Node.js v0.5.0 (Unstable)

Ryan Dahl

2011.07.05, Version 0.5.0 (unstable)

New non-default libuv backend to support IOCP on Windows. Use --use-uv to enable.
deprecate http.cat
docs improved.
add child_process.fork
add fs.utimes() and fs.futimes() support (Ben Noordhuis)
add process.uptime() (Tom Huges)
add path.relative (Tony Huang)
add os.getNetworkInterfaces()
add remoteAddress and remotePort for client TCP connections (Brian White)
add secureOptions flag, setting ciphers, SSL_OP_CRYPTOPRO_TLSEXT_BUG to TLS (Theo Schlossnagle)
add process.arch (Nathan Rajlich)
add reading/writing of floats and doubles from/to buffers (Brian White)
Allow script to be read from stdin
#477 add Buffer::fill method to do memset (Konstantin Käfer)
#573 Diffie-Hellman support to crypto module (Håvard Stranden)
#695 add 'hex' encoding to buffer (isaacs)
#851 Update how REPLServer uses contexts (Ben Weaver)
#853 add fs.lchow, fs.lchmod, fs.fchmod, fs.fchown (isaacs)
#889 Allow to remove all EventEmitter listeners at once (Felix Geisendörfer)
#926 OpenSSL NPN support (Fedor Indutny)
#955 Change ^C handling in REPL (isaacs)
#979 add support for Unix Domain Sockets to HTTP (Mark Cavage)
#1173 #1170 add AMD, asynchronous module definition (isaacs)
DTrace probes: support X-Forwarded-For (Dave Pacheco)