RHBA-2018:0318 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated rh-nodejs8 packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Software Collections.

Description

Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the JavaScript programming language.

The rh-nodejs8-nodejs package has been upgraded to upstream version 8.9.4, which provides a number of bug and security fixes and enhancements over the previous version. Notable changes include:

• Node.js version 8 has transitioned into the latest Long Term Support (LTS).
• The npm package manager has been upgraded to version 5.6.0.
• The V8 engine has been updated.
• The http2 socket is now exposed by default.

(BZ#1513560)

This update also fixes the following bug:

• Previously, npm was unable to delete devDependencies from the project's dependency tree. A patch has been applied, and npm is now able to delete unnecessary modules from the node_modules/ directory as expected. (BZ#1530833)

Users of rh-nodejs8 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add these enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.7 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.6 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.5 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.5 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.4 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for ARM) 1 aarch64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1530833 - npm prune --production fails
• BZ - 1542079 - Minizlib needs to be updated to version 1.0.4

CVEs

(none)

References

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