v18.20.3 proposal

2024-05-21, Version 18.20.3 'Hydrogen' (LTS), @richardlau

Notable Changes

This release fixes a regression introduced in Node.js 18.19.0 where http.server.close() was incorrectly closing idle connections.

A fix has also been included for compiling Node.js from source with newer versions of Clang.

The list of keys used to sign releases has been synchronized with the current list from the main branch.

Updated dependencies

• acorn updated to 8.11.3.
• acorn-walk updated to 8.3.2.
• ada updated to 2.7.8.
• c-ares updated to 1.28.1.
• corepack updated to 0.28.0.
• nghttp2 updated to 1.61.0.
• ngtcp2 updated to 1.3.0.
• npm updated to 10.7.0. Includes a fix from npm@10.5.1 to limit the number of open connections npm/cli#7324.
• simdutf updated to 5.2.4.
• zlib updated to 1.3.0.1-motley-7d77fb7.

Commits

• [0c260e10e7] - deps: update zlib to 1.3.0.1-motley-7d77fb7 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #52516
• [1152d7f919] - deps: update zlib to 1.3.0.1-motley-24c07df (Node.js GitHub Bot) #52199
• [755399db9d] - deps: update zlib to 1.3.0.1-motley-24342f6 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #52123
• [af3e32073b] - deps: update ada to 2.7.8 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #52517
• [e4ea2db58b] - deps: update c-ares to 1.28.1 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #52285
• [14e857bea2] - deps: update corepack to 0.28.0 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #52616
• [7f5dd44ca6] - deps: upgrade npm to 10.7.0 (npm team) #52767
• [78f84ebb09] - deps: update ngtcp2 to 1.3.0 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #51796
• [1f489a3753] - deps: update ngtcp2 to 1.2.0 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #51584
• [3034968225] - deps: update ngtcp2 to 1.1.0 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #51319
• [1aa9da467f] - deps: add nghttp3/**/.deps to .gitignore (Luigi Pinca) #51400
• [28c0c78c9a] - deps: update ngtcp2 and nghttp3 (James M Snell) #51291
• [8fd5a35364] - deps: upgrade npm to 10.5.2 (npm team) #52458
• [2c53ff31c9] - deps: update acorn-walk to 8.3.2 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #51457
• [12f28f33c2] - deps: update acorn to 8.11.3 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #51317
• [dddb7eb3e0] - deps: update acorn-walk to 8.3.1 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #50457
• [c86550e607] - deps: update acorn-walk to 8.3.0 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #50457
• [9500817f66] - deps: update acorn to 8.11.2 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #50460
• [7a8c7b6275] - deps: update ada to 2.7.7 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #52028
• [b199889943] - deps: update corepack to 0.26.0 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #52027
• [052b0ba0c6] - deps: upgrade npm to 10.5.1 (npm team) #52351
• [209823d3af] - deps: update simdutf to 5.2.4 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #52473
• [5114cbe18a] - deps: update simdutf to 5.2.3 (Yagiz Nizipli) #52381
• [be30309ea0] - deps: update simdutf to 5.0.0 (Daniel Lemire) #52138
• [b56f66e250] - deps: update simdutf to 4.0.9 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #51655
• [a9f3b9d9d1] - deps: update nghttp2 to 1.61.0 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #52395
• [1b6fa70620] - deps: update nghttp2 to 1.60.0 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #51948
• [3c9dbbf4d4] - deps: update nghttp2 to 1.59.0 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #51581
• [e28316da54] - deps: update nghttp2 to 1.58.0 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #50441
• [678641f470] - deps: V8: cherry-pick d15d49b09dc7 (Bo Anderson) #52337
• [1147fee7d9] - doc: remove ableist language from crypto (Jamie King) #52063
• [5e93eae972] - doc: add release key for marco-ippolito (marco-ippolito) #52257
• [6689a98488] - http: remove closeIdleConnections function while calling server close (Kumar Rishav) #52336
• [71616e8a8a] - node-api: make tsfn accept napi_finalize once more (Gabriel Schulhof) #51801
• [d9d9e62474] - src: avoid draining platform tasks at FreeEnvironment (Chengzhong Wu) #51290
• [e5fc8ec9fc] - test: skip v8-updates/test-linux-perf (Michaël Zasso) #49639
• [351ef189ca] - test: v8: Add test-linux-perf-logger test suite (Luke Albao) #50352
• [5cec2efc31] - test: reduce the number of requests and parsers (Luigi Pinca) #50240
• [5186e453d9] - test: deflake test-http-regr-gh-2928 (Luigi Pinca) #49574
• [c60cd67e1c] - test: skip test for dynamically linked OpenSSL (Richard Lau) #52542

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