---
date: '2015-11-06T12:00:00.000Z'
category: weekly
title: Weekly Update - Nov 6th, 2015
layout: blog-post
author: 'Minwoo Jung (@jmwsoft)'
---

### Node.js News — November 6th

Node.js v4.2.2 (LTS) is released

### Node.js v4.2.2 (LTS) Releases

This week we have one release: [Node.js v4.2.2 (LTS)](/blog/release/v4.2.2/). Complete changelog from previous releases can be found [on GitHub](https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md).

### Notable changes

This is an LTS maintenance release that addresses a number of issues:

- \[[`1d0f2cbf87`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1d0f2cbf87)] - **buffer**: fix value check for writeUInt{B,L}E (Trevor Norris) [#3500](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3500)
- \[[`2a45b72b4a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2a45b72b4a)] - **buffer**: don't CHECK on zero-sized realloc (Ben Noordhuis) [#3499](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3499)

### NodeUp Podcast

- NodeUp podcast episode 93, 94 were published this week: <http://nodeup.com/ninetythree>, <http://nodeup.com/ninetyfour>.
- The subjects of the podcast are "An LTS Show with Kat Marchán, James Snell, and Rich Trott", "A Node.js Interactive Show with Dan Shaw, Mikeal Rogers, and Kassandra Perch.".

### Community Updates

- [Understanding Garbage Collection and hunting Memory Leaks in Node.js](http://apmblog.dynatrace.com/2015/11/04/understanding-garbage-collection-and-hunting-memory-leaks-in-node-js/), "Covers how Node.js manages memory and how to trace down memory-related problems"
- [Node.js v4 gets an A+ for SSL Labs with no configuration](https://certsimple.com/blog/node-js-ssl-labs), "Node has one of the best out-of-the-box SSL setups of any web server."

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

- [NodeFest](http://nodefest.jp/2015/), November 7th at Tokyo, Japan
- [Node Knockout](http://www.nodeknockout.com/), November 7th - 8th, Worldwide
- [Node Girls London](https://nodegirls.typeform.com/to/atW4HR), November 7th at London, UK
- [Playnode](http://playnode.io/), November 12nd at Seoul, South Korea
- [Nodevember](http://nodevember.org/), November 14th - 15th at Nashville, Tennessee, US.
- [JSConf.Asia](http://2015.jsconf.asia/), November 19th - 20th in Singapore.
- [NodeConf Barcelona](https://ti.to/barcelonajs/nodeconf-barcelona-2015), November 21st at Barcelona, Spain
- [CampJS VI](http://vi.campjs.com), November 20th – 23th at Queensland, Australia
- [Node.js Interactive](http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/node-interactive), December 8th - 9th at Portland, US.

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.
