---
date: '2012-05-29T17:11:45.000Z'
category: release
title: Node.js ersion 0.7.9 (unstable)
layout: blog-post
author: Isaac Schlueter
---

2012.05.28, Version 0.7.9 (unstable)

- Upgrade V8 to 3.11.1
- Upgrade npm to 1.1.23
- uv: rework reference counting scheme (Ben Noordhuis)
- uv: add interface for joining external event loops (Bert Belder)
- repl, readline: Handle Ctrl+Z and SIGCONT better (Nathan Rajlich)
- fs: 64bit offsets for fs calls (Igor Zinkovsky)
- fs: add sync open flags 'rs' and 'rs+' (Kevin Bowman)
- windows: enable creating directory junctions with fs.symlink (Igor Zinkovsky, Bert Belder)
- windows: fix fs.lstat to properly detect symlinks. (Igor Zinkovsky)
- Fix #3270 Escape url.parse delims (isaacs)
- http: make http.get() accept a URL (Adam Malcontenti-Wilson)
- Cleanup vm module memory leakage (Marcel Laverdet)
- Optimize writing strings with Socket.write (Bert Belder)
- add support for CESU-8 and UTF-16LE encodings (koichik)
- path: add path.sep to get the path separator. (Yi, EungJun)
- net, http: add backlog parameter to .listen() (Erik Dubbelboer)
- debugger: support mirroring Date objects (Fedor Indutny)
- addon: add AtExit() function (Ben Noordhuis)
- net: signal localAddress bind failure in connect (Brian Schroeder)
- util: handle non-string return value in .inspect() (Alex Kocharin)

Source Code: [https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.9/node-v0.7.9.tar.gz](https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.9/node-v0.7.9.tar.gz)

Windows Installer: [https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.9/node-v0.7.9.msi](https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.9/node-v0.7.9.msi)

Windows x64 Files: [https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.9/x64/](https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.9/x64/)

Macintosh Installer (Universal): [https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.9/node-v0.7.9.pkg](https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.9/node-v0.7.9.pkg)

Other release files: [https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.9/](https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.9/)

Website: [https://nodejs.org/docs/v0.7.9/](https://nodejs.org/docs/v0.7.9/)

Documentation: [https://nodejs.org/docs/v0.7.9/api/](https://nodejs.org/docs/v0.7.9/api/)
