#371 — January 14, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly Get Ready For ESM — ES modules are rapidly becoming a day to day reality for Node.js package maintainers, so spare a thought for Sindre who has about 20 million packages (slight exaggeration!) to his name. Sindre shares some Read more…
#372 — January 21, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly Node v15.6.0 (Current) Released — 1fork gains AbortSignal support, and Node’s cryptography library gains basic secure heap support, a X509Certificate API, and a 1randomUUID function. Danielle Adams (Node.js Project) Google Cloud Functions Adds Node.js 14 Support — Cloud Functions Read more…
#373 — January 28, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly It’s Time to Take the Node.js 2021 User Survey — The Node.js team has announced the opening of the 2021 Node.js user survey and you can take it here – the deadline is February 15 but we’ll do another Read more…
#374 — February 4, 2021 Read on the Web 👋 Node Weekly has become curiously more difficult to curate over the past year as the ecosystem seems to have reached a plateau of maturity with fewer random proposals, libraries, or noteworthy events. This has its pros and cons, but means Read more…
Notable Changes This release marks the transition of Node.js 14.x into Long Term Support (LTS) with the codename ‘Fermium’. The 14.x release line now moves into “Active LTS” and will remain so until October 2021. After that time, it will move into “Maintenance” until end of life in April 2023. Read more…
Notable changes events: getEventListeners static (Benjamin Gruenbaum) #35991 fs: support abortsignal in writeFile (Benjamin Gruenbaum) #35993 add support for AbortSignal in readFile (Benjamin Gruenbaum) #35911 stream: fix thrown object reference (Gil Pedersen) #36065 Commits [ 19d9a044c1b ] – benchmark: ignore build artifacts for napi addons (Richard Lau) #35970 [ 14c6de854be Read more…
Notable changes This is a security release. Vulnerabilities fixed: CVE-2020-8277: Denial of Service through DNS request (High). A Node.js application that allows an attacker to trigger a DNS request for a host of their choice could trigger a Denial of service by getting the application to resolve a DNS record Read more…
Notable Changes Diagnostics channel (experimental module) 1diagnostics_channel is a new experimental module that provides an API to create named channels to report arbitrary message data for diagnostics purposes. With 1diagnostics_channel , Node.js core and module authors can publish contextual data about what they are doing at a given time. This Read more…
Notable Changes child_processes: add AbortSignal support (Benjamin Gruenbaum) #36308 deps: update ICU to 68.1 (Michaël Zasso) #36187 events: support signal in EventTarget (Benjamin Gruenbaum) #36258 graduate Event, EventTarget, AbortController (James M Snell) #35949 http: enable call chaining with setHeader() (pooja d.p) #35924 module: add isPreloading indicator (James M Snell) #36263 Read more…
Notable Changes deps: upgrade npm to 6.14.9 (Myles Borins) #36450 update acorn to v8.0.4 (Michaël Zasso) #35791 doc: add release key for Danielle Adams (Danielle Adams) #35545 http2: check write not scheduled in scope destructor (David Halls) #36241 stream: fix regression on duplex end (Momtchil Momtchev) #35941 Commits [ 1c508bfc66b Read more…
