---
date: '2016-10-15T00:38:39.584Z'
category: release
title: Node.js 6.8.1 (Current)
layout: blog-post
author: Evan Lucas
---

### Notable changes

- **build**: Fix building with shared zlib. (Bradley T. Hughes) [#9077](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9077)
- **stream**: Fix regression in `stream.Writable` subclass `instanceof` checks. (Anna Henningsen) [#9088](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9088)
- **timers**: Fix regression where immediates that are cleared in the callback would never be called. (Brian White) [#9086](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9086)

### Commits

- \[[`8d2206fe41`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8d2206fe41)] - **build**: add -DZLIB_CONST when building with --shared-zlib (Bradley T. Hughes) [#9077](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9077)
- \[[`8c4fab0a28`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8c4fab0a28)] - **stream**: fix `Writable` subclass instanceof checks (Anna Henningsen) [#9088](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9088)
- \[[`7171bd6311`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7171bd6311)] - **timers**: fix regression with clearImmediate() (Brian White) [#9086](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9086)

Windows 32-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.8.1/node-v6.8.1-x86.msi \
Windows 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.8.1/node-v6.8.1-x64.msi \
Windows 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.8.1/win-x86/node.exe \
Windows 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.8.1/win-x64/node.exe \
macOS 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.8.1/node-v6.8.1.pkg \
macOS 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.8.1/node-v6.8.1-darwin-x64.tar.gz \
Linux 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.8.1/node-v6.8.1-linux-x86.tar.xz \
Linux 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.8.1/node-v6.8.1-linux-x64.tar.xz \
Linux PPC LE 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.8.1/node-v6.8.1-linux-ppc64le.tar.xz \
SmartOS 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.8.1/node-v6.8.1-sunos-x86.tar.xz \
SmartOS 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.8.1/node-v6.8.1-sunos-x64.tar.xz \
ARMv6 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.8.1/node-v6.8.1-linux-armv6l.tar.xz \
ARMv7 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.8.1/node-v6.8.1-linux-armv7l.tar.xz \
ARMv8 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.8.1/node-v6.8.1-linux-arm64.tar.xz \
Source Code: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.8.1/node-v6.8.1.tar.gz \
Other release files: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.8.1/ \
Documentation: https://nodejs.org/docs/v6.8.1/api/

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