- Added JWK export support to Crypto KeyObject and new TLS X509Certificate getters, plus async iteration for timers and fsPromises.watch() with AbortSignal support.
- Introduced new performance API (createHistogram) and compileFunction option (importModuleDynamically); improved stream.Readable.from error handling and fixed several resource leaks.
- Removed WebCrypto “DSA” JWK key type operations (breaking) and updated extensive documentation across many modules.
2021-02-17, Version 15.9.0 (Current), @danielleadams
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