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title: Weekly Update - Oct 9th, 2015
author: Minwoo Jung (@jmwsoft)
date: 2015-10-09T12:00:00.000Z
status: publish
category: weekly
slug: weekly-update-2015-10-09
layout: blog-post.hbs
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### Node.js News — October 9th
Node.js v4.1.2 is released

### Node.js v4.1.2 Releases

This week we have one release: [Node.js v4.1.2](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v4.1.2/), complete changelog from previous releases can be found [on GitHub](https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md).
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Nit: Should be two sentences. (The comma should be a period.)


### Notable changes

* **http**:
- Fix out-of-order 'finish' event bug in pipelining that can abort execution, fixes DoS vulnerability [CVE-2015-7384](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3138) (Fedor Indutny) [#3128](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3128)
- Account for pending response data instead of just the data on the current request to decide whether pause the socket or not (Fedor Indutny) [#3128](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3128)
* **libuv**: Upgraded from v1.7.4 to v1.7.5, see [release notes](https://github.com/libuv/libuv/releases/tag/v1.7.5) for details (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé) [#3010](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3010)
- A better rwlock implementation for all Windows versions
- Improved AIX support
* **v8**:
- Upgraded from v4.5.103.33 to v4.5.103.35 (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) [#3117](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3117)
- Backported [f782159](https://codereview.chromium.org/1367123003) from v8's upstream to help speed up Promise introspection (Ben Noordhuis) [#3130](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3130)
- Backported [c281c15](https://codereview.chromium.org/1363683002) from v8's upstream to add JSTypedArray length in post-mortem metadata (Julien Gilli) [#3031](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3031)

### Known issues

See https://github.com/nodejs/node/labels/confirmed-bug for complete and current list of known issues.

* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1264).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
* `url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).

### Node.js Foundation Welcomes Red Hat as Newest Platinum Member

* The Node.js Foundation, a community-led and industry-backed consortium to advance the development of the Node.js platform, announced Red Hat, Inc. has joined the Foundation as a Platinum member.
* Red Hat joins platinum members, including Famous, IBM, Intel, Joyent, Microsoft and PayPal, to provide support in the adoption, development and long-term success of the Node.js project.

### Community Updates

* [StrongLoop introduces Arrow functions](https://strongloop.com/strongblog/an-introduction-to-javascript-es6-arrow-functions/), "Arrow functions serve two main purposes: more concise syntax and sharing lexical this with the parent scope."
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Nit: Instead of StrongLoop introduces Arrow functions (which makes it sound like they have a Node.js feature no one else has), go with something like StrongLoop provides "An Introduction to JavaScript ES6 Arrow Functions"


If you have spotted or written something about Node.js, do come over to our [Evangelism team repo](https://github.com/nodejs/evangelism) and suggest it on the [Issues page](https://github.com/nodejs/evangelism/issues), specifically the Weekly Updates issue.

### Upcoming Events

* [Node.js Italian Conference](http://nodejsconf.it/) tickets are on sale, October 10th at Desenzano - Brescia, Italy
* [JSConf CO](http://www.jsconf.co/), October 16th - 17th at Ruta N, Medellin, Colombia
* [EmpireNode](http://2015.empirenode.org/), October 23rd at New York, US.
* [NodeFest](http://nodefest.jp/2015/), November 7th at Stack Exchange HQ, Old St
* [Node Girls London](https://nodegirls.typeform.com/to/atW4HR), November 7th at Stack Exchange HQ, Old St
* [Nodevember](http://nodevember.org/?utm_source=io.js+and+Node.js+News&utm_medium=article), November 14th - 15th at Nashville, Tennessee, US.
* [NodeConf Barcelona](https://ti.to/barcelonajs/nodeconf-barcelona-2015), November 21st at Barcelona, Spain
* [CampJS VI](http://vi.campjs.com), November 20 – 23th at Queensland, Australia
* [Playnode](https://playnode.io), call-for-proposals, November, Korea
* [Node.js Interactive](http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/node-interactive), December 8-9 at Portland, US.

Have an event about Node.js coming up? You can put your events here through the [Evangelism team repo](https://github.com/nodejs/evangelism) and announce it in the [Issues page](https://github.com/nodejs/evangelism/issues), specifically the Weekly Updates issue.