The text is copied <i>verbatim</i> without attribution from Node's wiki; I think they should at least link back to it:<p>"API changes between v0.6 and v0.8" : <a href="https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/API-changes-between-v0.6-and-v0.8" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/API-changes-between-v0.6...</a>
Node.js 0.8 sounds great, though I'm afraid there will again be a long period where many of your NPM dependencies are simply broken, especially with the new build tool for native modules:<p><a href="https://github.com/TooTallNate/node-gyp" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/TooTallNate/node-gyp</a><p>We had a bit of a similar situation with the transition from 0.4 to 0.6 because of some API changes, especially the removal of EventEmitters from the C++ module API:
<a href="https://groups.google.com/d/topic/nodejs/rmvA434u3Dk/discussion" rel="nofollow">https://groups.google.com/d/topic/nodejs/rmvA434u3Dk/discuss...</a><p>Hopefully this time it will happen more smoothly.