version: 0.4.8 title: Node v0.4.8 author: ryandahl date: Sat May 21 2011 07:06:00 GMT-0700 (PDT) status: publish category: release slug: node-v0-4-8

2011.05.20, Version 0.4.8 (stable)

• #974 Properly report traceless errors (isaacs)

• #983 Better JSON.parse error detection in REPL (isaacs)

• #836 Agent socket errors bubble up to req only if req exists

• #1041 Fix event listener leak check timing (koichik)

• #1038 Fix dns.resolve() with ‘PTR’ throws Error: Unknown type “PTR” (koichik)

• #1073 Share SSL context between server connections (Fedor Indutny)

• Disable compression with OpenSSL. Improves memory perf.

• Implement os.totalmem() and os.freemem() for SunOS (Alexandre Marangone)

• Fix a special characters in URL regression (isaacs)

• Fix idle timeouts in HTTPS (Felix Geisendörfer)

• SlowBuffer.write() with ‘ucs2’ throws ReferenceError. (koichik)

• http.ServerRequest ‘close’ sometimes gets an error argument (Felix Geisendörfer)

• Doc improvements

• cleartextstream.destroy() should close(2) the socket. Previously was being mapped to a shutdown(2) syscall.

• No longer compile out asserts and debug statements in normal build.

• Debugger improvements.

• Upgrade V8 to 3.1.8.16.

Website: http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.4.8/

Download: http://nodejs.org/dist/node-v0.4.8.tar.gz

Documentation: http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.4.8/api/