Node.js version 0.7.9 (unstable)

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 #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)

Source Code: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.9/node-v0.7.9.tar.gz

Windows Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.9/node-v0.7.9.msi

Windows x64 Files: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.9/x64/

Macintosh Installer (Universal): https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.9/node-v0.7.9.pkg

Other release files: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.9/

Website: https://nodejs.org/docs/v0.7.9/

Documentation: https://nodejs.org/docs/v0.7.9/api/