- Upgraded npm to 8.1.2 and c‑ares to 1.18.1, fixing a regression with CNAME records containing underscores.
- Implemented several bug fixes: corrected lib regex handling of slashes, fixed dgram send bounds, and prevented a double free in crypto.
- Added new features: support for array of streams in promises pipeline and import assertions in the linter; disabled V8 pointer compression on 32‑bit architectures.
2021-12-01, Version 16.13.1 'Gallium' (LTS), @BethGriggs
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