Echo JS 0.11.0

Newbie question, but how does NPM tie in with this?

It's not clear to me what version of NPM I should be using.

When installing NPM doesn't it give you node also?

Curious, 11 days is kinda short from the last stable release? why?

This isn't unprecedented, all previous node's have released new versions shortly after stable version release, but also is expected given the high number & velocity of node's core maintainers at present.

Major release usually means orders of magnitude more people using the code, no matter how long and well-advertised your prerelease cycle is. More eyeballs means more chances to find bugs.