possible, node manual pages are moved once again back under npm
searcheable locations only.
- versioned.patch: All files are now under versioned directoies
and names. node and npm symlinks are now managed by
update-alternatives
- node-gyp-addon-gypi.patch: Reference versioned directories only
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/devel:languages:nodejs/nodejs8?expand=0&rev=10
upstream branch. Note that the LTS lifespan for 8.x will end on
December 31st, 2019 unless extended at a later date.
- New upstream version 8.0.0. Notable changes
* Async Hooks - now in core
* Buffer
+ Using the --pending-deprecation flag will cause Node.js to
emit a deprecation warning when using new Buffer(num) or
Buffer(num).
+ new Buffer(num) and Buffer(num) will zero-fill new Buffer
+ Many Buffer methods now accept Uint8Array as input
* Child Process
+ Argument and kill signal validations have been improved
+ Child Process methods accept Uint8Array as input
* Console
+ Error events emitted when using console methods are now
supressed.
* Dependencies
+ The npm client has been updated to 5.0.0
+ V8 has been updated to 5.8 with forward ABI stability to 6.0
* Domains
+ Native Promise instances are now Domain aware
* Errors
+ We have started assigning static error codes to errors
generated by Node.js. This has been done through multiple
commits and is still a work in progress.
* File System
+ The utility class fs.SyncWriteStream has been deprecated
+ The deprecated fs.read() string interface has been removed
* HTTP
+ Improved support for userland implemented Agents
+ Outgoing Cookie headers are concatenated into a single string
+ The httpResponse.writeHeader() method has been deprecated
+ New methods for accessing HTTP headers have been added to
OutgoingMessage
* lib
+ All deprecation messages have been assigned static identifiers
+ The legacy linkedlist module has been removed
* N-API
+ Experimental support for the new N-API API has been added
* Process
+ Process warning output can be redirected to a file using the
--redirect-warnings command-line argument
+ Process warnings may now include additional detail
* REPL
+ REPL magic mode has been deprecated
* src
+ NODE_MODULE_VERSION has been updated to 57
+ Add --pending-deprecation command-line argument and
NODE_PENDING_DEPRECATION environment variable
+ The --debug command-line argument has been deprecated.
Note that using --debug will enable the new Inspector-based
debug protocol as the legacy Debugger protocol previously
used by Node.js has been removed.
+ Throw when the -c and -e command-line arguments are used
at the same time
+ Throw when the --use-bundled-ca and --use-openssl-ca
command-line arguments are used at the same time.
* Stream
+ Stream now supports destroy() and _destroy() APIs
+ Stream now supports the _final() API
* TLS
+ The rejectUnauthorized option now defaults to true
+ The tls.createSecurePair() API now emits runtime deprecation
+ A runtime deprecation will now be emitted when dhparam is
less than 2048 bits
* URL
+ The WHATWG URL implementation is now a fully-supported API
* Util
+ Symbol keys are now displayed by default when using
util.inspect()
+ toJSON errors will be thrown when formatting %j
+ Convert inspect.styles and inspect.colors to prototype-less
objects
+ The new util.promisify() API has been added
* Zlib
+ Support Uint8Array in Zlib convenience methods
+ Zlib errors now use RangeError and TypeError consistently
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/devel:languages:nodejs/nodejs8?expand=0&rev=1
