version: 0.7.8
title: Version 0.7.8 (unstable)
author: Isaac Schlueter
date: Wed Apr 18 2012 10:39:02 GMT-0700 (PDT)
status: publish
category: release
slug: version-0-7-8-unstable

<p>2012.04.18, Version 0.7.8, (unstable)

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<ul>
<li><p>Upgrade V8 to 3.9.24.9</p>
</li>
<li><p>Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.0f</p>
</li>
<li><p>Upgrade npm to 1.1.18</p>
</li>
<li><p>Show licenses in Binary installers</p>
</li>
<li><p>Domains (isaacs)</p>
</li>
<li><p>readline: rename &quot;end&quot; to &quot;close&quot; (Nathan Rajlich)</p>
</li>
<li><p>tcp: make getsockname() return address family as string (Shigeki Ohtsu)</p>
</li>
<li><p>http, https: fix .setTimeout() (ssuda)</p>
</li>
<li><p>os: add cross platform EOL character (Mustansir Golawala)</p>
</li>
<li><p>typed arrays: unexport SizeOfArrayElementForType() (Aaron Jacobs)</p>
</li>
<li><p>net: honor &#39;enable&#39; flag in .setNoDelay() (Ben Noordhuis)</p>
</li>
<li><p>child_process: emit error when .kill fails (Andreas Madsen)</p>
</li>
<li><p>gyp: fix &#39;argument list too long&#39; build error (Ben Noordhuis)</p>
</li>
<li><p>fs.WriteStream: Handle modifications to fs.open (isaacs)</p>
</li>
<li><p>repl, readline: Handle newlines better (Nathan Rajlich, Nathan Friedly)</p>
</li>
<li><p>build: target OSX 10.5 when building on darwin (Nathan Rajlich)</p>
</li>
<li><p>Fix #3052 Handle errors properly in zlib (isaacs)</p>
</li>
<li><p>build: add support for DTrace and postmortem (Dave Pacheco)</p>
</li>
<li><p>core: add reusable Slab allocator (Ben Noordhuis)</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Source Code: <a href="http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.8/node-v0.7.8.tar.gz">http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.8/node-v0.7.8.tar.gz</a>

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<p>Windows Installer: <a href="http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.8/node-v0.7.8.msi">http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.8/node-v0.7.8.msi</a>

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<p>Windows x64 Files: <a href="http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.8/x64/">http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.8/x64/</a>

</p>
<p>Macintosh Installer (Universal): <a href="http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.8/node-v0.7.8.pkg">http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.8/node-v0.7.8.pkg</a>

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<p>Other release files: <a href="http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.8/">http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.8/</a>

</p>
<p>Website: <a href="http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.7.8/">http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.7.8/</a>

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<p>Documentation: <a href="http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.7.8/api/">http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.7.8/api/</a>
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