diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 215c7d0461..59fdaf4bd6 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -124,9 +124,9 @@ jobs:
           name: Get Ready
           command: |
             eval $PRE_TEST_COMMANDS;
-            ./meteor --help
-          # shouldn't take longer than 5 minutes
-          no_output_timeout: 5m
+            ./meteor --get-ready
+          # shouldn't take longer than 10 minutes
+          no_output_timeout: 10m
       # Clear dev_bundle/.npm to ensure consistent test runs.
       - run:
           name: Clear npm cache
diff --git a/History.md b/History.md
index 61817d16c3..8b5632220d 100644
--- a/History.md
+++ b/History.md
@@ -2,6 +2,15 @@
 
 ## v1.5.2, TBD
 
+* Node 4.8.4 has been patched to include
+  https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14829, an important PR implemented
+  by our own @abernix (:tada:), which fixes a faulty backport of garbage
+  collection-related logic in V8 that was causing occasional segmentation
+  faults during Meteor development and testing, ever since Node 4.6.2
+  (Meteor 1.4.2.3). When Node 4.8.5 is officially released with these
+  changes, we will immediately cut a small follow-up release.
+  [Issue #8648](https://github.com/meteor/meteor/issues/8648)
+
 * The `meteor-babel` package has been upgraded to version 0.23.1.
 
 * The `reify` npm package has been upgraded to version 0.12.0, which
diff --git a/meteor b/meteor
index 76e415db96..d4bfbeaca6 100755
--- a/meteor
+++ b/meteor
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-BUNDLE_VERSION=4.8.31
+BUNDLE_VERSION=4.8.34
 
 # OS Check. Put here because here is where we download the precompiled
 # bundles that are arch specific.
diff --git a/scripts/build-dev-bundle-common.sh b/scripts/build-dev-bundle-common.sh
index de6be8bece..92ada8502a 100644
--- a/scripts/build-dev-bundle-common.sh
+++ b/scripts/build-dev-bundle-common.sh
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ MONGO_VERSION=3.2.15
 NODE_VERSION=4.8.4
 NPM_VERSION=4.6.1
 
+# If we built Node from source on Jenkins, this is the build number.
+NODE_BUILD_NUMBER=33
+
 if [ "$UNAME" == "Linux" ] ; then
     if [ "$ARCH" != "i686" -a "$ARCH" != "x86_64" ] ; then
         echo "Unsupported architecture: $ARCH"
diff --git a/scripts/build-node-for-dev-bundle.sh b/scripts/build-node-for-dev-bundle.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..6cec100e96
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/build-node-for-dev-bundle.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -e
+set -u
+
+source "$(dirname $0)/build-dev-bundle-common.sh"
+echo CHECKOUT DIR IS "$CHECKOUT_DIR"
+echo BUILDING NODE "v$NODE_VERSION" IN "$DIR"
+
+cd "$DIR"
+
+if [ ! -z ${NODE_FROM_SRC+x} ] || [ ! -z ${NODE_COMMIT_HASH+x} ]
+then
+    if [ ! -z ${NODE_COMMIT_HASH+x} ]
+    then
+        NODE_FROM_SRC=${NODE_FROM_SRC:=true}
+        echo "Building Node source from Git hash ${NODE_COMMIT_HASH}...";
+        NODE_URL="https://github.com/meteor/node/archive/${NODE_COMMIT_HASH}.tar.gz"
+    else
+        echo "Building Node source from ${NODE_VERSION} src tarball...";
+        NODE_URL="https://nodejs.org/dist/v${NODE_VERSION}/node-v${NODE_VERSION}.tar.gz"
+    fi
+else
+    NODE_URL="https://nodejs.org/dist/v${NODE_VERSION}/${NODE_TGZ}"
+fi
+
+# Update these values after building the dev-bundle-node Jenkins project.
+# Also make sure to update NODE_VERSION in generate-dev-bundle.ps1.
+function downloadNode {
+    echo "Downloading Node from ${NODE_URL}"
+    curl -sL "${NODE_URL}" | tar zx --strip-components 1
+}
+
+if [ ! -z ${NODE_FROM_SRC+x} ]
+then
+    mkdir node-build && cd node-build
+    downloadNode
+
+    # Build with International Components for Unicode (ICU) Support...
+    # Node 4.x used 56.x. Node 8.x uses 59.x.   I believe the only
+    # reliable location to find the correct version of ICU for a Node.js
+    # release is to check `process.config.icu_ver_major` from an
+    # official, compiled Node.js release.
+    # https://github.com/nodejs/node/wiki/Intl#configure-node-with-specific-icu-source
+    echo "Downloading International Components for Unicode (ICU)..."
+    curl -sL http://download.icu-project.org/files/icu4c/56.1/icu4c-56_1-src.tgz | \
+      tar zx -C deps/
+
+    node_configure_flags=("--prefix=${DIR}" '--with-intl=small-icu')
+
+    if [ "${NODE_FROM_SRC:-}" = "debug" ]
+    then
+        node_configure_flags+=('--debug')
+    fi
+
+    ./configure "${node_configure_flags[@]}"
+    make -j4
+    # PORTABLE=1 is a node hack to make npm look relative to itself instead
+    # of hard coding the PREFIX.
+    make install PORTABLE=1
+    cd "$DIR"
+else
+    downloadNode
+fi
+
+cd "$DIR"
+stripBinary bin/node
+
+# export path so we use our new node for later builds
+PATH="$DIR/bin:$PATH"
+which node
+which npm
+npm version
+
+echo BUNDLING
+
+cd "$DIR"
+rm -rf node-build
+tar czvf "${CHECKOUT_DIR}/node_${PLATFORM}_v${NODE_VERSION}.tar.gz" .
+
+echo DONE
diff --git a/scripts/generate-dev-bundle.sh b/scripts/generate-dev-bundle.sh
index 2ef74cf726..e7b84becb4 100755
--- a/scripts/generate-dev-bundle.sh
+++ b/scripts/generate-dev-bundle.sh
@@ -16,13 +16,33 @@ echo BUILDING DEV BUNDLE "$BUNDLE_VERSION" IN "$DIR"
 
 cd "$DIR"
 
-S3_HOST="s3.amazonaws.com/com.meteor.jenkins"
+extractNodeFromTarGz() {
+    LOCAL_TGZ="${CHECKOUT_DIR}/node_${PLATFORM}_v${NODE_VERSION}.tar.gz"
+    if [ -f "$LOCAL_TGZ" ]
+    then
+        echo "Skipping download and installing Node from $LOCAL_TGZ" >&2
+        tar zxf "$LOCAL_TGZ"
+        return 0
+    fi
+    return 1
+}
 
-# Update these values after building the dev-bundle-node Jenkins project.
-# Also make sure to update NODE_VERSION in generate-dev-bundle.ps1.
-NODE_URL="https://nodejs.org/dist/v${NODE_VERSION}/${NODE_TGZ}"
-echo "Downloading Node from ${NODE_URL}"
-curl "${NODE_URL}" | tar zx --strip-components 1
+downloadNodeFromS3() {
+    S3_HOST="s3.amazonaws.com/com.meteor.jenkins"
+    S3_TGZ="node_${UNAME}_${ARCH}_v${NODE_VERSION}.tar.gz"
+    NODE_URL="https://${S3_HOST}/dev-bundle-node-${NODE_BUILD_NUMBER}/${S3_TGZ}"
+    echo "Downloading Node from ${NODE_URL}" >&2
+    curl "${NODE_URL}" | tar zx
+}
+
+downloadOfficialNode() {
+    NODE_URL="https://nodejs.org/dist/v${NODE_VERSION}/${NODE_TGZ}"
+    echo "Downloading Node from ${NODE_URL}" >&2
+    curl "${NODE_URL}" | tar zx --strip-components 1
+}
+
+# Try each strategy in the following order:
+extractNodeFromTarGz || downloadNodeFromS3 || downloadOfficialNode
 
 # Download Mongo from mongodb.com
 MONGO_NAME="mongodb-${OS}-${ARCH}-${MONGO_VERSION}"
@@ -48,6 +68,15 @@ which node
 which npm
 npm version
 
+# Make node-gyp use Node headers and libraries from $DIR/include/node.
+export HOME="$DIR"
+export USERPROFILE="$DIR"
+export npm_config_nodedir="$DIR"
+
+INCLUDE_PATH="${DIR}/include/node"
+echo "Contents of ${INCLUDE_PATH}:"
+ls -al "$INCLUDE_PATH"
+
 # When adding new node modules (or any software) to the dev bundle,
 # remember to update LICENSE.txt! Also note that we include all the
 # packages that these depend on, so watch out for new dependencies when
@@ -95,15 +124,6 @@ cp -R node_modules/* "${DIR}/lib/node_modules/"
 # commands like node-gyp and node-pre-gyp.
 cp -R node_modules/.bin "${DIR}/lib/node_modules/"
 
-# Make node-gyp install Node headers and libraries in $DIR/.node-gyp/.
-# https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/blob/4ee31329e0/lib/node-gyp.js#L52
-export HOME="$DIR"
-export USERPROFILE="$DIR"
-node "${DIR}/lib/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" install
-INCLUDE_PATH="${DIR}/.node-gyp/${NODE_VERSION}/include/node"
-echo "Contents of ${INCLUDE_PATH}:"
-ls -al "$INCLUDE_PATH"
-
 cd "${DIR}/lib"
 
 # Clean up some bulky stuff.
diff --git a/tools/cli/dev-bundle-bin-helpers.js b/tools/cli/dev-bundle-bin-helpers.js
index 5a5bef6c3d..d0b36db9f4 100644
--- a/tools/cli/dev-bundle-bin-helpers.js
+++ b/tools/cli/dev-bundle-bin-helpers.js
@@ -100,8 +100,8 @@ exports.getEnv = function (options) {
     }
 
     // This allows node-gyp to find Node headers and libraries in
-    // dev_bundle/.node-gyp.
-    env.USERPROFILE = devBundleDir;
+    // dev_bundle/include/node.
+    env.NPM_CONFIG_NODEDIR = devBundleDir;
 
     var PATH = env.PATH || env.Path;
     if (PATH) {