There's a lot of confusion and concern in here about the release of a new major version very soon after the release of another major version (v4.0.0 was release

There's a lot of confusion and concern in here about the release of a new major version very soon after the release of another major version (v4.0.0 was released just a month and a half ago). Please note that this is a special release prompted largely by the odd timing of a new release of Google's V8 [1]. If you're looking for solid, long term stability, you are perfectly fine sticking with v4.0.0, as its marked an "LTS" release. This means it'll be actively receiving minor- and patch-level updates for 18 months, then for 12 months thereafter it'll get updates for severe bugs and security problems (what they call "maintenance" mode) [2]. [1] https://twitter.com/rvagg/status/659871982670884864 https://twitter.com/rvagg/status/659871982670884864 [2] https://medium.com/@nodesource/essential-steps-long-term-support-for-node-js-8ecf7514dbd#.wutoxcg53 https://medium.com/@nodesource/essential-steps-long-term-sup...