- Added import.meta.dirname and import.meta.filename to ESM; introduced new navigator properties (language, languages, platform) and a CLI flag to disable experimental global navigator
- Enhanced streaming APIs with deflate‑raw support in webstreams compression and various performance optimizations; test runner now includes a built‑in lcov reporter, Date mock API, and a timeout flag
- Updated documentation, collaborator lists, and fixed numerous typographical issues; removed deprecated string methods from lib
2023-11-14, Version 21.2.0 (Current), @targos
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