2012.07.10 Version 0.6.20 (maintenance)

* npm: Upgrade to 1.1.37 (isaacs)

* benchmark: Backport improvements made in master (isaacs)

* build: always link with -lz (Trent Mick)

* core: use proper #include directives (Ben Noordhuis)

* cluster: don't silently drop messages when the write queue gets big (Bert Belder)

* windows: don't print error when GetConsoleTitleW returns an empty string (Bert Belder)

2012.07.09, Version 0.8.2 (Stable)

* npm: Upgrade to 1.1.36

* readline: don't use Function#call() (Nathan Rajlich)

* Code cleanup to pass 'use strict' (Jonas Westerlund)

* module: add filename to require() json errors (TJ Holowaychuk)

* readline: fix for unicode prompts (Tim Macfarlane)

* timers: fix handling of large timeouts (Ben Noordhuis)

* repl: fix passing an empty line inserting "undefined" into the buffer (Nathan Rajlich)

* repl: fix crashes when buffering command (Maciej Małecki)

* build: rename strict_aliasing to node_no_strict_aliasing (Ben Noordhuis)

* build: disable -fstrict-aliasing for any gcc < 4.6.0 (Ben Noordhuis)

* build: detect cc version with -dumpversion (Ben Noordhuis)

* build: handle output of localized gcc or clang (Ben Noordhuis)

* unix: fix memory corruption in freebsd.c (Ben Noordhuis)

* unix: fix 'zero handles, one request' busy loop (Ben Noordhuis)

* unix: fix busy loop on unexpected tcp message (Ben Noordhuis)

* unix: fix EINPROGRESS busy loop (Ben Noordhuis)

* V8: upgrade to v3.11.10.12

* npm: upgrade to v1.1.33
  - Support for parallel use of the cache folder
  - Retry on registry timeouts or network failures (Trent Mick)
  - Reduce 'engines' failures to a warning
  - Use new zsh completion if aviailable (Jeremy Cantrell)

* Fix nodejs#3577 Un-break require('sys')

* util: speed up formatting of large arrays/objects (Ben Noordhuis)

* windows: make fs.realpath(Sync) work with UNC paths (Bert Belder)

* build: fix --shared-v8 option (Ben Noordhuis)

* doc: `detached` is a boolean (Andreas Madsen)

* build: use proper python interpreter (Ben Noordhuis)

* build: expand ~ in `./configure --prefix=~/a/b/c` (Ben Noordhuis)

* build: handle CC env var with spaces (Gabriel de Perthuis)

* build: fix V8 build when compiling with gcc 4.5 (Ben Noordhuis)

* build: fix --shared-v8 option (Ben Noordhuis)

* windows msi: Fix icon issue which caused huge file size (Bert Belder)

* unix: assume that dlopen() may clobber dlerror() (Ben Noordhuis)

* sunos: fix memory corruption bugs (Ben Noordhuis)

* windows: better (f)utimes and (f)stat (Bert Belder)

2012.06.25, Version 0.8.0 (stable)

* V8: upgrade to v3.11.10.10

* npm: Upgrade to 1.1.32

* Deprecate iowatcher (Ben Noordhuis)

* windows: update icon (Bert Belder)

* http: Hush 'MUST NOT have a body' warnings to debug() (isaacs)

* Move blog.nodejs.org content into repository (isaacs)

* Fix nodejs#3503: stdin: resume() on pipe(dest) (isaacs)

* crypto: fix error reporting in SetKey() (Fedor Indutny)

* Add --no-deprecation and --trace-deprecation command-line flags (isaacs)

* fs: fix fs.watchFile() (Ben Noordhuis)

* fs: Fix fs.readfile() on pipes (isaacs)

* Rename GYP variable node_use_system_openssl to be consistent (Ryan Dahl)

2012.06.19, Version 0.7.12 (unstable)

* npm: Upgrade to 1.1.30
- Improved 'npm init'
- Fix the 'cb never called' error from 'oudated' and 'update'
- Add --save-bundle|-B config
- Fix isaacs/npm#2465: Make npm script and windows shims cygwin-aware
- Fix isaacs/npm#2452 Use --save(-dev|-optional) in npm rm
- `logstream` option to replace removed `logfd` (Rod Vagg)
- Read default descriptions from README.md files

* Shims to support deprecated ev_* and eio_* methods (Ben Noordhuis)

* nodejs#3118 net.Socket: Delay pause/resume until after connect (isaacs)

* nodejs#3465 Add ./configure --no-ifaddrs flag (isaacs)

* child_process: add .stdin stream to forks (Fedor Indutny)

* build: fix `make install DESTDIR=/path` (Ben Noordhuis)

* tls: fix off-by-one error in renegotiation check (Ben Noordhuis)

* crypto: Fix diffie-hellman key generation UTF-8 errors (Fedor Indutny)

* node: change the constructor name of process from EventEmitter to process (Andreas Madsen)

* net: Prevent property access throws during close (Reid Burke)

* querystring: improved speed and code cleanup (Felix Böhm)

* sunos: fix assertion errors breaking fs.watch() (Fedor Indutny)

* unix: stat: detect sub-second changes (Ben Noordhuis)

* add stat() based file watcher (Ben Noordhuis)

2012.06.15, Version 0.7.11 (unstable)

* V8: Upgrade to v3.11.10

* npm: Upgrade to 1.1.26

* doc: Improve cross-linking in API docs markdown (Ben Kelly)

* Fix nodejs#3425: removeAllListeners should delete array (Reid Burke)

* cluster: don't silently drop messages when the write queue gets big (Bert Belder)

* Add Buffer.concat method (isaacs)

* windows: make symlinks tolerant to forward slashes (Bert Belder)

* build: Add node.d and node.1 to installer (isaacs)

* cluster: rename worker.unqiueID to worker.id (Andreas Madsen)

* Windows: Enable ETW events on Windows for existing DTrace probes. (Igor Zinkovsky)

* test: bundle node-weak in test/gc so that it doesn't need to be downloaded (Nathan Rajlich)

* Make many tests pass on Windows (Bert Belder)

* Fix nodejs#3388 Support listening on file descriptors (isaacs)

* Fix nodejs#3407 Add os.tmpDir() (isaacs)

* Unbreak the snapshotted build on Windows (Bert Belder)

* Clean up child_process.kill throws (Bert Belder)

* crypto: make cipher/decipher accept buffer args (Ben Noordhuis)

2012.06.11, Version 0.7.10 (unstable)

* Roll V8 back to 3.9.24.31

* build: x64 target should always pass -m64 (Robert Mustacchi)

* add NODE_EXTERN to node::Start (Joel Brandt)

* repl: Warn about running npm commands (isaacs)

* slab_allocator: fix crash in dtor if V8 is dead (Ben Noordhuis)

* slab_allocator: fix leak of Persistent handles (Shigeki Ohtsu)

* windows/msi: add node.js prompt to startmenu (Jeroen Janssen)

* windows/msi: fix adding node to PATH (Jeroen Janssen)

* windows/msi: add start menu links when installing (Jeroen Janssen)

* windows: don't install x64 version into the 'program files (x86)' folder (Matt Gollob)

* domain: Fix nodejs#3379 domain.intercept no longer passes error arg to cb (Marc Harter)

* fs: make callbacks run in global context (Ben Noordhuis)

* fs: enable fs.realpath on windows (isaacs)

* child_process: expose UV_PROCESS_DETACHED as options.detached (Charlie McConnell)

* child_process: new stdio API for .spawn() method (Fedor Indutny)

* child_process: spawn().ref() and spawn().unref() (Fedor Indutny)

* Upgrade npm to 1.1.25
- Enable npm link on windows
- Properly remove sh-shim on Windows
- Abstract out registry client and logger

2012.06.11, Version 0.7.10 (unstable)

* Roll V8 back to 3.9.24.31

* build: x64 target should always pass -m64 (Robert Mustacchi)

* add NODE_EXTERN to node::Start (Joel Brandt)

* repl: Warn about running npm commands (isaacs)

* slab_allocator: fix crash in dtor if V8 is dead (Ben Noordhuis)

* slab_allocator: fix leak of Persistent handles (Shigeki Ohtsu)

* windows/msi: add node.js prompt to startmenu (Jeroen Janssen)

* windows/msi: fix adding node to PATH (Jeroen Janssen)

* windows/msi: add start menu links when installing (Jeroen Janssen)

* windows: don't install x64 version into the 'program files (x86)' folder (Matt Gollob)

* domain: Fix nodejs#3379 domain.intercept no longer passes error arg to cb (Marc Harter)

* fs: make callbacks run in global context (Ben Noordhuis)

* fs: enable fs.realpath on windows (isaacs)

* child_process: expose UV_PROCESS_DETACHED as options.detached (Charlie McConnell)

* child_process: new stdio API for .spawn() method (Fedor Indutny)

* child_process: spawn().ref() and spawn().unref() (Fedor Indutny)

* Upgrade npm to 1.1.25
- Enable npm link on windows
- Properly remove sh-shim on Windows
- Abstract out registry client and logger

2012.06.06 Version 0.6.19 (stable)

* npm: upgrade to 1.1.24

* fs: no end emit after createReadStream.pause() (Andreas Madsen)

* vm: cleanup module memory leakage (Marcel Laverdet)

* unix: fix loop starvation under high network load (Ben Noordhuis)

* unix: remove abort() in ev_unref() (Ben Noordhuis)

* windows/tty: never report error after forcibly aborting line-buffered read (Bert Belder)

* windows: skip GetFileAttributes call when opening a file (Bert Belder)

2012.05.28, Version 0.7.9 (unstable)

* Upgrade V8 to 3.11.1

* Upgrade npm to 1.1.23

* uv: rework reference counting scheme (Ben Noordhuis)

* uv: add interface for joining external event loops (Bert Belder)

* repl, readline: Handle Ctrl+Z and SIGCONT better (Nathan Rajlich)

* fs: 64bit offsets for fs calls (Igor Zinkovsky)

* fs: add sync open flags 'rs' and 'rs+' (Kevin Bowman)

* windows: enable creating directory junctions with fs.symlink (Igor Zinkovsky, Bert Belder)

* windows: fix fs.lstat to properly detect symlinks. (Igor Zinkovsky)

* Fix nodejs#3270 Escape url.parse delims (isaacs)

* http: make http.get() accept a URL (Adam Malcontenti-Wilson)

* Cleanup vm module memory leakage (Marcel Laverdet)

* Optimize writing strings with Socket.write (Bert Belder)

* add support for CESU-8 and UTF-16LE encodings (koichik)

* path: add path.sep to get the path separator. (Yi, EungJun)

* net, http: add backlog parameter to .listen() (Erik Dubbelboer)

* debugger: support mirroring Date objects (Fedor Indutny)

* addon: add AtExit() function (Ben Noordhuis)

* net: signal localAddress bind failure in connect (Brian Schroeder)

* util: handle non-string return value in .inspect() (Alex Kocharin)