v9.7.0 proposal

2018-02-27, Version 9.7.0 (Current), @???, prepared by @addaleax

Notable Changes

• libuv:

  • Updated to libuv 1.19.2 (Colin Ihrig) #18918

• src:

  • Add initial support for Node.js-specific post-mortem metadata (Matheus Marchini) #14901

• timers:

  • The return value of setImmediate() now has ref() and unref() methods (Anatoli Papirovski) #18139

• util:

  • It is now possible to get the name for a numerical platform-specific error code as a string (Joyee Cheung) #18186

Commits

• [5ddef2988b] - async_wrap: schedule destroy hook as unref (Anatoli Papirovski) #18241
• [be9777c5f6] - benchmark: add stream.pipe benchmarks (Mathias Buus) #18617
• [4012ae8885] - build: fix coverage build (Yihong Wang) #18409
• [8c934990ef] - build: add node_lib_target_name to cctest deps (Daniel Bevenius) #18576
• [f7e1402923] - build: include the libuv and zlib into node (Yihong Wang) #18383
• [237a363dc7] - build: make gyp user defined variables lowercase (Daniel Bevenius) #16238
• [16ef386507] - build, win: vcbuild improvements (Bartosz Sosnowski) #17015
• [4fa1f3197f] - cluster: fix inspector port assignment (Santiago Gimeno) #18696
• [ec55965501] - deps: upgrade libuv to 1.19.2 (cjihrig) #18918
• [7fb72a5fa3] - deps,src: align ssize_t ABI between Node & nghttp2 (Anna Henningsen) #18565
• [dd917eb946] - doc: add pending-deprecation to deprecations list (Сковорода Никита Андреевич) #18433
• [287946ddff] - doc: remove Returns: {undefined} (Sho Miyamoto) #18951
• [4f454bde74] - doc: mention git-node in the collaborator guide (Joyee Cheung) #18960
• [4bc54238b2] - doc: update 2fa information in onboarding.md (Rich Trott) #18968
• [b456e31964] - doc: add process.debugPort to doc/api/process.md (flickz) #18716
• [6f177e7b5d] - doc: readable.push(undefined) in non-object mode (陈刚) #18283
• [85322518ca] - doc: remove extraneous "for example" text (Rich Trott) #18890
• [38cf3cf494] - doc: update description of 'clientError' event (Luigi Pinca) #18885
• [e447580872] - doc: fix link in onboarding.md (Justin Lee) #18878
• [205a84cf09] - doc: remove CII badge in README (Roman Reiss) #18908
• [1246902bae] - errors: move error creation helpers to errors.js (Joyee Cheung) #18546
• [b3fe55aada] - errors: improve the description of ERR_INVALID_ARG_VALUE (Joyee Cheung) #18358
• [112c9a3a19] - http: remove default 'drain' listener on upgrade (Luigi Pinca) #18866
• [c7f9608626] - http: allow _httpMessage to be GC'ed (Luigi Pinca) #18865
• [738b0a1f2e] - lib: add process to internal module wrapper (Anna Henningsen) #17198
• [cfb78bc1df] - process: use linked reusable queue for ticks (Mathias Buus) #18617
• [4acea14197] - process: do not directly schedule _tickCallback in _fatalException (Anatoli Papirovski) #17841
• [d348496345] - process: refactor nextTick for clarity (Anatoli Papirovski) #17738
• [cf0b95c4b1] - process: use more direct sync I/O for stdio (Anna Henningsen) #18019
• [b4c933dd44] - promises: refactor rejection handling (Anatoli Papirovski) #18207
• [01398b29e9] - repl: fix tab-complete warning (killagu) #18881
• [e33b9fa7b5] - src: fix GetCpuProfiler() deprecation warning (Ben Noordhuis) #18534
• [91694497ba] - src: refactor WriteWrap and ShutdownWraps (Anna Henningsen) #18676
• [fa691f7d95] - src: only set JSStreamWrap write req after write() (Anna Henningsen) #18676
• [296523a698] - src: remove unnecessary async hooks check (Anatoli Papirovski) #18291
• [4de4c54069] - src: expose uv.errmap to binding (Joyee Cheung) #17338
• [189e566076] - src: do not redefine private for GenDebugSymbols (Joyee Cheung) #18653
• [07c6fb983b] - src: use AliasedBuffer for TickInfo (Anatoli Papirovski) #17881
• [684684e567] - src: simplify handles for libuv streams (Anna Henningsen) #18334
• [cb5ed45603] - src: refactor stream callbacks and ownership (Anna Henningsen) #18334
• [f60757796b] - src: use DoTryWrite() for not-all-Buffer writev()s too (Anna Henningsen) #18019
• [f17987ba16] - src: remove HasWriteQueue() (Anna Henningsen) #18019
• [2282dceb29] - src: remove node namespace qualifiers (Daniel Bevenius) #18962
• [6e7aa3d8f4] - src: fix abort when taking a heap snapshot (Ben Noordhuis) #18898
• [a17d6840e1] - src: fix deprecation warning in node_perf.cc (Daniel Bevenius) #18877
• [46fc507054] - (SEMVER-MINOR) src, test: node internals' postmortem metadata (Matheus Marchini) #14901
• [7853a7fd2a] - test: add test for stream unpipe with 'data' listeners (Anna Henningsen) #18516
• [3543c5543b] - test: make sure WriteWrap tests are actually async (Anna Henningsen) #18676
• [7dd3c8af88] - test: add url type check in Module options (JiaHerr Tee) #18664
• [1be5e33f03] - test: replace assert.throws with expectsError (sreepurnajasti) #17997
• [df0d78a7e9] - test: stdio pipe behavior tests (Bartosz Sosnowski) #18614
• [35cddae18f] - test: fix cctest -Wunused-variable warning (Ben Noordhuis) #18530
• [743cf33616] - test: introduce SetUpTestCase/TearDownTestCase (Daniel Bevenius) #18558
• [edba129df3] - test: http2 compat response.write() error checks (Trivikram) #18859
• [f2dd17bde9] - (SEMVER-MINOR) timers: allow Immediates to be unrefed (Anatoli Papirovski) #18139
• [37f253e88f] - timers: refactor setImmediate error handling (Anatoli Papirovski) #17879
• [8474f86e9f] - timers: make setImmediate() immune to tampering (Ben Noordhuis) #17736
• [484e06d89a] - tls: use after free in tls_wrap (Kyle Farnung) #18860
• [efb4646539] - tls_wrap: use DoTryWrite() (Anna Henningsen) #18676
• [d255db3ae7] - tools: ignore VS compiler output in deps/v8 (Michaël Zasso) #18952
• [fc6ee39ea6] - tools: fix custom eslint rule errors (Ruben Bridgewater) #18853
• [f8691398e4] - tools, test: fix prof polyfill readline (killagu) #18641
• [38fd7902ef] - tty: fix console printing on Windows (Anna Henningsen) #18214
• [def51bafbd] - url: reduce deplicated codes in autoEscapeStr (Weijia Wang) #18613
• [8e31bf42cf] - util: skip type checks in internal getSystemErrorName (Joyee Cheung) #18546
• [28fa906ec1] - (SEMVER-MINOR) util: implement util.getSystemErrorName() (Joyee Cheung) #18186
• [38797b5804] - vm: consolidate validation (Timothy O. Peters) #18816

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CI: https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-commit/16536/ CI: https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-commit/16539/ CITGM: https://ci.nodejs.org/view/Node.js-citgm/job/citgm-smoker/1317/ CITGM for v9.x, for comparison: https://ci.nodejs.org/view/Node.js-citgm/job/citgm-smoker/1316/

Would be kinda cool if somebody from @nodejs/release could take it from here. :)