Weekly io.js, March 13, 2015

io.js 1.5.1 and community events.

Io.js 1.5.1 release

On Monday, March 9th, @rvagg released io.js v1.5.1 . A complete list of changes can be found on GitHub .

Major changes

• tls : In this release, thanks to many commits, the problem with a previously declared memory leak in TLS was resolved. Current tests indicate that there may still be some kind of memory leak problem. Stay tuned for full progress at # 1075 .
• http : The problem stated in joyent / node # 9348 and npm / npm # 7349 has been resolved . Pending data was not completely processed during the event 'error', leading to an error in socket.destroy(). (Fedor Indutny) # 1103 .

Known Issues

• Perhaps there are still problems with a memory leak in TLS, detailed information is in # 1075 .
• Some tests on Windows still fail. Correction of errors associated with them continues to remain a priority for us. See # 1005 .
• Surrogate pair in REPL may cause terminal # 690 to freeze .
• Cannot build io.js as static library # 686 .
• process.send()not synchronous, as described in the documentation, rollback introduced in 1.0.2, see # 760 and editing in # 774 .
• A call dns.setServers()during the execution of a DNS query may lead to the abnormal termination of process # 894 .

Community news

• [Tony Pujals] (https://twitter.com/subfuzion) showed a presentation of the io.js development plan at BayNode . The video was published in vimeo on March 9th.
• Johan Bergström is working on a patch for V8 on the io.js side to bring Solaris support back to the latest version.
• In the 84th episode of NodeUp , the first podcast in the series on the current state of affairs in io.js. The presenters were Mikeal Rogers , Trevor Norris and Bradley Meck .
• Mikeal Rogers gave an interview for the Descriptive podcast in an episode called We Have Never Had So Many Active Contributors .
• Mark Wolfe talked about io.js at the @melbjs conference , slides are published here .
• dockeri.co now runs on io.js. You can see the announcement here .
• Node.js Advisory Board discuss io.js / Node.js reconciliation proposal . You can review the discussion here .

Expected Events

• NodeConf On June 8th and 9th in Auckland, California, tickets are available for sale. And also NodeConf Adventure from June 11th to 14th at Walker Creek Ranch, California.
• CascadiaJS from June 8th to 10th in Washington State, tickets are available for sale.
• NodeConf EU September 6th-9th, Waterford, Ireland, tickets available for sale.