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DeprecationWarning: Using Buffer without `new` will soon stop working.

See original GitHub issue

node v 7.0.0

Getting warning:

(node:8628) DeprecationWarning: Using Buffer without `new` will soon stop working. Use `new Buffer()`, or preferably `Buffer.from()`, `Buffer.allocUnsafe()` or `Buffer.alloc()` instead.

from these line

// lib/connection.js line: 299
var emptyBuffer = Buffer(0);

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Created 7 years ago
Reactions:18
Comments:9 (1 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

16reactions

alpertunacommented, Nov 19, 2016

@TyrfingMjolnir To avoid flood, you may use node with --no-warnings temporarily

2reactions

alpertunacommented, Dec 10, 2016

It looks warning is over with Nodejs 7.2.1

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