2019.05.16, Version 1.29.0 (Stable)

Changes since version 1.28.0:

* ibmi: read memory and CPU usage info (Xu Meng)

* doc: update the cmake testing instruction (zlargon)

* unix: fix race condition in uv_async_send() (Ben Noordhuis)

* linux: use O_CLOEXEC instead of EPOLL_CLOEXEC (Ben Noordhuis)

* doc: mark uv_async_send() as async-signal-safe (Ben Noordhuis)

* linux: init st_flags and st_gen when using statx (Oscar Waddell)

* linux: read free/total memory from /proc/meminfo (Ben Noordhuis)

* test: test zero-sized uv_fs_sendfile() writes (Ben Noordhuis)

* unix: don't assert on UV_PROCESS_WINDOWS_* flags (Ben Noordhuis)

* linux: set correct mac address for IP-aliases (Santiago Gimeno)

* win,util: fix null pointer dereferencing (Tobias Nießen)

* unix,win: fix `uv_fs_poll_stop()` when active (Anna Henningsen)

* doc: add missing uv_fs_type entries (Michele Caini)

* doc: fix build with sphinx 2.x (FX Coudert)

* unix: don't make statx system call on Android (George Zhao)

* unix: fix clang scan-build warning (Kyle Edwards)

* unix: fall back to kqueue on older macOS systems (ken-cunningham-webuse)

* unix,win: add uv_get_constrained_memory() (Kelvin Jin)

* darwin: fix thread cancellation fd leak (Ben Noordhuis)

* linux: fix thread cancellation fd leak (Ben Noordhuis)

2019.04.16, Version 1.28.0 (Stable)

Changes since version 1.27.0:

* unix,win: add uv_gettimeofday() (cjihrig)

* unix,win: add uv_fs_{open,read,close}dir() (cjihrig)

* unix: fix uv_interface_addresses() (Andreas Rohner)

* fs: remove macOS-specific copyfile(3) (Rich Trott)

* fs: add test for copyfile() respecting permissions (Rich Trott)

* build: partially revert 5234b1c43a (Ben Noordhuis)

* zos: fix setsockopt error when using AF_UNIX (Milad Farazmand)

* unix: suppress EINTR/EINPROGRESS in uv_fs_close() (Ben Noordhuis)

* build: use cmake APPLE variable to detect platform (zlargon)

* distcheck: remove duplicate test/ entry (Jameson Nash)

* unix: remove unused cmpxchgl() function (Ben Noordhuis)

* unix: support sockaddr_un in uv_udp_send() (Yury Selivanov)

* unix: guard use of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN (Kamil Rytarowski)

* unix,win: introduce uv_timeval64_t (cjihrig)

* doc: document uv_timeval_t and uv_timeval64_t (cjihrig)

2019.03.17, Version 1.27.0 (Stable)

Changes since version 1.26.0:

* doc: describe unix signal handling better (Vladimír Čunát)

* linux: use statx() to obtain file birth time (Ben Noordhuis)

* src: fill sockaddr_in6.sin6_len when it's defined (Santiago Gimeno)

* test: relax uv_hrtime() test assumptions (Ben Noordhuis)

* build: make cmake install LICENSE only once (Thomas Karl Pietrowski)

* bsd: plug uv_fs_event_start() error path fd leak (Ben Noordhuis)

* unix: fix __FreeBSD_kernel__ typo (cjihrig)

* doc: add note about uv_run() not being reentrant (Ben Noordhuis)

* unix, win: make fs-poll close wait for resource cleanup (Anna Henningsen)

* doc: fix typo in uv_thread_options_t definition (Ryan Liptak)

* win: skip winsock initialization in safe mode (evgley)

* unix: refactor getsockname/getpeername methods (Santiago Gimeno)

* win,udp: allow to use uv_udp_open on bound sockets (Santiago Gimeno)

* udp: add support for UDP connected sockets (Santiago Gimeno)

* build: fix uv_test shared uv Windows cmake build (ptlomholt)

* build: add android-configure scripts to EXTRA_DIST (Ben Noordhuis)

* build: add missing header (cjihrig)

* sunos: add perror() output prior to abort() (Andrew Paprocki)

* test,sunos: disable UV_DISCONNECT handling (Andrew Paprocki)

* sunos: disable __attribute__((unused)) (Andrew Paprocki)

* test,sunos: use unistd.h code branch (Andrew Paprocki)

* build,sunos: better handling of non-GCC compiler (Andrew Paprocki)

* test,sunos: fix statement not reached warnings (Andrew Paprocki)

* sunos: fix argument/prototype mismatch in atomics (Andrew Paprocki)

* test,sunos: test-ipc.c lacks newline at EOF (Andrew Paprocki)

* test: change spawn_stdin_stdout return to void (Andrew Paprocki)

* test: remove call to floor() in test driver (Andrew Paprocki)

2019.02.11, Version 1.26.0 (Stable)

Changes since version 1.25.0:

* doc: fix uv_get_free_memory doc (Stephen Belanger)

* unix: fix epoll cpu 100% issue (yeyuanfeng)

* openbsd,tcp: special handling of EINVAL on connect (ptlomholt)

* win: simplify registry closing in uv_cpu_info() (cjihrig)

* src,include: define UV_MAXHOSTNAMESIZE (cjihrig)

* win: return product name in uv_os_uname() version (cjihrig)

* thread: allow specifying stack size for new thread (Anna Henningsen)

* win: fix duplicate tty vt100 fn key (erw7)

* unix: don't attempt to invalidate invalid fd (Ben Noordhuis)

2019.01.19, Version 1.25.0 (Stable)

Changes since version 1.24.1:

* Revert "win,fs: retry if uv_fs_rename fails" (Ben Noordhuis)

* aix: manually trigger fs event monitoring (Gireesh Punathil)

* unix: rename WRITE_RETRY_ON_ERROR macro (Ben Noordhuis)

* darwin: DRY platform-specific error check (Ben Noordhuis)

* unix: refactor uv__write() (Ben Noordhuis)

* unix: don't send handle twice on partial write (Ben Noordhuis)

* tty,win: fix Alt+key under WSL (Bartosz Sosnowski)

* build: support running tests in out-of-tree builds (Jameson Nash)

* fsevents: really watch files with fsevents on macos 10.7+ (Jameson Nash)

* thread,mingw64: need intrin.h header for SSE2 MemoryBarrier (Jameson Nash)

* win: fix sizeof-pointer-div warning (cjihrig)

* unix,win: add uv_os_uname() (cjihrig)

* win, tty: fix CreateFileW() return value check (Bartosz Sosnowski)

* unix: enable IPv6 tests on OpenBSD (ptlomholt)

* test: fix test-ipc spawn_helper exit_cb (Santiago Gimeno)

* test: fix test-ipc tests (Santiago Gimeno)

* unix: better handling of unsupported F_FULLFSYNC (Victor Costan)

* win,test: de-flake fs_event_watch_dir_short_path (Refael Ackermann)

* win: fix msvc warning (sid)

* openbsd: switch to libuv's barrier implementation (ptlomholt)

* unix,stream: fix zero byte writes (Santiago Gimeno)

* ibmi: return EISDIR on read from directory fd (Kevin Adler)

* build: wrap long lines in Makefile.am (cjihrig)

2018.12.17, Version 1.24.1 (Stable)

Changes since version 1.24.0:

* test: fix platform_output test on cygwin (damon-kwok)

* gitignore: ignore build/ directory (Damon Kwok)

* unix: zero epoll_event before use (Ashe Connor)

* darwin: use runtime check for file cloning (Ben Noordhuis)

* doc: replace deprecated build command on macOS (Rick)

* warnings: fix code that emits compiler warnings (Jameson Nash)

* doc: clarify expected memory management strategy (Ivan Krylov)

* test: add uv_inet_ntop(AF_INET) coverage (Ben Noordhuis)

* unix: harden string copying, introduce strscpy() (Ben Noordhuis)

* linux: get rid of strncpy() call (Ben Noordhuis)

* aix: get rid of strcat() calls (Ben Noordhuis)

* aix: fix data race in uv_fs_event_start() (Ben Noordhuis)

* win: fs: fix `FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING` for writes (Joran Dirk Greef)

* build: don't link against -lpthread on Android (Michael Meier)

2018.11.14, Version 1.24.0 (Stable)

Changes since version 1.23.2:

* unix: do not require PATH_MAX to be defined (Brad King)

* win,doc: path encoding in uv_fs_XX is UTF-8 (hitesh)

* unix: add missing link dependency on kFreeBSD (Svante Signell)

* unix: add support for GNU/Hurd (Samuel Thibault)

* test: avoid memory leak for test_output (Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón)

* zos: avoid UB with NULL pointer arithmetic (Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón)

* doc: add vtjnash to maintainers (Jameson Nash)

* unix: restore skipping of phys_addr copy (cjihrig)

* unix,win: make uv_interface_addresses() consistent (cjihrig)

* unix: remove unnecessary linebreaks (cjihrig)

* unix,win: handle zero-sized allocations uniformly (Ben Noordhuis)

* unix: remove unused uv__dup() function (Ben Noordhuis)

* core,bsd: refactor process_title functions (Santiago Gimeno)

* win: Redefine NSIG to consider SIGWINCH (Jeremy Studer)

* test: make sure that reading a directory fails (Sakthipriyan Vairamani)

* win, tty: remove zero-size read callbacks (Bartosz Sosnowski)

* test: fix test runner getenv async-signal-safety (Ben Noordhuis)

* test: fix test runner execvp async-signal-safety (Ben Noordhuis)

* test,unix: fix race in test runner (Ben Noordhuis)

* unix,win: support IDNA 2008 in uv_getaddrinfo() (Ben Noordhuis)

* win, tcp: avoid starving the loop (Bartosz Sosnowski)

* win, dl: proper error messages on some systems (Bartosz Sosnowski)

* win,fs: retry if uv_fs_rename fails (Bartosz Sosnowski)

* darwin: speed up uv_set_process_title() (Ben Noordhuis)

* aix: fix race in uv_get_process_title() (Gireesh Punathil)

* win: support more fine-grained windows hiding (Bartosz Sosnowski)

2018.10.09, Version 1.23.2 (Stable)

Changes since version 1.23.1:

* unix: return 0 retrieving rss on cygwin (cjihrig)

* unix: initialize uv_interface_address_t.phys_addr (cjihrig)

* test: handle uv_os_setpriority() windows edge case (cjihrig)

* tty, win: fix read stop for raw mode (Bartosz Sosnowski)

* Revert "Revert "unix,fs: fix for potential partial reads/writes"" (Jameson
  Nash)

* unix,readv: always permit partial reads to return (Jameson Nash)

* win,tty: fix uv_tty_close() (Bartosz Sosnowski)

* doc: remove extraneous "on" (Ben Noordhuis)

* unix,win: fix threadpool race condition (Anna Henningsen)

* unix: rework thread barrier implementation (Ben Noordhuis)

* aix: switch to libuv's own thread barrier impl (Ben Noordhuis)

* unix: signal done to last thread barrier waiter (Ben Noordhuis)

* test: add uv_barrier_wait serial thread test (Ali Ijaz Sheikh)

* unix: optimize uv_fs_readlink() memory allocation (Ben Noordhuis)

* win: remove req.c and other cleanup (Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón)

* aix: don't EISDIR on read from directory fd (Ben Noordhuis)

2018.09.22, Version 1.23.1 (Stable)

Changes since version 1.23.0:

* unix,win: limit concurrent DNS calls to nthreads/2 (Anna Henningsen)

* doc: add addaleax to maintainers (Anna Henningsen)

* doc: add missing slash in stream.rst (Emil Bay)

* unix,fs: use utimes & friends for uv_fs_utime (Jeremiah Senkpiel)

* unix,fs: remove linux fallback from utimesat() (Jeremiah Senkpiel)

* unix,fs: remove uv__utimesat() syscall fallback (Jeremiah Senkpiel)

* doc: fix argument name in tcp.rts (Emil Bay)

* doc: notes on running tests, benchmarks, tools (Jamie Davis)

* linux: remove epoll syscall wrappers (Ben Noordhuis)

* linux: drop code path for epoll_pwait-less kernels (Ben Noordhuis)

* Partially revert "win,code: remove GetQueuedCompletionStatus-based poller"
  (Jameson Nash)

* build: add compile for android arm64/x86/x86-64 (Andy Zhang)

* doc: clarify that some remarks apply to windows (Bert Belder)

* test: fix compiler warnings (Jamie Davis)

* ibmi: return 0 from uv_resident_set_memory() (dmabupt)

* win: fix uv_udp_recv_start() error translation (Ryan Liptak)

* win,doc: improve uv_os_setpriority() documentation (Bartosz Sosnowski)

* test: increase upper bound in condvar_5 (Jamie Davis)

* win,tty: remove deadcode (Jameson Nash)

* stream: autodetect direction (Jameson Nash)

2018.08.18, Version 1.23.0 (Stable)

Changes since version 1.22.0:

* win,pipe: restore compatibility with the old IPC framing protocol (Bert
  Belder)

* fs: add uv_open_osfhandle (Bartosz Sosnowski)

* doc: update Visual C++ Build Tools URL (Michał Kozakiewicz)

* unix: loop starvation on successful write complete (jBarz)

* win: add uv__getnameinfo_work() error handling (A. Hauptmann)

* win: return UV_ENOMEM from uv_loop_init() (cjihrig)

* unix,win: add uv_os_{get,set}priority() (cjihrig)

* test: fix warning in test-tcp-open (Santiago Gimeno)

2018.07.11, Version 1.22.0 (Stable)

Changes since version 1.21.0:

* unix: remove checksparse.sh (Ben Noordhuis)

* win: fix mingw build error (Ben Noordhuis)

* win: fix -Wunused-function warnings in thread.c (Ben Noordhuis)

* unix,win: merge timers implementation (Ben Noordhuis)

* win: fix pointer type in pipe.c (Ben Noordhuis)

* win: fixing build for older MSVC compilers (Michael Fero)

* zos: clear poll events on every iteration (jBarz)

* zos: write-protect message queue (jBarz)

* zos: use correct pointer type in strnlen (jBarz)

* unix,win: merge handle flags (Ben Noordhuis)

* doc: update Imran Iqbal's GitHub handle (cjihrig)

* src: add new error apis to prevent memory leaks (Shelley Vohr)

* test: make test-condvar call uv_cond_wait (Jamie Davis)

* fs: change position of uv_fs_lchown (Ujjwal Sharma)

2018.06.23, Version 1.21.0 (Stable)

Changes since version 1.20.3:

* unix,windows: map EFTYPE errno (cjihrig)

* win: perform case insensitive PATH= comparison (cjihrig)

* win, fs: uv_fs_fchmod support for -A files (Bartosz Sosnowski)

* src,lib: fix comments (Tobias Nießen)

* win,process: allow child pipe handles to be opened in overlapped mode (Björn
  Linse)

* src,test: fix idiosyncratic comment style (Bert Belder)

* test: fs_fchmod_archive_readonly must return a value (Bert Belder)

* win,pipe: fix incorrect error code returned from uv_pipe_write_impl() (Bert
  Belder)

* win,pipe: properly set uv_write_t.send_handle in uv_write2() (Bert Belder)

* test: add vectored uv_write() ping-pong tests (Bert Belder)

* win,pipe: support vectored uv_write() calls (Bert Belder)

* win,pipe: refactor pipe read cancellation logic (Bert Belder)

* test: improve output from IPC test helpers (Bert Belder)

* test: add test for IPC deadlock on Windows (

* win,pipe: fix IPC pipe deadlock (Bert Belder)

* unix: catch some cases of watching fd twice (Ben Noordhuis)

* test: use custom timeout for getaddrinfo_fail_sync (Ben Noordhuis)

* Revert "win: add Windows XP support to uv_if_indextoname()" (Bert Belder)

* win,thread: remove fallback uv_cond implementation (Bert Belder)

* src,test: s/olny/only (cjihrig)

* unix: close signal pipe fds on unload (Ben Noordhuis)

* win: allow setting udp socket options before bind (cjihrig)

* unix: return UV_ENOTSUP on FICLONE_FORCE failure (cjihrig)

* win,pipe: remove unreferenced local variable (Bert Belder)

* win,code: remove GetQueuedCompletionStatus-based poller (Bert Belder)

* win: remove the remaining dynamic kernel32 imports (Bert Belder)

* test: speedup process-title-threadsafe on macOS (cjihrig)

* core: move all include files except uv.h to uv/ (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé)

* win: move stdint-msvc2008.h to include/uv/ (Ben Noordhuis)

* build: fix cygwin install (Ben Noordhuis)

* build,win: remove MinGW Makefile (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé)

* build: add a cmake build file (Ben Noordhuis)

* build: add test suite option to cmake build (Ben Noordhuis)

* unix: set errno in uv_fs_copyfile() (cjihrig)

* samples: fix inconsistency in parse_opts vs usage (zyxwvu Shi)

* linux: handle exclusive POLLHUP with UV_DISCONNECT (Brad King)

* include: declare uv_cpu_times_s in higher scope (Peter Johnson)

* doc: add uv_fs_fsync() AIX limitations (jBarz)

* unix,win: add uv_fs_lchown() (Paolo Greppi)

* unix: disable clang variable length array warning (Peter Johnson)

* doc: document uv_pipe_t::ipc (Ed Schouten)

* doc: undocument uv_req_type's UV_REQ_TYPE_PRIVATE (Ed Schouten)

* doc: document UV_*_MAP() macros (Ed Schouten)

* win: remove use of min() macro in pipe.c (Peter Johnson)

* doc: add jbarz as maintainer (

2018.05.08, Version 1.20.3 (Stable)

Changes since version 1.20.2:

* win: add Windows XP support to uv_if_indextoname() (ssrlive)

* win: fix `'floor' undefined` compiler warning (ssrlive)

* win, pipe: stop read for overlapped pipe (Bartosz Sosnowski)

* build: fix utf-8 name of copyright holder (Jérémy Lal)

* zos: initialize pollfd revents (jBarz)

* zos,doc: add system V message queue note (jBarz)

* linux: don't use uv__nonblock_ioctl() on sparc (Ben Noordhuis)

2018.04.23, Version 1.20.2 (Stable)

Changes since version 1.20.1:

* zos: use custom semaphore (jBarz)

* win: fix registry API error handling (Kyle Farnung)

* build: add support for 64-bit AIX (Richard Lau)

* aix: guard STATIC_ASSERT for glibc work around (Richard Lau)

2018.04.19, Version 1.20.1 (Stable)

Changes since version 1.20.0:

* doc,fs: improve documentation (Bob Burger)

* win: return a floored double from uv_uptime() (Refael Ackermann)

* doc: clarify platform specific pipe naming (Thomas Versteeg)

* unix: fix uv_pipe_chmod() on macOS (zzzjim)

* unix: work around glibc semaphore race condition (Anna Henningsen)

* tcp,openbsd: disable Unix TCP check for IPV6_ONLY (Alex Arslan)

* test,openbsd: use RETURN_SKIP in UDP IPv6 tests (Alex Arslan)

* test,openbsd: fix multicast test (Alex Arslan)

* Revert "win, fs: use FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES when opening files" (cjihrig)

2018.04.03, Version 1.20.0 (Stable)

Changes since version 1.19.2:

* unix,spawn: respect user stdio flags for new pipe (Jameson Nash)

* Revert "Revert "unix,tcp: avoid marking server sockets connected"" (Jameson
  Nash)

* req: revisions to uv_req_t handling (Jameson Nash)

* win: remove unnecessary initialization (cjihrig)

* win: update uv_os_homedir() to use uv_os_getenv() (cjihrig)

* test: fix tcp_oob test flakiness (Santiago Gimeno)

* posix: fix uv__pollfds_del() for invalidated fd's (Jesse Gorzinski)

* doc: README: add note on installing gyp (Jamie Davis)

* unix: refactor uv_os_homedir to use uv_os_getenv (Santiago Gimeno)

* unix: fix several instances of lost errno (Michael Kilburn)

* win,tty: update several TODO comments (Ruslan Bekenev)

* unix: add UV_FS_COPYFILE_FICLONE support (cjihrig)

* test: fix connect_unspecified (Santiago Gimeno)

* unix,win: add UV_FS_COPYFILE_FICLONE_FORCE support (cjihrig)

* win: use long directory name for handle->dirw (Nicholas Vavilov)

* build: build with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 again (Ben Noordhuis)

* win, fs: fix uv_fs_unlink for +R -A files (Bartosz Sosnowski)

* win, fs: use FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES when opening files (Bartosz Sosnowski)

* unix: use __PASE__ on IBM i platforms (Jesse Gorzinski)

* test,freebsd: fix flaky poll tests (Santiago Gimeno)

* test: increase connection timeout to 1 second (jBarz)

* win,tcp: handle canceled connect with ECANCELED (Jameson Nash)

2018.02.22, Version 1.19.2 (Stable)

Changes since version 1.19.1:

* test: fix incorrect asserts (cjihrig)

* test: fix a typo in test-fork.c (Felix Yan)

* build: remove long-obsolete gyp workarounds (Ben Noordhuis)

* build: split off tests into separate gyp file (Ben Noordhuis)

* test: check uv_cond_timedwait more carefully (Jamie Davis)

* include,src: introduce UV__ERR() macro (Mason X)

* build: add url field to libuv.pc (Ben Noordhuis)

* doc: mark IBM i as Tier 3 support (Jesse Gorzinski)

* win,build: correct C2059 errors (Michael Fero)

* zos: fix timeout for condition variable (jBarz)

* win: CREATE_NO_WINDOW when stdio is not inherited (Nick Logan)

* build: fix commmon.gypi comment (Ryuichi KAWAMATA)

* doc: document uv_timer_start() on an active timer (Vladimír Čunát)

* doc: add note about handle movability (Bartosz Sosnowski)

* doc: fix syntax error in loop documentation (Bartosz Sosnowski)

* osx,stream: retry sending handle on EMSGSIZE error (Santiago Gimeno)

* unix: delay fs req register until after validation (cjihrig)

* test: add tests for bad inputs (Joyee Cheung)

* unix,win: ensure req->bufs is freed (cjihrig)

* test: add additional fs memory management checks (cjihrig)

2018.01.20, Version 1.19.1 (Stable)

Changes since version 1.19.0:

* Revert "unix,tcp: avoid marking server sockets connected" (Ben Noordhuis)

* Revert "unix,fs: fix for potential partial reads/writes" (Ben Noordhuis)

* Revert "win: use RemoveDirectoryW() instead of _wmrmdir()" (Ben Noordhuis)

* cygwin: fix compilation of ifaddrs impl (Brad King)

2018.01.18, Version 1.19.0 (Stable)

Changes since version 1.18.0:

* core: add getter/setter functions for easier ABI compat (Anna Henningsen)

* unix: make get(set)_process_title MT-safe (Matt Harrison)

* unix,win: wait for threads to start (Ben Noordhuis)

* test: add threadpool init/teardown test (Bartosz Sosnowski)

* win, process: uv_kill improvements (Bartosz Sosnowski)

* win: set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0600 (cjihrig)

* zos: implement uv_fs_event* functions (jBarz)

* unix,tcp: avoid marking server sockets connected (Jameson Nash)

* doc: mark Windows 7 as Tier 1 support (Bartosz Sosnowski)

* win: map 0.0.0.0 and :: addresses to localhost (Bartosz Sosnowski)

* build: install libuv.pc unconditionally (Ben Noordhuis)

* test: remove custom timeout for thread test on ppc (Ben Noordhuis)

* test: allow multicast not permitted status (Jérémy Lal)

* test: allow net unreachable status in udp test (Ben Noordhuis)

* unix: use SA_RESTART when setting our sighandler (Brad King)

* unix,fs: fix for potential partial reads/writes (Ben Wijen)

* win,build: do not build executable installer for dll (Bert Belder)

* win: allow directory symlinks to be created in a non-elevated context (Bert
  Belder)

* zos,test: accept SIGKILL for flaky test (jBarz)

* win: use RemoveDirectoryW() instead of _wmrmdir() (Ben Noordhuis)

* unix: fix uv_cpu_info() error on FreeBSD (elephantp)

* zos,test: decrease pings to avoid timeout (jBarz)

2017.12.02, Version 1.18.0 (Stable)

Changes since version 1.17.0:

* aix: fix -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning (cjihrig)

* doc: remove note about SIGWINCH on Windows (Bartosz Sosnowski)

* Revert "unix,win: wait for threads to start" (Ben Noordhuis)

* unix,win: add uv_os_getpid() (Bartosz Sosnowski)

* unix: remove incorrect assertion in uv_shutdown() (Jameson Nash)

* doc: fix IRC URL in CONTRIBUTING.md (Matt Harrison)