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Today marks the beta release of version 1.0.0 of Io.js, the recent forking of Node.js.

In addition to supporting more than 110,000 npm modules, Io.js features capabilities not yet found in Node. The beta release will feature a new version of Google's V8 JavaScript engine, which has adopted many features of the ECMAscript 6 specification, said Mikeal Rogers, who has served as a representative for Io.js and is running the project's website. (V8 has been an underpinning of Node.js as well.) "This means that generators, promises, and a litany of other features are now available by default without even so much as running Node with a special flag," Rogers said. Also, Io.js 1.0.0 will include Streams3, HTTP keepalive and agent improvements, and asyncwrap, important for better debugging, according to Rogers.

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