---
date: '2016-10-19T22:42:20.300Z'
category: release
title: Node.js 6.9.1 (LTS)
layout: blog-post
author: Myles Borins
---

### Notable changes

- **streams**: Fix a regression introduced in v6.8.0 in readable stream that caused unpipe to remove the wrong stream (Anna Henningsen)

### Commits

- \[[`2c3bbb576c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2c3bbb576c)] - **doc**: fix changelog index for v6.9.0 (Rod Vagg) [#9168](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9168)
- \[[`f4b766f5b7`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f4b766f5b7)] - **streams**: fix regression in `unpipe()` (Anna Henningsen) [#9171](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9171)
- \[[`6072326009`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/6072326009)] - **test**: add regression test for `unpipe()` (Niels Nielsen) [#9171](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9171)
- \[[`9f248a4d83`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9f248a4d83)] - **tools**: check tag is on github before release (Rod Vagg) [#9142](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9142)
- \[[`c74d3a700a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c74d3a700a)] - **tools**: make detached SHASUM .sig file for releases (Rod Vagg) [#9071](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9071)
- \[[`955bbf876f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/955bbf876f)] - **tools**: explicitly set digest algo for SHASUM to 256 (Rod Vagg) [#9071](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9071)

Windows 32-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.9.1/node-v6.9.1-x86.msi \
Windows 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.9.1/node-v6.9.1-x64.msi \
Windows 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.9.1/win-x86/node.exe \
Windows 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.9.1/win-x64/node.exe \
macOS 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.9.1/node-v6.9.1.pkg \
macOS 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.9.1/node-v6.9.1-darwin-x64.tar.gz \
Linux 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.9.1/node-v6.9.1-linux-x86.tar.xz \
Linux 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.9.1/node-v6.9.1-linux-x64.tar.xz \
Linux PPC LE 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.9.1/node-v6.9.1-linux-ppc64le.tar.xz \
SmartOS 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.9.1/node-v6.9.1-sunos-x86.tar.xz \
SmartOS 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.9.1/node-v6.9.1-sunos-x64.tar.xz \
ARMv6 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.9.1/node-v6.9.1-linux-armv6l.tar.xz \
ARMv7 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.9.1/node-v6.9.1-linux-armv7l.tar.xz \
ARMv8 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.9.1/node-v6.9.1-linux-arm64.tar.xz \
Source Code: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.9.1/node-v6.9.1.tar.gz \
Other release files: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.9.1/ \
Documentation: https://nodejs.org/docs/v6.9.1/api/

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