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

Notable changes:

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

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/39990

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/doc/api/assert.md b/doc/api/assert.md
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