Notable Changes:

* build: Support for building io.js as a static library (Marat Abdullin) #1341
* deps: upgrade openssl to 1.0.2a (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1389
* npm: Upgrade npm to 2.8.3. (Forrest L Norvell) #1448
* src: allow multiple arguments to be passed to process.nextTick (Trevor Norris) #1077
* module: interaction of require('.') with NODE_PATH has been restored and deprecated.
  This functionality will be removed at a later point. (Roman Reiss) #1363

Notable changes:

* build: A syntax error in the Makefile for release builds caused
  1.7.0 to be DOA and unreleased. (Rod Vagg) #1421

Notable changes:

* C++ API: Fedor Indutny contributed a feature to V8 which has been
  backported to the V8 bundled in io.js. SealHandleScope allows a C++
  add-on author to seal a HandleScope to prevent further, unintended
  allocations within it. Currently only enabled for debug builds of
  io.js. This feature helped detect the leak in #1075 and is now
  activated on the root HandleScope in io.js. (Fedor Indutny) #1395.
* ARM: This release includes significant work to improve the state of
  ARM support for builds and tests. The io.js CI cluster's ARMv6,
  ARMv7 and ARMv8 build servers are now all (mostly) reporting passing
  builds and tests.
  - ARMv8 64-bit (AARCH64) is now properly supported, including a
    backported fix in libuv that was mistakenly detecting the
    existence of `epoll_wait()`. (Ben Noordhuis) #1365.
  - ARMv6: #1376 reported a problem with Math.exp() on ARMv6 (incl
    Raspberry Pi). The culprit is erroneous codegen for ARMv6 when
    using the "fast math" feature of V8. --nofast_math has been turned
    on for all ARMv6 variants by default to avoid this, fast math can
    be turned back on with --fast_math. (Ben Noordhuis) #1398.
  - Tests: timeouts have been tuned specifically for slower platforms,
    detected as ARMv6 and ARMv7. (Roman Reiss) #1366.
* npm: Upgrade npm to 2.7.6. See the release notes
  (https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.7.6) for details.

Notable changes:

* npm: upgrade npm to 2.7.5. See the npm CHANGELOG.md for details.
Includes two important security fixes.
https://github.com/npm/npm/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v275-2015-03-26
* openssl: preliminary work has been done for an upcoming upgrade to
OpenSSL 1.0.2a #1325 (Shigeki Ohtsu). See #589 for additional details.
* timers: a minor memory leak when timers are unreferenced was fixed,
alongside some related timers issues #1330 (Fedor Indutny). This
appears to have fixed the remaining leak reported in #1075.
* android: it is now possible to compile io.js for Android and related
devices #1307 (Giovanny Andres Gongora Granada).

Notable changes:

 * fs: corruption can be caused by fs.writeFileSync() and append-mode
   fs.writeFile() and fs.writeFileSync() under certain circumstances,
   reported in #1058, fixed in #1063 (Olov Lassus).
 * iojs: an "internal modules" API has been introduced to allow core
   code to share JavaScript modules internally only without having to
   expose them as a public API, this feature is for core-only #848
   (Vladimir Kurchatkin).
 * timers: two minor problems with timers have been fixed:
   - Timer#close() is now properly idempotent #1288 (Petka Antonov).
   - setTimeout() will only run the callback once now after an
     unref() during the callback #1231 (Roman Reiss).
 * Windows: a "delay-load hook" has been added for compiled add-ons
   on Windows that should alleviate some of the problems that Windows
   users may be experiencing with add-ons in io.js #1251
   (Bert Belder).
 * V8: minor bug-fix upgrade for V8 to 4.1.0.27.
 * npm: upgrade npm to 2.7.4. See npm CHANGELOG.md for details.