v14.18.2 proposal

2021-11-30, Version 14.18.2 'Fermium' (LTS), @richardlau

Notable changes

This release contains a c-ares update to fix a regression introduced in Node.js 14.17.5 resolving CNAME records containing underscores #39780.

Also included are commits to allow Node.js 14 to continue to build and pass tests on our Jenkins CI, including adding Python 3.10 to the list of allowable Python versions for building.

Commits

• [7923c61a62] - build: pin build-docs workflow to Node.js 14 (Richard Lau) #40939
• [da356128fb] - build: support Python 3.10.0 (FrankQiu) #40296
• [9c3a85d279] - deps: update c-ares to 1.18.1 (Richard Lau) #40660
• [cd7c340545] - deps: V8: patch jinja2 for Python 3.10 compat (Michaël Zasso) #40296
• [6330d435f5] - doc: mark Node.js 10 as End-of-Life (Richard Lau) #38482
• [8ca082ec71] - doc: fix CJS-ESM selector in Safari (Bradley Farias) #40135
• [92490d1c89] - doc: add macOS arm64 experimental status (Michael Rienstra) #40127
• [8894bdd4d8] - lib: fix regular expression to detect `/` and `\` (Francesco Trotta) #40325
• [704989b698] - test: deflake child-process-pipe-dataflow (Luigi Pinca) #40838
• [df401cd346] - test: update upload.zip to be uncorrupted (Greg Ziskind) #37294
• [aa947f7dbf] - tools: add script to update c-ares (Richard Lau) #40660
• [6b7b2bba41] - tools: patch jinja2 for Python 3.10 compat (Michaël Zasso) #40296
• [39583f77d8] - worker: avoid potential deadlock on NearHeapLimit (Santiago Gimeno) #38403