---
date: '2012-06-28T22:00:00.000Z'
category: release
title: Version 0.8.1 (stable)
layout: blog-post
author: The Node.js Project
---

2012.06.29, Version 0.8.1 (stable)

- V8: upgrade to v3.11.10.12

- npm: upgrade to v1.1.33
  - Support for parallel use of the cache folder
  - Retry on registry timeouts or network failures (Trent Mick)
  - Reduce 'engines' failures to a warning
  - Use new zsh completion if available (Jeremy Cantrell)

- Fix #3577 Un-break require('sys')

- util: speed up formatting of large arrays/objects (Ben Noordhuis)

- windows: make fs.realpath(Sync) work with UNC paths (Bert Belder)

- build: fix --shared-v8 option (Ben Noordhuis)

- doc: `detached` is a boolean (Andreas Madsen)

- build: use proper python interpreter (Ben Noordhuis)

- build: expand ~ in `./configure --prefix=~/a/b/c` (Ben Noordhuis)

- build: handle CC env var with spaces (Gabriel de Perthuis)

- build: fix V8 build when compiling with gcc 4.5 (Ben Noordhuis)

- build: fix --shared-v8 option (Ben Noordhuis)

- windows msi: Fix icon issue which caused huge file size (Bert Belder)

- unix: assume that dlopen() may clobber dlerror() (Ben Noordhuis)

- sunos: fix memory corruption bugs (Ben Noordhuis)

- windows: better (f)utimes and (f)stat (Bert Belder)

Source Code: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.1/node-v0.8.1.tar.gz

Macintosh Installer (Universal): https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.1/node-v0.8.1.pkg

Windows Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.1/node-v0.8.1-x86.msi

Windows x64 Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.1/x64/node-v0.8.1-x64.msi

Windows x64 Files: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.1/x64/

Other release files: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.1/

Website: https://nodejs.org/docs/v0.8.1/

Documentation: https://nodejs.org/docs/v0.8.1/api/

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