v7.2.1 proposal

Checklist

• make -j8 test (UNIX), or vcbuild test nosign (Windows) passes
• commit message follows commit guidelines

Description of change

Notable Changes coming soon, highlights are the async_wrap GC fix, etc. Decided to do a patch because there's really only one (of 3) significant minor changes. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Aiming for tomorrow (Tuesday Dec 5).

Commit list within the fold.

• [5379b9da11] - async_wrap: call destroy() callback in uv_idle_t (Trevor Norris) #9753
• [5157a5cee9] - async_wrap: make Initialize a static class member (Trevor Norris) #9753
• [3e5be7fc8b] - async_wrap: mode constructor/destructor to .cc (Trevor Norris) #9753
• [88464ac6ac] - benchmark: reformat code for clarity (Rich Trott) #9790
• [0c745e3a3a] - buffer: convert offset & length to int properly (Sakthipriyan Vairamani (thefourtheye)) #9815
• [e0e62d1113] - Revert "buffer: runtime deprecation of calling Buffer without new" (Anna Henningsen) #9529
• [371090d817] - build: Make configure file parseable on python3 (kalrover) #9657
• [16af467146] - build: add shared library support to AIX build (Stewart Addison) #9675
• [5c9aa18484] - constants: errors -> errno (Bryan English) #9349
• [ac8d212428] - debugger: refactor _debugger.js (Rich Trott) #9860
• [4bcda633c0] - deps: upgrade npm to 3.10.10 (Rebecca Turner) #9847
• [03b1c314cd] - deps: cherry-pick 08377af from v8 upstream (Franziska Hinkelmann) #9730
• [e9c2ffd20c] - deps: backport GYP fix to fix AIX shared suffix (Stewart Addison)
• [346204d77e] - doc: add link to net.Server in tls.md (Devon Rifkin) #10109
• [c4fbdfa785] - doc: fix typo for decipher.final. (iamchenxin) #10086
• [d226418b87] - doc: suggest Buffer.alloc instead of Buffer#fill (Teddy Katz) #10000
• [78e188d929] - doc: clarify fs.createReadStream options (Wes Tyler) #10078
• [cdec174d4d] - doc: var => const in js code examples of addons.md (Vse Mozhet Byt) #10092
• [13eea40d6f] - doc: rename writing_tests.md to writing-tests.md (Safia Abdalla) #9867
• [c948d9051b] - doc: it’s -> its in api/child_process.md (Devon Rifkin) #10090
• [f6c1f24068] - doc: update Collaborators list in README (Rich Trott) #9846
• [a0e25b2544] - doc: remove minor contradiction in debugger doc (Rich Trott) #9832
• [8c70f79249] - doc: clarify introductory module material (Rich Trott) #9816
• [2e22fa043d] - doc: improve description of module exports (Sam Roberts) #9622
• [6ab920a3fc] - doc: add guide for maintaining V8 (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #9777
• [4fa84c9589] - doc: fix crypto Verify cut-n-paste from Sign (子丶言) #9796
• [6297b9afc5] - doc: minor fixes event-loop-timers-and-nexttick.md (Dan Koster) #9126
• [a8d84d5b50] - doc: changed order of invocations in https.request() example. (atrioom) #9614
• [c7cd400fcb] - doc: fix crypto "decipher.setAAD()" typo (子丶言) #9782
• [77e145a00e] - doc: clarify slashes-appending in url module (Rich Trott) #9731
• [65af114267] - doc: "util" is not needed to extend ES6 classes (Adam Brunner) #9737
• [44ae0283af] - doc: fix inside stability boxes (Roman Reiss) #9723
• [9554a974d1] - https: name anonymous functions in https (Pedro Lima) #9217
• [80a3934cd7] - inspector: /json/version returns object, not array (Ben Noordhuis) #9762
• [65cda7f265] - lib: use === in _http_server and _tls_wrap (Walter Beller-Morales) #9849
• [a673d44d68] - lib,tools: remove unneeded escaping of / (Prince J Wesley) #9591
• [3253954e62] - meta: whitelist dotfiles in .gitignore (Claudio Rodriguez) #8016
• [6087e361e5] - repl: preprocess only for defaultEval (Prince J Wesley) #9752
• [9099664959] - repl: fix generator function preprocessing (Teddy Katz) #9852
• [5a2b68896c] - test: updated test-stream-pipe-unpipe-stream (Raja Panidepu) #10100
• [f900753eeb] - test: refactor test-crypto-ecb (michael6) #10029
• [6502427761] - test: refactor test-require-exceptions (Oscar Martinez) #9882
• [a801ffb1ee] - test: refactor test-console (Matt Crummey) #9873
• [bca587bdb3] - test: refactor test-crypto-certificate (Josh Mays) #9911
• [278772a5df] - test: refactor dgram-send-multi-buffer-copy (Konstantin Likhter) #9909
• [6d5ded508e] - test: refactor test-domain (Johnny Reading) #9890
• [318a2dbea4] - test: refactor test-cli-syntax (Exlipse7) #10057
• [da8e3d946a] - test: refactor test-child-process-constructor (k3kathy) #10060
• [9fddf29f53] - test: refactor test-repl-mode.js (Cesar Hernandez) #10061
• [65c44830c2] - test: var to const, assert.equal to assert.strictEqual in net (Sean Villars) #9907
• [ef7cbde0a2] - test: changed vars to const in test-net-better-error-messages-listen-path.js (anoff) #9905
• [f62567b7f8] - test: use const instead of var in test-require-json.js (Sarah Meyer) #9904
• [5f3f54d4bb] - test: refactor test-http-dns-error (Outsider) #10062
• [ae2bf0a761] - test: Changed assert.equal to assert.strictEqual (Daniel Pittman) #9902
• [1eb581779d] - test: refactor test-vm-syntax-error-stderr.js (Jay Brownlee) #9900
• [c456ca3601] - test: refactor test-tls-destroy-whilst-write (Chris Bystrek) #10064
• [fd17ca7710] - test: refactor test-net-dns-custom-lookup (Kent.Fan) #10071
• [cf3c635dba] - test: refactor test-https-truncate (davidmarkclements) #10074
• [14c0388945] - test: refactor test-tls-server-verify (Hutson Betts) #10076
• [36b8dd3b07] - test: refactor test-crypto-padding.js (Konstantin Likhter) #9971
• [38ec8e44fa] - test: improve test for crypto padding (Julian Duque) #9906
• [a771f2181c] - test: use strictEqual in test-cli-eval-event.js (Richard Karmazin) #9964
• [e1394eeb16] - test: refactor test-tls-friendly-error-message.js (Adrian Estrada) #9967
• [69077a13bf] - test: refactor test-fs-append-file.js (adelmann) #10110
• [baa1accdb1] - test: assert.equal -> assert.strictEqual (davidmarkclements) #10065
• [a34e19532c] - test: refactor test-dgram-exclusive-implicit-bind (Cesar Hernandez) #10066
• [d87926ae34] - test: assert.equal -> assert.strictEqual (davidmarkclements) #10067
• [c4902e44ad] - test: polish test-net-better-error-messages-listen (Hitesh Kanwathirtha) #10087
• [9b9fe8c5ac] - test: change var to const in test-tls-key-mismatch.js (bjdelro) #9897
• [7697aee7da] - test: use strictEqual in cwd-enoent (JDHarmon) #10077
• [cdc2909882] - test: refactor test-fs-read-stream-inherit.js (Jonathan Darling) #9894
• [55b58baed1] - test: use assert.strictEqual in test-crypto-ecb (Daniel Pittman) #9980
• [e070588a8a] - test: refactor test-child-process-stdio-inherit (Wes Tyler) #9893
• [22b15f2ab6] - test: change var to const for require and strict equality checks (Harish Tejwani) #9892
• [2a8d29339d] - test: Update to const and use regex for assertions (Daniel Flores) #9891
• [295eb5a3b6] - test: swap var->const/let and equal->strictEqual (Peter Masucci) #9888
• [57f060c495] - test: replace equal with strictEqual in crypto (Julian Duque) #9886
• [3d35930b2c] - test: replace equal with strictEqual (Julian Duque) #9879
• [13cc6a005b] - test: var to const/let in test-tls-set-ciphers (rajatk) #9877
• [f3eb8b1bea] - test: refactor test-tls-timeout-server-2 (Devon Rifkin) #9876
• [dc76a20474] - test: Updating vars to const and tsl server test (Matt Webb) #9874
• [63fafb8aca] - test: refactor test-crypto-hash-stream-pipe (Matt Wilson) #10055
• [fb4b650159] - test: crypto-hash-stream-pipe use strict equal (Mitchell Stoutin) #9935
• [8f550df252] - test: refactor child-process-spawn-error (Johnny Reading) #9951
• [b73f6b760f] - test: refactor test-child-process-spawn-error (stokingerl) #9937
• [371ca03568] - test: refactor test-vm-static-this.js (David Bradford) #9887
• [3e37673d5c] - test: refactor test-crypto-cipheriv-decipheriv (Aileen) #10018
• [f76bb2adf8] - test: refactor test for crypto cipher/decipher iv (Julian Duque) #9943
• [4cc813d8b9] - test: refactor test-cluster-setup-master-argv (Oscar Martinez) #9960
• [eb0c1cd412] - test: refactor test-cluster-setup-master-argv (Christine Hong) #9993
• [d2e89272d2] - test: refactor test-fs-append-file-sync (Chris Bystrek) #10056
• [070370fd0a] - test: refactor test-fs-append-file-sync (Ian White) #9977
• [87038bb628] - test: refactor test-fs-write-file (adelmann) #10030
• [1f6f411234] - test: refactor test/parallel/test-fs-write-file.js (Kyle Carter) #9992
• [4cb52ee827] - test: update to const iin cluster test (Greg Valdez) #10007
• [f9d79ef597] - test: use assert.strictEqual() cluster test (Bidur Adhikari) #10042
• [b4ec7d6c50] - test: use const in test-crypto-pbkdf2 (Greg Valdez) #9974
• [2e889cf056] - test: improve test for crypto pbkdf2 (joyeecheung) #9883
• [c0a28622ce] - test: var -> let/const, .equal -> .strictEqual (shiya) #9913
• [d1da89906d] - test: increase coverage for timers (lrlna) #10068
• [44d9bc8b90] - test: change equal to strictEqual (Kevin Zurawel) #9872
• [0cab6eb6ca] - test: test for http.request() invalid method error (Ashton Kinslow) #10080
• [f9386f2846] - test: update net-local-address-port (scalkpdev) #9885
• [66554c75d5] - test: refactor test-tls-ecdh (Adriana Rios) #9878
• [a857c9a74c] - test: refactor test-vm-debug-context (makenova) #9875
• [a6377a96dd] - test: increase coverage for lib/events.js (Safia Abdalla) #9865
• [eb369f6d48] - test: use strictEqual in test-zlib-truncated (ben_cripps) #9858
• [3af4ef4642] - test: use strictEqual in test-debugger-client.js (ben_cripps) #9857
• [5c15a68091] - test: refactor test-debug-args (Rich Trott) #9833
• [0e36becd39] - test: refactor test-fs-non-number-arguments-throw (Michaël Zasso) #9844
• [c286312ef5] - test: replace assert.equal with assert.strictEqual (brad-decker) #9842
• [0ccb2c3992] - test: refactor test-crypto-timing-safe-equal (Michaël Zasso) #9843
• [0bdd5ca0f7] - test: run cpplint on files in test/cctest (Ben Noordhuis) #9787
• [956239124d] - test: add toASCII and toUnicode punycode tests (Claudio Rodriguez) #9741
• [70633f965d] - test: refactor test-util-inspect (Rich Trott) #9804
• [4c2ad8c89f] - test: refactor test-preload (Rich Trott) #9803
• [59aec82f88] - test: refine test-http-status-reason-invalid-chars (Rich Trott) #9802
• [c35bf44f60] - test: refactor test-crypto-binary-default (Michaël Zasso) #9810
• [4d1e11243b] - test: refactor and fix test-crypto (Michaël Zasso) #9807
• [74c3283cfa] - test: fix test-buffer-slow (Michaël Zasso) #9809
• [e2db5c8e7a] - test: refactor test-net-pingpong (Michaël Zasso) #9812
• [cd10e1ae4a] - test: refactor and fix test-dns (Michaël Zasso) #9811
• [dcba25082f] - test: refactor and fix test-buffer-bytelength (Michaël Zasso) #9808
• [d06f010482] - test: cleanup test-dgram-error-message-address (Michael Macherey) #8938
• [3b193defb2] - test: fix flaky test-cluster-dgram-2 (Rich Trott) #9791
• [3f1b068644] - test: refactor common.js (Rich Trott) #9732
• [d31a41149d] - test: fix test-tls-connect-address-family (mkamakura) #9573
• [d51c856f11] - test: fix test-http-status-reason-invalid-chars (Yosuke Saito) #9572
• [b763a31af0] - test: refactor test-child-process-exec-error (Rich Trott) #9780
• [2b7ecb5012] - test: exclude no_interleaved_stdio test for AIX (Michael Dawson) #9772
• [4971c3bb79] - test: fix flaky test-dgram-empty-packet & friends (Rich Trott) #9724
• [2fb825750d] - test: fix flaky test-inspector (Rich Trott) #9727
• [fc13cc6a12] - test: refactor test-tls-hello-parser-failure (Rich Trott) #9715
• [ea1c4e1212] - test,url: improve escaping in url.parse (joyeecheung) #10083
• [64854f625b] - tools: add ESLint rule for assert.throws arguments (Michaël Zasso) #10089
• [2ee3543e04] - tools: remove unneeded escaping in generate.js (Rich Trott) #9781
• [53d175267c] - tools: Add no useless regex char class rule (Prince J Wesley) #9591
• [561b1494bc] - tools: allow test.py to use full paths of tests (Francis Gulotta) #9694
• [5ae549c3aa] - url: fix -Warray-bounds warning (Santiago Gimeno) #9751