2017-01-04, Version 7.4.0 (Current)

Notable changes:

* buffer:
  - Improve performance of Buffer allocation by ~11% (Brian White) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10443
  - Improve performance of Buffer.from() by ~50% (Brian White) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10443
* events: Improve performance of EventEmitter.once() by ~27% (Brian White) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10445
* fs: Allow passing Uint8Array to fs methods where Buffers are supported. (Anna Henningsen) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10382
* http: Improve performance of http server by ~7% (Brian White) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6533
* npm: Upgrade to v4.0.5 (Kat Marchán) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10330

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10589