2023-04-12, Version 18.16.0 'Hydrogen' (LTS), @danielleadams

Notable changes

Add initial support for single executable applications

Compile a JavaScript file into a single executable application:

$ echo 'console.log(`Hello, ${process.argv[2]}!`);' > hello.js

$ cp $(command -v node) hello

# On systems other than macOS:
$ npx postject hello NODE_JS_CODE hello.js \
    --sentinel-fuse NODE_JS_FUSE_fce680ab2cc467b6e072b8b5df1996b2

# On macOS:
$ npx postject hello NODE_JS_CODE hello.js \
    --sentinel-fuse NODE_JS_FUSE_fce680ab2cc467b6e072b8b5df1996b2 \
    --macho-segment-name NODE_JS

$ ./hello world
Hello, world!

Contributed by Darshan Sen in https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/45038

Replace url parser with Ada

Node.js gets a new URL parser called Ada that is compliant with the WHATWG URL Specification and provides more than 100% performance improvement to the existing implementation.

Contributed by Yagiz Nizipli in https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/46410

Other notable changes

• buffer:
• (SEMVER-MINOR) add Buffer.copyBytesFrom(...) (James M Snell) #46500
• doc:
• add marco-ippolito to collaborators (Marco Ippolito) #46816
• add debadree25 to collaborators (Debadree Chatterjee) #46716
• add deokjinkim to collaborators (Deokjin Kim) #46444
• events:
• (SEMVER-MINOR) add listener argument to listenerCount (Paolo Insogna) #46523
• lib:
• (SEMVER-MINOR) add AsyncLocalStorage.bind() and .snapshot() (flakey5) #46387
• (SEMVER-MINOR) add aborted() utility function (Debadree Chatterjee) #46494
• src:
• (SEMVER-MINOR) allow optional Isolate termination in node::Stop() (Shelley Vohr) #46583
• (SEMVER-MINOR) allow embedder control of code generation policy (Shelley Vohr) #46368
• stream:
• (SEMVER-MINOR) add abort signal for ReadableStream and WritableStream (Debadree Chatterjee) #46273
• tls:
• (SEMVER-MINOR) support automatic DHE (Tobias Nießen) #46978
• url:
• (SEMVER-MINOR) implement URLSearchParams size getter (James M Snell) #46308
• worker:
• (SEMVER-MINOR) add support for worker name in inspector and trace_events (Debadree Chatterjee) #46832