---
date: '2011-11-11T23:34:15.000Z'
category: release
title: Node.js 0.6.1
layout: blog-post
author: Ryan Dahl
---

2011.11.11, Version 0.6.1 (stable)

- doc improvements (Eric Lovett, Ben Noordhuis, Scott Anderson, Yoji SHIDARA)
- crypto: make thread-safe (Ben Noordhuis)
- fix process.kill error object
- debugger: correctly handle source with multi-byte characters (Shigeki Ohtsu)
- make stdout and stderr non-destroyable (Igor Zinkovsky)
- fs: don't close uninitialized fs.watch handle (Ben Noordhuis)
- #2026 fix man page install on BSDs (Ben Noordhuis)
- #2040 fix unrecognized errno assert in uv_err_name
- #2043 fs: mkdir() should call callback if mode is omitted
- #2045 fs: fix fs.realpath on windows to return on error (Benjamin Pasero)
- #2047 minor cluster improvements
- #2052 readline get window columns correctly
- Upgrade V8 to 3.6.6.7

Source Code: [https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.6.1/node-v0.6.1.tar.gz](https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.6.1/node-v0.6.1.tar.gz)

Windows Installer: [https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.6.1/node-v0.6.1.msi](https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.6.1/node-v0.6.1.msi)

Macintosh Installer: [https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.6.1/node-v0.6.1.pkg](https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.6.1/node-v0.6.1.pkg)

Website: [https://nodejs.org/docs/v0.6.1/](https://nodejs.org/docs/v0.6.1/)

Documentation: [https://nodejs.org/docs/v0.6.1/api/](https://nodejs.org/docs/v0.6.1/api/)
