Planning for v6 · Issue #5766 · nodejs/node (original) (raw)

@nodejs/ctc @nodejs/lts - It's almost time to begin preparing the v6 release. What schedule do we want to target? I volunteer to do the actual release.

A quick run on changelog-maker looking at all semver-major changes since v5.0.0 was cut shows 48 semver-major commits:

• [85ab4a5] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) buffer: add .from(), .alloc() and .allocUnsafe() (James M Snell) buffer: add Buffer.from(), Buffer.alloc() and Buffer.allocUnsafe(), soft-deprecate Buffer(num) #4682
• [2c55cc2] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) buffer: remove deprecated Buffer.write branch (dcposch@dcpos.ch) Remove deprecated Buffer.write(...) #5048
• [101bca9] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) buffer: remove deprecated buffer.get/.set methods (Feross Aboukhadijeh) Remove deprecated buffer.get / buffer.set methods #4594
• [3b27dd5] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) buffer: throw if both length and enc are passed (Mathias Buus) buffer: throw if both length and enc are passed #4514
• [90a5fc2] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) build: remove lint/dotfiles from release tarball (Johan Bergström) Reduce tarball size, v2 #5695
• [66f4586] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) cluster: emit worker as first 'message' event arg (Ben Noordhuis) cluster: emit worker as first 'message' event arg #5361
• [a5cce79] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) console: delete timers that have ended (Vladimir Varankin) console: prevent internal timers storage from growing #3562
• [a37401e] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) crypto: simplify Certificate class bindings (Alexander Makarenko) crypto: simplify Certificate class bindings #5382
• [7c48cb5] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) crypto: Improve control of FIPS mode (Stefan Budeanu) crypto: Improve control of FIPS mode #5181
• [a116358] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) crypto: pbkdf2 deprecate digest overload. (Tom Gallacher) crypto: pbkdf.js deprecate digest overload. #4047
• [b010c87] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) crypto, string_bytes: treat buffer str as utf8 (Fedor Indutny) crypto, string_bytes: treat buffer str as utf8 #5522
• [dbdbdd4] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) dns: add resolvePtr to query plain DNS PTR records (Daniel Turing) Support resolving plain DNS PTR records #4921
• [c4ab861] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) dns: add failure test for dns.resolveXXX (Daniel Turing) Support resolving plain DNS PTR records #4921
• [f3be421] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) dns: coerce port to number in lookupService (Evan Lucas) dns: coerce port to number in lookupService #4883
• [d829028] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) doc: document deprecation of util._extend (Benjamin Gruenbaum) doc: document deprecation of util._extend #4903
• [90204cc] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) domains: clear stack when no error handler (Julien Gilli) domain: fix clearing domains stack #4659
• [8bb60e3] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) fs: improve error message for invalid flag (James M Snell) fs: improve error message for invalid flag #5590
• [1d79787] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) fs: add a temporary fix for re-evaluation support (Сковорода Никита Андреевич) fs: add a temporary fix for re-evaluation support #5102
• [1124de2] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) fs: deprecate fs.read's string interface (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) fs: deprecate fs.read's string interface #4525
• [2b15e68] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) fs: fs.read into zero buffer should not throw exception (Feross Aboukhadijeh) fs.read into zero buffer should not throw exception #4518
• [8b97249] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) fs: fix the error report on fs.link(Sync) (yorkie) fs: fix the error report on fs.link(Sync) #3917
• [d01eb68] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) lib: add 'pid' prefix in internal/util (Minwoo Jung) lib: add 'pid' prefix in internal/util #3878
• [20285ad] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) lib: Consistent error messages in all modules (micnic) Consistent error messages in all modules #3374
• [94b9948] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) lib,src: ensure '(node:pid)' prefix for stdout logging (Minwoo Jung) lib,src: Ensure '(node:pid)' prefix for stdout logging #3833
• [b70dc67] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) lib,test: remove publicly exposed freelist (cjihrig) lib,test: remove publicly exposed freelist #3738
• [71470a8] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) module: pass v8::Object to linked module initialization function (Phillip Kovalev) module: pass v8::Object to linked module initialization function #4771
• [18490d3] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) module: always decorate thrown errors (Brian White) module: always decorate thrown errors #4287
• [a78b334] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) net: type check createServer options object (Sam Roberts) net: type check createServer options object #2904
• [25751be] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) node: deprecate process.EventEmitter (Evan Lucas) node: deprecate process.EventEmitter #5049
• [d1000b4] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) path: make format() consistent and more functional (Nathan Woltman) path: make format() consistent and more functional #2408
• [72e3dd9] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) process: throw on non-function to nextTick() (yorkie) process: nextTick should not be handled lazily #3860
• [ca2e8b2] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) readline: deprecate undocumented exports (cjihrig) readline: deprecate undocumented exports #3862
• [5700352] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) src: attach error to stack on displayErrors (cjihrig) src: attach error to stack on displayErrors #4874
• [bfb2cd0] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) stream: add bytesRead property for readable (Jackson Tian) stream: add bytesRead property for readable #4372
• [cc0342a] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) streams: update .readable/.writable to false (Brian White) streams: update .readable/.writable to false #4083
• [5f76b24] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) http: overridable clientError (Fedor Indutny) Make clientError overridable #4557
• [a5aa7c1] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) test: expand test case for unknown file open flags (James M Snell) fs: improve error message for invalid flag #5590
• [2c33819] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) test: fix tests that check error messages (cjihrig) test: fix tests that check error messages #3727
• [ac153bd] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) timers: fail early when callback is not a function (Anna Henningsen) timers: Fail early when callback is not a function #4362
• [1ab6b21] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) tls: rename clientError to tlsClientError (Fedor Indutny) Make clientError overridable #4557
• [df268f9] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) tls: use SHA1 for sessionIdContext (Stefan Budeanu) tls: Use SHA1 for sessionIdContext #3866
• [a2c0aa8] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) tty: Remove deprecated setRawMode wrapper (Wyatt Preul) tty: Remove deprecated setRawMode wrapper #2528
• [e2f47f5] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) util: Change how Error objects are formatted (Mudit Ameta) util: Change how Error objects are formatted #4582
• [93d6b5f] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) util: use consistent Dates in inspect() (Xotic750) util,test: Use consistent Date representation for util/inspect #4318
• [24012a8] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) util: make inspect more reliable (Evan Lucas) util: make inspect more reliable #4098
• [007cfea] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) util: remove pump (Wyatt Preul) util: Remove pump #2531
• [4cf19ad] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) util: Remove exec, has been deprecated for years (Wyatt Preul) util: Remove exec, has been deprecated for years #2530
• [34a3591] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) util: improve typed array formatting (Ben Noordhuis) util: improve typed array formatting #3793

This, of course, does not include the v8 updates.

(BTW, According to changelog-maker, there have been around 1023 commits in master since v5.0.0 was tagged.)