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date: '2016-04-01T00:12:07.721Z'
category: release
title: Node.js 0.12.13 (LTS)
layout: blog-post
author: Rod Vagg
---

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**This is a security release**, upgrading the bundled version of npm due to a credentials leak vulnerability. Further information can be found in our post: /blog/vulnerability/npm-tokens-leak-march-2016/

Node.js 0.12.13 will be the **final Active-LTS release for the v0.12 release line**, from next month, v0.12 moves in to Maintenance. This change impacts on the types of changes that will be accepted in to v0.12 releases, restricting them primarily to critical security and stability fixes. v0.12 will remain supported until the end of 2016 but it is important that you begin planning your move to a new release line as soon as possible. **v4 (LTS "Argon")** is recommended at this stage.

**Update**: **the version of npm included in this release does not have the correct version string**. As such executing `npm -v` will report `2.15.0` rather than `2.15.1`, which is incorrect. The source code included in this release is in fact the source for `2.15.1`, including the security fix.

### Notable changes:

- **npm**: Upgrade to v2.15.1. Fixes a security flaw in the use of authentication tokens in HTTP requests that would allow an attacker to set up a server that could collect tokens from users of the command-line interface. Authentication tokens have previously been sent with every request made by the CLI for logged-in users, regardless of the destination of the request. This update fixes this by only including those tokens for requests made against the registry or registries used for the current install. (Forrest L Norvell) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5967
- **openssl**: OpenSSL v1.0.1s disables the EXPORT and LOW ciphers as they are obsolete and not considered safe. This release of Node.js turns on `OPENSSL_NO_WEAK_SSL_CIPHERS` to fully disable the 27 ciphers included in these lists which can be used in SSLv3 and higher. Full details can be found in our LTS discussion on the matter (https://github.com/nodejs/LTS/issues/85). (Shigeki Ohtsu) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5712

Commits:

- \[2ce29165a1] - deps: upgrade npm in LTS to 2.15.1 (Forrest L Norvell)
- \[a115779026] - deps: Disable EXPORT and LOW ciphers in openssl (Shigeki Ohtsu) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5712
- \[ab907eb5a8] - test: skip cluster-disconnect-race on Windows (Gibson Fahnestock) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5621
- \[9c06db7444] - test: change tls tests not to use LOW cipher (Shigeki Ohtsu) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5712
- \[154098a3dc] - test: bp fix for test-http-get-pipeline-problem.js (Michael Dawson) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3013
- \[ff2bed6e86] - win,build: support Visual C++ Build Tools 2015 (João Reis) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5627

Windows 32-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.12.13/node-v0.12.13-x86.msi \
Windows 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.12.13/x64/node-v0.12.13-x64.msi \
Windows 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.12.13/node.exe \
Windows 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.12.13/x64/node.exe \
Mac OS X Universal Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.12.13/node-v0.12.13.pkg \
Mac OS X 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.12.13/node-v0.12.13-darwin-x64.tar.gz \
Mac OS X 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.12.13/node-v0.12.13-darwin-x86.tar.gz \
Linux 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.12.13/node-v0.12.13-linux-x86.tar.gz \
Linux 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.12.13/node-v0.12.13-linux-x64.tar.gz \
SmartOS 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.12.13/node-v0.12.13-sunos-x86.tar.gz \
SmartOS 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.12.13/node-v0.12.13-sunos-x64.tar.gz \
Source Code: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.12.13/node-v0.12.13.tar.gz \
Other release files: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.12.13/ \
Documentation: https://nodejs.org/docs/v0.12.13/api/

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