2023-10-17, Version 21.0.0 (Current)

Notable Changes:

doc:
  * promote fetch/webstreams from experimental to stable (Steven) #45684
esm:
  * use import attributes instead of import assertions (Antoine du Hamel) #50140
  * --experimental-default-type flag to flip module defaults (Geoffrey Booth) #49869
  * remove `globalPreload` hook (superseded by `initialize`) (Jacob Smith) #49144
fs:
  * add flush option to writeFile() functions (Colin Ihrig) #50009
  * (SEMVER-MAJOR) add globSync implementation (Moshe Atlow) #47653
http:
  * (SEMVER-MAJOR) reduce parts in chunked response when corking (Robert Nagy) #50167
lib:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add WebSocket client (Matthew Aitken) #49830
stream:
  * optimize Writable (Robert Nagy) #50012
test_runner:
  * (SEMVER-MAJOR) support passing globs (Moshe Atlow) #47653
vm:
  * use default HDO when importModuleDynamically is not set (Joyee Cheung) #49950

Semver-Major Commits:

* (SEMVER-MAJOR) reset embedder string to "-node.0" (Michaël Zasso) #49639
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) drop support for Visual Studio 2019 (Michaël Zasso) #49051
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) bump supported macOS and Xcode versions (Michaël Zasso) #49164
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) do not overwrite _writableState.defaultEncoding (Tobias Nießen) #49140
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) bump minimum ICU version to 73 (Michaël Zasso) #49639
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) V8: cherry-pick 8ec2651fbdd8 (Michaël Zasso) #49639
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) V8: cherry-pick 89b3702c92b0 (Michaël Zasso) #49639
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) V8: cherry-pick de9a5de2274f (Michaël Zasso) #49639
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) V8: cherry-pick b5b5d6c31bb0 (Michaël Zasso) #49639
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) V8: cherry-pick 93b1a74cbc9b (Michaël Zasso) #49639
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) V8: cherry-pick 1a3ecc2483b2 (Michaël Zasso) #49639
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) patch V8 to avoid duplicated zlib symbol (Michaël Zasso) #49639
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) remove usage of a C++20 feature from V8 (Michaël Zasso) #49639
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) avoid compilation error with ASan (Michaël Zasso) #49639
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) disable V8 concurrent sparkplug compilation (Michaël Zasso) #49639
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) silence irrelevant V8 warning (Michaël Zasso) #49639
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) always define V8_EXPORT_PRIVATE as no-op (Michaël Zasso) #49639
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) update V8 to 11.8.172.13 (Michaël Zasso) #49639
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) update llhttp to 9.1.2 (Paolo Insogna) #48981
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) validate options of `on` and `once` (Deokjin Kim) #46018
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) adjust `position` validation in reading methods (Livia Medeiros) #42835
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) add globSync implementation (Moshe Atlow) #47653
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) reduce parts in chunked response when corking (Robert Nagy) #50167
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) update usage of always on Atomics API (Michaël Zasso) #49639
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) mark URL/URLSearchParams as uncloneable and untransferable (Chengzhong Wu) #47497
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) remove aix directory case for package reader (Yagiz Nizipli) #48605
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) add `navigator.hardwareConcurrency` (Yagiz Nizipli) #47769
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) runtime deprecate punycode (Yagiz Nizipli) #47202
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) harmonize error code between ESM and CJS (Antoine du Hamel) #48606
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) do not treat `server.maxConnections=0` as `Infinity` (ignoramous) #48276
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) only defer _final call when connecting (Jason Zhang) #47385
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) rename internal NAPI_VERSION definition (Chengzhong Wu) #48501
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) update NODE_MODULE_VERSION to 120 (Michaël Zasso) #49639
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) throw DOMException on cloning non-serializable objects (Chengzhong Wu) #47839
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) throw DataCloneError on transfering untransferable objects (Chengzhong Wu) #47604
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) use private properties for strategies (Yagiz Nizipli) #47218
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) use private properties for encoding (Yagiz Nizipli) #47218
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) use private properties for compression (Yagiz Nizipli) #47218
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) skip v8-updates/test-linux-perf (Michaël Zasso) #49639
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) skip test-tick-processor-arguments on SmartOS (Michaël Zasso) #49639
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) adapt REPL test to V8 changes (Michaël Zasso) #49639
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) adapt test-fs-write to V8 internal changes (Michaël Zasso) #49639
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) update flag to disable SharedArrayBuffer (Michaël Zasso) #49639
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) adapt debugger tests to V8 11.4 (Philip Pfaffe) #49639
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) disallow array in `run` options (Raz Luvaton) #49935
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) support passing globs (Moshe Atlow) #47653
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) use `validateNumber` for `options.minDHSize` (Deokjin Kim) #49973
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) use validateFunction for `options.checkServerIdentity` (Deokjin Kim) #49896
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) add new V8 headers to distribution (Michaël Zasso) #49639
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) update V8 gypfiles for 11.8 (Michaël Zasso) #49639
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) update V8 gypfiles for 11.7 (Michaël Zasso) #49639
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) update V8 gypfiles for 11.6 (Michaël Zasso) #49639
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) update V8 gypfiles for 11.5 (Michaël Zasso) #49639
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) update V8 gypfiles for 11.4 (Michaël Zasso) #49639
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) runtime deprecate `promisify`-ing a function returning a `Promise` (Antoine du Hamel) #49609
* (SEMVER-MAJOR) freeze `dependencySpecifiers` array (Antoine du Hamel) #49720

PR-URL: #49870
Co-authored-by: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>

CHANGELOG.md

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 Select a Node.js version below to view the changelog history:
 
+* [Node.js 21](doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V21.md) **Current**
 * [Node.js 20](doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V20.md) **Current**
 * [Node.js 19](doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V19.md) End-of-Life
 * [Node.js 18](doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V18.md) **Long Term Support**
@@ -29,11 +30,15 @@ release.
 
 <table>
 <tr>
+  <th title="Current"><a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V21.md">21</a> (Current)</th>
   <th title="Current"><a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V20.md">20</a> (Current)</th>
   <th title="LTS Until 2025-04"><a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V18.md">18</a> (LTS)</th>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td valign="top">
+<b><a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V21.md#21.0.0">21.0.0</a></b><br/>
+  </td>
+  <td valign="top">
 <b><a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V20.md#20.8.1">20.8.1</a></b><br/>
 <a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V20.md#20.8.0">20.8.0</a><br/>
 <a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V20.md#20.7.0">20.7.0</a><br/>

doc/abi_version_registry.json

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 {
   "NODE_MODULE_VERSION": [
-    { "modules": 120,"runtime": "node",     "variant": "v8_11.8",              "versions": "21.0.0-pre" },
+    { "modules": 120,"runtime": "node",     "variant": "v8_11.8",              "versions": "21.0.0" },
     { "modules": 119,"runtime": "electron", "variant": "electron",             "versions": "28" },
     { "modules": 118,"runtime": "electron", "variant": "electron",             "versions": "27" },
     { "modules": 117,"runtime": "electron", "variant": "electron",             "versions": "26" },

doc/api/cli.md

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 > Stability: 1.0 - Early development
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doc/api/deprecations.md

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doc/api/errors.md

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 ### `ERR_IMPORT_ATTRIBUTE_UNSUPPORTED`
 
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doc/api/esm.md

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     pr-url: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/50140
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doc/api/fs.md

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doc/api/globals.md

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 * {number}
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doc/api/module.md

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doc/api/n-api.md

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doc/api/net.md

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doc/api/webstreams.md

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doc/api/worker_threads.md

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doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_ARCHIVE.md

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 </table>
 
 * Other Versions
+  * [21.x](CHANGELOG_V21.md)
   * [20.x](CHANGELOG_V20.md)
   * [19.x](CHANGELOG_V19.md)
   * [18.x](CHANGELOG_V18.md)

doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_IOJS.md

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 </table>
 
 * Other Versions
+  * [21.x](CHANGELOG_V21.md)
   * [20.x](CHANGELOG_V20.md)
   * [19.x](CHANGELOG_V19.md)
   * [18.x](CHANGELOG_V18.md)

doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V010.md

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 </table>
 
 * Other Versions
+  * [21.x](CHANGELOG_V21.md)
   * [20.x](CHANGELOG_V20.md)
   * [18.x](CHANGELOG_V18.md)
   * [17.x](CHANGELOG_V17.md)

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 </table>
 
 * Other Versions
+  * [21.x](CHANGELOG_V21.md)
   * [20.x](CHANGELOG_V20.md)
   * [18.x](CHANGELOG_V18.md)
   * [17.x](CHANGELOG_V17.md)

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 </table>
 
 * Other Versions
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   * [20.x](CHANGELOG_V20.md)
   * [19.x](CHANGELOG_V19.md)
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 </table>
 
 * Other Versions
+  * [21.x](CHANGELOG_V21.md)
   * [19.x](CHANGELOG_V19.md)
   * [18.x](CHANGELOG_V18.md)
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 </table>
 
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   * [20.x](CHANGELOG_V20.md)
   * [19.x](CHANGELOG_V19.md)
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 </table>
 
 * Other Versions
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   * [20.x](CHANGELOG_V20.md)
   * [19.x](CHANGELOG_V19.md)
   * [18.x](CHANGELOG_V18.md)