2017-08-15, Version 8.4.0 (Current)

Notable changes

* **Inspector**
  * `require()` is available in the inspector console now.
    [#8837](#8837)

* **N-API**
  * New APIs for creating number values have been introduced.
    [#14573](#14573)

* **Stream**
  * For `Duplex` streams, the high water mark option can now be set
    independently for the readable and the writable side.
    [#14636](#14636)

* **Util**
  * `util.format` now supports the `%o` and `%O` specifiers for printing
    objects.
    [#14558](#14558)

PR-URL: #14811

doc/api/n-api.md

@@ -1374,7 +1374,7 @@ JavaScript DataView Objects are described in
 ### Functions to convert from C types to N-API
 #### *napi_create_int32*
 <!-- YAML
-added: REPLACEME
+added: v8.4.0
 -->
 ```C
 napi_status napi_create_int32(napi_env env, int32_t value, napi_value* result)
@@ -1395,7 +1395,7 @@ of the ECMAScript Language Specification.
 
 #### *napi_create_uint32*
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+added: v8.4.0
 -->
 ```C
 napi_status napi_create_uint32(napi_env env, uint32_t value, napi_value* result)
@@ -1416,7 +1416,7 @@ of the ECMAScript Language Specification.
 
 #### *napi_create_int64*
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-added: REPLACEME
+added: v8.4.0
 -->
 ```C
 napi_status napi_create_int64(napi_env env, int64_t value, napi_value* result)
@@ -1443,7 +1443,7 @@ outside the range of
 
 #### *napi_create_double*
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+added: v8.4.0
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 ```C
 napi_status napi_create_double(napi_env env, double value, napi_value* result)
@@ -3287,7 +3287,7 @@ callback invocation, even if it has been successfully cancelled.
 
 ### napi_get_node_version
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 ```C

doc/api/stream.md

@@ -1742,7 +1742,7 @@ constructor and implement *both* the `readable._read()` and
 #### new stream.Duplex(options)
 <!-- YAML
 changes:
-  - version: REPLACEME
+  - version: v8.4.0
     pr-url: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14636
     description: The `readableHighWaterMark` and `writableHighWaterMark` options
                  are supported now.

doc/api/util.md

@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ property take precedence over `--trace-deprecation` and
 <!-- YAML
 added: v0.5.3
 changes:
-  - version: REPLACEME
+  - version: v8.4.0
     pr-url: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14558
     description: The `%o` and `%O` specifiers are supported now.
 -->

doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V8.md

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td>
+<a href="#8.4.0">8.4.0</a><br/>
 <a href="#8.3.0">8.3.0</a><br/>
 <a href="#8.2.1">8.2.1</a><br/>
 <a href="#8.2.0">8.2.0</a><br/>
@@ -29,6 +30,85 @@
   * [io.js](CHANGELOG_IOJS.md)
   * [Archive](CHANGELOG_ARCHIVE.md)
 
+<a id="8.4.0"></a>
+## 2017-08-15, Version 8.4.0 (Current), @addaleax
+
+### Notable changes
+
+* **Inspector**
+  * `require()` is available in the inspector console now.
+    [#8837](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8837)
+
+* **N-API**
+  * New APIs for creating number values have been introduced.
+    [#14573](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14573)
+
+* **Stream**
+  * For `Duplex` streams, the high water mark option can now be set
+    independently for the readable and the writable side.
+    [#14636](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14636)
+
+* **Util**
+  * `util.format` now supports the `%o` and `%O` specifiers for printing
+    objects.
+    [#14558](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14558)
+
+### Commits
+
+* [[`a6539ece2c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a6539ece2c)] - **assert**: optimize code path for deepEqual Maps (Ruben Bridgewater) [#14501](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14501)
+* [[`2716b626b0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2716b626b0)] - **async_hooks**: CHECK that resource is not empty (Anna Henningsen) [#14694](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14694)
+* [[`b3c1c6ff7f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b3c1c6ff7f)] - **benchmark**: fix and extend assert benchmarks (Ruben Bridgewater) [#14147](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14147)
+* [[`139b08863e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/139b08863e)] - **benchmark**: Correct constructor for freelist (Gareth Ellis) [#14627](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14627)
+* [[`574cc379b9`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/574cc379b9)] - **benchmark**: remove unused parameters (nishijayaraj) [#14640](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14640)
+* [[`2d806f4f71`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2d806f4f71)] - **deps**: cherry-pick f19b889 from V8 upstream (Alexey Kozyatinskiy) [#14465](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14465)
+* [[`9e51802f53`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9e51802f53)] - **doc**: add missing `changes:` metadata for util (Anna Henningsen) [#14810](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14810)
+* [[`4811fea553`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4811fea553)] - **doc**: add missing `changes:` metadata for streams (Anna Henningsen) [#14810](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14810)
+* [[`20fb69063a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/20fb69063a)] - **doc**: fix docs style in util.md (Daijiro Wachi) [#14711](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14711)
+* [[`0de63e6888`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0de63e6888)] - **doc**: fix docs style in intl.md (Daijiro Wachi) [#14711](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14711)
+* [[`ee2ae0f30b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ee2ae0f30b)] - **doc**: expanded description of buffer.slice (Vishal Bisht) [#14720](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14720)
+* [[`9888bb1238`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9888bb1238)] - **doc**: improve fs.read() doc text (Rich Trott) [#14631](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14631)
+* [[`d604173a66`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d604173a66)] - **doc**: clarify the position argument for fs.read (dcharbonnier) [#14631](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14631)
+* [[`d3b072276b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d3b072276b)] - **doc**: add docs for AssertionError (Mandeep Singh) [#14261](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14261)
+* [[`4e15a6b76a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4e15a6b76a)] - **doc**: fix order of AtExit callbacks in addons.md (Daniel Bevenius) [#14048](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14048)
+* [[`e07dfffad0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e07dfffad0)] - **doc**: remove undef NDEBUG from addons.md (Daniel Bevenius) [#14048](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14048)
+* [[`c5ee34e39b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c5ee34e39b)] - **encoding**: rudimentary TextDecoder support w/o ICU (Timothy Gu) [#14489](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14489)
+* [[`029567a460`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/029567a460)] - **inspector**: support extra contexts (Eugene Ostroukhov) [#14465](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14465)
+* [[`d89f9f82b0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d89f9f82b0)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **inspector**: allow require in Runtime.evaluate (Jan Krems) [#8837](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8837)
+* [[`8433b1ad37`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8433b1ad37)] - **lib**: use Timer.now() in readline module (Rich Trott) [#14681](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14681)
+* [[`917ace283f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/917ace283f)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **n-api**: add napi_get_node_version (Anna Henningsen) [#14696](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14696)
+* [[`5e2cce59ef`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5e2cce59ef)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **n-api**: optimize number API performance (Jason Ginchereau) [#14573](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14573)
+* [[`c94f346b93`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c94f346b93)] - **net**: use rest parameters instead of arguments (Tobias Nießen) [#13472](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/13472)
+* [[`1c00875747`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1c00875747)] - **repl**: include folder extensions in autocomplete (Teddy Katz) [#14727](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14727)
+* [[`268a1ff3f1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/268a1ff3f1)] - **src**: mention that node options are space-separated (Gabriel Schulhof) [#14709](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14709)
+* [[`9237ef868e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9237ef868e)] - **src**: avoid creating local data variable (Daniel Bevenius) [#14732](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14732)
+* [[`f83827d64b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f83827d64b)] - **src**: use local isolate instead of args.GetIsolate (Daniel Bevenius) [#14768](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14768)
+* [[`d7d22ead2b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d7d22ead2b)] - **src**: add comments for cares library init refcount (Anna Henningsen) [#14743](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14743)
+* [[`b87fae927d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b87fae927d)] - **src**: remove duplicate loop (Anna Henningsen) [#14750](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14750)
+* [[`033773c17b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/033773c17b)] - **src**: add overlooked handle to cleanup (Anna Henningsen) [#14749](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14749)
+* [[`ef8ac7b5ac`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ef8ac7b5ac)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **stream**: support readable/writableHWM for Duplex (Guy Margalit) [#14636](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14636)
+* [[`82c63a55ea`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/82c63a55ea)] - **test**: add test-benchmark-arrays (Rich Trott) [#14728](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14728)
+* [[`0eab77c86f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0eab77c86f)] - **test**: allow inspector to reopen with same port (Gibson Fahnestock) [#14320](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14320)
+* [[`9bbbf12827`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9bbbf12827)] - **test**: remove redundant `using` in cctest (XadillaX) [#14739](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14739)
+* [[`7eb9f6f6e4`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7eb9f6f6e4)] - **test**: make totalLen snake case (Daniel Bevenius) [#14765](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14765)
+* [[`977e22857a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/977e22857a)] - **test**: make test-tls-connect checks more strict (Rich Trott) [#14695](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14695)
+* [[`a781bb4508`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a781bb4508)] - ***Revert*** "**test**: disable MultipleEnvironmentsPerIsolate" (Anna Henningsen) [#14749](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14749)
+* [[`8ff2a5c338`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8ff2a5c338)] - ***Revert*** "**test**: add DISABLED_ prefix to commented out test" (Anna Henningsen) [#14749](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14749)
+* [[`0bc3124c80`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0bc3124c80)] - **test**: properly order freeing resources in cctest (Anna Henningsen) [#14749](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14749)
+* [[`3f1bb0a551`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3f1bb0a551)] - **test**: split out load-sensitive readline tests (Rich Trott) [#14681](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14681)
+* [[`5d99d7dff2`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5d99d7dff2)] - **test**: add block scoping to test-readline-interface (Rich Trott) [#14615](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14615)
+* [[`58742729da`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/58742729da)] - **test**: set module loading error for aix (Prakash Palaniappan) [#14511](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14511)
+* [[`06ba2dae30`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/06ba2dae30)] - **test**: fix conversion of microseconds in test (Nick Stanish) [#14706](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14706)
+* [[`30837b3b90`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/30837b3b90)] - **test**: improve check in test-os (Rich Trott) [#14655](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14655)
+* [[`55aba6aee7`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/55aba6aee7)] - **test**: replace indexOf with includes (Miguel Angel Asencio Hurtado) [#14630](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14630)
+* [[`935d34bd6b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/935d34bd6b)] - **test**: fix test-readline-interface (Azard) [#14677](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14677)
+* [[`2ee3320f2c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2ee3320f2c)] - **test**: improve multiple timers tests (James M Snell) [#14616](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14616)
+* [[`71f2e76353`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/71f2e76353)] - **test**: use ciphers supported by shared OpenSSL (Jérémy Lal) [#14566](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14566)
+* [[`f73f659186`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f73f659186)] - **test**: mitigate RegEx exceeding 80 chars (Aditya Anand) [#14607](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14607)
+* [[`96147c980c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/96147c980c)] - **test**: read proper inspector message size (Bartosz Sosnowski) [#14596](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14596)
+* [[`a0e05e884e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a0e05e884e)] - **tools**: fix tools/addon-verify.js (Daniel Bevenius) [#14048](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14048)
+* [[`116841056a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/116841056a)] - **util**: improve util.inspect performance (Ruben Bridgewater) [#14492](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14492)
+* [[`7203924fea`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7203924fea)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **util**: implement %o and %O as formatting specifiers (Greg Alexander) [#14558](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14558)
+
 <a id="8.3.0"></a>
 ## 2017-08-09, Version 8.3.0 (Current), @addaleax
 

src/node_version.h

@@ -23,10 +23,10 @@
 #define SRC_NODE_VERSION_H_
 
 #define NODE_MAJOR_VERSION 8
-#define NODE_MINOR_VERSION 3
-#define NODE_PATCH_VERSION 1
+#define NODE_MINOR_VERSION 4
+#define NODE_PATCH_VERSION 0
 
-#define NODE_VERSION_IS_RELEASE 0
+#define NODE_VERSION_IS_RELEASE 1
 
 #ifndef NODE_STRINGIFY
 #define NODE_STRINGIFY(n) NODE_STRINGIFY_HELPER(n)