- Stream API performance improved: writable/readable stream creation/destruction ~15% faster, webstream readable async iterator ~140% and pipeTo ~60% faster
- Memory management in vm APIs reworked to fix long‑standing leaks in importModuleDynamically‑related APIs (Script, compileFunction, SyntheticModule, SourceTextModule)
- Added deprecations (fs mode flags, util.toUSVString, promisify on promise‑returning functions) and minor features (embedders can override NODE_MODULE_VERSION, testOnly flag, JUnit reporter)
2023-09-28, Version 20.8.0 (Current), @ruyadorno
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