Node.js v0.8.2

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Node.js is practically an evented I/O library for Google's V8 JavaScript engine.

Experts recommend it for creating and deploying for traffic and data intensive real-time apps that need to run the same across various platforms and devices.

Node.js is currently considered the top platform for running server-side JavaScript code, being used in production in big companies like Google, eBay, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Cloud9 and many more.

The platform is very well documented and benefits from a very large module repository, managed through the npm (Node.js Package Manager) utility.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Upgrade to npm 1.1.36.
· Don't use Function#call().
· Code cleanup to pass 'use strict'.
· Added filename to require() json errors.
· Fix for Unicode prompts.
· Fix for handling of large timeouts.
· Fixed passing an empty line inserting "undefined" into the buffer.
· Fixed crashes when buffering command.

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