2024-08-06, Version 22.6.0 (Current), @RafaelGSS

Experimental TypeScript support via strip types

Node.js introduces the --experimental-strip-types flag for initial TypeScript support.
This feature strips type annotations from .ts files, allowing them to run
without transforming TypeScript-specific syntax. Current limitations include:

• Supports only inline type annotations, not features like enums or namespaces.
• Requires explicit file extensions in import and require statements.
• Enforces the use of the type keyword for type imports to avoid runtime errors.
• Disabled for TypeScript in node_modules by default.

Thanks Marco Ippolito for working on this.

Experimental Network Inspection Support in Node.js

This update introduces the initial support for network inspection in Node.js.
Currently, this is an experimental feature, so you need to enable it using the --experimental-network-inspection flag.
With this feature enabled, you can inspect network activities occurring within a JavaScript application.

To use network inspection, start your Node.js application with the following command:

$ node --inspect-wait --experimental-network-inspection index.js

Please note that the network inspection capabilities are in active development.
We are actively working on enhancing this feature and will continue to expand its functionality in future updates.

• Network inspection is limited to the http and https modules only.
• The Network tab in Chrome DevTools will not be available until the
  feature request on the Chrome DevTools side is addressed.

Thanks Kohei Ueno for working on this.

Other Notable Changes

• [15a94e67b1] - lib,src: drop --experimental-network-imports (Rafael Gonzaga) #53822
• [68e444d2d8] - (SEMVER-MINOR) http: add diagnostics channel http.client.request.error (Kohei Ueno) #54054
• [2d982d3dee] - (SEMVER-MINOR) deps: V8: backport 7857eb34db42 (Stephen Belanger) #53997
• [15816bd0dd] - (SEMVER-MINOR) stream: expose DuplexPair API (Austin Wright) #34111
• [893c864542] - (SEMVER-MINOR) test_runner: fix support watch with run(), add globPatterns option (Matteo Collina) #53866
• [048d421ad1] - meta: add jake to collaborators (jakecastelli) #54004
• [6ad6e01bf3] - (SEMVER-MINOR) test_runner: refactor snapshots to get file from context (Colin Ihrig) #53853
• [698e44f8e7] - (SEMVER-MINOR) test_runner: add context.filePath (Colin Ihrig) #53853

Commits

• [063f46dc2a] - assert: use isError instead of instanceof in innerOk (Pietro Marchini) #53980
• [10bea42f81] - build: update gcovr to 7.2 and codecov config (Benjamin E. Coe) #54019
• [7c417c6cf4] - build: avoid compiling with VS v17.10 (Hüseyin Açacak) #53863
• [ee97c045b4] - build: ensure v8_pointer_compression_sandbox is enabled on 64bit (Shelley Vohr) #53884
• [bfbed0afd5] - build: fix conflict gyp configs (Chengzhong Wu) #53605
• [0f1fe63e32] - build: trigger coverage ci when updating codecov (Yagiz Nizipli) #53929
• [ad62b945f0] - build: update codecov coverage build count (Yagiz Nizipli) #53929
• [3c40868fd3] - build: disable test-asan workflow (Michaël Zasso) #53844
• [2a62d6ca57] - build, tools: drop leading / from r2dir (Richard Lau) #53951
• [9c7b009f47] - build,tools: simplify upload of shasum signatures (Michaël Zasso) #53892
• [057bd44f9f] - child_process: fix incomplete prototype pollution hardening (Liran Tal) #53781
• [66f7c595c7] - cli: document --inspect port 0 behavior (Aviv Keller) #53782
• [fad3e74b47] - console: fix issues with frozen intrinsics (Vinicius Lourenço) #54070
• [e685ecd7ae] - deps: update corepack to 0.29.3 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #54072
• [e5f7250e6d] - deps: update amaro to 0.0.6 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #54199
• [2c1e9082e8] - deps: update amaro to 0.0.5 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #54199
• [2d982d3dee] - (SEMVER-MINOR) deps: V8: backport 7857eb34db42 (Stephen Belanger) #53997
• [1061898462] - deps: update c-ares to v1.32.3 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #54020
• [f4a7ac5e18] - deps: V8: cherry-pick 35888fee7bba (Joyee Cheung) #53728
• [1176310226] - deps: add gn build files for ncrypto (Cheng) #53940
• [7a1d5a4f84] - deps: update c-ares to v1.32.2 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #53865
• [66f6a2aec9] - deps: V8: cherry-pick 9812cb486e2b (Michaël Zasso) #53966
• [8e66a18ef0] - deps: start working on ncrypto dep (James M Snell) #53803
• [c114082b12] - deps: fix include_dirs of nbytes (Cheng) #53862
• [b7315281be] - doc: move numCPUs require to top of file in cluster CJS example (Alfredo González) #53932
• [8e7c30c2a4] - doc: update security-release process to automated one (Rafael Gonzaga) #53877
• [52a4206be2] - doc: fix typo in technical-priorities.md (YoonSoo_Shin) #54094
• [30e18a04a3] - doc: fix typo in diagnostic tooling support tiers document (Taejin Kim) #54058
• [58aebfd31e] - doc: move GeoffreyBooth to TSC regular member (Geoffrey Booth) #54047
• [c1634c7213] - doc: correct typescript stdin support (Marco Ippolito) #54036
• [64812d5c22] - doc: fix typo in recognizing-contributors (Marco Ippolito) #53990
• [6b35994b6f] - doc: fix documentation for --run (Aviv Keller) #53976
• [04d203a233] - doc: update boxstarter README (Aviv Keller) #53785
• [86fa46db1c] - doc: add info about prefix-only modules to module.builtinModules (Grigory) #53954
• [defdc3c568] - doc: remove scroll-behavior: smooth; (Cloyd Lau) #53942
• [e907236dd9] - doc: move --test-coverage-{ex,in}clude to proper location (Colin Ihrig) #53926
• [8bf9960b98] - doc: add --experimental-sqlite note (Aviv Keller) #53907
• [d7615004d8] - doc: update api_assets README for new files (Aviv Keller) #53676
• [63cf715aa0] - doc: add MattiasBuelens to collaborators (Mattias Buelens) #53895
• [5b8dd78112] - doc: fix release date for 22.5.0 (Antoine du Hamel) #53889
• [dd2c0f349a] - doc: fix casing of GitHub handle for two collaborators (Antoine du Hamel) #53857
• [b47c2308e1] - doc: update release-post nodejs.org script (Rafael Gonzaga) #53762
• [88539527d5] - doc, test: tracing channel hasSubscribers getter (Thomas Hunter II) #52908
• [44a08f75b0] - doc,tools: enforce use of node: prefix (Antoine du Hamel) #53950
• [87bab76df2] - doc,tty: add documentation for ReadStream and WriteStream (jakecastelli) #53567
• [dcca9ba560] - esm: refactor get_format (Antoine du Hamel) #53872
• [5e03c17aae] - fs: optimize fs.cpSync js calls (Yagiz Nizipli) #53614
• [e0054ee0a7] - fs: ensure consistency for mkdtemp in both fs and fs/promises (YieldRay) #53776
• [8086337ea9] - fs: remove unnecessary option argument validation (Jonas) #53861
• [b377b93a3f] - fs: correctly pass dirent to exclude withFileTypes (RedYetiDev) #53823
• [68e444d2d8] - (SEMVER-MINOR) http: add diagnostics channel http.client.request.error (Kohei Ueno) #54054
• [de1fbc292f] - (SEMVER-MINOR) inspector: add initial support for network inspection (Kohei Ueno) #53593
• [744df0be24] - lib: support dynamic trace events on debugWithTimer (Vinicius Lourenço) #53913
• [546dab29c1] - lib: optimize copyError with ObjectAssign in primordials (HEESEUNG) #53999
• [494df9835a] - lib: improve cluster/primary code (Ehsan Khakifirooz) #53756
• [03f353293b] - lib: improve error message when index not found on cjs (Vinicius Lourenço) #53859
• [d8375d6236] - lib: decorate async stack trace in source maps (Chengzhong Wu) #53860
• [15a94e67b1] - lib,src: drop --experimental-network-imports (Rafael Gonzaga) #53822
• [a6eedc401d] - meta: add sqlite to js subsystems (Alex Yang) #53911
• [21098856de] - meta: move tsc member to emeritus (Michael Dawson) #54029
• [048d421ad1] - meta: add jake to collaborators (jakecastelli) #54004
• [20a8c96c41] - meta: remove license for hljs (Aviv Keller) #53970
• [2fd4ac4859] - meta: make more bug-report information required (Aviv Keller) #53718
• [b312ec0b0c] - meta: reword linter messages (Aviv Keller) #53949
• [d2526126a9] - meta: store actions secrets in environment (Aviv Keller) #53930
• [1688f00dce] - meta: move anonrig to tsc voting members (Yagiz Nizipli) #53888
• [c20e8418de] - module: fix strip-types interaction with detect-module (Marco Ippolito) #54164
• [ab1f0b415f] - module: fix extensionless typescript in cjs loader (Marco Ippolito) #54062
• [92439fc160] - (SEMVER-MINOR) module: add --experimental-strip-types (Marco Ippolito) #53725
• [f755d31bec] - node-api: add property keys benchmark (Chengzhong Wu) #54012
• [7382eefae5] - node-api: rename nogc to basic (Gabriel Schulhof) #53830
• [2c4470625b] - process: unify experimental warning messages (Aviv Keller) #53704
• [98a7ad2e0d] - src: expose LookupAndCompile with parameters (Shelley Vohr) #53886
• [dd3c66be0a] - src: simplify AESCipherTraits::AdditionalConfig (Tobias Nießen) #53890
• [ee82f224ff] - src: remove redundant RsaPointer (use RSAPointer) (James M Snell) #54003
• [2d77bd2929] - src: fix -Wshadow warning (Shelley Vohr) #53885
• [bd4a9ffe8c] - src: start using ncrypto for CSPRNG calls (James M Snell) #53984
• [3fdcf7a47d] - src: return undefined if no rows are returned in SQLite (Deokjin Kim) #53981
• [ca6854443d] - src: fix slice of slice of file-backed Blob (Josh Lee) #53972
• [c457f9ed5a] - src: cache invariant code motion (Rafael Gonzaga) #53879
• [fd0da6c2cf] - src: avoid strcmp in ImportJWKAsymmetricKey (Tobias Nießen) #53813
• [fbf74bcf99] - src: switch from ToLocalChecked to ToLocal in node_webstorage (James M Snell) #53959
• [04bb6778e5] - src: move ToNamespacedPath call of webstorage (Yagiz Nizipli) #53875
• [9ffaf763e9] - src: use Maybe<void> in SecureContext (Tobias Nießen) #53883
• [a94c3ae06f] - src: replace ToLocalChecked uses with ToLocal in node-file (James M Snell) #53869
• [55461be05f] - src: refactor webstorage implementation (Yagiz Nizipli) #53876
• [c53cf449a6] - src: fix env-file flag to ignore spaces before quotes (Mohit Malhotra) #53786
• [bac3a485f6] - src: fix potential segmentation fault in SQLite (Tobias Nießen) #53850
• [df5083e5f9] - src,lib: expose getCategoryEnabledBuffer to use on node.http (Vinicius Lourenço) #53602
• [8664b9ad60] - src,test: disallow unsafe integer coercion in SQLite (Tobias Nießen) #53851
• [15816bd0dd] - (SEMVER-MINOR) stream: expose DuplexPair API (Austin Wright) #34111
• [718f6bc78c] - test: do not swallow uncaughtException errors in exit code tests (Meghan Denny) #54039
• [c6656c9251] - test: move shared module to test/common (Rich Trott) #54042
• [e471e32d46] - test: skip sea tests with more accurate available disk space estimation (Chengzhong Wu) #53996
• [61971ec929] - test: remove unnecessary console log (KAYYY) #53812
• [1344bd2d6f] - test: add comments and rename test for timer robustness (Rich Trott) #54008
• [da3573409c] - test: add test for one arg timers to increase coverage (Carlos Espa) #54007
• [fc67abd97e] - test: mark 'test/parallel/test-sqlite.js' as flaky (Colin Ihrig) #54031
• [aa0ac3b57c] - test: mark test-pipe-file-to-http as flaky (jakecastelli) #53751
• [52bc8ec360] - test: compare paths on Windows without considering case (Early Riser) #53993
• [7e8a609579] - test: skip sea tests in large debug builds (Chengzhong Wu) #53918
• [30a94ca0c4] - test: skip --title check on IBM i (Abdirahim Musse) #53952
• [5cea7ed706] - test: reduce flakiness of test-assert-esm-cjs-message-verify (Antoine du Hamel) #53967
• [58cb0dd8a6] - test: use PYTHON executable from env in assertSnapshot (Antoine du Hamel) #53938
• [c247582591] - test: deflake test-blob-file-backed (Luigi Pinca) #53920
• [3999021653] - test_runner: switched to internal readline interface (Emil Tayeb) #54000
• [3fb97a90ee] - test_runner: remove redundant bootstrap boolean (Colin Ihrig) #54013
• [edd80e2bdc] - test_runner: do not throw on mocked clearTimeout() (Aksinya Bykova) #54005
• [893c864542] - (SEMVER-MINOR) test_runner: fix support watch with run(), add globPatterns option (Matteo Collina) #53866
• [4887213f2e] - test_runner: added colors to dot reporter (Giovanni) #53450
• [c4848c53e6] - test_runner: cleanup global event listeners after run (Eddie Abbondanzio) #53878
• [876e7b3226] - test_runner: refactor coverage to pass in config options (Colin Ihrig) #53931
• [f45edb4b5e] - test_runner: refactor and simplify internals (Colin Ihrig) #53921
• [6ad6e01bf3] - (SEMVER-MINOR) test_runner: refactor snapshots to get file from context (Colin Ihrig) #53853
• [698e44f8e7] - (SEMVER-MINOR) test_runner: add context.filePath (Colin Ihrig) #53853
• [97da7ca11b] - test_runner: consolidate option parsing (Colin Ihrig) #53849
• [43afcbf9dd] - tools: fix SLACK_TITLE in invalid commit workflow (Antoine du Hamel) #53912
• [eed0963391] - typings: apply lint (1ilsang) #54065
• [e8ea49b256] - typings: fix typo on quic onSessionDatagram (1ilsang) #54064