This commit:
  - fixes development branch (v1.x -> master)
  - updates stability index wording
  - use iojs binary instead of node

PR-URL: nodejs#1466
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]>

This reverts commit 06cfff9.

Reverted because it introduced a regression where (because options were
modified in the later functionality) options.host and options.port would
be overridden with values provided in other, supported ways.

PR-URL: nodejs#1467
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]>

This commit adds a test to ensure all options are NOT modified after
passing them to http.request. Specifically options.host and options.port
are the most prominent that would previously error, but add the other
options that have default values.

options.host and options.port were overridden for the one-argument
net.createConnection(options) call.

PR-URL: nodejs#1467
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]>

This brings in the '%PYTHON%' revert, and restores
the correct NODE_MODULE_VERSION.

PR-URL: nodejs#1482
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <[email protected]>

Update AUTHORS list using tools/update-authors.sh

PR-URL: nodejs#1476
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]>

PR-URL: nodejs#1503
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <[email protected]>

as per nodejs#1502

PR-URL: nodejs#1507
Reviewed-By: Chris Dickinson <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]>

tls.connect(options) with no options.host should accept a certificate
with CN: 'localhost'. Fix Error: Hostname/IP doesn't match
certificate's altnames: "Host: undefined. is not cert's CN: localhost"

'localhost' is not added directly to defaults because that is not
always desired (for example, when using options.socket)

PR-URL: nodejs#1493
Fixes: nodejs#1489
Reviewed-By: Brendan Ashworth <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <[email protected]>

If `$NODE_PATH` contains trailing separators, `Module.globalPaths` will
contains empty strings. When `Module` try to resolve a module's path,
`path.resolve('', 'index.js')` will boil down to `$PWD/index.js`, which
makes sub modules can access global modules and get unexpected result.

PR-URL: nodejs#1488
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <[email protected]>

Update the remaining markdown files to refer to the master branch.
PR-URL: nodejs#1511
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <[email protected]>

When buffer list less than 2, no need to calculate the length.
The change's benchmark result is here:
https://gist.github.com/JacksonTian/2c9e2bdec00018e010e6
It improve 15% ~ 25% speed when list only have one buffer,
to other cases no effect.

PR-URL: nodejs#1437
Reviewed-By: Trevor Norris <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Brendan Ashworth <[email protected]>

Separates out the lookup logic for net.Socket. In the event
the `host` property is an IP address, the lookup is skipped.

PR-URL: nodejs#1505
Reviewed-By: Chris Dickinson <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Yosuke Furukawa <[email protected]>

Allows customization of the lookup function used when
Socket.prototype.connect is called using a hostname.

PR-URL: nodejs#1505
Reviewed-By: Chris Dickinson <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Yosuke Furukawa <[email protected]>

Remembers net.Socket options called before connect and retroactively
applies them after the handle has been created.

This change makes the following function calls more user-friendly:

- setKeepAlive()
- setNoDelay()
- ref()
- unref()

Related: nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#7077 and
nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#8572