---
date: '2012-09-11T18:50:17.000Z'
category: release
title: Version 0.8.9 (Stable)
layout: blog-post
author: The Node.js Project
---

2012.09.11, Version 0.8.9 (Stable)

- v8: upgrade to 3.11.10.22

- GYP: upgrade to r1477

- npm: Upgrade to 1.1.61

- npm: Don't create world-writable files (isaacs)

- windows: fix single-accept mode for shared server sockets (Bert Belder)

- windows: fix uninitialized memory access in uv_update_time() (Bert Belder)

- windows: don't throw when a signal handler is attached (Bert Belder)

- unix: fix memory leak in udp (Ben Noordhuis)

- unix: map errno ESPIPE (Ben Noordhuis)

- unix, windows: fix memory corruption in fs-poll.c (Ben Noordhuis)

- sunos: fix os.cpus() on x86_64 (Ben Noordhuis)

- child process: fix processes with IPC channel don't emit 'close' (Bert Belder)

- build: add a "--dest-os" option to force a gyp "flavor" (Nathan Rajlich)

- build: set `process.platform` to "sunos" on SmartOS (Nathan Rajlich)

- build: fix `make -j` fails after `make clean` (Bearice Ren)

- build: fix openssl configuration for "arm" builds (Nathan Rajlich)

- tls: support unix domain socket/named pipe in tls.connect (Shigeki Ohtsu)

- https: make https.get() accept a URL (koichik)

- http: respect HTTP/1.0 TE header (Ben Noordhuis)

- crypto, tls: Domainify setSNICallback, pbkdf2, randomBytes (Ben Noordhuis)

- stream.pipe: Don't call destroy() unless it's a function (isaacs)

Source Code: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.9/node-v0.8.9.tar.gz

Macintosh Installer (Universal): https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.9/node-v0.8.9.pkg

Windows Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.9/node-v0.8.9-x86.msi

Windows x64 Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.9/x64/node-v0.8.9-x64.msi

Windows x64 Files: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.9/x64/

Linux 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.9/node-v0.8.9-linux-x86.tar.gz

Linux 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.9/node-v0.8.9-linux-x64.tar.gz

Solaris 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.9/node-v0.8.9-sunos-x86.tar.gz

Solaris 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.9/node-v0.8.9-sunos-x64.tar.gz

Other release files: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.9/

Website: https://nodejs.org/docs/v0.8.9/

Documentation: https://nodejs.org/docs/v0.8.9/api/

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