Node 0.4
The second stable branch of Node, 0.4, has been announced. The 0.4 announcement has an overview of the changes, and there’s a GitHub Node wiki page about migrating from 0.2 to 0.4.
A lot of the changes are relatively low-level. However, libraries and frameworks like Express may require updating. From what I’ve learned by watching the 0.3 changes on the nodejs Google Group, it sounds like the 0.4 changes are positive — a cleaner HTTP client API, better HTTPS support, and a more efficient Buffer.
It’s also interesting to see npm mentioned in the release announcement:
In particular, NPM was forced to resort to deep symlinks and “shim” modules to work around missing features in
require().
These changes include require() awareness of package.json, and the relative path node_modules/ being searched for modules. This will make it very easy to bundle modules with apps, potentially simplifying deployment and distribution.
You may also be interested in reading the pertinent V8 change log.
