Node.js v0.8.0 [stable] is out

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Post by pooriaazimi » Mon, Jun 25, 2012, 3:02 PM UTC

Node.js v0.8.0 [stable] is out
blog.nodejs.org

Re: Node.js v0.8.0 [stable] is out

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Post by pooriaazimi » Mon, Jun 25, 2012, 3:05 PM UTC

:-D I actually set an alarm this afternoon to submit v0.8.0 as soon as it comes out, if you can possibly believe it (I still can't believe I've done such a low, degenerate thing and am a little ashamed of myself)!

But I'm incredibly happy about this release, specially about the 'new' cluster API[1] that has made my life a whole lot easier! So apologies for being a karma whore, but I was so glad I couldn't resist, if you know what I mean...

[1]: http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.8.0/api/cluster.html

Re: Node.js v0.8.0 [stable] is out

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Post by IsaacSchlueter » Mon, Jun 25, 2012, 3:08 PM UTC

pooriaazimi wrote: post #2

:-D I actually set an alarm this afternoon to submit v0.8.0 as soon as it comes out, if you can possibly believe it ( I still can't believe I've done such a low, degenerate thing and am a little ashamed of myself )! But I'm incredibly happy about this release, specially about the 'new' cluster API[1] that has made my life a whole lot easier! So apologies for being a karma whore, but I was so glad I couldn't resist, i…

I can't believe you managed to get this submitted to HN before I did. That's what I get for posting it to twitter before coming here ;D Since I knew the URL, I could have totally cheated and done it before even uploading the blog post.

Re: Node.js v0.8.0 [stable] is out

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Post by dubcanada » Mon, Jun 25, 2012, 3:23 PM UTC

IsaacSchlueter wrote: post #3

pooriaazimi wrote: post #2

:-D I actually set an alarm this afternoon to submit v0.8.0 as soon as it comes out, if you can possibly believe it ( I still can't believe I've done such a low, degenerate thing and am a little ashamed of myself )! But I'm incredibly happy about this release, specially about the 'new' cluster API[1] that has made my life a whole lot easier! So apologies for being a karma whore, but I was so glad I couldn't resist, i…

I can't believe you managed to get this submitted to HN before I did. That's what I get for posting it to twitter before coming here ;D Since I knew the URL, I could have totally cheated and done it before even uploading the blog post.

You got to give him props, he set an alarm to post it lol.

Re: Node.js v0.8.0 [stable] is out

#5

Post by pooriaazimi » Mon, Jun 25, 2012, 3:30 PM UTC

dubcanada wrote: post #4

IsaacSchlueter wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't believe you managed to get this submitted to HN before I did. That's what I get for posting it to twitter before coming here ;D Since I knew the URL, I could have totally cheated and done it before even uploading the blog post.

You got to give him props, he set an alarm to post it lol.

Isaac said it would be out in 15:00 UTC, and it was out in 15:00 UTC... I was studying for my exam, my alarm went off and bam! There's the blog post - It was amazing.

Re: Node.js v0.8.0 [stable] is out

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Post by quarterto » Mon, Jun 25, 2012, 3:44 PM UTC

pooriaazimi wrote: post #2

:-D I actually set an alarm this afternoon to submit v0.8.0 as soon as it comes out, if you can possibly believe it ( I still can't believe I've done such a low, degenerate thing and am a little ashamed of myself )! But I'm incredibly happy about this release, specially about the 'new' cluster API[1] that has made my life a whole lot easier! So apologies for being a karma whore, but I was so glad I couldn't resist, i…

Wrt the Cluster module, the autoFork method is mentioned a couple of times in the code examples, but isn't documented. Does it actually exist?

Re: Node.js v0.8.0 [stable] is out

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Post by mjackson » Mon, Jun 25, 2012, 3:47 PM UTC

This looks incredible. Congrats to node core on this milestone! I really appreciate how laser-focused you guys are on code consistency across the board.

Looking forward to trying out the cluster and domain modules in strata!

Re: Node.js v0.8.0 [stable] is out

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 25, 2012, 3:49 PM UTC

pooriaazimi wrote: post #2

:-D I actually set an alarm this afternoon to submit v0.8.0 as soon as it comes out, if you can possibly believe it ( I still can't believe I've done such a low, degenerate thing and am a little ashamed of myself )! But I'm incredibly happy about this release, specially about the 'new' cluster API[1] that has made my life a whole lot easier! So apologies for being a karma whore, but I was so glad I couldn't resist, i…

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Re: Node.js v0.8.0 [stable] is out

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Post by fibertbh » Mon, Jun 25, 2012, 3:59 PM UTC

mjackson wrote: post #7

This looks incredible. Congrats to node core on this milestone! I really appreciate how laser-focused you guys are on code consistency across the board. Looking forward to trying out the cluster and domain modules in strata!

The domain module looks fantastic: http://nodejs.org/api/domain.html

"Domains provide a way to handle multiple different IO operations as a single group. If any of the event emitters or callbacks registered to a domain emit an error event, or throw an error, then the domain object will be notified, rather than losing the context of the error in the process.on('uncaughtException') handler, or causing the program to exit with an error code."

This will be great for things like request handlers, initialization code and other "loose" blocks of code where you don't really care about success but you do care about errors not propogating.

Re: Node.js v0.8.0 [stable] is out

#10

Post by radagaisus » Mon, Jun 25, 2012, 4:05 PM UTC

Make sure you at least got this points correct when trying to upgrade:

1. require('sys') throws, use require('util') now. The "sys" module was deprecated in node v0.4.

2.cluster.fork() no longer return a child_process.fork() object use cluster.fork().process to get the object.

3.the 'death' event on the cluster object is renamed to 'exit'