the iojs site mentioned nothing about the merge as I checked yesterday, neither does nodejs site, which is a bit odd.<p>the new version number is using iojs instead of nodejs&#x27;s existing version scheme, which is interesting too.<p>I just began a php device-configuration-management project and was strongly persuaded by a senior php developer that I should use nodejs instead, as he thinks nodejs _is_ the future and many big guns are using it for real deployment(netflix, linkedin,paypal...), just in time to try the fresh nodejs release for the new project.