2016-04-26, Version 6.0.0 (Current) Release

The following significant (semver-major) changes have been made since the
previous Node v5.0.0 release.

* Buffer
  * New Buffer constructors have been added
    [#4682](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4682)
  * Previously deprecated Buffer APIs are removed
    [#5048](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5048),
    [#4594](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4594)
  * Improved error handling [#4514](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4514)
* Cluster
  * Worker emitted as first argument in 'message' event
    [#5361](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5361).
* Crypto
  * Improved error handling [#3100](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3100),
    [#5611](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5611)
  * Simplified Certificate class bindings
    [#5382](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5382)
  * Improved control over FIPS mode
    [#5181](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5181)
  * pbkdf2 digest overloading is deprecated
    [#4047](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4047)
* Dependencies
  * Reintroduce shared c-ares build support
    [#5775](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5775).
  * V8 updated to 5.0.71.31 [#6111](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6111).
* DNS
  * Add resolvePtr API to query plain DNS PTR records
    [#4921](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4921).
* Domains
  * Clear stack when no error handler
  [#4659](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4659).
* File System
  * The `fs.realpath()` and `fs.realpathSync()` methods have been updated
    to use a more efficient libuv implementation. This change includes the
    removal of the `cache` argument and the method can throw new errors
    [#3594](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3594)
  * FS apis can now accept and return paths as Buffers
    [#5616](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5616).
  * Error handling and type checking improvements
    [#5616](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5616),
    [#5590](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5590),
    [#4518](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4518),
    [#3917](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3917).
  * fs.read's string interface is deprecated
    [#4525](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4525)
* HTTP
  * 'clientError' can now be used to return custom errors from an
    HTTP server [#4557](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4557).
* Modules
  * Current directory is now prioritized for local lookups
    [#5689](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5689)
  * Symbolic links are preserved when requiring modules
    [#5950](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5950)
* Net
  * DNS hints no longer implicitly set
    [#6021](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6021).
  * Improved error handling and type checking
    [#5981](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5981),
    [#5733](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5733),
    [#2904](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2904)
* OS X
  * MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET has been bumped up to 10.7
    [#6402](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6402).
* Path
  * Improved type checking [#5348](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5348).
* Process
  * Introduce process warnings API
    [#4782](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4782).
  * Throw exception when non-function passed to nextTick
    [#3860](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3860).
* Readline
  * Emit key info unconditionally
    [#6024](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6024)
* REPL
  * Assignment to `_` will emit a warning.
    [#5535](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5535)
* Timers
  * Fail early when callback is not a function
    [#4362](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4362)
* TLS
  * Rename 'clientError' to 'tlsClientError'
    [#4557](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4557)
  * SHA1 used for sessionIdContext
    [#3866](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3866)
* TTY
  * Previously deprecated setRawMode wrapper is removed
    [#2528](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2528).
* Util
  * Changes to Error object formatting
    [#4582](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4582).
* Windows
  * Windows XP and Vista are no longer supported
    [#5167](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5167),
    [#5167](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5167).

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/node_version.h b/src/node_version.h
index 77cf558167..174d3a2e6f 100644
--- a/src/node_version.h
+++ b/src/node_version.h
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #ifndef SRC_NODE_VERSION_H_
 #define SRC_NODE_VERSION_H_
 
-#define NODE_MAJOR_VERSION 6
+#define NODE_MAJOR_VERSION 7
 #define NODE_MINOR_VERSION 0
 #define NODE_PATCH_VERSION 0
 
@@ -49,6 +49,6 @@
  * an API is broken in the C++ side, including in v8 or
  * other dependencies.
  */
-#define NODE_MODULE_VERSION 47 /* Node.js v5.0.0 */
+#define NODE_MODULE_VERSION 48 /* Node.js v6.0.0 */
 
 #endif  /* SRC_NODE_VERSION_H_ */