2021-09-28, Version 14.18.0 'Fermium' (LTS)

Notable changes:

assert:
  * change status of legacy asserts (James M Snell) #38113
async_hooks:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) use new v8::Context PromiseHook API (Stephen Belanger) #36394
buffer:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) introduce Blob (James M Snell) #36811
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add base64url encoding option (Filip Skokan) #36952
child_process:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) allow `options.cwd` receive a URL (Khaidi Chu) #38862
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add timeout to spawn and fork (Nitzan Uziely) #37256
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) allow promisified exec to be cancel (Carlos Fuentes) #34249
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add 'overlapped' stdio flag (Thiago Padilha) #29412
cli:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add -C alias for --conditions flag (Guy Bedford) #38755
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add --node-memory-debug option (Anna Henningsen) #35537
deps:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) V8: cherry-pick fa4cb172cde2 (Stephen Belanger) #38577
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) V8: cherry-pick 4c074516397b (Stephen Belanger) #36394
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) V8: cherry-pick 5f4413194480 (Stephen Belanger) #36394
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) V8: cherry-pick 272445f10927 (Stephen Belanger) #36394
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) V8: backport c0fceaa0669b (Stephen Belanger) #36394
dns:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add "tries" option to Resolve options (Luan Devecchi) #39610
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) allow `--dns-result-order` to change default dns verbatim (Ouyang Yadong) #38099
doc:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add missing change to resolver ctor (Luan Devecchi) #39610
  * refactor fs docs structure (Michaël Zasso) #37170
errors:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) remove experimental from --enable-source-maps (Benjamin Coe) #37362
esm:
  * deprecate legacy main lookup for modules (Guy Bedford) #36918
fs:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) allow empty string for temp directory prefix (Voltrex) #39028
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) allow no-params fsPromises fileHandle read (Nitzan Uziely) #38287
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add support for async iterators to `fsPromises.writeFile` (HiroyukiYagihashi) #37490
  * improve fsPromises readFile performance (Nitzan Uziely) #37608
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add fsPromises.watch() (James M Snell) #37179
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) allow `position` parameter to be a `BigInt` in read and readSync (Darshan Sen) #36190
http2:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add support for sensitive headers (Anna Henningsen) #34145
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) allow setting the local window size of a session (Yongsheng Zhang) #35978
inspector:
  * mark as stable (Gireesh Punathil) #37748
module:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add support for `URL` to `import.meta.resolve` (Antoine du Hamel) #38587
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add support for `node:`‑prefixed `require(…)` calls (ExE Boss) #37246
net:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) allow net.BlockList to use net.SocketAddress objects (James M Snell) #37917
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add SocketAddress class (James M Snell) #37917
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) make net.BlockList cloneable (James M Snell) #37917
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) make blocklist family case insensitive (James M Snell) #34864
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) introduce net.BlockList (James M Snell) #34625
node-api:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) allow retrieval of add-on file name (Gabriel Schulhof) #37195
os:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add os.devNull (Luigi Pinca) #38569
perf_hooks:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) introduce createHistogram (James M Snell) #37155
process:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add api to enable source-maps programmatically (legendecas) #39085
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add `'worker'` event (James M Snell) #38659
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add direct access to rss without iterating pages (Adrien Maret) #34291
readline:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add AbortSignal support to interface (Nitzan Uziely) #37932
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add support for the AbortController to the question method (Mattias Runge-Broberg) #33676
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add history event and option to set initial history (Mattias Runge-Broberg) #33662
repl:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add auto‑completion for `node:`‑prefixed `require(…)` calls (ExE Boss) #37246
src:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) call overload ctor from the original ctor (Darshan Sen) #39768
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add a constructor overload for CallbackScope (Darshan Sen) #39768
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) fix align in cares_wrap.h (Luan) #39610
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) allow to negate boolean CLI flags (Michaël Zasso) #39023
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add --heapsnapshot-near-heap-limit option (Joyee Cheung) #33010
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) move node_binding to modern THROW_ERR* (James M Snell) #35469
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add way to get IsolateData and allocator from Environment (Anna Henningsen) #36441
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) allow preventing SetPrepareStackTraceCallback (Shelley Vohr) #36447
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add maybe versions of EmitExit and EmitBeforeExit (Anna Henningsen) #35486
stream:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add readableDidRead if has been read from (Robert Nagy) #39589
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) pipeline accept Buffer as a valid first argument (Nitzan Uziely) #37739
test:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add wpt tests for Blob (Michaël Zasso) #36811
tls:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) allow reading data into a static buffer (Andrey Pechkurov) #35753
tools:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add `Worker` to type-parser (James M Snell) #38659
url:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) expose urlToHttpOptions utility (Yongsheng Zhang) #35960
util:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) expose toUSVString (Robert Nagy) #39814
v8:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) implement v8.stopCoverage() (Joyee Cheung) #33807
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) implement v8.takeCoverage() (Joyee Cheung) #33807
worker:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add setEnvironmentData/getEnvironmentData (James M Snell) #37486

PR-URL: TODO

Author: targos

CHANGELOG.md

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doc/api/assert.md

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doc/api/buffer.md

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doc/api/child_process.md

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doc/api/cli.md

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doc/api/deprecations.md

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doc/api/dns.md

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doc/api/errors.md

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doc/api/esm.md

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doc/api/fs.md

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doc/api/http2.md

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