Node v16.6.0 (Current)

Notable Changes

Say hello to V8 9.2

The V8 engine is updated to version 9.2.230.21.

It notably introduces the new

method (also on Typed Arrays and strings):

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<span class="token keyword">const</span> array <span class="token operator">=</span> <span class="token punctuation">[</span><span class="token number">1</span><span class="token punctuation">,</span> <span class="token number">2</span><span class="token punctuation">,</span> <span class="token number">3</span><span class="token punctuation">]</span><span class="token punctuation">;</span>



console<span class="token punctuation">.</span><span class="token function">log</span><span class="token punctuation">(</span>array<span class="token punctuation">.</span><span class="token function">at</span><span class="token punctuation">(</span><span class="token operator">-</span><span class="token number">1</span><span class="token punctuation">)</span><span class="token punctuation">)</span><span class="token punctuation">;</span>

<span class="token comment">// Prints: 3</span>

Contributed by Michaël Zasso – #39470

Other notable changes

• CVE-2021-22930: Use after free on close http2 on stream canceling (High) – #39423
  • Node.js is vulnerable to a use after free attack where an attacker might be able to exploit the memory corruption, to change process behavior. You can read more about it in https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-22930
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  1	f93d2ac587

  ] – inspector: mark as stable (Gireesh Punathil) #37748

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  1	89b4770d5c

  ] – punycode: add pending deprecation (Antoine du Hamel) #38444

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  1	b67214fe31

  ] – (SEMVER-MINOR) repl: enable –experimental-repl-await /w opt-out (hemanth.hm) #34733

Commits

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  1	b5248d4000

  ] – async_hooks: emit promise trace events from JS (Stephen Belanger) #39135

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  1	e18778d409

  ] – async_hooks: eliminate native PromiseHook (Stephen Belanger) #39135

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  1	90b9bb1a7d

  ] – build: use Node.js 14 in commit-lint.yml (Rich Trott) #39506

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  1	5182e26f14

  ] – build: reset embedder string to “-node.0” (Michaël Zasso) #39470

• [

  1	e1910ef290

  ] – build: fix

  1	host_arch_cc()

  for AIX/IBM i (Richard Lau) #39481

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  1	ce2011b7a1

  ] – build: update coverage Makefile target comments (Richard Lau) #39365

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  1	6b055f17b6

  ] – build: run workflows when a PR is ready for review (Michaël Zasso) #39405

• [

  1	25f45d5018

  ] – build: update to setup-node@v2 (Rich Trott) #39366

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  1	a7472576d7

  ] – build: add

  1	library_files

  to gyp variables (himself65) #39293

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  1	d16d36f1c2

  ] – crypto: support Big(U)Int64Array in getRandomValues (Michaël Zasso) #39443

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  1	95db54482a

  ] – debugger: validate sec-websocket-accept response header (Chris Opperwall) #39357

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  1	3751b92fa2

  ] – debugger: rename internal module (Rich Trott) #39378

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  1	0e5eb8b17d

  ] – deps: restore minimum ICU version to 68 (Michaël Zasso) #39470

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  1	e8da1f25fb

  ] – (SEMVER-MINOR) deps: make V8 9.2 abi-compatible with 9.0 (Michaël Zasso) #39470

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  1	a93e6ef777

  ] – deps: V8: backport 5c76da8ddcf8 (Michaël Zasso) #39337

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  1	d612544199

  ] – deps: V8: cherry-pick 359d44df4cdd (Michaël Zasso) #39337

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  1	c6ec2b4817

  ] – deps: V8: cherry-pick 3805a698f7b6 (Michaël Zasso) #39337

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  1	e6b84dfe84

  ] – deps: V8: cherry-pick 56fe020eec0c (Michaël Zasso) #39337

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  1	2393fae427

  ] – deps: V8: cherry-pick 2b77ca200c56 (Michaël Zasso) #39337

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  1	c8e7d80475

  ] – deps: V8: cherry-pick 53784bdb8f01 (Michaël Zasso) #39337

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  1	65062b3e0d

  ] – deps: V8: cherry-pick 7ff6609a5385 (Michaël Zasso) #38990

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  1	c3efc70df7

  ] – deps: V8: cherry-pick a5cea1bfc38c (Michaël Zasso) #38990

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  1	201da87bc1

  ] – deps: V8: cherry-pick 986299250e6d (Richard Lau) #38990

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  1	794ad2e016

  ] – deps: V8: backport 71e8f8bb3c26 (Michaël Zasso) #38990

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  1	53cc6c8000

  ] – deps: V8: cherry-pick 3d24b3ab8af0 (Michaël Zasso) #38990

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  1	7f7cb8bfe1

  ] – deps: silence irrelevant V8 warning (Michaël Zasso) #38990

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  1	16cbd8c8b6

  ] – deps: silence irrelevant V8 warnings (Michaël Zasso) #37587

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  1	98150e2bc6

  ] – deps: fix V8 build issue with inline methods (Jiawen Geng) #35415

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  1	3f3e167fea

  ] – deps: make v8.h compatible with VS2015 (Joao Reis) #32116

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  1	785b8990de

  ] – deps: V8: forward declaration of

  1	Rtl*FunctionTable

  (Refael Ackermann) #32116

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  1	38cb655f04

  ] – deps: V8: patch register-arm64.h (Refael Ackermann) #32116

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  1	9082ecef66

  ] – deps: V8: un-cherry-pick bd019bd (Refael Ackermann) #32116

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  1	6114198717

  ] – (SEMVER-MINOR) deps: update V8 to 9.2.230.21 (Michaël Zasso) #39470

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  1	89796d0c7f

  ] – deps: bump HdrHistogram_C to 0.11.2 (Matteo Collina) #39462

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  1	9dd232c42b

  ] – deps: update to cjs-module-lexer@1.2.2 (Guy Bedford) #39402

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  1	626eb07fda

  ] – deps: extract gtest source files to deps/googletest (legendecas) #39386

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  1	487c45ffd9

  ] – doc: move lball@redhat.com to emeritus (Lance Ball) #39501

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  1	5f84f47e13

  ] – doc: update AUTHORS (Rich Trott) #39488

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  1	1d27ae1514

  ] – doc: update strategic initiative champion (Rich Trott) #39487

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  1	e552b1a791

  ] – doc: improve node.js+fips instructions (Benjamin Mayr) #39390

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  1	aa1dfb3111

  ] – doc: simplify unnecessarily specific .mailmap entries (Rich Trott) #39430

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  1	ae69656c61

  ] – doc: update checkbox label in backporting guide (Darshan Sen) #39420

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  1	4fd8db687d

  ] – doc: remove _Addenda_ from headers (Rich Trott) #39427

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  1	cefd2fb1e4

  ] – doc: simplify .mailmap file (Rich Trott) #39418

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  1	ade2eed9a6

  ] – doc: fix broken internal link in http.md (Rich Trott) #39425

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  1	5fdfcc069f

  ] – doc: remove outdated step in onboarding exercise (Rich Trott) #39410

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  1	94706c7012

  ] – doc: revise strategic initiatives text (Rich Trott) #39417

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  1	9932e3589c

  ] – doc: remove typo (extra ‘ character) (Nikita Rykov) #39414

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  1	2b92b4ea2d

  ] – doc: update mailmap and AUTHORS (Rich Trott) #39393

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  1	6d6396594b

  ] – doc: use a details tag for completed initiatves (Rich Trott) #39416

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  1	ac43e3331c

  ] – doc: update commit-queue.md to indicate GitHub Actions are checked (Rich Trott) #39411

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  1	75130c94d1

  ] – doc: use _pull request_ instead of _PR_ in onboarding doc (Rich Trott) #39409

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  1	20bb3f6df0

  ] – doc: add strategic initiatives from TSC repo (Rich Trott) #39394

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  1	6979313abb

  ] – doc: standardize on _pull request_ (Rich Trott) #39384

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  1	20124cc275

  ] – doc: make minor edits to pull request text (Rich Trott) #39383

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  1	11482f02cf

  ] – doc: add docker-node and build-wg issue contents (Daniel Bevenius) #39215

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  1	c535956b6e

  ] – doc: add instructions for core vuln files (Daniel Bevenius) #39220

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  1	353a8bb27b

  ] – doc: standardize on not capitalizing _collaborator_ (Rich Trott) #39379

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  1	9b15e5c155

  ] – doc: update mailmap and deduplicate AUTHORS entry (Rich Trott) #39391

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  1	e44ccd9aad

  ] – doc: update AUTHORS (Rich Trott) #39367

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  1	39e6536a87

  ] – doc: move jdalton to emeritus (Rich Trott) #39380

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  1	bbff5a9e47

  ] – doc: edit guide on pull requests (Rich Trott) #39359

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  1	902ef9aca0

  ] – doc,meta: update email addresses for misterdjules (Rich Trott) #39433

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  1	cc7b61721c

  ] – doc,tools: remove

  1	checkLinks.mjs

  (Antoine du Hamel) #39206

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  1	e2fd015cda

  ] – domain: do not add domain to promise from other context (Stephen Belanger) #39135

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  1	93eff3f5a6

  ] – esm: refine ERR_REQUIRE_ESM errors (Guy Bedford) #39175

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  1	1fb0954202

  ] – events: allow an event to be dispatched multiple times (Luigi Pinca) #39395

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  1	6f2989c346

  ] – events: allow the options argument to be null (Luigi Pinca) #39486

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  1	72ad6d3f27

  ] – fs: check closing_ in FileHandle::Close (James M Snell) #39472

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  1	8b58e574ba

  ] – fs: fix FileHandle::ClosePromise to return persisted Promise (James M Snell) #39331

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  1	9d950a0956

  ] – http2: on receiving rst_stream with cancel code add it to pending list (Akshay K) #39423

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  1	19e9accf91

  ] – inspector: mark as stable (Gireesh Punathil) #37748

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  1	e4331cd43d

  ] – lib: comment explaining special-case handling of promises (Stephen Belanger) #39135

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  1	0a47f5fc54

  ] – meta: update collaborator email in README (Rich Trott) #39510

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  1	65020110e8

  ] – meta: remove unneeded .mailmap entry (Rich Trott) #39512

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  1	864ef11be8

  ] – meta: update email address for collaborator (Rich Trott) #39511

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  1	d3f58cb650

  ] – meta: align collaborator name in .mailmap/AUTHORS with README (Rich Trott) #39489

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  1	5f9b2187a1

  ] – meta: align email address in README/.mailmap/AUTHORS (Rich Trott) #39503

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  1	9fbe3f6b49

  ] – meta: revise .mailmap for README consistency (Rich Trott) #39457

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  1	f6fbb38924

  ] – meta: alphabetize .mailmap file (Rich Trott) #39434

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  1	dc9c6aa428

  ] – meta: align collaborator email in .mailmap/AUTHORS with README (Rich Trott) #39478

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  1	febeb0df16

  ] – meta: update AUTHORS (Rich Trott) #39461

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  1	d059ed9242

  ] – meta: add .mailmap entry for new email for existing contributor (Rich Trott) #39431

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  1	cdf7251370

  ] – process: add api to enable source-maps programmatically (legendecas) #39085

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  1	eccc9a6578

  ] – punycode: add pending deprecation (Antoine du Hamel) #38444

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  1	a082a705b3

  ] – (SEMVER-MINOR) repl: enable –experimental-repl-await /w opt-out (hemanth.hm) #34733

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  1	b230ac12d9

  ] – src: stop using deprecated v8::ApiObject (Michaël Zasso) #38990

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  1	929205e6b9

  ] – src: use non-deprecated Symbol::Description (Michaël Zasso) #38990

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  1	42ff6d952a

  ] – src: print native module id on native module not found (legendecas) #39460

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  1	f0287e52aa

  ] – src: close HandleWraps instead of deleting them in OnGCCollect() (Anna Henningsen) #39441

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  1	2cf52f8db1

  ] – src: set SSL_OP_ALLOW_CLIENT_RENEGOTIATION (Daniel Bevenius) #38753

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  1	fc138376aa

  ] – src: remove unused guards around node-api reference (legendecas) #38334

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  1	26ada4971c

  ] – stream: import internal/util/types instead (James M Snell) #39331

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  1	e91053a465

  ] – stream: implement TextEncoderStream and TextDecoderStream (James M Snell) #39347

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  1	efe74746f0

  ] – stream: fixup property definition to avoid prototype polution (James M Snell) #39371

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  1	4709da0372

  ] – test: ensure microtask queues are not automatically drained (Jochen Eisinger) #38990

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  1	86ca9a8a80

  ] – test: remove test-debug-args (Michaël Zasso) #38990

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  1	bbcd651cfd

  ] – test: update trace events test expectations (Michaël Zasso) #38990

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  1	039f64f249

  ] – test: fix WASI link test (Richard Lau) #39485

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  1	b1d38ddc8a

  ] – test: update OpenSSL3 error messages for beta-1 (Daniel Bevenius) #39437

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  1	db4f802fba

  ] – Revert “test: skip tests for openssl-3.0.0-alpha15″ (Daniel Bevenius) #39437

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  1	a30d021b94

  ] – test: add test for WebSocket secret verification in debugger (Rich Trott) #39357

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  1	04355afd24

  ] – test: add NumberFormat resolvedOptions test (Richard Lau) #39401

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  1	d0fb02c26a

  ] – test: put common lint exceptions into config file (Rich Trott) #39358

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  1	259d091366

  ] – test: mark test-domain-error-types flaky (James M Snell) #39369

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  1	5517769472

  ] – tools: fetch googletest dependency for V8 CI (Michaël Zasso) #38990

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  1	5fe74aa403

  ] – tools: update V8 gypfiles for 9.2 (Michaël Zasso) #38990

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  1	e58cf4e44c

  ] – tools: flag README/mailmap mismatches in find-inactive-collaborators (Rich Trott) #39477

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  1	0a46e66253

  ] – tools: use mailmap for find-inactive-collaborators (Rich Trott) #39432

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  1	7570f998df

  ] – tools: email matchin is case insensitive for .mailmap (Rich Trott) #39430

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  1	5c11a0279d

  ] – tools: make internal link checker more robust (Rich Trott) #39429

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  1	4c32aa02db

  ] – tools: added remark-frontmatter (Ben Halverson) #38717

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  1	c6a7c3d00d

  ] – tools: fix broken link hash (Rich Trott) #39426

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  1	0f1d51578e

  ] – tools: change commit fetch limiting in find-inactive-collaborators (Rich Trott) #39362

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  1	e5d64473e8

  ] – tools: use Node.js 16.x for GitHub workflow (Rich Trott) #39362

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  1	68fd6d5282

  ] – url: prevent pathname setter from erasing path of path-only URLs (Darshan Sen) #39060

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