• Until now V8 cached data was used to make executables without sources inside. Now cached data is also used to speed up application boot time.
• Hence, application boot up is around 20% faster in pkg’ed state than using ‘node’.
• Now possible to add resources (icon) to executables on Windows (ResourceHacker, etc).
• V8 callsites work properly. Stacktraces contain names of files as they were at compilation time.
• Supports Node.js versions 0.12, 4, 6, 7, 8 as targets.
• Consumes much less memory during compilation process (important for Raspberry Pi or low-mem VMs).
• Hence, it's possible to make big executables without “process out of memory” during compilation (installers, geoip-lite, etc).
• Improvement of how spawn hook works internally. Also implemented execFile and exec hooks.