Weekly Update - Jan 1st, 2016

by Minwoo Jung (@jmwsoft), 2016-01-01

Node.js News — January 1st

Node.js Node v4.2.4 (LTS) is released

Node.js Node v4.2.4 (LTS) Releases

This week we have one release: Node.js Node v4.2.4 (LTS). Complete changelog from previous releases can be found on GitHub.

Notable changes

Node.js v4.2.4 is a Long Term Support Maintenance Update. There are a number of fixes and documentation updates.

Roughly 78% of the commits are documentation and test improvements
domains:
- Fix handling of uncaught exceptions (Julien Gilli) #3884
deps:
- Upgrade to npm 2.14.12 (Kat Marchán) #4110
- Backport 819b40a from V8 upstream (Michaël Zasso) #3938
- Updated node LICENSE file with new npm license (Kat Marchán) #4110

Community Updates

History of Node.js on a Timeline, "This is the history of Node.js on a timeline, from 2009 until now (December 2015)"
What the web platform can learn from Node.js, "Evolving the platform"

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