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v0.8.17
* npm: Upgrade to v1.2.0 - peerDependencies (Domenic Denicola) - node-gyp v0.8.2 (Nathan Rajlich) - Faster installs from github user/project shorthands (Nathan Zadoks) * typed arrays: fix 32 bit size/index overflow (Ben Noordhuis) * http: Improve performance of single-packet responses (Ben Noordhuis) * install: fix openbsd man page location (Ben Noordhuis) * http: bubble up parser errors to ClientRequest (Brian White)
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
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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