Merge dced54740c into e6d1d0c4de

README.markdown

@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ And then in any new shell just use the installed version:
 
     nvm use 0.10
 
+To download latest stable release of node, do this:
+    nvm install stable
+
 You can create an `.nmvrc` file containing version number in the project root folder; run the following command to switch versions:
 
     nvm use

nvm.sh

@@ -54,7 +54,11 @@ nvm_version() {
 
 nvm_remote_version() {
     local PATTERN=$1
+    if [[ $PATTERN == "stable" ]]; then
+      VERSION=`nvm_last_stable_version`
+    else
       VERSION=`nvm_ls_remote $PATTERN | tail -n1`
+    fi
     echo "$VERSION"
 
     if [ "$VERSION" = 'N/A' ]; then
@@ -111,6 +115,17 @@ nvm_ls_remote() {
     return
 }
 
+nvm_last_stable_version(){
+  local VERSION
+  VERSION=`curl http://nodejs.org/dist/latest/ | grep -o 'node-v.*\"' -m 1 | grep -o 'v[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*'`
+  if [ ! "$VERSION" ]; then
+    echo "N/A"
+  else
+    echo "$VERSION"
+  fi
+  return
+}
+
 nvm_checksum() {
     if [ "$1" = "$2" ]; then
         return