2016-11-08, Version 7.1.0 (Current)

Notable changes:

* buffer: add buffer.transcode to transcode a buffer's content from one
  encoding to another primarily using ICU (James M Snell)
* child_process: add public API for IPC channel (cjihrig)
* icu
  * Upgraded to ICU 58 - small icu (Steven R. Loomis)
  * Add `cldr`, `tz`, and `unicode` to `process.versions` (Steven R. Loomis)
* lib: make `String(global) === '[object global]'` (Anna Henningsen)
* libuv: Upgraded to 1.10.0 (cjihrig)
* readline: use icu based string width calculation (James M Snell)
* src:
  * add NODE_PRESERVE_SYMLINKS environment variable that has the same
    effect as the `--preserve-symlinks` flag (Marc Udoff)
  * Fix `String#toLocaleUpperCase()` and `String#toLocaleLowerCase()`
    (Steven R. Loomis)

PR-URL: #9438

CHANGELOG.md

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doc/api/buffer.md

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 ## buffer.transcode(source, fromEnc, toEnc)
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 * `source` {Buffer} A `Buffer` instance

doc/api/child_process.md

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 ### child.channel
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 * {Object} A pipe representing the IPC channel to the child process.

doc/api/cli.md

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doc/api/process.md

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 ## process.channel
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 If the Node.js process was spawned with an IPC channel (see the