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Node.js 0.4.5 Released w/ many bug fixes

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I love node, but can we please stop submitting every minor release? Anyone interested in a minor release is already following node.

Well I for one am not interested in 90% of submissions here but like you I have to live with the voting system here to take care of this... and I simply don't read what I'm not interested in. Since GitHub does not notify me satisfactorily about new releases -- "watching" projects gives me a huge noisy stream about all their various activities so a new release gets lost in that stream -- and since twitter.com/nodejs is unfortunately not maintained, YC HN is an outstanding way to get notified about new NodeJS, jQuery etc. releases.

I don't follow V8 version to version, I'm a little bit curious: I notice each node release has a newer V8 version, is this just grabbing a newer version of V8 as a general practice, or is there specific changes in V8 applicable to node?

(The may be a question better asked on the google group)

awesome, but could somebody explain a unix noob on whats the easiest way to update an existing node.js (ubuntu) installation?

Just install the new version, it will overwrite the previously installed version.

"... the easiest way to update an existing node.js (ubuntu) installation? ..."

The latest vid from ryan ~ http://blog.nodejs.org/2011/03/17/welcome-to-the-node-blog/ explained the need to download & install from source. This presumes you have V8 installed. Holler if you get into trouble I've installed a few times on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron.

You mean, he explained that it was necessary to build from source, and why? Is this information available in textual form?

"... You mean, he explained that it was necessary to build from source, and why? Is this information available in textual form? ..."

It isn't 100% necessary. You can install from binaries. But as node is a moving target as a dev you get the best feature set/bug fixed version, faster. The talk hasn't been transcribed to my knowledge. Why not view the vid or ask @ryan or irc://irc.freenode.net#freenode why from source? The install instructions here ~ https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installation or install binaries here ~ https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installing-Node.js-via-p...

Isn't the v8 source included in node and built as part of the build process? deps/v8?

"... Isn't the v8 source included in node: V8 is included in the Node distribution. To use TLS, ..."

Yes, right. From v1 (I only looked back to 1) V8 is installed. I install it anyway.

I have written the following script for this. Update all the version numbers for the next update. Somehow I was too lazy to make this a variable. Downloads the Node TAR.GZ to the current folder and extracts, so put this in some extra folder such as "node_setup". And run the script with sudo.

  #!/bin/bash
  apt-get install build-essential g++ curl libssl-dev apache2-utils pkg-config
  wget http://nodejs.org/dist/node-v0.4.5.tar.gz
  gunzip node-v0.4.5.tar.gz
  tar -xf node-v0.4.5.tar
  cd node-v0.4.5
  ./configure
  make
  make install

Just wanted to share a little trick that I like very much

curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-v0.4.5.tar.gz | tar -zxvf -

-z GZip compressed input -x Extract -v Verbose -f File

I use ppa:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jerome-etienne/neoip

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install nodejs

I got 0.4.5 this morning from the usual upgrade, before I even saw the news.

Awesome, I like your approach even better than mine (below). Switched to this but will keep my script for my future users in case they're NodeJS noobs...

On 64-bit Ubuntu you will only get 0.2.6

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  nodejs

0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.

Need to get 0B/1,834kB of archives.

After this operation, 5,349kB of additional disk space will be used.

Selecting previously deselected package nodejs. (Reading database ... 57171 files and directories currently installed.)

Unpacking nodejs (from .../nodejs_0.2.6~lucid1~ppa201101061407_amd64.deb) ...

Setting up nodejs (0.2.6~lucid1~ppa201101061407) ...

Use the node version manager: https://github.com/visionmedia/n

npm install n

n 0.4.5

and you're done

Even on ubuntu, I use the github version, thus:

Checkout from github: git://github.com/joyent/node.git

Now:

    git checkout v0.4.5
    ./configure
    make
    sudo make install
    node -v

There are other ways, but this is pretty simple. Note that when you checkout the tag you will be in a detached HEAD state, which is fine, but when you next want to git pull, make sure you checkout master first, then checkout the next tag you require. You can see all tags with: git tag.

We use Tim's nvm here.

https://github.com/creationix/nvm

Similar to Ruby's rvm.

Use npm (node package manager).

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