10-05, Version 4.1.2 (Stable), @rvagg
 
 ### Notable changes

src/node.cc

@@ -2774,6 +2774,11 @@ void SetupProcessObject(Environment* env,
   READONLY_PROPERTY(process, "release", release);
   READONLY_PROPERTY(release, "name", OneByteString(env->isolate(), "node"));
 
+#if NODE_VERSION_IS_LTS
+  READONLY_PROPERTY(release, "lts",
+    OneByteString(env->isolate(), NODE_VERSION_LTS_CODENAME));
+#endif
+
 // if this is a release build and no explicit base has been set
 // substitute the standard release download URL
 #ifndef NODE_RELEASE_URLBASE

src/node_version.h

@@ -2,10 +2,13 @@
 #define SRC_NODE_VERSION_H_
 
 #define NODE_MAJOR_VERSION 4
-#define NODE_MINOR_VERSION 1
-#define NODE_PATCH_VERSION 3
+#define NODE_MINOR_VERSION 2
+#define NODE_PATCH_VERSION 0
 
-#define NODE_VERSION_IS_RELEASE 0
+#define NODE_VERSION_IS_LTS 1
+#define NODE_VERSION_LTS_CODENAME "argon"
+
+#define NODE_VERSION_IS_RELEASE 1
 
 #ifndef NODE_STRINGIFY
 #define NODE_STRINGIFY(n) NODE_STRINGIFY_HELPER(n)