Node v8.0.0 Released

Re:Node v8.0.0 Released by Etzos on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @03:34PM (#14447870)

Async/await support (without the --harmony flag) was made default in version 7.6 when they updated V8 to version 5.5.

The biggest additions here with regard to async/await is the new promisify util and the async_hooks.

Edit: Changed wording and included more detail.

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Re:Node v8.0.0 Released by nailer on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @03:43PM (#14447935)

Of course, but most people don't run non-LTS node releases :-)

Edit: originally wrote 'unstable'. Meant 'non-LTS'

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Re:Node v8.0.0 Released by Etzos on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @03:49PM (#14447991)

The 7.6 release was no more unstable than the 8.0 release. Unless you're referring to the fact that 8.0 is going to be a LTS release. But if that's the case, it's not happening for a while yet, 6.10 is still the current LTS version.

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Re:Node v8.0.0 Released by nailer on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @03:53PM (#14448022)

You're right, corrected.

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Re:Node v8.0.0 Released by SparkyMcUnicorn on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @03:48PM (#14447980)

Node 7.6 is a stable release. Are you talking about LTS?

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Re:Node v8.0.0 Released by NoInkling on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @02:24AM (#14450729)

And some performance improvements. And the fact that there are more to come when they upgrade to V8 5.9 soonish.

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