---
date: '2012-10-12T15:52:06.000Z'
category: release
title: Node.js 0.8.12 (Stable)
layout: blog-post
author: The Node.js Project
---

2012.10.12, Version 0.8.12 (Stable)

- npm: Upgrade to 1.1.63

- crypto: Reduce stability index to 2-Unstable (isaacs)

- windows: fix handle leak in uv_fs_utime (Bert Belder)

- windows: fix application crashed popup in debug version (Bert Belder)

- buffer: report proper retained size in profiler (Ben Noordhuis)

- buffer: fix byteLength with UTF-16LE (koichik)

- repl: make "end of input" JSON.parse() errors throw in the REPL (Nathan Rajlich)

- repl: make invalid RegExp modifiers throw in the REPL (Nathan Rajlich)

- http: handle multiple Proxy-Authenticate values (Willi Eggeling)

Source Code: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.12/node-v0.8.12.tar.gz

Macintosh Installer (Universal): https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.12/node-v0.8.12.pkg

Windows Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.12/node-v0.8.12-x86.msi

Windows x64 Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.12/x64/node-v0.8.12-x64.msi

Windows x64 Files: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.12/x64/

Linux 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.12/node-v0.8.12-linux-x86.tar.gz

Linux 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.12/node-v0.8.12-linux-x64.tar.gz

Solaris 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.12/node-v0.8.12-sunos-x86.tar.gz

Solaris 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.12/node-v0.8.12-sunos-x64.tar.gz

Other release files: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.12/

Website: https://nodejs.org/docs/v0.8.12/

Documentation: https://nodejs.org/docs/v0.8.12/api/

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