| Port details |
- node8 V8 JavaScript for client and server (8.x LTS)
- 8.17.0 www
=1 8.17.0Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch. DEPRECATED: Node.js 8.x has reached end-of-life, see https://github.com/nodejs/Release
This port expired on: 2019-12-31
- Maintainer: bhughes@FreeBSD.org
 - Port Added: 2017-11-06 14:18:04
- Last Update: 2020-03-10 21:55:06
- SVN Revision: 528198
- People watching this port, also watch:: npm, neofetch, node, sudo, portmaster
- License: MIT
- WWW:
- https://nodejs.org/
- Description:
- Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript
engine. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that
makes it lightweight and efficient. Node.js' package ecosystem,
npm, is the largest ecosystem of open source libraries in the world.
WWW: https://nodejs.org/
cgit ¦ GitHub ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ 
- Manual pages:
- FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
- pkg-plist: as obtained via:
make generate-plist - USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
- no SUBR information found for this port
- Dependency lines:
-
- Conflicts:
- CONFLICTS_INSTALL:
- node6-[0-9]*
- node10-[0-9]*
- node12-[0-9]*
- node-[0-9]*
- No installation instructions:
- This port has been deleted.
- PKGNAME: node8
- Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
- ONLY_FOR_ARCHS: aarch64 amd64 armv6 armv7 i386 powerpc64
- distinfo:
- TIMESTAMP = 1579818559
SHA256 (node-v8.17.0.tar.gz) = aa583f19065545fa4c9b480ba13cf94f29350415ca5a853a5afde3c9b6982c4b
SIZE (node-v8.17.0.tar.gz) = 32263914
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- Dependencies
- NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
- Build dependencies:
-
- c-ares>=1.10.0 : dns/c-ares
- libuv>1.23.2 : devel/libuv
- libnghttp2>=1.39.2 : www/libnghttp2
- icu>=60.1 : devel/icu
- gmake : devel/gmake
- python2.7 : lang/python27
- pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
- Runtime dependencies:
-
- ca_root_nss>=0 : security/ca_root_nss
- Library dependencies:
-
- libcares.so : dns/c-ares
- libuv.so : devel/libuv
- libnghttp2.so : www/libnghttp2
- libicui18n.so : devel/icu
- There are no ports dependent upon this port
Configuration Options:
- ===> The following configuration options are available for node8-8.17.0:
BUNDLED_SSL=off: Use node.js's bundled OpenSSL implementation
DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation
DTRACE=on: Build with DTrace probes
NLS=on: Native Language Support
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
- Options name:
- N/A
- USES:
- compiler:c++11-lib gmake python:2.7,build pkgconfig localbase shebangfix ssl
- pkg-message:
- For install:
- Note: If you need npm (Node Package Manager), please install www/npm.
- Master Sites:
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| Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page) |
| Commit | Credits | Log message |
8.17.0 10 Mar 2020 21:55:06
  |
rene  |
Remove expired ports:
2019-12-31 www/node8: Node.js 8.x has reached end-of-life, see
https://github.com/nodejs/Release
www/npm-node8, slave of www/node8
www/yarn-node8, slave of www/node8 |
8.17.0 10 Mar 2020 05:35:11
  |
bhughes  |
www/node8: add deprecation notice and expiration date
Node.js 8.x reached end-of-life on 2019-12-31.
Sponsored by: Miles AS |
8.17.0 31 Jan 2020 11:13:47
  |
bhughes  |
www/node8: Update to 8.17.0
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v8.17.0/
Sponsored by: Miles AS |
8.16.2 03 Nov 2019 22:32:03
  |
bhughes  |
www/node12: copy from www/node
Create a new port for the latest Node.js 12.13.0 LTS release. Update
CONFLICTS for the existing Node.js ports to include the new node12 port.
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v12.13.0/
Sponsored by: Miles AS |
8.16.2 22 Oct 2019 20:50:19
  |
bhughes  |
www/node8: Update 8.16.1_1 -> 8.16.2
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v8.16.2/
Sponsored by: Miles AS |
8.16.1_1 03 Oct 2019 20:35:30
  |
jbeich  |
devel/icu: update to 65.1
Changes: http://site.icu-project.org/download/65
ABI: https://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/timeline/icu4c/ |
8.16.1 14 Sep 2019 22:01:13
  |
jbeich  |
Drop C++11 workaround for GCC < 6 after r449590
lang/gcc5 will expire in ~1 month. If someone still uses lang/gcc48
they should backport C++11 fix instead. QA on GCC architecuters is
currently limited to powerpc64 which uses GCC_DEFAULT.
PR: 193528 |
8.16.1 20 Aug 2019 22:27:14
  |
bhughes  |
www/node8: Update 8.16.0 -> 8.16.1
This is a security release. All Node.js users should consult the security
release summary at
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/aug-2019-security-releases/
for details on patched vulnerabilities.
MFH: 2019Q3
Security: c97a940b-c392-11e9-bb38-000d3ab229d6
Sponsored by: Miles AS |
8.16.0_1 14 Aug 2019 12:25:09
  |
mat  |
Convert to UCL & cleanup pkg-message (categories w) |
8.16.0_1 26 Jul 2019 20:46:57
  |
gerald  |
Bump PORTREVISION for ports depending on the canonical version of GCC
as defined in Mk/bsd.default-versions.mk which has moved from GCC 8.3
to GCC 9.1 under most circumstances now after revision 507371.
This includes ports
- with USE_GCC=yes or USE_GCC=any,
- with USES=fortran,
- using Mk/bsd.octave.mk which in turn features USES=fortran, and
- with USES=compiler specifying openmp, nestedfct, c11, c++0x, c++11-lang,
c++11-lib, c++14-lang, c++17-lang, or gcc-c++11-lib
plus, everything INDEX-11 shows with a dependency on lang/gcc9 now.
PR: 238330 |
8.16.0 24 May 2019 05:42:46
  |
antoine  |
Revert r502354 and unbreak INDEX |
8.16.0 23 May 2019 20:28:28
  |
bhughes  |
Remove www/node6
This port reached end-of-life upstream on 2019-04-30. Remove node6-*
from CONFLICTS for the remaining www/node* ports.
Sponsored by: Miles AS |
8.16.0 08 May 2019 19:09:47
  |
bhughes  |
www/node8: add registers used by powerpc64 to sampler
Add missing registers for powerpc64.
PR: 237617
Submitted by: pkubaj
Sponsored by: Miles AS |
8.16.0 21 Apr 2019 18:04:52
  |
bhughes  |
www/node8: Update 8.15.1_1 -> 8.16.0
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v8.16.0/
Sponsored by: Miles AS |
8.15.1_1 29 Mar 2019 04:57:05
  |
bhughes  |
www/node*: specify minimum versions of dependencies in BUILD_DEPENDS
Add BUILD_DEPENDS for all LIB_DEPENDS, specifying the minimum version as
the version bundled with a particlar version of Node.js. This should help
people building from ports with out-of-date dependencies with a helpful
message instead of build failures.
Reported by: freebsd-ports@
Sponsored by: Miles AS |
8.15.1_1 27 Mar 2019 21:11:09
  |
jbeich  |
devel/icu: update to 64.1
Changes: http://site.icu-project.org/download/64
ABI: https://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/timeline/icu4c/
PR: 236325
Exp-run by: antoine
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19479 |
8.15.1 12 Mar 2019 21:08:19
  |
bhughes  |
www/node8:set environment variables for host build
The Node.js build system supports cross-compilation via node-gyp, which
picks up CC, CXX, LINK, C*FLAGS, and LDFLAGS from the environment for the
target build, but not for the host. We need to set the environment variables
for the "host" build.
Sponsored by: Miles AS
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19250 |
8.15.1 03 Mar 2019 09:16:07
  |
bhughes  |
www/node8: Update 8.15.0 -> 8.15.1
This is a security release. All Node.js users should consult the security
release summary at
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/february-2019-security-releases/
for details on patched vulnerabilities.
MFH: 2019Q1
Security: b71d7193-3c54-11e9-a3f9-00155d006b02
Sponsored by: Miles AS |
8.15.0 11 Feb 2019 18:24:42
  |
bhughes  |
www/node*: fix build on non-amd64/-i386 when BUNDLED_SSL is unset
The --openssl-no-asm configure option should only be set
when BUNDLED_SSL is enabled.
PR: 235311
Reported by: jbeich
Sponsored by: Miles AS |
8.15.0 23 Jan 2019 21:14:27
  |
bhughes  |
www/node8: convert port to use BROKEN_SSL
Sponsored by: Miles AS |
8.15.0 28 Dec 2018 20:45:36
  |
bhughes  |
www/node8: Update 8.14.0_1 -> 8.15.0
The 8.14.0 security release introduced some unexpected breakages on the
8.x release line. This is a special release to fix a regression in the
HTTP binary upgrade response body and add a missing CLI flag to adjust
the max header size of the http parser.
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v8.15.0/
Sponsored by: Miles AS |
8.14.0_1 21 Dec 2018 12:50:29
  |
bhughes  |
www/node8: fix build on powerpc64
PR: 233689
Submitted by: Piotr Kubaj <pkubaj@anongoth.pl>
Sponsored by: Miles AS |
8.14.0_1 12 Dec 2018 01:35:36
  |
gerald  |
Bump PORTREVISION for ports depending on the canonical version of GCC
defined via Mk/bsd.default-versions.mk which has moved from GCC 7.4 t
GCC 8.2 under most circumstances.
This includes ports
- with USE_GCC=yes or USE_GCC=any,
- with USES=fortran,
- using Mk/bsd.octave.mk which in turn features USES=fortran, and
- with USES=compiler specifying openmp, nestedfct, c11, c++0x, c++11-lang,
c++11-lib, c++14-lang, c++17-lang, or gcc-c++11-lib
plus, as a double check, everything INDEX-11 showed depending on lang/gcc7.
PR: 231590 |
8.14.0 11 Dec 2018 10:10:02
  |
antoine  |
Spell CHOSEN_COMPILER_TYPE correctly
PR: 199098
With hat: portmgr |
8.14.0 10 Dec 2018 11:35:37
  |
bhughes  |
www/node8: Update 8.13.0 -> 8.14.0
This is a security release addressing multiple vulnerabilities. Users
are recommended to upgrade as soon as possible.
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/november-2018-security-releases/
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v8.14.0/
MFH: 2018Q4
Security: 2a86f45a-fc3c-11e8-a414-00155d006b02
Sponsored by: Miles AS |
8.13.0 21 Nov 2018 04:43:13
  |
bhughes  |
www/node8: Update 8.12.0_1 -> 8.13.0
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v8.13.0/
Sponsored by: Miles AS |
8.12.0_1 02 Nov 2018 13:32:35
  |
rene  |
Remove compatibility code for FreeBSD < 11.2 from all ports.
Simplify some ports where DragonFlyBSD no longer needs to be special-cased.
Submitted by: rene
Reviewed by: bapt, jbeich
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17724 |
8.12.0_1 31 Oct 2018 21:03:49
  |
bhughes  |
www/node10: copy from www/node, update 10.12.0_1 -> 10.13.0 (LTS)
Create a new port for the latest Node.js 10.13.0 LTS release. Update
CONFLICTS for the existing Node.js ports to include the new node10 port
and remove non-existent ports.
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v10.13.0/
Sponsored by: Miles AS |
8.12.0_1 23 Oct 2018 11:35:04
  |
jbeich  |
devel/icu: update to 63.1
Changes: http://site.icu-project.org/download/63
ABI: https://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/timeline/icu4c/
PR: 232300
Exp-run by: antoine |
8.12.0 14 Sep 2018 03:49:54
  |
bhughes  |
www/node8: Update 8.11.4_1 -> 8.12.0
- drop b8f47b27571f.patch, which has been applied upstream
- refresh patches with `make makepatch`
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v8.12.0/
Sponsored by: Miles AS |
8.11.4_1 06 Sep 2018 19:40:23
  |
bhughes  |
www/node8: add dependency on www/libnghttp2
... instead of using the bundled version. Bump PORTREVISION due to the
new dependency.
Sponsored by: Miles AS |
8.11.4 27 Aug 2018 11:28:24
  |
bhughes  |
www/node8: Update 8.11.3_2 -> 8.11.4
This is a security release addressing multiple vulnerabilities. Users
are recommended to upgrade as soon as possible.
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/august-2018-security-releases/
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v8.11.4/
MFH: 2018Q3
Security: 0904e81f-a89d-11e8-afbb-bc5ff4f77b71
Sponsored by: Miles AS |
8.11.3_2 26 Aug 2018 18:42:28
  |
sunpoet  |
Update WWW
Approved by: portmgr (blanket) |
8.11.3_2 29 Jul 2018 22:18:46
  |
gerald  |
Bump PORTREVISION for ports depending on the canonical version of GCC
in the ports tree (via Mk/bsd.default-versions.mk and lang/gcc) which
has now moved from GCC 6 to GCC 7 by default.
This includes ports
- featuring USE_GCC=yes or USE_GCC=any,
- featuring USES=fortran,
- using Mk/bsd.octave.mk which in turn features USES=fortran, and those
- with USES=compiler specifying one of openmp, nestedfct, c11, c++0x,
c++11-lib, c++11-lang, c++14-lang, c++17-lang, or gcc-c++11-lib.
PR: 222542 |
8.11.3_1 29 Jun 2018 14:22:11
  |
jbeich  |
devel/icu: update to 62.1
Changes: http://site.icu-project.org/download/62
ABI: https://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/timeline/icu4c/
PR: 229359
Exp-run by: antoine (only 10.4) |
8.11.3 15 Jun 2018 14:11:07
  |
bhughes  |
www/node8: Update 8.11.2 -> 8.11.3
Update to the latest security release, fixing CVE-2018-7161,
CVE-2018-7167, and CVE-2018-1000168.
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v8.11.3/
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/june-2018-security-releases/
PR: 229038
Submitted by: Pascal Christen <pascal.christen@hostpoint.ch>
MFH: 2018Q2
Security: 45b8e2eb-7056-11e8-8fab-63ca6e0e13a2
Sponsored by: Miles AS |
8.11.2 21 May 2018 21:13:06
  |
bhughes  |
www/node8: Update 8.11.1_1 -> 8.11.2
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v8.11.2/ |
8.11.1_1 06 Apr 2018 15:53:17
  |
jbeich  |
devel/icu: update to 61.1
Changes: http://site.icu-project.org/download/61
ABI: https://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/timeline/icu4c/
PR: 227042
Exp-run by: antoine
MFH: 2018Q2 (required by Firefox 61) |
8.11.1 04 Apr 2018 08:03:48
  |
jbeich  |
www/node8: unbreak with ICU 61
../src/node_i18n.cc:526:12: error: use of undeclared identifier 'TimeZone'; did
you mean 'icu::TimeZone'?
return TimeZone::getTZDataVersion(*status);
^~~~~~~~
icu::TimeZone
/usr/local/include/unicode/timezone.h:131:18: note: 'icu::TimeZone' declared
here
class U_I18N_API TimeZone : public UObject {
^
https://ssl.icu-project.org/trac/changeset/40705
PR: 227042
Reported by: antoine (via exp-run)
Obtained from: upstream |
8.11.1 01 Apr 2018 09:19:54
  |
bhughes  |
www/node8: Update 8.11.0 -> 8.11.1
No changes from the previous verison. This release ensures that the
hosted binaries from the Node.js project adhere to the platform support
contract, which does not apply to the FreeBSD port and packages.
MFH: 2018Q2 |
8.11.0 29 Mar 2018 19:55:52
  |
bhughes  |
www/node8: Update 8.10.0 -> 8.11.0
This is a security release addressing multiple vulnerabilities. Users
are recommended to upgrade as soon as possible.
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/march-2018-security-releases/
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v8.11.0/
MFH: 2018Q1
Security: 5a9bbb6e-32d3-11e8-a769-6daaba161086 |
8.10.0 07 Mar 2018 15:16:15
  |
bhughes  |
www/node8: Update 8.9.4 -> 8.10.0
This release comes with a lot of big changes. There are updates to V8,
libuv, and ICU, a bugfix in npm, and support for building with OpenSSL
1.1.0.
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v8.10.0/ |
8.9.4 19 Feb 2018 11:10:43
  |
antoine  |
Reduce dependency on the python2 metaport
PR: 225752
Submitted by: Yasuhiro KIMURA |
8.9.4 08 Feb 2018 14:29:36
  |
bhughes  |
www/node,www/node8,www/node6: disable dtrace usdt on armv[67]
Disable the DTRACE option by default on armv[67] since Node.js fails to
build on armv[67] with the following error:
dt_modtext:/usr/src/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/lib/libdtrace/common/dt_link.c(820):
arm not implemented
PR: 224271
Submitted by: mikael.urankar@gmail.com |
8.9.4 03 Feb 2018 22:30:24
  |
bhughes  |
www/node8: Update 8.9.3 -> 8.9.4
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v8.9.4/
While here, pet portlint:
- move ONLY_FOR_ARCHS
- remove USES_LDCONFIG (node.js doesn't install a .so)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13775 |
8.9.3 14 Dec 2017 19:46:23
  |
bhughes  |
www/node8: Update 8.9.1_1 -> 8.9.3
Approved by: mat (co-mentor)
Security: bea84a7a-e0c9-11e7-b4f3-11baa0c2df21
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13442 |
8.9.1_1 09 Nov 2017 02:31:48
  |
jbeich  |
devel/icu: update to 60.1
Changes: http://site.icu-project.org/download/60
ABI: https://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/timeline/icu4c/
PR: 223373
Exp-run by: antoine |
8.9.1 08 Nov 2017 13:41:42
  |
bhughes  |
www/node8: Update 8.9.0 -> 8.9.1
Approved by: robak (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13004 |
8.9.0 06 Nov 2017 14:17:57
  |
bhughes  |
www/node8: copy from www/node, update 8.8.1 -> 8.9.0 (LTS)
Create a new port for the latest Node.js 8.9.0 LTS release. Update
CONFLICTS for the existing Node.js ports to include the new node8 port
and remove non-existent ports.
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v8.9.0/
Approved by: robak (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12930 |