Release proposal: v4.1.0

[Fishrock123]

The usual weekly-ish

• [9683e5df51] - bindings: close after reading module struct (Fedor Indutny) nodejs/node#2792
• [4b4cfa2d44] - buffer: always allocate typed arrays outside heap (Trevor Norris) nodejs/node#2893
• [7df018a29b] - buffer: construct Uint8Array in JS (Trevor Norris) nodejs/node#2866
• [43397b204e] - (SEMVER-MINOR) build: Updates to enable AIX support (Michael Dawson) nodejs/node#2364
• [e35b1fd610] - build: clean up the generated tap file (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #2837
• [7ebd881c29] - deps: upgrade V8 to 4.5.103.33 (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) nodejs/node#2870
• [ed47ab6e44] - deps: upgraded to node-gyp@3.0.3 in npm (Kat Marchán) nodejs/node#2822
• [f4641ae875] - deps: upgrade to npm 2.14.3 (Kat Marchán) nodejs/node#2822
• [8119693a3d] - deps: update libuv to version 1.7.4 (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé) nodejs/node#2817
• [6098504685] - deps: cherry-pick 6da51b4 from v8's upstream (Fedor Indutny) nodejs/node#2801
• [a7bd897273] - doc: rename from iojs(1) to node(1) in benchmarks (Dmitry Vasilyev) nodejs/node#2884
• [cd643d7c37] - doc: add missing backtick in buffer.markdown (Sven Slootweg) nodejs/node#2881
• [e8a206e802] - doc: fix broken link in repl.markdown (Danny Nemer) nodejs/node#2827
• [7ee36d61f7] - doc: fix typos in README (Ionică Bizău) nodejs/node#2852
• [4d1ae26196] - doc: add tunniclm as a collaborator (Mike Tunnicliffe) nodejs/node#2826
• [2d77d03643] - doc: fix two doc errors in stream and process (Jeremiah Senkpiel) nodejs/node#2549
• [55ac24f721] - doc: fixed io.js references in process.markdown (Tristian Flanagan) nodejs/node#2846
• [cd1297fb57] - doc: use "Calls" over "Executes" for consistency (Minwoo Jung) nodejs/node#2800
• [d664b95581] - doc: use US English for consistency (Anne-Gaelle Colom) nodejs/node#2784
• [82ba1839fb] - doc: use 3rd person singular for consistency (Anne-Gaelle Colom) nodejs/node#2765
• [432cce6e95] - doc: describe process API for IPC (Sam Roberts) nodejs/node#1978
• [1d75012b9d] - doc: fix comma splice in Assertion Testing doc (Rich Trott) nodejs/node#2728
• [6108ea9bb4] - fs: consider NaN/Infinity in toUnixTimestamp (Yazhong Liu) nodejs/node#2387
• [2b6aa9415f] - (SEMVER-MINOR) fs: implemented WriteStream#writev (Ron Korving) nodejs/node#2167
• [431bf74c55] - http: default Agent.getName to 'localhost' (Malcolm Ahoy) nodejs/node#2825
• [ea15d71c16] - http_server: fix resume after socket close (Fedor Indutny) nodejs/node#2824
• [0a5f80a11f] - src: use subarray() in Buffer#slice() for speedup (Karl Skomski) nodejs/node#2777
• [57707e2490] - src: use ZCtxt as a source for v8::Isolates (Roman Klauke) nodejs/node#2547
• [b0df2273ab] - src: fix v8::CpuProfiler idle sampling (Oleksandr Chekhovskyi) nodejs/node#2324
• [eaa8e60b91] - streams: refactor LazyTransform to internal/ (Brendan Ashworth) nodejs/node#2566
• [52019a1b21] - test: fix default value for additional param (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) nodejs/node#2553
• [5df5d0423a] - test: remove disabled test (Rich Trott) nodejs/node#2841
• [9e5f0995bd] - test: split up internet dns tests (Rich Trott) nodejs/node#2802
• [41f2dde51a] - test: increase dgram timeout for armv6 (Rich Trott) nodejs/node#2808
• [6e2fe1c21a] - test: remove valid hostname check in test-dns.js (Rich Trott) nodejs/node#2785
• [779e14f1a7] - test: expect error for test_lookup_ipv6_hint on FreeBSD (Rich Trott) nodejs/node#2724
• [59d03738cc] - tools: enable arrow functions in .eslintrc (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #2840
• [69e7b875a2] - tools: open test.tap file in write-binary mode (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #2837
• [ff6d30d784] - tools: add missing tick processor polyfill (Matt Loring) nodejs/node#2694
• [519caba021] - tools: fix flakiness in test-tick-processor (Matt Loring) nodejs/node#2694
• [ac004b8555] - tools: remove hyphen in TAP result (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) nodejs/node#2718
• [ba47511976] - tsc: adjust TSC membership for IBM+StrongLoop (James M Snell) nodejs/node#2858
• [e035266805] - win,msi: fix documentation shortcut url (Brian White) nodejs/node#2781

That list isn't exactly so exciting, so I'd like to get some important fix-y PRs in beforehand, if possible:

• deps: upgrade to npm 2.14.3 #2822 npm@v2.14.3
• http_server: fix resume after socket close #2824 http_server: fix resume after socket close
• add missing assert from 0.12 merge #2782 add missing assert from 0.12 merge
• Do not unref debug handle to avoid debug process stuck #2778 Do not unref debug handle to avoid debug process stuck
• Faster buffer slice using subarray() #2777 Faster buffer slice using subarray()
• src: honor --abort_on_uncaught_exception flag #2776 src: honor --abort_on_uncaught_exception flag
• fs: added _writev (up to x50 faster writes) #2167 fs: added _writev (up to x50 faster writes)

Aiming for tuesday/wednesday. cc @nodejs/release

[rvagg]

node-gyp@3.0.3 just released, it's fairly important to get on top of this even though we just did 3.0.2, my bad

[ronkorving]

If you want something exciting to add, why not add #2167? :)
(I feel like Zoidberg...)

Update: and it landed \o/ (thanks!)

[Fishrock123]

Updated. Now v4.1.0.

[ChALkeR]

#2824 looks pretty critical, btw. None of unfinished PRs above do. Should the release be delayed?

[Fishrock123]

@ChALkeR correct. I'll get this rolling once I get back from lunch.

[indutny]

Let's hold it for a bit more. I have a CL that should land VERY SOON (tonight): https://codereview.chromium.org/1327403002/ . This a fix for node-ffi problem:

#2791

[rvagg]

I'm -1 on waiting for that CL, doesn't look like it's going to land in a timely manner and it can easily make it in to a release next week.

[Fishrock123]

Ugh, well, too late now. I'll do the release tomorrow.