Node.js 0.4.8

Ryan Dahl

2011.05.20, Version 0.4.8 (stable)

#974 Properly report traceless errors (isaacs)
#983 Better JSON.parse error detection in REPL (isaacs)
#836 Agent socket errors bubble up to req only if req exists
#1041 Fix event listener leak check timing (koichik)
#1038 Fix dns.resolve() with 'PTR' throws Error: Unknown type "PTR" (koichik)
#1073 Share SSL context between server connections (Fedor Indutny)
Disable compression with OpenSSL. Improves memory perf.
Implement os.totalmem() and os.freemem() for SmartOS (Alexandre Marangone)
Fix a special characters in URL regression (isaacs)
Fix idle timeouts in HTTPS (Felix Geisendörfer)
SlowBuffer.write() with 'ucs2' throws ReferenceError. (koichik)
http.ServerRequest 'close' sometimes gets an error argument (Felix Geisendörfer)
Doc improvements
cleartextstream.destroy() should close(2) the socket. Previously was being mapped to a shutdown(2) syscall.
No longer compile out asserts and debug statements in normal build.
Debugger improvements.
Upgrade V8 to 3.1.8.16.