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In development for nearly two years, the 0.12 release of Node.js is about to become available. Whether the release can mend the now-fractured community that has been built around the popular server-side JavaScript platform remains to be seen.

Officials at Node.js steward Joyent and at Strongloop, which is involved in Node.js development, provided InfoWorld details about the upcoming release, for which the download should become available today.

Version 0.12 will feature round-robin clustering, providing for better distribution of Node.js across processor cores. It also will have performance optimizations including reduced garbage-collector strain. Profiling APIs in 0.12 improve memory management. Users also can run multiple instances in a single process via a multicontext capability. Clustered apps can be debugged with the Node-Inspector capability. Also supported is execSync, a synchronous API for child processes. There are also improvements in the TLS (Transport Layer Security) function.

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