Node.js v18.11.0 (Current)

DA

Danielle Adams

Notable changes

watch mode (experimental)

Running in 'watch' mode using node --watch restarts the process when an imported file is changed.

Contributed by Moshe Atlow in #44366

Other notable changes

  • fs:
    • (SEMVER-MINOR) add FileHandle.prototype.readLines (Antoine du Hamel) #42590
  • http:
    • (SEMVER-MINOR) add writeEarlyHints function to ServerResponse (Wing) #44180
  • http2:
    • (SEMVER-MINOR) make early hints generic (Yagiz Nizipli) #44820
  • lib:
    • (SEMVER-MINOR) refactor transferable AbortSignal (flakey5) #44048
  • src:
    • (SEMVER-MINOR) add detailed embedder process initialization API (Anna Henningsen) #44121
  • util:
    • (SEMVER-MINOR) add default value option to parsearg (Manuel Spigolon) #44631

Commits

  • [27b4b782ce] - benchmark: add vm context global proxy benchmark (Joyee Cheung) #44796
  • [4e82521af1] - bootstrap: update comments in bootstrap/node.js (Joyee Cheung) #44726
  • [725be0ea50] - buffer: initialize TextDecoder once on blob.text() (Yagiz Nizipli) #44787
  • [653c3b1f62] - buffer,lib: update atob to align wpt's base64.json (Khaidi Chu) #43901
  • [37808b3355] - build: convert V8 test JSON to JUnit XML (Keyhan Vakil) #44049
  • [f92871a52b] - build: update timezone-update.yml (Alex) #44717
  • [f85d3471ee] - child_process: remove lookup of undefined property (Colin Ihrig) #44766
  • [2f5f41c315] - (SEMVER-MINOR) cli: add --watch (Moshe Atlow) #44366
  • [7fb9cc70f3] - cluster: use inspector utils (Moshe Atlow) #44592
  • [99a2c16040] - crypto: add causes to applicable webcrypto's OperationError (Filip Skokan) #44890
  • [e0fbba0939] - crypto: use EVP_PKEY_CTX_set_dsa_paramgen_q_bits when available (David Benjamin) #44561
  • [a90386b0a1] - deps: update undici to 5.11.0 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #44929
  • [aa68d40fbf] - deps: update corepack to 0.14.2 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #44775
  • [c892f35815] - deps: V8: fix debug build (Ben Noordhuis) #44392
  • [91514393dc] - dns: support dns module in the snapshot (Joyee Cheung) #44633
  • [ce3cb29319] - doc: add fsPromises.readFile() example (Tierney Cyren) #40237
  • [97df9b84a2] - doc: improve building doc for Android (BuShe Pie) #44888
  • [8c69da893b] - doc: mention corepack prepare supports tag or range (Michael Rienstra) #44646
  • [842bc64833] - doc: remove Legacy status from querystring (Rich Trott) #44912
  • [ddb5402f5f] - doc: fix label name in collaborator guide (Rich Trott) #44920
  • [d08b024a3d] - doc: fix typo in Node.js 12 changelog (Lorand Horvath) #42880
  • [b6b9c427c5] - doc: move release keys we don't use anymore in README (Rich Trott) #44899
  • [e92b074b32] - doc: fix grammar in dns docs (#44850) (Colin Ihrig) #44850
  • [780144c339] - doc: remove unnecessary leading commas (Colin Ihrig) #44854
  • [6ae9bc8fbc] - doc: add extra step for reporter pre-approval (Rafael Gonzaga) #44806
  • [ccf31d8bca] - doc: add anchor link for --preserve-symlinks (Kohei Ueno) #44858
  • [7c5c19ee54] - doc: update node prefix require.cache example (Simone Busoli) #44724
  • [2a5bce6318] - doc: include last security release date (Vladimir de Turckheim) #44794
  • [4efaf4265c] - doc: remove "currently" and comma splice from child_process.md (Rich Trott) #44789
  • [3627616b40] - doc,crypto: mark experimental algorithms more visually (Filip Skokan) #44892
  • [3c653cf23a] - doc,crypto: add missing CFRG curve algorithms to supported lists (Filip Skokan) #44876
  • [70f55020d3] - doc,crypto: add null length to crypto.subtle.deriveBits (Filip Skokan) #44876
  • [910fbd0ece] - esm: fix duplicated test (Geoffrey Booth) #44779
  • [bc00f3bde1] - fs: fix opts.filter issue in cp async (Tho) #44922
  • [11d1c23fa0] - (SEMVER-MINOR) fs: add FileHandle.prototype.readLines (Antoine du Hamel) #42590
  • [67fb76519a] - fs: improve promise based readFile performance for big files (Ruben Bridgewater) #44295
  • [dc6379bdc2] - fs: don't hard code name in validatePosition() (Colin Ihrig) #44767
  • [eb19b1e97c] - http: be more aggressive to reply 400, 408 and 431 (ywave620) #44818
  • [4c869c8d9e] - (SEMVER-MINOR) http: add writeEarlyHints function to ServerResponse (Wing) #44180
  • [9c7e66478c] - (SEMVER-MINOR) http2: make early hints generic (Yagiz Nizipli) #44820
  • [3f20e5b15c] - (SEMVER-MINOR) lib: refactor transferable AbortSignal (flakey5) #44048
  • [ada7d82b16] - lib: require JSDoc in internal validators code (Rich Trott) #44896
  • [67eaa303af] - lib: add cause to DOMException (flakey5) #44703
  • [0db86ee98e] - meta: update AUTHORS (Node.js GitHub Bot) #44930
  • [2efe4d985b] - meta: label test.js and test.md with test_runner label (Moshe Atlow) #44863
  • [fd9feb3a6c] - meta: update AUTHORS (Node.js GitHub Bot) #44857
  • [a854bb39c9] - node-api: create reference only when needed (Gerhard Stöbich) #44827
  • [fd5c26b8db] - path: change basename() argument from ext to suffix (Rich Trott) #44774
  • [803fbfb168] - process: fix uid/gid validation to avoid crash (Tobias Nießen) #44910
  • [9f2dd48fc3] - src: remove uid_t/gid_t casts (Tobias Nießen) #44914
  • [3abb607f3a] - src: remove UncheckedMalloc(0) workaround (Tobias Nießen) #44543
  • [0606f9298f] - src: deduplicate setting RSA OAEP label (Tobias Nießen) #44849
  • [daf3152f7e] - src: implement GetDetachedness() in MemoryRetainerNode (Joyee Cheung) #44803
  • [7ca77dd4ef] - src: avoid X509_free in loops in crypto_x509.cc (Tobias Nießen) #44855
  • [781ad96227] - src: use OnScopeLeave instead of multiple free() (Tobias Nießen) #44852
  • [b27b336a7a] - src: remove ParseIP() in cares_wrap.cc (Tobias Nießen) #44771
  • [f99f5d3c01] - (SEMVER-MINOR) src: add detailed embedder process initialization API (Anna Henningsen) #44121
  • [281fd7a09a] - src,stream: improve DoWrite() and Write() (ywave620) #44434
  • [a33cc22bf7] - src,worker: fix race of WorkerHeapSnapshotTaker (ywave620) #44745
  • [f300f197da] - stream: handle enqueuing chunks when a pending BYOB pull request exists (Daeyeon Jeong) #44770
  • [9ac029ea11] - test: bump memory limit for abort fatal error (Danielle Adams) #44984
  • [b9b671f25f] - test: debug watch mode inspect (Moshe Atlow) #44861
  • [2308b71d09] - test: don't clobber RegExp.$_ on startup (Ben Noordhuis) #44864
  • [fe91bebb67] - test: loosen test for negative timestamps in test-fs-stat-date (Livia Medeiros) #44707
  • [a080608552] - test: check --test is disallowed in NODE_OPTIONS (Kohei Ueno) #44846
  • [dc2af265d7] - test: improve lib/internal/source_map/source_map.js coverage (MURAKAMI Masahiko) #42771
  • [60a05d6dea] - test: skip some binding tests on IBMi PASE (Richard Lau) #44810
  • [8dacedaa3d] - test: remove unused variable in addon test (Joyee Cheung) #44809
  • [c54cee1c3f] - test: check server status in test-tls-psk-client (Richard Lau) #44824
  • [ee3c6a4dc5] - test: use async/await in test-debugger-exceptions (pete3249) #44690
  • [9f14625fe5] - test: use async/await in test-debugger-help (Chandana) #44686
  • [8033ad846b] - test: update test-debugger-scripts to use await/async (mmeenapriya) #44692
  • [f4f08be384] - test: use await in test-debugger-invalid-json (Anjana Krishnakumar Vellore) #44689
  • [d2f36169f3] - test: use async/await in test-debugger-random-port-with-inspect-port (Monu-Chaudhary) #44695
  • [ddf029725b] - test: use async/await in test-debugger-heap-profiler (Brinda Ashar) #44693
  • [117f068250] - test: use async/await in test-debugger-auto-resume (samyuktaprabhu) #44675
  • [143c428cae] - test: migrated from Promise chains to Async/Await (Rathi N Das) #44674
  • [e609a3309c] - test: change promises to async/await in test-debugger-backtrace.js (Juliet Zhang) #44677
  • [eeabd23ca6] - test: use async/await in test-debugger-sb-before-load (Hope Olaidé) #44697
  • [5c63d1464e] - test: add extra tests for basename with ext option (Connor Burton) #44772
  • [f8b2d7a059] - test: refactor to async/await (Divya Mohan) #44694
  • [9864bde9ab] - test: modify test-debugger-custom-port.js to use async-await (Priya Shastri) #44680
  • [af30823881] - test: upgrade all 1024 bit RSA keys to 2048 bits (Momtchil Momtchev) #44498
  • [0fb669e31f] - test: update test-debugger-breakpoint-exists.js to use async/await (Archana Kamath) #44682
  • [cca253503e] - test: use async/await in test-debugger-preserve-breaks (poorvitusam) #44696
  • [0b2e8b1681] - test: use async/await in test-debugger-profile (surbhirjain) #44684
  • [4db72a65cf] - test: change the promises to async/await in test-debugger-exec-scope.js (Ankita Khiratkar) #44685
  • [56c9c98963] - test: fix test-runner-inspect (Moshe Atlow) #44620
  • [36227ed862] - test: fix watch mode test flake (Moshe Atlow) #44739
  • [3abd71a0ea] - test: deflake watch mode tests (Moshe Atlow) #44621
  • [0c9f38f2be] - test: split watch mode inspector tests to sequential (Moshe Atlow) #44551
  • [d762a34128] - test_runner: add --test-name-pattern CLI flag (Colin Ihrig)
  • [c7ece464a1] - test_runner: remove runtime experimental warning (Colin Ihrig) #44844
  • [3c1e9d41c8] - test_runner: support using --inspect with --test (Moshe Atlow) #44520
  • [4bdef48732] - tools: remove faulty early termination logic from update-timezone.mjs (Darshan Sen) #44870
  • [19d8574996] - tools: fix timezone update tool (Darshan Sen) #44870
  • [ad8b8ae7d3] - tools: update eslint to 8.25.0 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #44931
  • [fd99b17a4d] - tools: make utils.SearchFiles deterministic (Bruno Pitrus) #44496
  • [131adece37] - tools: fix typo in tools/update-authors.mjs (Darshan Sen) #44780
  • [ab22777e65] - tools: refactor deprecated format in no-unescaped-regexp-dot (Madhuri) #44763
  • [3ad0fae89d] - tools: update eslint-check.js to object style (andiemontoyeah) #44706
  • [e9d572a9bd] - tools: update eslint to 8.24.0 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #44778
  • [984b0b4a6c] - tools: update lint-md-dependencies to rollup@2.79.1 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #44776
  • [db5aeed702] - (SEMVER-MINOR) util: add default value option to parsearg (Manuel Spigolon) #44631
  • [576ccdf125] - util: increase robustness with primordials (Jordan Harband) #41212

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