v16.12.0 proposal

This is a quick release to clear the 50+ commits that are currently unreleased on v16.x-staging ahead of next week's LTS transition (where traditionally we only flip the LTS bit in those). Originally there was a planned regular 16 release for last week but that didn't happen because of the security releases that week.

This is intended to be the last "current" release of Node.js 16 and we'll expect future changes to 16 to be made under LTS guidelines.

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2021-10-20, Version 16.12.0 (Current), @richardlau

Notable Changes

Experimental ESM Loader Hooks API

Node.js ESM Loader hooks have been consolidated to represent the steps involved needed to facilitate future loader chaining:

1. resolve: resolve [+ getFormat]
2. load: getFormat + getSource + transformSource

For consistency, getGlobalPreloadCode has been renamed to globalPreload.

A loader exporting obsolete hook(s) will trigger a single deprecation warning (per loader) listing the errant hooks.

Contributed by Jacob Smith, Geoffrey Booth, and Bradley Farias - https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/37468

Other Notable Changes

• [8fdabcb918] - deps: upgrade npm to 8.1.0 (npm team) #40463
• [d1d9f2de30] - doc: deprecate (doc-only) http abort related (dr-js) #36670
• [4116b6c907] - (SEMVER-MINOR) vm: add support for import assertions in dynamic imports (Antoine du Hamel) #40249

Commits

• [8bb3951e41] - build: remove duplicate check for authors.yml (Rich Trott) #40393
• [2de57edced] - build: make scripts in gyp run with right python (Cheng Zhao) #39730
• [a8926d199d] - crypto: remove incorrect constructor invocation (gc) #40300
• [8fdabcb918] - deps: upgrade npm to 8.1.0 (npm team) #40463
• [dca5ac1539] - deps: suppress zlib compiler warnings (Daniel Bevenius) #40343
• [91c3bf6a7f] - deps: upgrade Corepack to 0.10 (Maël Nison) #40374
• [7e02124a06] - dgram: add nread assertion to UDPWrap::OnRecv (Darshan Sen) #40295
• [2d409ed29e] - dns: refactor and use validators (Voltrex) #40022
• [dc7291dab8] - doc: remove ESLint comments which were breaking the CJS/ESM toggles (Mark Skelton) #40408
• [85b7385115] - doc: add pronouns for tniessen to README (Tobias Nießen) #40412
• [1d5857c9f4] - doc: format changelogs (Rich Trott) #40388
• [5eb9402b50] - doc: fix missing variable in deepStrictEqual example (OliverOdo) #40396
• [6f77d1a1d5] - doc: fix asyncLocalStorage.run() description (Constantine Kim) #40381
• [93a48e02dc] - doc: fix typos in n-api docs (Ignacio Carbajo) #40402
• [fb7afb91c2] - doc: format doc/guides using format-md task (Rich Trott) #40358
• [6c091c7878] - doc: improve phrasing in fs.md (Arslan Ali) #40255
• [38d81380ac] - doc: add link to core promises tracking issue (Michael Dawson) #40355
• [71a94aa82a] - doc: correct ESM load hook table header (Jacob Smith) #40234
• [5b074affb4] - doc: fix typo in esm.md (Mason Malone) #40273
• [3b3aaa0a37] - doc: fix typo in ESM example (Tobias Nießen) #40275
• [f848553fb8] - doc: assign missing deprecation number (Michaël Zasso) #40324
• [d1d9f2de30] - doc: deprecate (doc-only) http abort related (dr-js) #36670
• [1ef2cf8413] - doc: anchor link parity between markdown and html-generated docs (foxxyz) #39304
• [3743406b0a] - (SEMVER-MINOR) esm: consolidate ESM loader hooks (Jacob Smith) #37468
• [168020e1c8] - lib: refactor to use let (gdccwxx) #40364
• [bcd59d70bb] - meta: consolidate AUTHORS entries for gabrielschulhof (Rich Trott) #40420
• [80b4245db8] - meta: consolidate AUTHORS information for geirha (Rich Trott) #40406
• [93cecb4700] - meta: consolidate duplicate AUTHORS entries for hassaanp (Rich Trott) #40391
• [fff3135909] - meta: update AUTHORS (Node.js GitHub Bot) #40392
• [122481713d] - meta: consolidate AUTHORS entry for thw0rted (Rich Trott) #40387
• [7f50313fcc] - meta: update label-pr-config (Mestery) #40199
• [5668182665] - meta: use .mailmap to consolidate AUTHORS entries for ide (Rich Trott) #40367
• [bc86084a3e] - net: check if option is undefined (Daijiro Wachi) #40344
• [4564a93e5e] - net: remove unused ObjectKeys (Daijiro Wachi) #40344
• [dbb2e6f429] - net: check objectMode first and then readble || writable (Daijiro Wachi) #40344
• [a672be57c8] - net: throw error to object mode in Socket (Daijiro Wachi) #40344
• [faf9e28c36] - src: remove usage of AllocatedBuffer from stream_* (Darshan Sen) #40293
• [857af2ba99] - src: add missing initialization (Michael Dawson) #40370
• [2bfa87edbc] - stream: fix fromAsyncGen (Robert Nagy) #40499
• [1e15137e71] - test: replace common port with specific number (Daijiro Wachi) #40344
• [6f6b99c302] - test: fix typos in whatwg-webstreams explanations (Tobias Nießen) #40389
• [641b1bb052] - test: add test for readStream.path when fd is specified (Qingyu Deng) #40359
• [07dae7ff50] - test: replace .then chains with await (gdccwxx) #40348
• [d8a36ee1de] - test: fix "test/common/debugger" identify async function (gdccwxx) #40348
• [13d6a56c7d] - test: improve test coverage of fs.ReadStream with FileHandle (Antoine du Hamel) #40018
• [50f91ab059] - tools: udpate @babel/eslint-parser (Rich Trott) #40394
• [3611073145] - tools: remove @babel/plugin-syntax-import-assertions (Rich Trott) #40394
• [b72d693a3a] - tools: remove @bable/plugin-syntax-class-properties (Rich Trott) #40394
• [d6a99b77da] - tools: remove @babel/plugin-syntax-top-level-await (Rich Trott) #40394
• [d9157aa5fe] - tools: update ESLint to 8.0.0 (Rich Trott) #40394
• [43b97c7984] - tools: prepare ESLint rules for 8.0.0 requirements (Rich Trott) #40394
• [282b6eb4b0] - tools: fix ESLint update scripts (Rich Trott) #40394
• [c3a744f7bf] - tools: warn about duplicates when generating AUTHORS file (Rich Trott) #40304
• [7733b5e55d] - typings: define types for os binding (Michaël Zasso) #40222
• [ca9a854877] - typings: add missing types to options and util bindings (Michaël Zasso) #40222
• [c3a7a0bd59] - typings: define types for timers binding (Michaël Zasso) #40222
• [65b51d05fa] - typings: fix declaration of primordials (Michaël Zasso) #40222
• [5f3f3a5128] - v8: remove --harmony-top-level-await (Geoffrey Booth) #40226
• [4116b6c907] - (SEMVER-MINOR) vm: add support for import assertions in dynamic imports (Antoine du Hamel) #40249