- Removed many legacy APIs: permissive fs.rmdir recursive option, module.createRequireFromPath, Python 2 support, and several process.binding internals, causing breaking changes;
- Added new stable APIs: Timers Promises API now stable, global btoa/atob, node:‑prefixed require support and REPL auto‑completion for those calls;
- Updated V8 to 9.0 with RegExp match indices, shipped fat binaries for Apple Silicon, and upgraded dependencies like ICU, llhttp and npm
2021-04-20, Version 16.0.0 (Current), @BethGriggs
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