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Are they still calling it 'v8' instead of 8?

Also notable is that async/await isn't new for node, 7.10 supported it (and previous versions with a flag). It's new for a LTS release. What is new, however, is the in-built util.promisify that can convert callbacks into native promises.

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They dropped the "v" from the version name.

Yeah, a lot of companies won't touch non-LTS Node though, so a lot of users won't use async/await until later this year when the next LTS is released (Oct 2017).

They dropped the "v" from the version name.

Except in their official release blog posts, it seems :-D

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