René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Release proposal: 1.8.0","articleBody":"As it stands, there are some commits on master that are not part of v1.x, and some commits in v1.x that are not part of a v1.x release. To remedy this, and get us onto the master branch in anticipation of a v2.0.0 release, I propose a v1.8.0 release, the **final** non-support-related release in the v1.x line.\n### the proposed plan\n##### actions\n\n(eugh, accidentally overwritten by changelog!)\n##### outcomes\n- Master is the new development branch.\n- There is no `v2.x` branch. It will be cut once a v3.0.0 release is made to prevent having to constantly update it to match master.\n- All existing PRs will target the wrong branch. Or, more charitably, they'll target an older branch than they intended. I will make an effort to tag these PRs with a tag – `targets-master` might be best?\n- We should follow up with commits to update the documentation and build tooling, if need be.\n- Bug and security fixes _should_ be the only PRs landed in the `v1.x` branch.\n##### questions\n- Should we wait for any other commits to make it into v1.x before switching to master / preparing for the v2.x release?\n- @rvagg / @iojs/build – is there anything that needs to be done to the release tooling to account for the branch switch?\n\nThe proposed changelog:\n- [[`431673ebd1`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/431673ebd1)] - **buffer**: fast-case for empty string in byteLength (Jackson Tian) [#1441](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1441)\n- [[`91943a99d5`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/91943a99d5)] - **build**: use %PYTHON% instead of python (Rod Vagg) [#1444](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1444)\n- [[`c7769d417b`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/c7769d417b)] - **build**: Expose xz compression level (Johan Bergström) [#1428](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1428)\n- [[`a530b2baf1`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/a530b2baf1)] - **build**: fix error message in configure (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)\n- [[`92dfb794f9`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/92dfb794f9)] - **build**: enable ssl support on arm64 (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)\n- [[`7de0dcde83`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/7de0dcde83)] - **deps**: make node-gyp work with io.js (cjihrig) [#990](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/990)\n- [[`4870213f9e`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/4870213f9e)] - **deps**: upgrade npm to 2.8.3 (Forrest L Norvell) \n- [[`49bb7ded2c`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/49bb7ded2c)] - **deps**: fix git case sensitivity issue in npm (Chris Dickinson) [#1456](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1456)\n- [[`4830b4bce8`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/4830b4bce8)] - **deps**: add docs to upgrade openssl (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)\n- [[`11bec72c87`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/11bec72c87)] - **deps**: update asm files for openssl-1.0.2a (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)\n- [[`53924d8ebe`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/53924d8ebe)] - **deps**: update asm Makefile for openssl-1.0.2a (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)\n- [[`418e839456`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/418e839456)] - **deps**: update openssl.gyp/gypi for openssl-1.0.2a (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)\n- [[`02f12ab666`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/02f12ab666)] - **deps**: update opensslconf.h for 1.0.2a (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)\n- [[`eb7a23595f`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/eb7a23595f)] - **deps**: add x32 and arm64 support for opensslconf.h (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)\n- [[`033a663127`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/033a663127)] - **deps**: replace all headers in openssl (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)\n- [[`ae8831f240`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/ae8831f240)] - **deps**: backport openssl patch of alt cert chains 1 (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)\n- [[`71316c46d9`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/71316c46d9)] - **deps**: fix asm build error of openssl in x86_win32 (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)\n- [[`d293a4f096`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/d293a4f096)] - **deps**: fix openssl assembly error on ia32 win32 (Fedor Indutny) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)\n- [[`e4872d7405`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/e4872d7405)] - **deps**: upgrade openssl to 1.0.2a (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)\n- [[`a1c9ef3142`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/a1c9ef3142)] - **deps, build**: add support older assembler (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)\n- [[`76f219c128`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/76f219c128)] - **doc**: Document forced pushing with git (Johan Bergström) [#1420](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1420)\n- [[`12e51d56c1`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/12e51d56c1)] - **doc**: add Addon API WG (Rod Vagg) [#1226](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1226)\n- [[`7956a13dad`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/7956a13dad)] - **http**: logically respect maxSockets (fengmk2) [#1242](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1242)\n- [[`5b844e140b`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/5b844e140b)] - **module**: fix style (Roman Reiss) [#1453](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1453)\n- [[`3ad82c335d`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/3ad82c335d)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **module**: handle NODE_PATH in require('.') (Roman Reiss) [#1363](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1363)\n- [[`cd60ff0328`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/cd60ff0328)] - **net**: add fd into listen2 debug info (Jackson Tian) [#1442](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1442)\n- [[`10e31ba56c`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/10e31ba56c)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **node**: allow multiple arguments passed to nextTick (Trevor Norris) [#1077](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1077)\n- [[`116c54692a`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/116c54692a)] - **openssl**: fix keypress requirement in apps on win32 (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)\n- [[`62f5f4cec9`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/62f5f4cec9)] - **src**: remove duplicate byteLength from Buffer (Jackson Tian) [#1438](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1438)\n- [[`51d0808c90`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/51d0808c90)] - **stream**: remove duplicated expression (Yazhong Liu) [#1444](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1444)\n- [[`deb9d23d7b`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/deb9d23d7b)] - **test**: fix error message check for openssl-1.0.2a (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)\n- [[`ca8c9ec2c8`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/ca8c9ec2c8)] - **win,node-gyp**: optionally allow node.exe/iojs.exe to be renamed (Bert Belder) [#1266](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1266) \n\ncc @iojs/tc @iojs/collaborators\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/chrisdickinson","@type":"Person","name":"chrisdickinson"},"datePublished":"2015-04-16T04:23:59Z","url":"https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1436"}