2017-10-31, Version 9.0.0 (Current)

  * Older experimental APIs have been removed.
    [[`d731369b1d`](d731369b1d)]
    [#14414](#14414)

* **Errors**
  * Improvements have been made to `buffer` module error messages.
  * The assignment of static error codes to Node.js error continues:
    * `buffer`
    * `child_process`
    * `console`
    * `crypto`
    * `dns`
    * `events`
    * `fs`
    * `http`
    * `inspector`
    * `net`
    * `path`
    * `process`
    * `querystring`
    * `readline`
    * `repl`
    * `streams`
    * `string_decoder`
    * `timers`
    * `tls`
    * `url`
    * `util`
    * `v8`
    * `zlib`

* **Child Processes**
  * Errors are emitted on process nextTick.

* **Domains**
  * The long-deprecated `.dispose()` method has been removed.

* **fs**
  * The `fs.ReadStream` and `fs.WriteStream` classes now use `destroy()`.
  * `fs` module callbacks are now invoked with an undefined context.

* **HTTP/1**
  * A 400 Bad Request response will now be sent when parsing fails.
  * Socket timeout will be set when the socket connects.
  * A bug causing the request `'error'` event to fire twice was fixed.
  * HTTP clients may now use generic `Duplex` streams in addition to `net.Socket`.

* **Intl**
  * The deprecated `Intl.v8BreakIterator` has been removed.

* **Modules**
  * The `require.resolve()` method now supports using custom lookup paths.

* **OS**
  * The `os.EOL` property is now read-only.

* **Timers**
  * `setTimeout()` will emit a warning if the timeout is larger that the maximum
    32-bit unsigned integer.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ release lines.
 
 Select a Node.js version below to view the changelog history:
 
+* [Node.js 9](doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V9.md)
 * [Node.js 8](doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V8.md)
 * [Node.js 7](doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V7.md)
 * [Node.js 6](doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V6.md)
@@ -20,13 +21,16 @@ release.
 
 <table>
 <tr>
+  <th title="Current"><a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V9.md">9</a><sup>Current</sup></th>
   <th title="LTS Until 2019-12"><a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V8.md">8</a><sup>LTS</sup></th>
-  <th title="Supported until 2016-07-01"><a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V7.md">7</a><sup>-</sup></th>
   <th title="LTS Until 2019-04"><a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V6.md">6</a><sup>LTS</sup></th>
   <th title="LTS Until 2018-04"><a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V4.md">4</a><sup>LTS</sup></th>
 </tr>
 <tr>
     <td valign="top">
+<b><a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V9.md#9.0.0">9.0.0</a></b><br/>
+    </td>
+    <td valign="top">
 <b><a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V8.md#8.9.0">8.9.0</a></b><br/>
 <a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V8.md#8.8.1">8.8.1</a><br/>
 <a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V8.md#8.8.0">8.8.0</a><br/>
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 <a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V8.md#8.1.0">8.1.0</a><br/>
 <a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V8.md#8.0.0">8.0.0</a><br/>
     </td>
-    <td valign="top">
-<b><a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V7.md#7.10.1">7.10.1</a></b><br/>
-<a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V7.md#7.10.0">7.10.0</a><br/>
-<a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V7.md#7.9.0">7.9.0</a><br/>
-<a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V7.md#7.8.0">7.8.0</a><br/>
-<a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V7.md#7.7.4">7.7.4</a><br/>
-<a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V7.md#7.7.3">7.7.3</a><br/>
-<a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V7.md#7.7.2">7.7.2</a><br/>
-<a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V7.md#7.7.1">7.7.1</a><br/>
-<a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V7.md#7.7.0">7.7.0</a><br/>
-<a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V7.md#7.6.0">7.6.0</a><br/>
-<a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V7.md#7.5.0">7.5.0</a><br/>
-<a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V7.md#7.4.0">7.4.0</a><br/>
-<a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V7.md#7.3.0">7.3.0</a><br/>
-<a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V7.md#7.2.1">7.2.1</a><br/>
-<a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V7.md#7.2.0">7.2.0</a><br/>
-<a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V7.md#7.1.0">7.1.0</a><br/>
-<a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V7.md#7.0.0">7.0.0</a><br/>
-    </td>
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 <b><a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V6.md#6.11.5">6.11.5</a></b><br/>
 <a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V6.md#6.11.4">6.11.4</a><br/>

doc/api/assert.md

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doc/api/cli.md

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doc/api/crypto.md

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doc/api/fs.md

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doc/api/http.md

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doc/api/path.md

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doc/api/process.md

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doc/api/repl.md

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doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_ARCHIVE.md

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 </table>
 
 * Other Versions
+  * [9.x](CHANGELOG_V9.md)
   * [8.x](CHANGELOG_V8.md)
   * [7.x](CHANGELOG_V7.md)
   * [6.x](CHANGELOG_V6.md)

doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_IOJS.md

@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@
 </table>
 
 * Other Versions
+  * [9.x](CHANGELOG_V9.md)
   * [8.x](CHANGELOG_V8.md)
   * [7.x](CHANGELOG_V7.md)
   * [6.x](CHANGELOG_V6.md)

doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V010.md

@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@
 </table>
 
 * Other Versions
+  * [9.x](CHANGELOG_V9.md)
   * [8.x](CHANGELOG_V8.md)
   * [7.x](CHANGELOG_V7.md)
   * [6.x](CHANGELOG_V6.md)

doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V012.md

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 </table>
 
 * Other Versions
+  * [9.x](CHANGELOG_V9.md)
   * [8.x](CHANGELOG_V8.md)
   * [7.x](CHANGELOG_V7.md)
   * [6.x](CHANGELOG_V6.md)

doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V4.md

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 </table>
 
 * Other Versions
+  * [9.x](CHANGELOG_V9.md)
   * [8.x](CHANGELOG_V8.md)
   * [7.x](CHANGELOG_V7.md)
   * [6.x](CHANGELOG_V6.md)

doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V5.md

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 </table>
 
 * Other Versions
+  * [9.x](CHANGELOG_V9.md)
   * [8.x](CHANGELOG_V8.md)
   * [7.x](CHANGELOG_V7.md)
   * [6.x](CHANGELOG_V6.md)

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 </table>
 
 * Other Versions
+  * [9.x](CHANGELOG_V9.md)
   * [8.x](CHANGELOG_V8.md)
   * [7.x](CHANGELOG_V7.md)
   * [5.x](CHANGELOG_V5.md)
@@ -78,7 +79,7 @@ This LTS release comes with 91 commits. This includes 29 which are test related,
 
 ### Notable Changes
 
-* **net**: 
+* **net**:
   - support passing undefined to listen() to match behavior in v4.x and v8.x (Sam Roberts) [#14234](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14234)
 
 ### Commits
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 * [[`c88f99f1f3`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c88f99f1f3)] - **test**: improvements to various http tests (James M Snell) [#14315](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14315)
 * [[`860c6198c0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/860c6198c0)] - **test**: use ciphers supported by shared OpenSSL (Jérémy Lal) [#14566](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14566)
 * [[`8b9a05c04b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8b9a05c04b)] - **test**: read proper inspector message size (Bartosz Sosnowski) [#14596](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14596)
-* [[`86497f1acc`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/86497f1acc)] - **test**: mark inspector-port-zero-cluster as flaky (Refael Ackermann) 
+* [[`86497f1acc`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/86497f1acc)] - **test**: mark inspector-port-zero-cluster as flaky (Refael Ackermann)
 * [[`8dfc2838c8`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8dfc2838c8)] - **test**: fix test-readline-interface (Azard) [#14677](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14677)
 * [[`3a6392b283`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3a6392b283)] - **tls**: fix empty issuer/subject/infoAccess parsing (Ben Noordhuis) [#14473](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14473)
 * [[`37dd2adbac`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/37dd2adbac)] - **tools**: fix linter error in html.js (Michaël Zasso) [#15063](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/15063)

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 </table>
 
 * Other Versions
+  * [9.x](CHANGELOG_V9.md)
   * [8.x](CHANGELOG_V8.md)
   * [6.x](CHANGELOG_V6.md)
   * [5.x](CHANGELOG_V5.md)

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 </table>
 
 * Other Versions
+  * [9.x](CHANGELOG_V9.md)
   * [7.x](CHANGELOG_V7.md)
   * [6.x](CHANGELOG_V6.md)
   * [5.x](CHANGELOG_V5.md)