Node.js 7.0.0 has been released. Meet async / await without babel

The 7th note has become yellow, cheers! What's new:

• The V8 engine has been updated to version 5.4.500.36, which provides support for 98% of the JavaScript features defined in the ES2015 specification (ES6) and, in part, the future ES2017 standard.
• A new URL parser complies with the URL design standard prepared by the WHATWG community.
• Improved work with Buffer, Child Process, Cluster, file system, promises
• Full list of changes

This is a long-awaited release for me, as it became possible to use the async / await construct without the babel transpiler. This is all turned on by the key --harmony .

Now you can without babel like this:

(async function() {
    let content = await require("request-promise")
                       .get("http://example.com/");
    console.log(content);
})()

A week ago, the Node.js 6.x branch received LTS status, updates for which will be released within 30 months. The release of Node.js 8 is scheduled for April 2017.

I collected the 7th node for

• CentOS 7
• Fedora 24