---
date: '2013-01-11T19:23:56.000Z'
category: release
title: Node.js 0.9.6 (Unstable)
layout: blog-post
author: The Node.js Project
---

2013.01.11, Version 0.9.6 (Unstable)

- V8: update to 3.15.11.5

- node: remove ev-emul.h (Ben Noordhuis)

- path: make basename and extname ignore trailing slashes (Bert Belder)

- typed arrays: fix sunos signed/unsigned char issue (Ben Noordhuis)

- child_process: Fix {stdio:'inherit'} regression (Ben Noordhuis)

- child_process: Fix pipe() from child stdio streams (Maciej Małecki)

- child_process: make fork() execPath configurable (Bradley Meck)

- stream: Add readable.push(chunk) method (isaacs)

- dtrace: x64 ustack helper (Fedor Indutny)

- repl: fix floating point number parsing (Nirk Niggler)

- repl: allow overriding builtins (Ben Noordhuis)

- net: add localAddress and localPort to Socket (James Hight)

- fs: make pool size coincide with ReadStream bufferSize (Shigeki Ohtsu)

- typed arrays: implement load and store swizzling (Dean McNamee)

- windows: fix perfctr crash on XP and 2003 (Scott Blomquist)

- dgram: fix double implicit bind error (Ben Noordhuis)

Source Code: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.9.6/node-v0.9.6.tar.gz

Macintosh Installer (Universal): https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.9.6/node-v0.9.6.pkg

Windows Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.9.6/node-v0.9.6-x86.msi

Windows x64 Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.9.6/x64/node-v0.9.6-x64.msi

Windows x64 Files: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.9.6/x64/

Linux 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.9.6/node-v0.9.6-linux-x86.tar.gz

Linux 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.9.6/node-v0.9.6-linux-x64.tar.gz

Solaris 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.9.6/node-v0.9.6-sunos-x86.tar.gz

Solaris 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.9.6/node-v0.9.6-sunos-x64.tar.gz

Other release files: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.9.6/

Website: https://nodejs.org/docs/v0.9.6/

Documentation: https://nodejs.org/docs/v0.9.6/api/

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