Node.js 0.5.5

2011.08.26, Version 0.5.5 (unstable)

• typed arrays, implementation from Plesk
• fix IP multicast on SmartOS
• fix DNS lookup order: IPv4 first, IPv6 second (--use-uv only)
• remove support for UNIX datagram sockets (--use-uv only)
• UDP support for Windows (Bert Belder)
• #1572 improve tab completion for objects in the REPL (Nathan Rajlich)
• #1563 fix buffer overflow in child_process module (reported by Dean McNamee)
• #1546 fix performance regression in http module (reported by Brian Geffon)
• #1491 add PBKDF2 crypto support (Glen Low)
• #1447 remove deprecated http.cat() function (Mikeal Rogers)
• #1140 fix incorrect dispatch of vm.runInContext's filename argument (Antranig Basman)
• #1140 document vm.runInContext() and vm.createContext() (Antranig Basman)
• #1428 fix os.freemem() on 64 bits freebsd (Artem Zaytsev)
• #1164 make all DNS lookups async, fixes uncatchable exceptions (Koichi Kobayashi)
• fix incorrect ssl shutdown check (Tom Hughes)
• various cmake fixes (Tom Hughes)
• improved documentation (Koichi Kobayashi, Logan Smyth, Fedor Indutny, Mikeal Rogers, Maciej Małecki, Antranig Basman, Mickaël Delahaye)
• upgrade libuv to commit 835782a
• upgrade V8 to 3.5.8

Download: https://nodejs.org/dist/node-v0.5.5.tar.gz

Windows Executable: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.5.5/node.exe

Website: https://nodejs.org/docs/v0.5.5/

Documentation: https://nodejs.org/docs/v0.5.5/api/

Update: The .exe has a bug that results in incompatibility with Windows XP and Server 2003. This has been reported in issue #1592 and fixed. A new binary was made that is compatible with the older Windows: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.5.5/node-186364e.exe.