Why crypto.createHash returns different output in new version?

Question

Problem

I have node.js module that is using crypto.createHash to generate md5 hash.

Recently I noticed that hash g

Answer 1

Just like mark this issue in github: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/6813 is about the default encoding for digests that was changed to utf8 in v5/v6 and in v4 and earlier it was binary