version: 0.5.4
title: Node v0.5.4
author: ryandahl
date: Fri Aug 12 2011 08:38:26 GMT-0700 (PDT)
status: publish
category: release
slug: node-v0-5-4

2011.08.12, Version 0.5.4 (unstable)

<ul><li>libuv/Windows compatibility improvements

<li>Build on Microsoft Visual Studio via GYP. Use generate-projects.bat in the to build sln files. (Peter Bright, Igor Zinkovsky)

<li>Make Mikeal's HTTP agent client the default. Use old HTTP client with <code>--use-http1</code>

<li>Fixes https host header default port handling. (Mikeal Rogers)

<li>#1440 strip byte order marker when loading *.js and *.json files (Ben Noordhuis)

<li>#1434 Improve util.format() compatibility with browser. (Koichi Kobayashi)

<li>Provide unchecked uint entry points for integer Buffer.read/writeInt methods. (Robert Mustacchi)

<li>CMake improvements (Tom Huges)

<li>Upgrade V8 to 3.5.4.</ul>


Download: <a href="http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.5.4/node-v0.5.4.tar.gz">http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.5.4/node-v0.5.4.tar.gz</a>

Windows Executable: <a href="http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.5.4/node.exe">http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.5.4/node.exe</a>

Website: <a href="http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.5.4/docs">http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.5.4/docs</a>

Documentation: <a href="http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.5.4/docs/api">http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.5.4/docs/api</a>
