2021-10-20, Version 16.12.0 (Current), @richardlau

Notable Changes

Experimental ESM Loader Hooks API

Node.js ESM Loader hooks have been consolidated to represent the steps involved needed to facilitate future loader chaining:

1. resolve: resolve [+ getFormat]
2. load: getFormat + getSource + transformSource

For consistency, getGlobalPreloadCode has been renamed to globalPreload.

A loader exporting obsolete hook(s) will trigger a single deprecation warning (per loader) listing the errant hooks.

Contributed by Jacob Smith, Geoffrey Booth, and Bradley Farias - #37468

Other Notable Changes

• [8fdabcb918] - deps: upgrade npm to 8.1.0 (npm team) #40463
• [d1d9f2de30] - doc: deprecate (doc-only) http abort related (dr-js) #36670
• [4116b6c907] - (SEMVER-MINOR) vm: add support for import assertions in dynamic imports (Antoine du Hamel) #40249

Commits

• [8bb3951e41] - build: remove duplicate check for authors.yml (Rich Trott) #40393
• [2de57edced] - build: make scripts in gyp run with right python (Cheng Zhao) #39730
• [a8926d199d] - crypto: remove incorrect constructor invocation (gc) #40300
• [8fdabcb918] - deps: upgrade npm to 8.1.0 (npm team) #40463
• [dca5ac1539] - deps: suppress zlib compiler warnings (Daniel Bevenius) #40343
• [91c3bf6a7f] - deps: upgrade Corepack to 0.10 (Maël Nison) #40374
• [7e02124a06] - dgram: add nread assertion to UDPWrap::OnRecv (Darshan Sen) #40295
• [2d409ed29e] - dns: refactor and use validators (Voltrex) #40022
• [dc7291dab8] - doc: remove ESLint comments which were breaking the CJS/ESM toggles (Mark Skelton) #40408
• [85b7385115] - doc: add pronouns for tniessen to README (Tobias Nießen) #40412
• [1d5857c9f4] - doc: format changelogs (Rich Trott) #40388
• [5eb9402b50] - doc: fix missing variable in deepStrictEqual example (OliverOdo) #40396
• [6f77d1a1d5] - doc: fix asyncLocalStorage.run() description (Constantine Kim) #40381
• [93a48e02dc] - doc: fix typos in n-api docs (Ignacio Carbajo) #40402
• [fb7afb91c2] - doc: format doc/guides using format-md task (Rich Trott) #40358
• [6c091c7878] - doc: improve phrasing in fs.md (Arslan Ali) #40255
• [38d81380ac] - doc: add link to core promises tracking issue (Michael Dawson) #40355
• [71a94aa82a] - doc: correct ESM load hook table header (Jacob Smith) #40234
• [5b074affb4] - doc: fix typo in esm.md (Mason Malone) #40273
• [3b3aaa0a37] - doc: fix typo in ESM example (Tobias Nießen) #40275
• [f848553fb8] - doc: assign missing deprecation number (Michaël Zasso) #40324
• [d1d9f2de30] - doc: deprecate (doc-only) http abort related (dr-js) #36670
• [1ef2cf8413] - doc: anchor link parity between markdown and html-generated docs (foxxyz) #39304
• [3743406b0a] - (SEMVER-MINOR) esm: consolidate ESM loader hooks (Jacob Smith) #37468
• [168020e1c8] - lib: refactor to use let (gdccwxx) #40364
• [bcd59d70bb] - meta: consolidate AUTHORS entries for gabrielschulhof (Rich Trott) #40420
• [80b4245db8] - meta: consolidate AUTHORS information for geirha (Rich Trott) #40406
• [93cecb4700] - meta: consolidate duplicate AUTHORS entries for hassaanp (Rich Trott) #40391
• [fff3135909] - meta: update AUTHORS (Node.js GitHub Bot) #40392
• [122481713d] - meta: consolidate AUTHORS entry for thw0rted (Rich Trott) #40387
• [7f50313fcc] - meta: update label-pr-config (Mestery) #40199
• [5668182665] - meta: use .mailmap to consolidate AUTHORS entries for ide (Rich Trott) #40367
• [bc86084a3e] - net: check if option is undefined (Daijiro Wachi) #40344
• [4564a93e5e] - net: remove unused ObjectKeys (Daijiro Wachi) #40344
• [dbb2e6f429] - net: check objectMode first and then readble || writable (Daijiro Wachi) #40344
• [a672be57c8] - net: throw error to object mode in Socket (Daijiro Wachi) #40344
• [faf9e28c36] - src: remove usage of AllocatedBuffer from stream_* (Darshan Sen) #40293
• [857af2ba99] - src: add missing initialization (Michael Dawson) #40370
• [2bfa87edbc] - stream: fix fromAsyncGen (Robert Nagy) #40499
• [1e15137e71] - test: replace common port with specific number (Daijiro Wachi) #40344
• [6f6b99c302] - test: fix typos in whatwg-webstreams explanations (Tobias Nießen) #40389
• [641b1bb052] - test: add test for readStream.path when fd is specified (Qingyu Deng) #40359
• [07dae7ff50] - test: replace .then chains with await (gdccwxx) #40348
• [d8a36ee1de] - test: fix "test/common/debugger" identify async function (gdccwxx) #40348
• [13d6a56c7d] - test: improve test coverage of fs.ReadStream with FileHandle (Antoine du Hamel) #40018
• [50f91ab059] - tools: udpate @babel/eslint-parser (Rich Trott) #40394
• [3611073145] - tools: remove @babel/plugin-syntax-import-assertions (Rich Trott) #40394
• [b72d693a3a] - tools: remove @bable/plugin-syntax-class-properties (Rich Trott) #40394
• [d6a99b77da] - tools: remove @babel/plugin-syntax-top-level-await (Rich Trott) #40394
• [d9157aa5fe] - tools: update ESLint to 8.0.0 (Rich Trott) #40394
• [43b97c7984] - tools: prepare ESLint rules for 8.0.0 requirements (Rich Trott) #40394
• [282b6eb4b0] - tools: fix ESLint update scripts (Rich Trott) #40394
• [c3a744f7bf] - tools: warn about duplicates when generating AUTHORS file (Rich Trott) #40304
• [7733b5e55d] - typings: define types for os binding (Michaël Zasso) #40222
• [ca9a854877] - typings: add missing types to options and util bindings (Michaël Zasso) #40222
• [c3a7a0bd59] - typings: define types for timers binding (Michaël Zasso) #40222
• [65b51d05fa] - typings: fix declaration of primordials (Michaël Zasso) #40222
• [5f3f3a5128] - v8: remove --harmony-top-level-await (Geoffrey Booth) #40226
• [4116b6c907] - (SEMVER-MINOR) vm: add support for import assertions in dynamic imports (Antoine du Hamel) #40249