#48 Add #18 'Node.js 8.x'
Merged 6 years ago by sclark. Opened 6 years ago by sclark.
fedora-docs/ sclark/release-notes iss18  into  f27

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  [[sect-perl-core]]

  === Packaging of the Perl Core Modules

  The release of Fedora 27 brings a change in the way that the Perl core modules are packaged by Fedora. In Perl, the core modules are the standard set of modules that ship with the Perl interpreter.  Previously in Fedora, the Perl core modules were split into a number of subpackages in such a way that installing the `perl` package did not install the full set of Perl core modules.  This behaviour was not what was expected by most Perl users and so, from Fedora 27, installing the `perl` package now installs the full set of Perl core modules. It is still possible to install only a minimal Perl interpreter by installing just the `perl-interpreter` package.

+ 

+ [[sect-perl-526]]

+ === Perl 5.26

+ A new version of perl is released every year and version 5.26 is 2017's stable release. This release includes three updates with widespread effects:

+ 

+ ."." no longer in @INC

+ For security reasons, the current directory (".") is no longer included by default at the end of the module search path (@INC). This may have widespread implications for the building, testing and installing of modules, and for the execution of scripts.

+ 

+ .`do` may now warn

+ `do` now gives a deprecation warning when it fails to load a file which it would have loaded had "." been in @INC.

+ 

+ .In regular expression patterns, a literal left brace "{" must be escaped

+ Unescaped literal { characters in regular expression patterns are no longer permitted. Use a pattern like "\{" or "[{]" to specify a match to a left brace.

+ 

+ For more information about this release, please see the http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.26.0/pod/perldelta.pod[5.26.0 perldelta] web page.

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  Fedora 27 includes Node.js 8, which is the current version of the platform. This release line will become a Node.js Long Term Support (LTS) release at the end of October 2017.  Some of the highlights of Node.js 8 include:

  

  * http2 support

- * experimental support for the Node.js API (N-API)

+ * experimental support for Node API (N-API)

  * a significant update to the V8 JavaScript runtime that includes major improvements in performance and developer-facing APIs

  * version 5 of the npm client

  

Add a Release Notes entry for 'Node.js 8.x' - issue #18. @zvetlik please would you review the text and let me know whether anything needs to be added or changed?

I believe it's Node API rather than Node.js API. I'd suggest:
experimental support for Node API (N-API)
or
experimental support for ABI stable Node API (N-API)

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  • Update #18 'Node.js 8.x' incorporating feedback
6 years ago

Thank you for the feedback. I have changed the line to read * experimental support for Node API (N-API).

rebased onto 8e0ddf8

6 years ago

Pull-Request has been merged by sclark

6 years ago