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diff --git a/doc/v0.4_announcement.html b/doc/v0.4_announcement.html deleted file mode 100644 index 7d68376bc..000000000 --- a/doc/v0.4_announcement.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,98 +0,0 @@ -<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> -<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> - <head> - <style type="text/css"> - ul { - padding: 0; - margin: 0; - } - </style> - <link type="image/x-icon" rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" /> - <link type="image/x-icon" rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" /> - <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="pipe.css" /> - <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> - <title>node v0.4 announcement</title> - </head> - <body> - <h2>Second Stable Branch of Node released</h2> - - <p> - <a - href="https://github.com/ry/node/wiki/Migrating-from-v0.2-to-v0.3">Wiki - page detailing API changes between v0.4 and v0.2</a> - - <p> - Major changes since v0.2: - - <ul> - <li> Major overhaul of TLS/SSL system. Previously the binding to - OpenSSL was heavily interwoven into the socket code. This binding was - reworked to present each connection as a pair of "streams" instead: a - duplex encrypted stream and a duplex cleartext stream. The encrypted - stream is piped to a raw TCP socket using the general purpose - <code>Stream.prototype.pipe()</code> method. Functionality was - enhanced and API simplified. - - <li>Simpler HTTP client API with connection pools. - - <li> Cheaper <code>Buffer</code> allocation. Node uses - <code>Buffer</code> objects in many places - it was noticed that they - were relatively slow to allocate and difficult to garbage collect. The - implementation changed to use pure javascript objects instead of - an <code>ObjectWrap</code> which improved performance. - - <li> With a good amount of experience now, some modifications to the - module loading system were made to better support package managers. - In particular, npm was forced to resort to deep symlinks and "shim" - modules to work around missing features in <code>require()</code>. The main - changes are: - <ol> - <li><code>require()</code> calls realpath. That is, - it resolves symbolic links. This allows symlinked modules to make - relative requires. - - <li><code>require()</code> now has a primitive understanding of - <code>package.json</code>. It looks for the <code>main</code> - script. This allows <code>require()</code> to work on package - directories directly. - - <li>A specially named directory, <code>node_modules/</code>, is - searched in the current directory for any modules. This will - hopefully encourage programmers to bundle modules rather than - rely on a global namespace. - </ol> - Read more about these features in <a - href="https://github.com/ry/node/blob/01a864a29d64119054401784cd9255c3a813bdbc/doc/api/modules.markdown">the - module documentation</a>. - - <li> A half-complete but good start a native windows build with MinGW - is underway by Bert Builder. Build instructions can be found <a - href="https://github.com/ry/node/wiki/Building-node.js-on-mingw">on - the wiki</a>. - - <li> Node upgraded to the latest version of V8, <code>v3.1.2</code>. - This includes much work including V8's new compilation infrastructure - and a GDB plugin on Linux. - Read <a - href="https://github.com/ry/node/blob/583f2e599962f2664dbaafa0ae98a8d6c1242441/deps/v8/ChangeLog">the - full V8 ChangeLog</a>. - - <li>A new built-in client for V8's debugger was added to Node. It is - still very primitive but usable for simple task. There is a <a - href="http://vimeo.com/19465332">small introduction video</a> and - some <a - href="https://github.com/ry/node/blob/01a864a29d64119054401784cd9255c3a813bdbc/doc/api/debugger.markdown">documentation</a>. - - <li>An <code>os</code> module was added by Brian White which exposes - a lot of basic but useful system information: <code>os.cpus(), - os.freemem(), os.totalmem(), os.loadavg()</code> - - <li> And, of course, many of bug fixes. See the - <a - href="https://github.com/ry/node/blob/01a864a29d64119054401784cd9255c3a813bdbc/ChangeLog">full - changelog</a>. - - </ul> - - </body> -</html> |