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v6.12.0 proposal by MylesBorins · Pull Request #16263 · nodejs/node

2017-11-07, Version 6.12.0 'Boron' (LTS), @MylesBorins

This LTS release comes with 127 commits. This includes 45 which are test related,
33 which are doc related, 13 which are updates to dependencies and 7 commits which are related to build / tools.

This release includes a security update to openssl that has been deemed low severity for the Node.js project.

Notable Changes

  • assert:
    • assert.fail() can now take one or two arguments (Rich Trott) #12293
  • crypto:
    • add sign/verify support for RSASSA-PSS (Tobias Nießen) #11705
  • deps:
    • upgrade openssl sources to 1.0.2m (Shigeki Ohtsu) #16691
    • upgrade libuv to 1.15.0 (cjihrig) #15745
    • upgrade libuv to 1.14.1 (cjihrig) #14866
    • upgrade libuv to 1.13.1 (cjihrig) #14117
    • upgrade libuv to 1.12.0 (cjihrig) #13306
  • fs:
    • Add support for fs.write/fs.writeSync(fd, buffer, cb) and fs.write/fs.writeSync(fd, buffer, offset, cb) as documented (Andreas Lind) #7856
  • inspector:
    • enable --inspect-brk (Refael Ackermann) #12615
  • process:
    • add --redirect-warnings command line argument (James M Snell) #10116
  • src:
    • allow CLI args in env with NODE_OPTIONS (Sam Roberts) #12028
    • --abort-on-uncaught-exception in NODE_OPTIONS (Sam Roberts) #13932
    • allow --tls-cipher-list in NODE_OPTIONS (Sam Roberts) #13172
    • use SafeGetenv() for NODE_REDIRECT_WARNINGS (Sam Roberts) #12677
  • test:
    • remove common.fail() (Rich Trott) #12293

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