Release proposal: v1.6.1

[rvagg]

Primarily to get #1208 sorted.

@iojs/collaborators please don't merge any semver-minor changes to v1.x until we get this out, it'll just make it more complicated.

/cc @mscdex

• [3b9eab9779] - build: make check aliases test (Johan Bergström) #1211
• [4c731042d4] - configure: use cc and c++ as defaults on os x (Ben Noordhuis) #1210
• [8de78e470d] - path: reduce type checking on some methods (cjihrig) #1216
• [c9aec2b716] - querystring: fix broken stringifyPrimitive (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #1213
• [a89f5c2156] - querystring: parse numbers correctly (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #1213
• [2034137385] - smalloc: don't mix malloc() and new char[] (Ben Noordhuis) #1205

[rvagg]

• path: iojs@1.6.0 breaks compatibility with previous versions #1215 with a fix for path.resolve(undefined) -> '.' is another candidate here

[rvagg]

2015-03-20, Version 1.6.1, @rvagg

Notable changes

• path: New type-checking on path.resolve() #1153 uncovered some edge-cases being relied upon in the wild, most notably path.dirname(undefined). Type-checking has been loosened for path.dirname(), path.basename(), and path.extname(), #1216.
• querystring: Internal optimizations in querystring.parse() and querystring.stringify() #847 prevented Number literals from being properly converted via querystring.escape() #1208, exposing a blind-spot in the test suite. The bug and the tests have now been fixed (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #1213.

Known issues

• Possible remaining TLS-related memory leak(s), details at #1075.
• Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal #690
• Not possible to build io.js as a static library #686
• process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760 and fix in #774
• Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion #894

Commits

[rvagg]

ptal at the above changelog entry @Fishrock123, @mscdex, @cjihrig.

[rvagg]

CI @ c9aec2b: https://jenkins-iojs.nodesource.com/job/iojs+any-pr+multi/349/

[mscdex]

LGTM

[cjihrig]

For the path issue, the reported problem was path.dirname(undefined), not path.resolve(undefined). Other than that, LGTM.

[Fishrock123]

Internal optimizations in querystring.parse() and querystring.stringify() #847 prevented Number literals from being properly converted via querystring.stringify() and querystring.escape() #1208, exposing a blind-spot in the test suite. The bug and the tests have now been fixed (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #1213.

My edit:

Internal optimizations in querystring.parse() and querystring.stringify() #847 prevented Number literals from being properly converted via querystring.escape() #1208, exposing a blind-spot in the test suite. The bug and the tests have now been fixed (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #1213.

Might as well not mention the stringifyPrimitive silliness in there, or we'll have to add a few more sentences. Besides, it was definitely subtly broken all along.

[rvagg]

thanks @Fishrock123 & @cjihrig, fixed

[rvagg]

CI happy, going straight to release

[rvagg]

release build @ https://jenkins-iojs.nodesource.com/job/iojs+release/47/

[rvagg]

done and released @ https://iojs.org/dist/latest/

ping @iojs/website

[Fishrock123]

Website updated: nodejs/iojs.org@0837801

[jbergstroem]

Changelog.md updates are missing for 1.6.0 and 1.6.1.

[Fishrock123]

Huh? They seem to be there: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/blob/v1.x/CHANGELOG.md