Nodejs.org: Node.js 8 version listed with a `v` in Downloads

Created on 31 May 2017 · 4Comments · Source: nodejs/nodejs.org

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julianduque

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I think maybe this is implied:

Note that, when referring to Node.js release versions, we have dropped the "v" in Node.js 8. Previous versions were commonly referred to as v0.10, v0.12, v4, v6, etc. In order to avoid confusion with V8, the underlying JavaScript engine, we've dropped the "v" and call it Node.js 8.

vsemozhetbyt on 31 May 2017

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Hmm what's wrong?

$ node -v
v8.0.0

lpinca on 31 May 2017

I think maybe this is implied:

Note that, when referring to Node.js release versions, we have dropped the "v" in Node.js 8. Previous versions were commonly referred to as v0.10, v0.12, v4, v6, etc. In order to avoid confusion with V8, the underlying JavaScript engine, we've dropped the "v" and call it Node.js 8.

vsemozhetbyt on 31 May 2017

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So these all match the output of node -p process.versions (except npm, which matches npm -v). I don't think there's a downside to removing the v from this table.

➜  ~ ❯ node -p process.versions                                                                    ~
{ http_parser: '2.7.0',
  node: '9.0.0-pre',
  v8: '5.8.283.41',
  uv: '1.11.0',
  zlib: '1.2.11',
  ares: '1.10.1-DEV',
  modules: '55',
  openssl: '1.0.2k',
  icu: '59.1',
  unicode: '9.0',
  cldr: '31.0.1',
  tz: '2017b' }
➜  ~ ❯ node -v                                                                                     ~
v9.0.0-pre