ws version bump due to RangeError: out of range index crashing server

[coffenbacher]

Is there much involved in bumping the ws version to >1.1.1? For now I manually bumped the version in my projects and it's working fine.

I've been seeing this bug a lot: websockets/ws#778

[mikemintz]

We can do that, but we should make sure it doesn't break anything. Do you know what changed from 0.8.0 to 1.1.1? I'm looking at the github releases page and it talks about dropping support for very old versions of node, which is fine, but I can't see exactly what warranted the jump from 0.8 to 1.0.

[coffenbacher]

Yeah, breaking changes is why I didn't just go ahead with a pull request and opened an issue instead, I have no idea what's involved in making sure nothing else breaks.

At least in my team's personal experience with 2 small-medium projects: 1.1.1 works great, 0.8.0 gets hit hard with the websockets/ws#778 bug. So there's that "test in production" evidence but that's all we know.

[mikemintz]

That sounds promising. Can you go ahead and make a PR? Then I'll merge and tag a new version of rethinkdb-websocket-server at 0.7.0. At least if there are any issues for other projects, people won't be automatically updated unless they have a permissive dependency version range.