---
date: '2016-01-01T12:00:00.000Z'
category: weekly
title: Weekly Update - Jan 1st, 2016
layout: blog-post
author: 'Minwoo Jung (@jmwsoft)'
---

### Node.js News — January 1st

Node.js Node v4.2.4 (LTS) is released

### Node.js Node v4.2.4 (LTS) Releases

This week we have one release: [Node.js Node v4.2.4 (LTS)](/blog/release/v4.2.4/). Complete changelog from previous releases can be found [on GitHub](https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md).

### Notable changes

Node.js v4.2.4 is a Long Term Support Maintenance Update. There are a number
of fixes and documentation updates.

- Roughly 78% of the commits are documentation and test improvements
- **domains**:
  - Fix handling of uncaught exceptions (Julien Gilli) [#3884](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3884)
- **deps**:
  - Upgrade to npm 2.14.12 (Kat Marchán) [#4110](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4110)
  - Backport 819b40a from V8 upstream (Michaël Zasso) [#3938](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3938)
  - Updated node LICENSE file with new npm license (Kat Marchán) [#4110](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4110)

### Community Updates

- [History of Node.js on a Timeline](https://blog.risingstack.com/history-of-node-js/), "This is the history of Node.js on a timeline, from 2009 until now (December 2015)"
- [What the web platform can learn from Node.js](https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2015/11/what-the-web-platform-can-learn-from-nodejs/), "Evolving the platform"

If you have spotted or written something about Node.js, do come over to our [Evangelism team repo](https://github.com/nodejs/evangelism) and suggest it on the [Issues page](https://github.com/nodejs/evangelism/issues), specifically the Weekly Updates issue.

### Upcoming Events

Have an event about Node.js coming up? You can put your events here through the [Evangelism team repo](https://github.com/nodejs/evangelism) and announce it in the [Issues page](https://github.com/nodejs/evangelism/issues), specifically the Weekly Updates issue.
