2015-12-16, Version 5.3.0 (Stable)

Notable changes:

* buffer:
  - Buffer.prototype.includes() has been added to keep parity
    with TypedArrays. (Alexander Martin) #3567.
* domains:
  - Fix handling of uncaught exceptions.
    (Julien Gilli) #3654.
* https:
  - Added support for disabling session caching.
    (Fedor Indutny) #4252.
* repl:
  - Allow third party modules to be imported using
    require(). This corrects a regression from 5.2.0.
    (Ben Noordhuis) #4215.
* deps:
  - Upgrade libuv to 1.8.0.
    (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé) #4276.

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4281

Conflicts:
	src/node_version.h

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 # Node.js ChangeLog
 
+## 2015-12-16, Version 5.3.0 (Stable), @cjihrig
+
+### Notable changes
+
+* **buffer**:
+  - `Buffer.prototype.includes()` has been added to keep parity with TypedArrays. (Alexander Martin) [#3567](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3567).
+* **domains**:
+  - Fix handling of uncaught exceptions. (Julien Gilli) [#3654](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3654).
+* **https**:
+  - Added support for disabling session caching. (Fedor Indutny) [#4252](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4252).
+* **repl**:
+  - Allow third party modules to be imported using `require()`. This corrects a regression from 5.2.0. (Ben Noordhuis) [#4215](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4215).
+* **deps**:
+  - Upgrade libuv to 1.8.0. (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé) [#4276](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4276).
+
+
+### Known issues
+
+* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
+* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
+* `url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
+* Unicode characters in filesystem paths are not handled consistently across platforms or Node.js APIs. See [#2088](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/2088), [#3401](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3401) and [#3519](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3519).
+
+### Commits
+
+* [[`6ca5ea3860`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/6ca5ea3860)] - 2015-12-09, Version 5.2.0 (Stable) (Rod Vagg) [#4181](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4181)
+* [[`da5cdc2207`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/da5cdc2207)] - **assert**: accommodate ES6 classes that extend Error (Rich Trott) [#4166](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4166)
+* [[`67e181986a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/67e181986a)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **buffer**: add includes() for parity with TypedArray (Alexander Martin) [#3567](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3567)
+* [[`84dea1bd0c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/84dea1bd0c)] - **configure**: fix arm vfpv2 (Jörg Krause) [#4203](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4203)
+* [[`a7f5dfd14c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a7f5dfd14c)] - **configure**: use \_\_ARM\_ARCH to determine arm version (João Reis) [#4123](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4123)
+* [[`0e3912be0b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0e3912be0b)] - **configure**: respect CC\_host in host arch detection (João Reis) [#4117](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4117)
+* [[`69b94ec55c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/69b94ec55c)] - **deps**: upgrade libuv to 1.8.0 (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé) [#4276](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4276)
+* [[`a8854e5b59`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a8854e5b59)] - **doc**: document the cache parameter for fs.realpathSync (Jackson Tian) [#4285](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4285)
+* [[`9e1b7aa874`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9e1b7aa874)] - **doc**: document backlog for server.listen() variants (Jan Schär) [#4025](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4025)
+* [[`435d571f22`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/435d571f22)] - **doc**: update AUTHORS list (Rod Vagg) [#4183](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4183)
+* [[`3b3061365a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3b3061365a)] - **doc**: update irc channels: #node.js and #node-dev (Nelson Pecora) [#2743](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2743)
+* [[`9538fd02e5`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9538fd02e5)] - **doc**: clarify error events in HTTP module documentation (Lenny Markus) [#4275](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4275)
+* [[`c6efd535e4`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c6efd535e4)] - **doc**: fix improper http.get sample code (Hideki Yamamura) [#4263](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4263)
+* [[`498c9adb08`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/498c9adb08)] - **doc**: add CTC meeting minutes 2015-10-28 (Rod Vagg) [#3661](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3661)
+* [[`671347cf13`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/671347cf13)] - **doc**: fixup socket.remoteAddress (Arthur Gautier) [#4198](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4198)
+* [[`f050cab3d8`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f050cab3d8)] - **doc**: copyedit console doc (Rich Trott) [#4225](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4225)
+* [[`1a21a5368b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1a21a5368b)] - **doc**: move description of 'equals' method to right place (janriemer) [#4227](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4227)
+* [[`9a9c5259bf`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9a9c5259bf)] - **doc**: Fixing broken links to the v8 wiki (Tom Gallacher) [#4241](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4241)
+* [[`37ed05b8c1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/37ed05b8c1)] - **doc**: copyedit child_process doc (Rich Trott) [#4188](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4188)
+* [[`e47ae5808b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e47ae5808b)] - **doc**: copyedit buffer doc (Rich Trott) [#4187](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4187)
+* [[`70fb06a90b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/70fb06a90b)] - **doc**: clarify assert.fail doc (Rich Trott) [#4186](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4186)
+* [[`e3187cc81e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e3187cc81e)] - **doc**: copyedit addons doc (Rich Trott) [#4185](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4185)
+* [[`931ab967ff`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/931ab967ff)] - **doc**: add calvinmetcalf to collaborators (Calvin Metcalf) [#4218](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4218)
+* [[`01ce23148b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/01ce23148b)] - **doc**: add mcollina to collaborators (Matteo Collina) [#4220](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4220)
+* [[`bd8753aabf`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/bd8753aabf)] - **doc**: add rmg to collaborators (Ryan Graham) [#4219](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4219)
+* [[`73a9a6fc92`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/73a9a6fc92)] - **doc**: harmonize description of `ca` argument (Ben Noordhuis) [#4213](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4213)
+* [[`dfc8bedbc5`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/dfc8bedbc5)] - **doc**: change references from node to Node.js (Roman Klauke) [#4177](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4177)
+* [[`7a518788e9`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7a518788e9)] - **doc, test**: symbols as event names (Bryan English) [#4151](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4151)
+* [[`425a3545d2`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/425a3545d2)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **domains**: fix handling of uncaught exceptions (Julien Gilli) [#3654](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3654)
+* [[`acef181fde`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/acef181fde)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **https**: support disabling session caching (Fedor Indutny) [#4252](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4252)
+* [[`2a60e2ad71`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2a60e2ad71)] - **module,src**: do not wrap modules with -1 lineOffset (cjihrig) [#4298](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4298)
+* [[`d3c498b1b7`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d3c498b1b7)] - **node**: remove unused variables in AppendExceptionLine (Yazhong Liu) [#4264](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4264)
+* [[`aad6b9f0eb`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/aad6b9f0eb)] - **repl**: display error message when loading directory (Prince J Wesley) [#4170](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4170)
+* [[`213ede6cee`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/213ede6cee)] - **repl**: fix require('3rdparty') regression (Ben Noordhuis) [#4215](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4215)
+* [[`f176b31e74`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f176b31e74)] - **src**: remove \_\_builtin\_bswap16 call (Ben Noordhuis) [#4290](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4290)
+* [[`ce2471673f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ce2471673f)] - **src**: remove unused BITS_PER_LONG macro (Ben Noordhuis) [#4290](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4290)
+* [[`b799a74709`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b799a74709)] - **src**: fix line numbers on core errors (cjihrig) [#4254](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4254)
+* [[`c311b61430`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c311b61430)] - **src**: fix deprecation message for ErrnoException (Martin von Gagern) [#4269](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4269)
+* [[`2859f9ef92`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2859f9ef92)] - **test**: fix debug-port-cluster flakiness (Ben Noordhuis) [#4310](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4310)
+* [[`cb0b4a6bc0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/cb0b4a6bc0)] - **test**: add test for debugging one line files (cjihrig) [#4298](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4298)
+* [[`0b9c3a30d6`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0b9c3a30d6)] - **test**: add test for tls.parseCertString (Evan Lucas) [#4283](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4283)
+* [[`7598ed6cc0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7598ed6cc0)] - **test**: parallelize test-repl-persistent-history (Jeremiah Senkpiel) [#4247](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4247)
+* [[`668449ad14`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/668449ad14)] - **test**: use regular timeout times for ARMv8 (Jeremiah Senkpiel) [#4248](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4248)
+* [[`23e7703c85`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/23e7703c85)] - **test**: fix http-many-ended-pipelines flakiness (Santiago Gimeno) [#4041](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4041)
+* [[`3b94991bda`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3b94991bda)] - **test**: fix tls-inception flakiness (Santiago Gimeno) [#4195](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4195)
+* [[`86a3bd09b0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/86a3bd09b0)] - **test**: fix tls-inception (Santiago Gimeno) [#4195](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4195)
+* [[`1e89830a11`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1e89830a11)] - **test**: don't assume openssl s\_client supports -ssl3 (Ben Noordhuis) [#4204](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4204)
+* [[`c5b4f6bc99`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c5b4f6bc99)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **tls**: introduce `secureContext` for `tls.connect` (Fedor Indutny) [#4246](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4246)
+* [[`e0bb118a1d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e0bb118a1d)] - **tls_wrap**: inherit from the `AsyncWrap` first (Fedor Indutny) [#4268](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4268)
+* [[`d63cceeb10`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d63cceeb10)] - **tools**: add .editorconfig (ronkorving) [#2993](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2993)
+* [[`4b267df93e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4b267df93e)] - **udp**: remove a needless instanceof Buffer check (ronkorving) [#4301](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4301)
+
 ## 2015-12-09, Version 5.2.0 (Stable), @rvagg
 
 ### Notable changes