Weekly Update - Mar 13th, 2015

Julian Duque (julianduque) & Yosuke Furukawa (yosuke-furukawa)

io.js 1.5.1 Release

On Monday, March 9th, @rvagg released io.js v1.5.1. The complete change log can be found on GitHub.

tls: The reported TLS memory leak has been resolved via various commits in this release. Current testing indicated that there may still be some leak problems. Track complete progress at #1075.
http: Fixed an error reported at joyent/node#9348 and npm/npm#7349. Pending data was not being fully read upon an 'error' event leading to an assertion failure on socket.destroy(). (Fedor Indutny) #1103

Possible remaining TLS-related memory leak(s), details at #1075.
Windows still reports some minor test failures and we are continuing to address all of these as a priority. See #1005.
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

Tony Pujals gave the io.js roadmap presentation to BayNode. The video was posted to vimeo on March 9. Slides are available for anyone to give at their local meetup.
Johan Bergström is working on getting a patch into V8 on behalf of io.js to bring Solaris support back into the latest version
NodeUp Episode 84 it's io.js update #1 with Mikeal Rogers, Trevor Norris and Bradley Meck
Mikeal Rogers was interviewed for Descriptive podcast on an episoded called We've Never Had This Many Active Contributors to Core Before
Mark Wolfe gave a talk about io.js at @melbjs meetup, slides are published here
dockeri.co now runs on io.js, you can see the announcement here
Node.js Advisory Board are talking about the io.js/Node.js reconciliation proposal, you can check the meeting minutes here

NodeConf tickets are on sale, June 8th and 9th at Oakland, CA and NodeConf Adventure for June 11th - 14th at Walker Creek Ranch, CA
CascadiaJS tickets are on sale, July 8th - 10th at Washington State
NodeConf EU tickets are on sale, September 6th - 9th at Waterford, Ireland