---
date: '2012-03-13T21:12:30.000Z'
category: release
title: Version 0.7.6 (unstable)
layout: blog-post
author: Isaac Schlueter
---

2012.03.13, Version 0.7.6 (unstable)

- Upgrade v8 to 3.9.17
- Upgrade npm to 1.1.8
  - Add support for os/cpu fields in package.json (Adam Blackburn)
  - Automatically node-gyp packages containing a binding.gyp
  - Fix failures unpacking in UNC shares
  - Never create un-listable directories
  - Handle cases where an optionalDependency fails to build
- events: newListener emit correct fn when using 'once' (Roly Fentanes)
- url: Ignore empty port component (Łukasz Walukiewicz)
- module: replace 'children' array (isaacs)
- tls: parse multiple values of a key in ssl certificate (Sambasiva Suda)
- cluster: support passing of named pipes (Ben Noordhuis)
- Windows: include syscall in fs errors (Bert Belder)
- http: #2888 Emit end event only once (Igor Zinkovsky)
- readline: add multiline support (Rlidwka)
- process: add `process.hrtime()` (Nathan Rajlich)
- net, http, https: add localAddress option (Dmitry Nizovtsev)
- addon improvements (Nathan Rajlich)
- build improvements (Ben Noordhuis, Sadique Ali, T.C. Hollingsworth, Nathan Rajlich)
- add support for "SEARCH" request methods (Nathan Rajlich)
- expose the zlib and http_parser version in process.versions (Nathan Rajlich)

Source Code: [https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.6/node-v0.7.6.tar.gz](https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.6/node-v0.7.6.tar.gz)

Windows Installer: [https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.6/node-v0.7.6.msi](https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.6/node-v0.7.6.msi)

Windows x64 Files: [https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.6/x64/](https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.6/x64/)

Macintosh Installer (Universal): [https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.6/node-v0.7.6.pkg](https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.6/node-v0.7.6.pkg)

Other release files: [https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.6/](https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.6/)

Website: [https://nodejs.org/docs/v0.7.6/](https://nodejs.org/docs/v0.7.6/)

Documentation: [https://nodejs.org/docs/v0.7.6/api/](https://nodejs.org/docs/v0.7.6/api/)
