2020-04-21, Version 14.0.0 (Current)
2020-04-21, Version 14.0.0 (Current), @BethGriggs
Notable Changes
Deprecations
- (SEMVER-MAJOR) crypto: move pbkdf2 without digest to EOL (James M Snell) #31166
- (SEMVER-MAJOR) fs: deprecate closing FileHandle on garbage collection (James M Snell) #28396
- (SEMVER-MAJOR) http: move OutboundMessage.prototype.flush to EOL (James M Snell) #31164
- (SEMVER-MAJOR) lib: move GLOBAL and root aliases to EOL (James M Snell) #31167
- (SEMVER-MAJOR) os: move tmpDir() to EOL (James M Snell) #31169
- (SEMVER-MAJOR) src: remove deprecated wasm type check (Clemens Backes) #32116
- (SEMVER-MAJOR) stream: move _writableState.buffer to EOL (James M Snell) #31165
- (SEMVER-MINOR) doc: deprecate process.mainModule (Antoine du HAMEL) #32232
- (SEMVER-MINOR) doc: deprecate process.umask() with no arguments (Colin Ihrig) #32499
Migrate to new V8 ArrayBuffer API
- src: migrate to new V8 ArrayBuffer API (Thang Tran) #30782
It is possible that this change will impact some native addons using ArrayBuffer.
Toolchain and Compiler Upgrades
- (SEMVER-MAJOR) build: update macos deployment target to 10.13 for 14.x (AshCripps) #32454
- (SEMVER-MAJOR) doc: update cross compiler machine for Linux armv7 (Richard Lau) #32812
- (SEMVER-MAJOR) doc: update Centos/RHEL releases use devtoolset-8 (Richard Lau) #32812
- (SEMVER-MAJOR) doc: remove SmartOS from official binaries (Richard Lau) #32812
- (SEMVER-MAJOR) win: block running on EOL Windows versions (João Reis) #31954
It is expected that there will be an ABI mismatch on ARM between the Node.js binary and native addons. Native addons are only broken if they
interact with std::shared_ptr. This is expected to be fixed in a later version of Node.js 14. - #30786
Update to V8 8.1
- (SEMVER-MAJOR) deps: update V8 to 8.1.307.20 (Matheus Marchini) #32116