v17.0.1 release proposal

2021-10-20, Version 17.0.1 (Current), @targos

Notable Changes

Fixed distribution for native addon builds

This release fixes an issue introduced in Node.js v17.0.0, where some V8 headers were missing from the distributed tarball, making it impossible to build native addons. These headers are now included. #40526

Fixed stream issues

• Fixed a regression in stream.promises.pipeline, which was introduced in version 16.10.0, is fixed. It is now possible again to pass an array of streams to the function. #40193
• Fixed a bug in stream.Duplex.from, which didn't work properly when an async generator function was passed to it. #40499

Commits

• [3f033556c3] - build: include missing V8 headers in distribution (Michaël Zasso) #40526
• [adbd92ef1d] - crypto: avoid double free (Michael Dawson) #40380
• [8dce85aadc] - doc: format doc/api/*.md with markdown formatter (Rich Trott) #40403
• [977016a72f] - doc: specify that maxFreeSockets is per host (Luigi Pinca) #40483
• [f9f2442739] - src: add missing inialization in agent.h (Michael Dawson) #40379
• [111f0bd9b6] - stream: fix fromAsyncGen (Robert Nagy) #40499
• [b84f101049] - stream: support array of streams in promises pipeline (Mestery) #40193
• [3f7c503b69] - test: adjust CLI flags test to ignore blank lines in doc (Rich Trott) #40403
• [7c42d9fcc6] - test: split test-crypto-dh.js (Joyee Cheung) #40451