Release proposal: v1.5.1

[rvagg]

This one is mainly aimed at trying to clear up anything outstanding for the leak mentioned in #1075. I'll wait for feedback there but we could ship this one out fairly quick if those involved think it's worth it.

• [030a92347d] - benchmark: chunky http client benchmark variation (Rudi Cilibrasi) #228
• [3b57819b58] - crypto: fix leak in SafeX509ExtPrint (Fedor Indutny) #1087
• [f8c893dd39] - doc: fix confusion markdown in util.markdown (Yazhong Liu) #1097
• [e763220f66] - doc: update clang version prerequisite (Brendan Ashworth) #1094
• [0f7c8ebeea] - doc: replace article "an" with "a" in net docs (Evan Lucas) #1093
• [cf565b5516] - fs: fix .write() not coercing non-string values (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #1102
• [1a3ca8223e] - http_client: ensure empty socket on error (Fedor Indutny) #1103
• [8670613d2d] - node_crypto_bio: adjust external memory size (Fedor Indutny) #1085
• [528d8786ff] - src: fix memory leak in fs.writeSync error path (Ben Noordhuis) #1092
• [648fc63cd1] - src: fix mismatched delete[] in src/node_file.cc (Ben Noordhuis) #1092
• [9f7c9811e2] - src: add missing Context::Scope (Ben Noordhuis) #1084
• [fe36076c78] - stream_base: WriteWrap::New/::Dispose (Fedor Indutny) #1090
• [7f4c95e160] - tls: do not leak WriteWrap objects (Fedor Indutny) #1090
• [4bd3620382] - url: remove redundant assignment in url.parse (Alex Kocharin) #1095

[jonathanong]

👍

[cjihrig]

If the leak is confirmed to be fixed then I think this makes a lot of sense.

[rvagg]

RC here: https://iojs.org/download/nightly/v1.5.1-nightly20150308fe36076c78/

[GeoffreyPlitt]

+1

[Fishrock123]

+1, once the fix is confirmed.

[rvagg]

Working on getting this out today, RC is here: https://iojs.org/download/nightly/v1.5.1-nightly20150308f8c893dd39/

working on changelog header next

[rvagg]

2015-03-09, Version 1.5.1, @rvagg

Notable changes

• tls: The reported TLS memory leak has been at least partially resolved via various commits in this release. Current testing indicated that there may still be some leak problems. Track complete progress at #1075.
• http: Fixed an error reported at joyent/node#9348 and npm/npm#7349. Pending data was not being fully read upon an 'error' event leading to an assertion failure on socket.destroy(). (Fedor Indutny) #1103

Known issues

• Possible remaining TLS-related memory leak(s), details at #1075.
• Windows still reports some minor test failures and we are continuing to address all of these as a priority. See #1005.
• Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal #690
• Not possible to build io.js as a static library #686
• process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760 and fix in #774
• Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion #894

[rvagg]

final test run (hopefully) https://jenkins-iojs.nodesource.com/job/iojs+any-pr+multi/263/

[rvagg]

Bailing on this for now. Still some TLS leakage being reported so we should sit on this for a bit.

[Fishrock123]

#1103 is closed, fedor suggested we do a release anyways.

[rvagg]

let's roll this then, RC at https://iojs.org/download/nightly/v1.5.1-nightly20150309030a92347d/ tests running at https://jenkins-iojs.nodesource.com/job/iojs+any-pr+multi/267/

[rvagg]

updated release notes above to say that the leak probably isn't fixed