2016-02-22, Version 4.4.0 'Argon' (LTS)

In December we announced that we would be doing a minor release in
order to get a number of voted on SEMVER-MINOR changes into LTS.
Our ability to release this was delayed due to the unforeseen security
release v4.3. We are quickly bumping to v4.4 in order to bring you the
features that we had committed to releasing.

Notable changes:

The SEMVER-MINOR changes include:
  * **deps**:
    - An update to v8 that introduces a new flag
      --perf_basic_prof_only_functions (Ali Ijaz Sheikh)
      #3609
  * **http**:
    - A new feature in http(s) agent that catches errors on
      *keep alived* connections (José F. Romaniello)
      #4482
  * **src**:
    - Better support for Big-Endian systems (Bryon Leung)
      #3410
  * **tls**:
    - A new feature that allows you to pass common SSL options to
      `tls.createSecurePair` (Коренберг Марк)
      #2441

Notable semver patch changes include:

  * **npm**
    - upgrade to npm 2.14.19 (Kat Marchán)
      #5335
  * **https**:
    - A potential fix for #3692)
      HTTP/HTTPS client requests throwing EPROTO (Fedor Indutny)
      #4982
  * **process**:
    - Add support for symbols in event emitters. Symbols didn't exist
      when it was written ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (cjihrig)
      #4798
  * **querystring**:
    - querystring.parse() is now 13-22% faster! (Brian White)
      #4675

PR-URL: #5301

Author: Myles Borins