---
date: '2011-04-02T09:04:58.000Z'
category: release
title: Node.js 0.4.5
layout: blog-post
author: Ryan Dahl
---

2011.04.01, Version 0.4.5 (stable)

- Fix listener leak in stream.pipe() (Mikeal Rogers)
- Retain buffers in fs.read/write() GH-814 (Jorge Chamorro Bieling)
- TLS performance improvements
- SlowBuffer.prototype.slice bug GH-843
- process.stderr.write should return true
- Immediate pause/resume race condition GH-535 (isaacs)
- Set default host header properly GH-721 (isaacs)
- Upgrade V8 to 3.1.8.8

Download: [https://nodejs.org/dist/node-v0.4.5.tar.gz](https://nodejs.org/dist/node-v0.4.5.tar.gz)

Website: [https://nodejs.org/docs/v0.4.5](https://nodejs.org/docs/v0.4.5)

Documentation: [https://nodejs.org/docs/v0.4.5/api/](https://nodejs.org/docs/v0.4.5/api/)

[announcement](https://groups.google.com/d/topic/nodejs/aOC7SRLJhQY/discussion)
