- buffer: (Breaking) Removed both
'raw'and'raws'encoding types fromBuffer, these have been deprecated for a long time (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #2859. - console: (Breaking) Values reported by
console.time()now have 3 decimals of accuracy added (Michaël Zasso) #3166. - fs:
fs.readFile*(),fs.writeFile*(), andfs.appendFile*()now also accept a file descriptor as their first argument (Johannes Wüller) #3163.- (Breaking) In
fs.readFile(), if an encoding is specified and the internaltoString()fails the error is no longer thrown but is passed to the callback (Evan Lucas) #3485.
- (Breaking) In
fs.read()(using thefs.read(fd, length, position, encoding, callback)form), if the internaltoString()fails the error is no longer thrown but is passe