Upgrade your nodejs on Mac OS X to v0.12.6

Per medium.com, there are critical vulnerabilities in nodejs and iojs. People running nodejs should upgrade to v0.12.6.

On Mac OSX, this takes just a few moments. Thanks to Stackoverflow for the tip.


~/ $ node -v
v0.10.22
~/ $ sudo npm cache clean -f
Password:
npm WARN using --force I sure hope you know what you are doing.
~/ $ sudo npm install -g n
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/n
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/n
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/n/-/n-1.3.0.tgz
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/n/-/n-1.3.0.tgz
/usr/local/bin/n -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n/bin/n
n@1.3.0 /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n
~/ $ sudo n stable

install : node-v0.12.6
mkdir : /usr/local/n/versions/node/0.12.6
fetch : https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.12.6/node-v0.12.6-darwin-x64.tar.gz
installed : v0.12.6

~/ $ node -v
v0.12.6
~/ $