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title: Weekly Update - Nov 6th, 2015
author: Minwoo Jung (@jmwsoft)
date: 2015-11-06T12:00:00.000Z
status: publish
category: weekly
slug: weekly-update-2015-11-06
layout: blog-post.hbs
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### Node.js News — November 6th
Node.js v4.2.2 (LTS) is released

### Node.js v4.2.2 (LTS) Releases

This week we have one release: [Node.js v4.2.2 (LTS)](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v4.2.2/). Complete changelog from previous releases can be found [on GitHub](https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md).

### Notable changes

This is an LTS maintenance release that addresses a number of issues:

* [[`1d0f2cbf87`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1d0f2cbf87)] - **buffer**: fix value check for writeUInt{B,L}E (Trevor Norris) [#3500](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3500)
* [[`2a45b72b4a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2a45b72b4a)] - **buffer**: don't CHECK on zero-sized realloc (Ben Noordhuis) [#3499](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3499)

### Node.js foundation is considering an iteration on the official logo

* [Submit your images and ideas on GitHub!](https://github.com/nodejs/evangelism/issues/179)
* The Marketing Committee will look over ideas at some point in the future and potentially select one or take some of the ideas/direction and handoff to a designer.
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Could you give a more solid description here? The way it's worded here is very uncertain, which is uncomfortable given the topic.

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You could even just remove the bullet point with Marketing Committee in it. That isn't critical info at this point and it's there if you click the link.

* Final logo will have to be approved by the Board of Directors.

### NodeUp Podcast

* NodeUp podcast episode 93, 94 were published this week: [http://nodeup.com/ninetythree](http://nodeup.com/ninetythree), [http://nodeup.com/ninetyfour](http://nodeup.com/ninetyfour).
* The subjects of the podcast are "An LTS Show with Kat Marchán, James Snell, and Rich Trott", "A Node.js Interactive Show with Dan Shaw, Mikeal Rogers, and Kassandra Perch.".


### Community Updates

* [Understanding Garbage Collection and hunting Memory Leaks in Node.js](http://apmblog.dynatrace.com/2015/11/04/understanding-garbage-collection-and-hunting-memory-leaks-in-node-js/), "Covers how Node.js manages memory and how to trace down memory-related problems"
* [Node.js v4 gets an A+ for SSL Labs with no configuration](https://certsimple.com/blog/node-js-ssl-labs), "Node has one of the best out-of-the-box SSL setups of any web server."

If you have spotted or written something about Node.js, do come over to our [Evangelism team repo](https://github.com/nodejs/evangelism) and suggest it on the [Issues page](https://github.com/nodejs/evangelism/issues), specifically the Weekly Updates issue.
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Link to next week's Weekly Update issue?


### Upcoming Events

* [NodeFest](http://nodefest.jp/2015/), November 7th at Tokyo, Japan
* [Node Knockout](http://www.nodeknockout.com/), November 7th - 8th, Worldwide
* [Node Girls London](https://nodegirls.typeform.com/to/atW4HR), November 7th at London, UK
* [Playnode](http://playnode.io/), November 12nd at Seoul, South Korea
* [Nodevember](http://nodevember.org/?utm_source=io.js+and+Node.js+News&utm_medium=article), November 14th - 15th at Nashville, Tennessee, US.
* [JSConf.Asia](http://2015.jsconf.asia/), November 19th - 20th in Singapore.
* [NodeConf Barcelona](https://ti.to/barcelonajs/nodeconf-barcelona-2015), November 21st at Barcelona, Spain
* [CampJS VI](http://vi.campjs.com), November 20th – 23th at Queensland, Australia
* [Node.js Interactive](http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/node-interactive), December 8th - 9th at Portland, US.

Have an event about Node.js coming up? You can put your events here through the [Evangelism team repo](https://github.com/nodejs/evangelism) and announce it in the [Issues page](https://github.com/nodejs/evangelism/issues), specifically the Weekly Updates issue.
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Also a link to next week's Weekly Update issue here, if possible.