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v0.9.12-release
* stream: Allow strings in Readable.push/unshift (isaacs) * stream: Remove bufferSize option (isaacs) * stream: Increase highWaterMark on large reads (isaacs) * stream: _write: takes an encoding argument (isaacs) * stream: _transform: remove no output() method, provide encoding (isaacs) * stream: Don't require read(0) to emit 'readable' event (isaacs) * node: Add --throw-deprecation (isaacs) * http: fix multiple timeout events (Eugene Girshov) * http: More useful setTimeout API on server (isaacs) * net: use close callback, not process.nextTick (Ben Noordhuis) * net: Provide better error when writing after FIN (isaacs) * dns: Support NAPTR queries (Pavel Lang) * dns: fix ReferenceError in resolve() error path (Xidorn Quan) * child_process: handle ENOENT correctly on Windows (Scott Blomquist) * cluster: Rename destroy() to kill(signal=SIGTERM) (isaacs) * build: define nightly tag external to build system (Timothy J Fontaine) * build: make msi build work when spaces are present in the path (Bert Belder) * build: fix msi build issue with WiX 3.7/3.8 (Raymond Feng) * repl: make compatible with domains (Dave Olszewski) * events: Code cleanup and performance improvements (Trevor Norris)
Evented I/O for V8 javascript. 
To build:
Prerequisites (Unix only):
* Python 2.6 or 2.7
* GNU Make 3.81 or newer
* libexecinfo (FreeBSD and OpenBSD only)
Unix/Macintosh:
./configure
make
make install
If your python binary is in a non-standard location or has a non-standard name, run the following instead:
export PYTHON=/path/to/python
$PYTHON ./configure
make
make install
Windows:
vcbuild.bat
To run the tests:
Unix/Macintosh:
make test
Windows:
vcbuild.bat test
To build the documentation:
make doc
To read the documentation:
man doc/node.1
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