v18.18.1 proposal

2023-10-10, Version 18.18.1 'Hydrogen' (LTS), @richardlau

Notable Changes

This release addresses some regressions that appeared in Node.js 18.18.0:

• (Windows) FS can not handle certain characters in file name #48673
• 18 and 20 node images give error - Text file busy (after re-build images) nodejs/docker-node#1968
• libuv update in 18.18.0 breaks webpack's thread-loader #49911

The libuv 1.45.0 and 1.46.0 updates that were released in Node.js 18.18.0 have been temporarily reverted.

Commits

• [3e3a75cc46] - Revert "build: sync libuv header change" (Richard Lau) #50036
• [14ece2c479] - Revert "deps: upgrade to libuv 1.45.0" (Richard Lau) #50036
• [022352acbe] - Revert "deps: upgrade to libuv 1.46.0" (Richard Lau) #50036
• [d9f138189c] - Revert "deps: add missing thread-common.c in uv.gyp" (Richard Lau) #50036
• [7a3e1ffbb8] - fs: make sure to write entire buffer (Robert Nagy) #49211
• [04cba95a67] - test: add tmpdir.resolve() (Livia Medeiros) #49079

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cc @nodejs/lts

Note that this is not a "full" Node.js 18 release -- it is a "quick" release to fix the regressions noted above that were introduced in Node.js 18.18.0. I will not have time to do a full Node.js release this month, so any requests for additions to this release will likely be denied unless a very strong case can be made.