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2023-11-29, Version 18.19.0 'Hydrogen' (LTS), @targos

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2023-11-29, Version 18.19.0 'Hydrogen' (LTS), @targos

Notable Changes

npm updated to v10

After two months of baking time in Node.js 20, npm 10 is backported, so that all
release lines include a supported version of npm. This release includes npm v10.2.3.

Refer to nodejs/Release#884 for the plan to land npm 10.

ESM and customization hook changes

Leverage loaders when resolving subsequent loaders

Loaders now apply to subsequent loaders, for example: --experimental-loader ts-node --experimental-loader loader-written-in-typescript.

Contributed by MaΓ«l Nison in #43772.

New node:module API register for module customization hooks; new initialize hook

There is a new API register available on node:module to specify a file that exports module customization hooks, and pass data to the hooks, and establish communication channels with them. The β€œdefine the file with the hooks” part was previously handled by a flag --experimental-loader, but when the hooks moved into a dedicated thread in 20.0.0 there was a need to provide a way to communicate between the main (application) thread and the hooks thread. This can now be done by calling register from the main thread and passing data, including MessageChannel instances.

We encourage users to migrate to an approach that uses --import with register, such as:

node --import ./file-that-calls-register.js ./app.js

Using --import ensures that the customization hooks are registered before any application code runs, even the entry point.

Contributed by JoΓ£o Lenon and Jacob Smith in #46826, Izaak Schroeder and Jacob Smith in #48842 and #48559.

import.meta.resolve unflagged

In ES modules, import.meta.resolve(specifier)
can be used to get an absolute URL string to which specifier resolves, similar
to require.resolve in CommonJS. This aligns Node.js with browsers and other server-side runtimes.

Contributed by Guy Bedford in #49028.

--experimental-default-type flag to flip module defaults

The new flag --experimental-default-type can be used to flip the default
module system used by Node.js. Input that is already explicitly defined as ES
modules or CommonJS, such as by a package.json "type" field or .mjs/.cjs
file extension or the --input-type flag, is unaffected. What is currently
implicitly CommonJS would instead be interpreted as ES modules under
--experimental-default-type=module:

  • String input provided via --eval or STDIN, if --input-type is unspecified.

  • Files ending in .js or with no extension, if there is no package.json file
    present in the same folder or any parent folder.

  • Files ending in .js or with no extension, if the nearest parent
    package.json field lacks a type field; unless the folder is inside a
    node_modules folder.

In addition, extensionless files are interpreted as Wasm if
--experimental-wasm-modules is passed and the file contains the "magic bytes"
Wasm header.

Contributed by Geoffrey Booth in #49869.

Other ESM-related changes
  • [ed2d46f4cc] - doc: move and rename loaders section (Geoffrey Booth) #49261
  • [92734d4480] - esm: use import attributes instead of import assertions (Antoine du Hamel) #50140
  • [e96f7ef881] - (SEMVER-MINOR) vm: use import attributes instead of import assertions (Antoine du Hamel) #50141

Test runner changes

Many changes to the built-in test runner have been backported. This includes
the following additions:

  • [b283ae4238] - (SEMVER-MINOR) test_runner: accept testOnly in run (Moshe Atlow) #49753
  • [059b1945d8] - (SEMVER-MINOR) test_runner: add junit reporter (Moshe Atlow) #49614
  • [d61a505546] - (SEMVER-MINOR) test_runner: expose location of tests (Colin Ihrig) #48975
  • [b55eb2a8d1] - (SEMVER-MINOR) test_runner: add shards support (Raz Luvaton) #48639
  • [05e7f28b40] - (SEMVER-MINOR) test_runner: add initial draft for fakeTimers (Erick Wendel) #47775
  • [428301ad27] - (SEMVER-MINOR) test_runner, cli: add --test-concurrency flag (Colin Ihrig) #49996

Other notable changes

  • [0c4a84e8e9] - (SEMVER-MINOR) deps: update uvwasi to 0.0.19 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #49908
  • [fae60c5841] - stream: use bitmap in readable state (Benjamin Gruenbaum) #49745
  • [17246be158] - (SEMVER-MINOR) lib: add api to detect whether source-maps are enabled (ηΏ  / green) #46391
  • [2e9f7284a1] - (SEMVER-MINOR) lib: add tracing channel to diagnostics_channel (Stephen Belanger) #44943
  • [cc7bf1f641] - (SEMVER-MINOR) src: add cjs_module_lexer_version base64_version (Jithil P Ponnan) #45629
  • [b5d16cd8f0] - (SEMVER-MINOR) tls: add ALPNCallback server option for dynamic ALPN negotiation (Tim Perry) #45190

Commits

  • [0d0eb47e2a] - benchmark: add benchmarks for the test_runner (Raz Luvaton) #48931
  • [8bb03d10f4] - benchmark: differentiate whatwg and legacy url (Yagiz Nizipli) #47377
  • [3d7734cbe3] - benchmark: lower URL.canParse runs (Khafra) #47351
  • [24d3fcf415] - benchmark: stablize encode benchmark (Joyee Cheung) #46658
  • [e08fd98bcc] - bootstrap: use correct descriptor for Symbol.{dispose,asyncDispose} (Jordan Harband) #48703
  • [cf9ddcd6c8] - bootstrap: simplify initialization of source map handlers (Joyee Cheung) #48304
  • [12d731e431] - bootstrap: log isolate data info in mksnapshot debug logs (Joyee Cheung) #47768
  • [d66873871a] - bootstrap: store internal loaders in C++ via a binding (Joyee Cheung) #47215
  • [1a499c5082] - bootstrap: optimize modules loaded in the built-in snapshot (Joyee Cheung) #45849
  • [e0e09caafe] - bootstrap: make CJS loader snapshotable (Joyee Cheung) #45849
  • [5f37decd56] - bootstrap: include event_target into the built-in snapshot (Joyee Cheung) #45849
  • [c3f56a3dee] - bootstrap: support module_wrap binding in snapshot (Joyee Cheung) #45849
  • [6466acbc89] - bootstrap: lazy load non-essential modules (Joyee Cheung) #45659
  • [a0d4b69df4] - bootstrap: lazy-load Performance.prototype.timeOrigin (Joyee Cheung) #46425
  • [c1bc8118e3] - bootstrap: generate bootstrapper arguments in BuiltinLoader (Joyee Cheung) #44488
  • [075c57e88b] - build: add symlink to compile_commands.json file if needed (Juan JosΓ©) #49260
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2023-11-22, Version 20.10.0 'Iron' (LTS), @targos

22 Nov 15:31
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--experimental-default-type flag to flip module defaults

The new flag --experimental-default-type can be used to flip the default
module system used by Node.js. Input that is already explicitly defined as ES
modules or CommonJS, such as by a package.json "type" field or .mjs/.cjs
file extension or the --input-type flag, is unaffected. What is currently
implicitly CommonJS would instead be interpreted as ES modules under
--experimental-default-type=module:

  • String input provided via --eval or STDIN, if --input-type is unspecified.

  • Files ending in .js or with no extension, if there is no package.json file
    present in the same folder or any parent folder.

  • Files ending in .js or with no extension, if the nearest parent
    package.json field lacks a type field; unless the folder is inside a
    node_modules folder.

In addition, extensionless files are interpreted as Wasm if
--experimental-wasm-modules is passed and the file contains the "magic bytes"
Wasm header.

Contributed by Geoffrey Booth in #49869.

Detect ESM syntax in ambiguous JavaScript

The new flag --experimental-detect-module can be used to automatically run ES
modules when their syntax can be detected. For β€œambiguous” files, which are
.js or extensionless files with no package.json with a type field, Node.js
will parse the file to detect ES module syntax; if found, it will run the file
as an ES module, otherwise it will run the file as a CommonJS module. The same
applies to string input via --eval or STDIN.

We hope to make detection enabled by default in a future version of Node.js.
Detection increases startup time, so we encourage everyoneβ€”especially package
authorsβ€”to add a type field to package.json, even for the default
"type": "commonjs". The presence of a type field, or explicit extensions
such as .mjs or .cjs, will opt out of detection.

Contributed by Geoffrey Booth in #50096.

New flush option in file system functions

When writing to files, it is possible that data is not immediately flushed to
permanent storage. This allows subsequent read operations to see stale data.
This PR adds a 'flush' option to the fs.writeFile family of functions which
forces the data to be flushed at the end of a successful write operation.

Contributed by Colin Ihrig in #50009 and #50095.

Experimental WebSocket client

Adds a --experimental-websocket flag that adds a WebSocket
global, as standardized by WHATWG.

Contributed by Matthew Aitken in #49830.

vm: fix V8 compilation cache support for vm.Script

Previously repeated compilation of the same source code using vm.Script
stopped hitting the V8 compilation cache after v16.x when support for
importModuleDynamically was added to vm.Script, resulting in a performance
regression that blocked users (in particular Jest users) from upgrading from
v16.x.

The recent fixes allow the compilation cache to be hit again
for vm.Script when --experimental-vm-modules is not used even in the
presence of the importModuleDynamically option, so that users affected by the
performance regression can now upgrade. Ongoing work is also being done to
enable compilation cache support for vm.CompileFunction.

Contributed by Joyee Cheung in #49950
and #50137.

Other notable changes

  • [21453ae555] - (SEMVER-MINOR) deps: update uvwasi to 0.0.19 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #49908
  • [ee65e44c31] - esm: use import attributes instead of import assertions (Antoine du Hamel) #50140
  • [ffdc357167] - (SEMVER-MINOR) stream: allow passing stream class to stream.compose (Alex Yang) #50187
  • [4861ad6431] - stream: improve performance of readable stream reads (Raz Luvaton) #50173
  • [4b27087b30] - stream: optimize Writable (Robert Nagy) #50012
  • [709c6c0cab] - (SEMVER-MINOR) test_runner, cli: add --test-concurrency flag (Colin Ihrig) #49996
  • [57efd5292c] - (SEMVER-MINOR) vm: use import attributes instead of import assertions (Antoine du Hamel) #50141

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2023-11-14, Version 21.2.0 (Current), @targos

14 Nov 18:23
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Notable Changes

  • [e25c65ee2f] - doc: add MrJithil to collaborators (Jithil P Ponnan) #50666
  • [f2366573f9] - doc: add Ethan-Arrowood as a collaborator (Ethan Arrowood) #50393
  • [eac9cc5fcb] - (SEMVER-MINOR) esm: add import.meta.dirname and import.meta.filename (James Sumners) #48740
  • [7e151114b1] - fs: add stacktrace to fs/promises (ηΏ  / green) #49849
  • [6dbb280733] - (SEMVER-MINOR) lib: add --no-experimental-global-navigator CLI flag (Antoine du Hamel) #50562
  • [03c730b931] - (SEMVER-MINOR) lib: add navigator.language & navigator.languages (Aras Abbasi) #50303
  • [f932f4c518] - (SEMVER-MINOR) lib: add navigator.platform (Aras Abbasi) #50385
  • [91f37d1dc3] - (SEMVER-MINOR) stream: add support for deflate-raw format to webstreams compression (Damian Krzeminski) #50097
  • [65850a67c7] - stream: use Array for Readable buffer (Robert Nagy) #50341
  • [e433fa54b7] - stream: optimize creation (Robert Nagy) #50337
  • [c9b92bba58] - (SEMVER-MINOR) test_runner: adds built in lcov reporter (Phil Nash) #50018
  • [f6c496563e] - (SEMVER-MINOR) test_runner: add Date to the supported mock APIs (Lucas Santos) #48638
  • [05e8b6ef20] - (SEMVER-MINOR) test_runner, cli: add --test-timeout flag (Shubham Pandey) #50443

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2023-10-24, Version 21.1.0 (Current), @targos

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Notable Changes

Automatically detect and run ESM syntax

The new flag --experimental-detect-module can be used to automatically run
ES modules when their syntax can be detected. For β€œambiguous” files, which are
.js or extensionless files with no package.json with a type field, Node.js
will parse the file to detect ES module syntax; if found, it will run the file
as an ES module, otherwise it will run the file as a CommonJS module.
The same applies to string input via --eval or STDIN.

We hope to make detection enabled by default in a future version of Node.js.
Detection increases startup time, so we encourage everyone β€” especially package
authors β€” to add a type field to package.json, even for the default
"type": "commonjs". The presence of a type field, or explicit extensions
such as .mjs or .cjs, will opt out of detection.

Contributed by Geoffrey Booth in #50096.

Other Notable Changes

  • [3729e33358] - doc: add H4ad to collaborators (VinΓ­cius LourenΓ§o) #50217
  • [18862e4d5d] - (SEMVER-MINOR) fs: add flush option to appendFile() functions (Colin Ihrig) #50095
  • [5a52c518ef] - (SEMVER-MINOR) lib: add navigator.userAgent (Yagiz Nizipli) #50200
  • [789372a072] - (SEMVER-MINOR) stream: allow pass stream class to stream.compose (Alex Yang) #50187
  • [f3a9ea0bc4] - stream: improve performance of readable stream reads (Raz Luvaton) #50173
  • [dda33c2bf1] - vm: reject in importModuleDynamically without --experimental-vm-modules (Joyee Cheung) #50137
  • [3999362c59] - vm: use internal versions of compileFunction and Script (Joyee Cheung) #50137
  • [a54179f0e0] - vm: unify host-defined option generation in vm.compileFunction (Joyee Cheung) #50137

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2023-10-24, Version 20.9.0 'Iron' (LTS), @richardlau

24 Oct 14:50
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Notable Changes

This release marks the transition of Node.js 20.x into Long Term Support (LTS)
with the codename 'Iron'. The 20.x release line now moves into "Active LTS"
and will remain so until October 2024. After that time, it will move into
"Maintenance" until end of life in April 2026.

Known issue

Collecting code coverage via the NODE_V8_COVERAGE environment variable may
lead to a hang. This is not thought to be a regression in Node.js 20 (some
reports are on Node.js 18). For more information, including some potential
workarounds, see issue #49344.

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2023-10-17, Version 21.0.0 (Current), @RafaelGSS and @targos

17 Oct 16:11
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2023-10-17, Version 21.0.0 (Current), @RafaelGSS and @targos

We're excited to announce the release of Node.js 21! Highlights include updates of the V8 JavaScript engine to 11.8,
stable fetch and WebStreams, a new experimental flag to change the interpretation of ambiguous code
from CommonJS to ES modules (--experimental-default-type), many updates to our test runner, and more!

Node.js 21 will replace Node.js 20 as our β€˜Current’ release line when Node.js 20 enters long-term support (LTS) later this month.
As per the release schedule, Node.js 21 will be β€˜Current' release for the next 6 months, until April 2024.

Other Notable Changes

  • [740ca5423a] - doc: promote fetch/webstreams from experimental to stable (Steven) #45684
  • [85301803e1] - esm: --experimental-default-type flag to flip module defaults (Geoffrey Booth) #49869
  • [705e623ac4] - esm: remove globalPreload hook (superseded by initialize) (Jacob Smith) #49144
  • [e01c1d700d] - fs: add flush option to writeFile() functions (Colin Ihrig) #50009
  • [1948dce707] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) fs: add globSync implementation (Moshe Atlow) #47653
  • [e28dbe1c2b] - (SEMVER-MINOR) lib: add WebSocket client (Matthew Aitken) #49830
  • [95b8f5dcab] - stream: optimize Writable (Robert Nagy) #50012
  • [7cd4e70948] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) test_runner: support passing globs (Moshe Atlow) #47653
  • [1d220b55ac] - vm: use default HDO when importModuleDynamically is not set (Joyee Cheung) #49950

Semver-Major Commits

  • [ac2a68c76b] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) build: drop support for Visual Studio 2019 (MichaΓ«l Zasso) #49051
  • [4e3983031a] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) build: bump supported macOS and Xcode versions (MichaΓ«l Zasso) #49164
  • [5a0777776d] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) crypto: do not overwrite _writableState.defaultEncoding (Tobias Nießen) #49140
  • [162a0652ab] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) deps: bump minimum ICU version to 73 (MichaΓ«l Zasso) #49639
  • [17a74ddd3d] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) deps: update V8 to 11.8.172.13 (MichaΓ«l Zasso) #49639
  • [e9ff81016d] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) deps: update llhttp to 9.1.2 (Paolo Insogna) #48981
  • [7ace5aba75] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) events: validate options of on and once (Deokjin Kim) #46018
  • [b3ec13d449] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) fs: adjust position validation in reading methods (Livia Medeiros) #42835
  • [1948dce707] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) fs: add globSync implementation (Moshe Atlow) #47653
  • [d68d0eacaa] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) http: reduce parts in chunked response when corking (Robert Nagy) #50167
  • [c5b0b894ed] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) lib: mark URL/URLSearchParams as uncloneable and untransferable (Chengzhong Wu) #47497
  • [3205b1936a] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) lib: remove aix directory case for package reader (Yagiz Nizipli) #48605
  • [b40f0c3074] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) lib: add navigator.hardwareConcurrency (Yagiz Nizipli) #47769
  • [4b08c4c047] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) lib: runtime deprecate punycode (Yagiz Nizipli) #47202
  • [3ce51ae9c0] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) module: harmonize error code between ESM and CJS (Antoine du Hamel) #48606
  • [7202859402] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) net: do not treat server.maxConnections=0 as Infinity (ignoramous) #48276
  • [c15bafdaf4] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) net: only defer _final call when connecting (Jason Zhang) #47385
  • [6ffacbf0f9] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) node-api: rename internal NAPI_VERSION definition (Chengzhong Wu) #48501
  • [11af089b14] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) src: update NODE_MODULE_VERSION to 120 (MichaΓ«l Zasso) #49639
  • [d920b7c94b] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) src: throw DOMException on cloning non-serializable objects (Chengzhong Wu) #47839
  • [64549731b6] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) src: throw DataCloneError on transfering untransferable objects (Chengzhong Wu) #47604
  • [dac8de689b] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) stream: use private properties for strategies (Yagiz Nizipli) #47218
  • [1fa084ecdf] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) stream: use private properties for encoding (Yagiz Nizipli) #47218
  • [4e93247079] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) stream: use private properties for compression (Yagiz Nizipli) #47218
  • [527589b755] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) test_runner: disallow array in run options (Raz Luvaton) #49935
  • [7cd4e70948] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) test_runner: support passing globs (Moshe Atlow) #47653
  • [2ef170254b] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) tls: use validateNumber for options.minDHSize (Deokjin Kim) #49973
  • [092fb9f541] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) tls: use validateFunction for options.checkServerIdentity (Deokjin Kim) #49896
  • [ccca547e28] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) util: runtime deprecate promisify-ing a function returning a Promise (Antoine du Hamel) #49609
  • [4038cf0513] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) vm: freeze dependencySpecifiers array (Antoine du Hamel) #49720

Semver-Minor Commits

  • [3227d7327c] - (SEMVER-MINOR) deps: update uvwasi to 0.0.19 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #49908
  • [e28dbe1c2b] - (SEMVER-MINOR) lib: add WebSocket client (Matthew Aitken) #49830
  • [9f9c58212e] - (SEMVER-MINOR) test_runner, cli: add --test-concurrency flag (Colin Ihrig) #49996
  • [d37b0d267f] - (SEMVER-MINOR) wasi: updates required for latest uvwasi version (Michael Dawson) #49908

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2023-10-13, Version 20.8.1 (Current), @RafaelGSS

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This is a security release.

Notable Changes

The following CVEs are fixed in this release:

More detailed information on each of the vulnerabilities can be found in October 2023 Security Releases blog post.

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2023-10-13, Version 18.18.2 'Hydrogen' (LTS), @RafaelGSS

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This is a security release.

Notable Changes

The following CVEs are fixed in this release:

More detailed information on each of the vulnerabilities can be found in October 2023 Security Releases blog post.

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2023-10-10, Version 18.18.1 'Hydrogen' (LTS), @richardlau

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Notable Changes

This release addresses some regressions that appeared in Node.js 18.18.0:

  • (Windows) FS can not handle certain characters in file name #48673
  • 18 and 20 node images give error - Text file busy (after re-build images) nodejs/docker-node#1968
  • libuv update in 18.18.0 breaks webpack's thread-loader #49911

The libuv 1.45.0 and 1.46.0 updates that were released in Node.js 18.18.0 have been temporarily reverted.

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2023-09-28, Version 20.8.0 (Current), @ruyadorno

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2023-09-28, Version 20.8.0 (Current), @ruyadorno

Notable Changes

Stream performance improvements

Performance improvements to writable and readable streams, improving the creation and destruction by Β±15% and reducing the memory overhead each stream takes in Node.js

Contributed by Benjamin Gruenbaum in #49745 and Raz Luvaton in #49834.

Performance improvements for readable webstream, improving readable stream async iterator consumption by Β±140% and improving readable stream pipeTo consumption by Β±60%

Contributed by Raz Luvaton in #49662 and #49690.

Rework of memory management in vm APIs with the importModuleDynamically option

This rework addressed a series of long-standing memory leaks and use-after-free issues in the following APIs that support importModuleDynamically:

  • vm.Script
  • vm.compileFunction
  • vm.SyntheticModule
  • vm.SourceTextModule

This should enable affected users (in particular Jest users) to upgrade from older versions of Node.js.

Contributed by Joyee Cheung in #48510.

Other notable changes

  • [32d4d29d02] - deps: add v8::Object::SetInternalFieldForNodeCore() (Joyee Cheung) #49874
  • [0e686d096b] - doc: deprecate fs.F_OK, fs.R_OK, fs.W_OK, fs.X_OK (Livia Medeiros) #49683
  • [a5dd057540] - doc: deprecate util.toUSVString (Yagiz Nizipli) #49725
  • [7b6a73172f] - doc: deprecate calling promisify on a function that returns a promise (Antoine du Hamel) #49647
  • [1beefd5f16] - esm: set all hooks as release candidate (Geoffrey Booth) #49597
  • [b0ce78a75b] - module: fix the leak in SourceTextModule and ContextifySript (Joyee Cheung) #48510
  • [4e578f8ab1] - module: fix leak of vm.SyntheticModule (Joyee Cheung) #48510
  • [69e4218772] - module: use symbol in WeakMap to manage host defined options (Joyee Cheung) #48510
  • [14ece0aa76] - (SEMVER-MINOR) src: allow embedders to override NODE_MODULE_VERSION (Cheng Zhao) #49279
  • [9fd67fbff0] - stream: use bitmap in writable state (Raz Luvaton) #49834
  • [0ccd4638ac] - stream: use bitmap in readable state (Benjamin Gruenbaum) #49745
  • [7c5e322346] - stream: improve webstream readable async iterator performance (Raz Luvaton) #49662
  • [80b342cc38] - (SEMVER-MINOR) test_runner: accept testOnly in run (Moshe Atlow) #49753
  • [17a05b141d] - (SEMVER-MINOR) test_runner: add junit reporter (Moshe Atlow) #49614

Commits

  • [4879e3fbbe] - benchmark: add a benchmark for read() of ReadableStreams (Debadree Chatterjee) #49622
  • [78a6c73157] - benchmark: shorten pipe-to by reducing number of chunks (Raz Luvaton) #49577
  • [4126a6e4c9] - benchmark: fix webstream pipe-to (Raz Luvaton) #49552
  • [6010a91825] - bootstrap: do not expand argv1 for snapshots (Joyee Cheung) #49506
  • [8480280c4b] - bootstrap: only use the isolate snapshot when compiling code cache (Joyee Cheung) #49288
  • [b30754aa87] - build: run embedtest using node executable (Joyee Cheung) #49506
  • [31db0b8e2b] - build: add --write-snapshot-as-array-literals to configure.py (Joyee Cheung) #49312
  • [6fcb51d3ba] - debugger: use internal/url.URL instead of url.parse (LiviaMedeiros) #49590
  • [32d4d29d02] - deps: add v8::Object::SetInternalFieldForNodeCore() (Joyee Cheung) #49874
  • [ad37cadc3f] - deps: V8: backport de9a5de2274f (Joyee Cheung) #49703
  • [cdd1c66222] - deps: V8: cherry-pick b33bf2dfd261 (Joyee Cheung) #49703
  • [61d18d6473] - deps: update undici to 5.24.0 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #49559
  • [b8a4fef393] - deps: remove pthread-fixes.c from uv.gyp (Ben Noordhuis) #49744
  • [6c86c0683c] - deps: update googletest to d1467f5 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #49676
  • [1424404742] - deps: update nghttp2 to 1.56.0 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #49582
  • [15b54ff95d] - deps: update googletest to 8a6feab (Node.js GitHub Bot) #49463
  • [2ceab877c2] - deps: update corepack to 0.20.0 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #49464
  • [4814872ddc] - doc: fix DEP0176 number (LiviaMedeiros) #49858
  • [0e686d096b] - doc: deprecate fs.F_OK, fs.R_OK, fs.W_OK, fs.X_OK (Livia Medeiros) #49683
  • [5877c403a2] - doc: add mertcanaltin as a triager (mert.altin) #49826
  • [864fe56432] - doc: add git node backport way to the backporting guide (Raz Luvaton) #49760
  • [e0f93492d5] - doc: improve documentation about ICU data fallback (Joyee Cheung) #49666
  • [a5dd057540] - doc: deprecate util.toUSVString (Yagiz Nizipli) #49725
  • [774c1cfd52] - doc: add missing function call to example for util.promisify (Jungku Lee) #49719
  • [fe78a34845] - doc: update output of example in mimeParams.set() (Deokjin Kim) #49718
  • [4175ea33bd] - doc: add missed inspect with numericSeparator to example (Deokjin Kim) #49717
  • [3a88571972] - doc: fix history comments (Antoine du Hamel) #49701
  • [db4ab1ccbb] - doc: add missing history info for import.meta.resolve (Antoine du Hamel) #49700
  • [a304d1ee19] - doc: link maintaining deps to pull-request.md (Marco Ippolito) #49716
  • [35294486ad] - doc: fix print results in events (Jungku Lee) #49548
  • [9f0b0e15c9] - doc: alphabetize cli.md sections (Geoffrey Booth) #49668
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