v12.22.8 proposal

Putting this together in response to https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/39780#issuecomment-992705184 with a potential release date of Thursday with the hope that would allow us to include Tuesday's forthcoming OpenSSL update (which is described as "bug fix", with no security fixes).

If we miss releasing by the end of this week, I'd propose moving out to January (unless another releaser wants to takeover).

cc @nodejs/lts

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2021-12-16, Version 12.22.8 'Erbium' (LTS), @richardlau

Notable Changes

This release contains a c-ares update to fix a regression introduced in Node.js 12.22.5 resolving CNAME records containing underscores #39780.

Root certificates have been updated to those from Mozilla's Network Security Services 3.71 #40281.

Commits

• [2d42295d2a] - build: pin macOS GitHub runner to macos-10.15 (Richard Lau) #41124
• [41e09ec71b] - child_process: retain reference to data with advanced serialization (Anna Henningsen) #38728
• [f0be07796e] - crypto: update root certificates (Richard Lau) #40280
• [4c9f920d34] - deps: update archs files for OpenSSL-1.1.1m (Richard Lau) #41172
• [60d7d4171e] - deps: upgrade openssl sources to 1.1.1m (Richard Lau) #41172
• [7feff67419] - deps: add -fno-strict-aliasing flag to libuv (Daniel Bevenius) #40631
• [534ac7c7c6] - deps: update c-ares to 1.18.1 (Richard Lau) #40660
• [c019fa9b70] - deps: update to cjs-module-lexer@1.2.2 (Guy Bedford) #39402
• [b13340eff4] - doc: add alternative version links to the packages page (Filip Skokan) #36915
• [243b2fbfdb] - lib: fix regular expression to detect `/` and `\` (Francesco Trotta) #40325
• [70e094a26b] - repl: fix error message printing (Anna Henningsen) #38209
• [02b432a704] - src: fix crash in AfterGetAddrInfo (Anna Henningsen) #39735
• [7479447d6a] - test: deflake child-process-pipe-dataflow (Luigi Pinca) #40838
• [833e199393] - tools: update certdata.txt (Richard Lau) #40280
• [e4339fe286] - tools: add script to update c-ares (Richard Lau) #40660
• [f50b9c1e8a] - worker: avoid potential deadlock on NearHeapLimit (Santiago Gimeno) #38403