In December we announced that we would be doing a minor release in order to
get a number of voted on SEMVER-MINOR changes into LTS. Our ability to release this
was delayed due to the unforeseen security release v4.3. We are quickly bumping to
v4.4 in order to bring you the features that we had committed to releasing.

This release also includes security updates to openssl. More information can be found [on nodejs.org](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/openssl-march-2016/)

This release also includes over 70 fixes to our docs and over 50 fixes to tests.

The SEMVER-MINOR changes include:
  * deps:
    - An update to v8 that introduces a new flag --perf_basic_prof_only_functions (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #3609
  * http:
    - A new feature in http(s) agent that catches errors on *keep alived* connections (José F. Romaniello) #4482
  * src:
    - Better support for Big-Endian systems (Bryon Leung) #3410
  * tls:
    - A new feature that allows you to pass common SSL options to `tls.createSecurePair` (Коренберг Марк) #2441
  * tools
    - a new flag `--prof-process` which will execute the tick processor on the provided isolate files (Matt Loring) #4021

Notable semver patch changes include:

  * buld:
    - Support python path that includes spaces. This should be of particular interest to our Windows users who may have python living in `c:/Program Files` (Felix Becker) #4841
  * https:
    - A potential fix for #3692 HTTP/HTTPS client requests throwing EPROTO (Fedor Indutny) #4982
  * installer:
    - More readable profiling information from isolate tick logs (Matt Loring) #3032
  * *npm:
    - upgrade to npm 2.14.20 (Kat Marchán) #5510
  * *openssl:
    - upgrade openssl to 1.0.2g (Ben Noordhuis) #5507
  * process:
    - Add support for symbols in event emitters. Symbols didn't exist when it was written ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (cjihrig) #4798
  * querystring:
    - querystring.parse() is now 13-22% faster! (Brian White) #4675
  * streams:
    - performance improvements for moving small buffers that shows a 5% throughput gain. IoT projects have been seen to be as much as 10% faster with this change! (Matteo Collina) #4354
  * tools:
    - eslint has been updated to version 2.1.0 (Rich Trott) #5214

PR-URL: #5301

In December we announced that we would be doing a minor release in order to
get a number of voted on SEMVER-MINOR changes into LTS. Our ability to release this
was delayed due to the unforeseen security release v4.3. We are quickly bumping to
v4.4 in order to bring you the features that we had committed to releasing.

This release also includes security updates to openssl. More information can be found [on nodejs.org](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/openssl-march-2016/)

This release also includes over 70 fixes to our docs and over 50 fixes to tests.

The SEMVER-MINOR changes include:
  * deps:
    - An update to v8 that introduces a new flag --perf_basic_prof_only_functions (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) nodejs#3609
  * http:
    - A new feature in http(s) agent that catches errors on *keep alived* connections (José F. Romaniello) nodejs#4482
  * src:
    - Better support for Big-Endian systems (Bryon Leung) nodejs#3410
  * tls:
    - A new feature that allows you to pass common SSL options to `tls.createSecurePair` (Коренберг Марк) nodejs#2441
  * tools
    - a new flag `--prof-process` which will execute the tick processor on the provided isolate files (Matt Loring) nodejs#4021

Notable semver patch changes include:

  * buld:
    - Support python path that includes spaces. This should be of particular interest to our Windows users who may have python living in `c:/Program Files` (Felix Becker) nodejs#4841
  * https:
    - A potential fix for nodejs#3692 HTTP/HTTPS client requests throwing EPROTO (Fedor Indutny) nodejs#4982
  * installer:
    - More readable profiling information from isolate tick logs (Matt Loring) nodejs#3032
  * *npm:
    - upgrade to npm 2.14.20 (Kat Marchán) nodejs#5510
  * *openssl:
    - upgrade openssl to 1.0.2g (Ben Noordhuis) nodejs#5507
  * process:
    - Add support for symbols in event emitters. Symbols didn't exist when it was written ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (cjihrig) nodejs#4798
  * querystring:
    - querystring.parse() is now 13-22% faster! (Brian White) nodejs#4675
  * streams:
    - performance improvements for moving small buffers that shows a 5% throughput gain. IoT projects have been seen to be as much as 10% faster with this change! (Matteo Collina) nodejs#4354
  * tools:
    - eslint has been updated to version 2.1.0 (Rich Trott) nodejs#5214

PR-URL: nodejs#5301

Notable changes:

* governance: The Core Technical Committee (CTC) added four new members
to help guide Node.js core development: Evan Lucas, Rich Trott, Ali
Ijaz Sheikh and Сковорода Никита Андреевич (Nikita Skovoroda).

* openssl: Upgrade from 1.0.2f to 1.0.2g (Ben Noordhuis)
nodejs#5507
  - Fix a double-free defect in parsing malformed DSA keys that may
potentially be used for DoS or memory corruption attacks. It is likely
to be very difficult to use this defect for a practical attack and is
therefore considered low severity for Node.js users. More info is
available at https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#2016-0705
  - Fix a defect that can cause memory corruption in certain very rare
cases relating to the internal `BN_hex2bn()` and `BN_dec2bn()`
functions. It is believed that Node.js is not invoking the code paths
that use these functions so practical attacks via Node.js using this
defect are _unlikely_ to be possible. More info is available at
https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#2016-0797
  - Fix a defect that makes the CacheBleed Attack
(https://ssrg.nicta.com.au/projects/TS/cachebleed/) possible. This
defect enables attackers to execute side-channel attacks leading to the
potential recovery of entire RSA private keys. It only affects the
Intel Sandy Bridge (and possibly older) microarchitecture when using
hyper-threading. Newer microarchitectures, including Haswell, are
unaffected. More info is available at
https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#2016-0702

* Fixed several regressions that appeared in v5.7.0:
  - path.relative():
    - Output is no longer unnecessarily verbose (Brian White)
nodejs#5389
    - Resolving UNC paths on Windows now works correctly (Owen Smith)
nodejs#5456
    - Resolving paths with prefixes now works correctly from the root
directory (Owen Smith) nodejs#5490
  - url: Fixed an off-by-one error with `parse()` (Brian White)
nodejs#5394
  - dgram: Now correctly handles a default address case when offset and
length are specified (Matteo Collina)
nodejs#5407

PR-URL: nodejs#5464