---
date: '2018-03-06T20:04:04.973Z'
category: release
title: Node.js 6.13.1 (LTS)
layout: blog-post
author: Myles Borins
---

### Notable Changes

- **http, tls**:
  - better support for IPv6 addresses (Mattias Holmlund) [#14772](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14772)

### Commits

- \[[`d333ba5e2a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d333ba5e2a)] - **doc**: add vdeturckheim as collaborator (vdeturckheim) [#18432](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/18432)
- \[[`7fc5c69a4a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7fc5c69a4a)] - **doc**: use PBKDF2 in text (Tobias Nießen) [#18279](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/18279)
- \[[`1e8d1200ce`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1e8d1200ce)] - **doc**: Add example of null to assert.ifError (Leko) [#18236](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/18236)
- \[[`46e43111af`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/46e43111af)] - **doc**: V8 branch used in 8.x not active anymore (Franziska Hinkelmann) [#18155](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/18155)
- \[[`b83b104c17`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b83b104c17)] - **doc**: add builtin module in building.md (Suixinlei) [#17705](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/17705)
- \[[`2e76df5b4e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2e76df5b4e)] - **doc**: warn users about non-ASCII paths on build (Matheus Marchini) [#16735](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/16735)
- \[[`2c21421092`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2c21421092)] - **doc**: simplify sentences that use "considered" (Rich Trott) [#18095](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/18095)
- \[[`8f9362d6e8`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8f9362d6e8)] - **doc**: add documentation for deprecation properties (Jon Moss) [#16539](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/16539)
- \[[`1505b71dab`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1505b71dab)] - **doc**: add Leko to collaborators (Leko) [#18117](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/18117)
- \[[`838f7bdb6e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/838f7bdb6e)] - **doc**: be less tentative about undefined behavior (Rich Trott) [#18091](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/18091)
- \[[`17c88c4c18`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/17c88c4c18)] - **doc**: examples for fast-tracking regression fixes (Refael Ackermann) [#17379](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/17379)
- \[[`e021fb73d2`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e021fb73d2)] - **doc,test**: mention Duplex support for TLS (Anna Henningsen) [#17599](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/17599)
- \[[`df038ad90f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/df038ad90f)] - **fs**: fix options.end of fs.ReadStream() (陈刚) [#18121](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/18121)
- \[[`8e7ac25aa6`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8e7ac25aa6)] - **http, tls**: better support for IPv6 addresses (Mattias Holmlund) [#14772](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14772)
- \[[`969c39eb3a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/969c39eb3a)] - **lib**: enable dot-notation eslint rule (Anatoli Papirovski) [#18007](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/18007)
- \[[`37071b8dda`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/37071b8dda)] - **path**: fix path.normalize for relative paths (Weijia Wang) [#17974](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/17974)
- \[[`fdf73b110f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/fdf73b110f)] - **test**: preserve env in test cases (Beth Griggs) [#14822](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14822)
- \[[`bb2d292562`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/bb2d292562)] - **test**: change assert message to default (ryanmahan) [#18259](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/18259)
- \[[`27107b957c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/27107b957c)] - **test**: use countdown timer (Mandeep Singh) [#17326](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/17326)
- \[[`eaa30e4947`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/eaa30e4947)] - **test**: simplify loadDHParam in TLS test (Tobias Nießen) [#18103](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/18103)
- \[[`2004efded8`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2004efded8)] - **test**: improve to use template string (sreepurnajasti) [#18097](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/18097)
- \[[`16ef24bccf`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/16ef24bccf)] - **test**: use smaller input file for test-zlib.js (Rich Trott) [#17988](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/17988)
- \[[`48790382f1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/48790382f1)] - **tools**: add number-isnan rule (Jon Moss) [#17556](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/17556)

Windows 32-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.13.1/node-v6.13.1-x86.msi \
Windows 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.13.1/node-v6.13.1-x64.msi \
Windows 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.13.1/win-x86/node.exe \
Windows 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.13.1/win-x64/node.exe \
macOS 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.13.1/node-v6.13.1.pkg \
macOS 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.13.1/node-v6.13.1-darwin-x64.tar.gz \
Linux 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.13.1/node-v6.13.1-linux-x86.tar.xz \
Linux 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.13.1/node-v6.13.1-linux-x64.tar.xz \
Linux PPC LE 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.13.1/node-v6.13.1-linux-ppc64le.tar.xz \
Linux PPC BE 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.13.1/node-v6.13.1-linux-ppc64.tar.xz \
Linux s390x 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.13.1/node-v6.13.1-linux-s390x.tar.xz \
AIX 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.13.1/node-v6.13.1-aix-ppc64.tar.gz \
SmartOS 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.13.1/node-v6.13.1-sunos-x86.tar.xz \
SmartOS 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.13.1/node-v6.13.1-sunos-x64.tar.xz \
ARMv6 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.13.1/node-v6.13.1-linux-armv6l.tar.xz \
ARMv7 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.13.1/node-v6.13.1-linux-armv7l.tar.xz \
ARMv8 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.13.1/node-v6.13.1-linux-arm64.tar.xz \
Source Code: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.13.1/node-v6.13.1.tar.gz \
Other release files: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.13.1/ \
Documentation: https://nodejs.org/docs/v6.13.1/api/

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