--- title: "This Week's Node.js News - Issue 107" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 107 published_at: "2015-10-08" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/107" --- This Week's Node.js News - Issue 107 This week's Node and io.js news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/107) Node WeeklyOctober 8, 2015 #107 Nodejs.org [Node v4.1.2 (Stable) Released: A Key Security Release](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v4.1.2/)Last week we mentioned a key security release of Node 4 would be dropping on Monday - it did, so if you’re on 4.x and still not upgraded, do so now. It resolves a critical DoS bug. Marcus Gartner [Calipers: Super-Fast Image Dimension Measuring](https://lob.com/blog/introducing-calipers-the-fastest-way-to-measure-images-and-pdfs-in-node/)Supporting PDF, PNG & JPEGs, it reads as little of a file as possible to work out its dimensions, and supports callback and promise usage. 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Taylor Lovett [Containerized Testing for Node Applications](https://scotch.io/tutorials/containerized-testing-for-node-applications-with-dockunit)Covers setting up containerized unit testing for Node apps to ensure your software works across a wide variety of platforms. Bruno Mota and José Magalhães [Relax: A Node-Based CMS on top of React](https://github.com/relax/relax)Component based content management, including a live page binding, dynamic data support, and more. Jobs - [Want to spend less time job searching? Apply to the best startups in 60 seconds.](https://underdog.io/?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=nodeweekly&utm_content=spendlesstime&utm_campaign=q4_15) If you’re accepted, startup decision-makers will email you as soon as next Monday. You decide where to interview and where to work. Now open in SF, NYC, and remote. Join the Underdog.io platform today! Underdog.io In Brief - [Red Hat Joins the Node.js Foundation](http://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-joins-nodejs-foundation) news Red Hat - [N|Solid. Enterprise Node. Finally.](http://nsrc.io/1Ngx01O) news tools From @NodeSource — the Enterprise Node.js Company — N|Solid. Node-specific monitoring, performance analysis and enhanced security. Enterprise Node. Finally. [Download for free.](http://nsrc.io/1Ngx01O) NodeSourceSponsor - [A Quick Optimization Tip](https://medium.com/@c2c/nodejs-a-quick-optimization-advice-7353b820c92e) tutorial Keep heavily used functions under 600 characters, otherwise any JIT-compiled assembly won’t be inlined. Julien Crouzet - [Building a Hubot Plugin that Helps You to Choose Where to Drink Coffee](http://ditrospecta.com/javascript/plugin/hubot/2015/10/03/hubot-plugin-choose-place-to-drink-coffee.html) tutorial Leonardo Couto - [Create a Simple RESTful API with Node.js](https://blog.nraboy.com/2015/10/create-a-simple-restful-api-with-node-js/) tutorial Nic Raboy - [PostgreSQL and NodeJS: A Workflow](http://mherman.org/blog/2015/02/12/postgresql-and-nodejs/) tutorial Michael Herman - [Implementing Sign in with Twitter for Node.js](https://www.codementor.io/nodejs/tutorial/how-to-implement-twitter-sign-expressjs-oauth) tutorial Chris Harrington - [Contrasting Enterprise Node.js Frameworks: Hapi vs. Kraken vs. Sails.js vs. Loopback](http://www.capitalone.io/blog/contrasting-enterprise-nodejs-frameworks/) opinion Azat Mardan - [How Good are the Office 365 APIs for Node.js?](https://medium.com/@fergiemcdowall/how-good-are-the-office-365-apis-for-node-js-4351713a90f9) opinion Fergie McDowall - [Trevor: Your Local Travis CI to Run Tests for Multiple Node.js Versions](https://github.com/vdemedes/trevor) tools Vadim - [Effortless Node.js deployments](https://signup.heroku.com/nodese?c=70130000001xtk1&utm_campaign=Web%20-%20Signup%20-%20Endemic%20-%20Cooper%20Press%20Newsletter%20Heroku-%20Q3%20Nodese&utm_medium=display&utm_source=cooperpress&utm_content=&utm_term=node) tools A platform built with developer experience. 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