fix new Buffer() deprecation warning

.travis.yml

@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 language: node_js
 node_js:
+  - '10'
+  - '9'
+  - '8'
   - '7'
   - '6'
   - '5'
   - '4'
-  - '0.12'

README.md

@@ -289,6 +289,10 @@ See [bench/README](bench).
 
 ## Changes
 
+1.2.0
+ - Fix `new Buffer()` deprecation warning.
+ - Fix npm audit vulnerabilities
+
 1.1.6
  - Fix #25 rand().then with no args
 

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "wordpos",
-  "version": "1.1.6",
+  "version": "1.2.0-beta.1",
   "description": "wordpos is a set of part-of-speech utilities for Node.js using the WordNet database.",
   "author": "Moos <mooster@42at.com>",
   "keywords": [
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
   ],
   "homepage": "https://github.com/moos/wordpos",
   "engines": {
-    "node": ">=0.12"
+    "node": ">=4"
   },
   "bin": "./bin/wordpos-cli.js",
   "dependencies": {

src/dataFile.js

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*!
  * dataFile.js
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2012-2016 mooster@42at.com
+ * Copyright (c) 2012-2018 mooster@42at.com
  * https://github.com/moos/wordpos
  *
  * Portions: Copyright (c) 2011, Chris Umbel
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ function readLocation(location, callback) {
     file = this,
     str = '',
     len = file.nominalLineLength,
-    buffer = new Buffer(len);   // TODO @deprecated as of node 6.0
+    buffer = new Buffer.alloc(len);
 
   readChunk(location, function(err, count) {
     if (err) {

src/indexFile.js

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  *
  * 		implements fast index lookup of WordNet's index files
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2012-2016 mooster@42at.com
+ * Copyright (c) 2012-2018 mooster@42at.com
  * https://github.com/moos/wordpos
  *
  * Portions: Copyright (c) 2011, Chris Umbel
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ function readIndexForKey(key, index, callback) {
     nextKey = data.offsets[key][1],
     nextOffset = data.offsets[nextKey][0],
     len = nextOffset - offset - 1,
-    buffer = new Buffer(len);
+    buffer = new Buffer.alloc(len);
 
   fs.read(index.fd, buffer, 0, len, offset, function(err, count){
      if (err) return console.log(err);
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ function readIndexBetweenKeys(keyStart, keyEnd, index, callback) {
     nextKey = data.offsets[end][1],
     nextOffset = data.offsets[nextKey][0],
     len = nextOffset - offset - 1,
-    buffer = new Buffer(len);
+    buffer = new Buffer.alloc(len);
 
   //console.log('### readIndexBetweenKeys', keyStart, keyEnd, nextKey, len)
   fs.read(index.fd, buffer, 0, len, offset, function(err, count){

tools/buffered-reader.js

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
  * @version 0.2.0
  *
  * Forked: https://github.com/moos/Node-BufferedReader
+ * 2018-09-02: use Buffer.alloc()
  */
 "use strict";
 
@@ -248,7 +249,7 @@ BufferedReader.prototype._readBytes = function (bytes, cb){
   bytes = max < bytes ? max : bytes;
   if (bytes === 0) return cb (null, null, 0);
 
-  var data = new Buffer (bytes);
+  var data = new Buffer.alloc(bytes);
   var len = me._buffer.length;
 
   if (bytes <= len){
@@ -320,7 +321,7 @@ BufferedReader.prototype.readBytes = function (bytes, cb){
       if (error) return cb (error, null, -1);
 
       me._fd = fd;
-      me._buffer = new Buffer (me._settings.bufferSize);
+      me._buffer = new Buffer.alloc(me._settings.bufferSize);
       me._read (function (error){
         if (error) return cb (error, null, -1);
         me._readBytes (bytes, cb);