This is a security release. Notable Changes Vulnerabilties Fixed:

• CVE-2021-3450: OpenSSL - CA certificate check bypass with X509_V_FLAG_X509_STRICT (High)
  • This is a vulnerability in OpenSSL which may be exploited through Node.js. You can read more about it in https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20210325.txt
  • Impacts:
    • All versions of the 15.x, 14.x, 12.x and 10.x releases lines
• CVE-2021-3449: OpenSSL - NULL pointer deref in signature_algorithms processing (High)
  • This is a vulnerability in OpenSSL which may be exploited through Node.js. You can read more about it in https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20210325.txt
  • Impacts:
    • All versions of the 15.x, 14.x, 12.x and 10.x releases lines
• CVE-2020-7774: npm upgrade - Update y18n to fix Prototype-Pollution (High)
  • This is a vulnerability in the y18n npm module which may be exploited by prototype pollution. You can read more about it in https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c4w7-xm78-47vh
  • Impacts:
    • All versions of the 14.x, 12.x and 10.x releases lines Other Notable Changes:
• [b6f4901221] - (SEMVER-MINOR) fs: add support for async iterators to fsPromises.writeFile (HiroyukiYagihashi) #37490
• [0709cbb7fe] - (SEMVER-MINOR) net: allow net.BlockList to use net.SocketAddress objects (James M Snell) #37917
• [daa8a7bbcf] - (SEMVER-MINOR) net: add SocketAddress class (James M Snell) #37917
• [a4169ce519] - (SEMVER-MINOR) net: make net.BlockList cloneable (James M Snell) #37917
• [669b81c68b] - (SEMVER-MINOR) net,tls: add abort signal support to connect (Nitzan Uziely) #37735
• [a1123f0a29] - (SEMVER-MINOR) readline: add AbortSignal support to interface (Nitzan Uziely) #37932 Commits
• [ac69b95e47] - crypto: use correct webcrypto RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 algorithm name (Filip Skokan) #38029
• [960c6be229] - crypto: add buffering to randomInt (Tobias Nießen) #35110
• [4ef102d34e] - deps: update to cjs-module-lexer@1.1.1 (Guy Bedford) #37992
• [f0e77149a4] - deps: update archs files for OpenSSL-1.1.1k (Hassaan Pasha) #37916
• [bbdcdad2c6] - deps: upgrade openssl sources to 1.1.1k+quic (Hassaan Pasha) #37916
• [913ec56798] - deps: cjs-module-lexer: cherry-pick 22093e765f (pezhmanparsaee) #37895
• [afc6ab2122] - doc: fix asyncLocalStorage.run() description (Darkripper214) #38023
• [b40d35d649] - doc: document how to unref stdin when using readline.Interface (Anu Pasumarthy) #38019
• [ce14080473] - doc: move psmarshall to collaborators emeriti (Peter Marshall) #37994
• [ae70aa3c63] - doc: add distinctive color for code elements inside links (Antoine du Hamel) #37950
• [8792c7c96b] - doc: add missing events.on metadata (Anna Henningsen) #37965
• [a57dc06adf] - doc: improve Buffer's encoding documentation (Michaël Zasso) #37945
• [f3fabb57cf] - doc: add missing cleanup step in OpenSSL upgrade (Tobias Nießen) #37927
• [13c3924af8] - doc: add Windows-specific info to subprocess.kill() (João Lucas Lucchetta) #34867
• [b6f4901221] - (SEMVER-MINOR) fs: add support for async iterators to fsPromises.writeFile (HiroyukiYagihashi) #37490
• [ad7e34446c] - fs: fix chown abort (Darshan Sen) #38004
• [d86aca9a77] - http: optimize debug function correctly (Michaël Zasso) #37966
• [062541aae5] - http2: add specific error code for custom frames (Anna Henningsen) #37936
• [8525231902] - lib: change wording in lib/domain.js comment (Akhil Marsonya) #37933
• [21e399be4c] - lib: change wording in lib/internal/child_process comment (Akhil Marsonya) #37903
• [3ab9619e56] - module: improve error message for invalid data URL (Antoine du Hamel) #37701
• [0709cbb7fe] - (SEMVER-MINOR) net: allow net.BlockList to use net.SocketAddress objects (James M Snell) #37917
• [daa8a7bbcf] - (SEMVER-MINOR) net: add SocketAddress class (James M Snell) #37917
• [a4169ce519] - (SEMVER-MINOR) net: make net.BlockList cloneable (James M Snell) #37917
• [669b81c68b] - (SEMVER-MINOR) net,tls: add abort signal support to connect (Nitzan Uziely) #37735
• [a94cc27cbe] - path: refactor to use more primordials (Akhil Marsonya) #37893
• [6cc1e15669] - readline: fix pre-aborted signal question handling (Nitzan Uziely) #37929
• [a1123f0a29] - (SEMVER-MINOR) readline: add AbortSignal support to interface (Nitzan Uziely) #37932
• [629e72e9f4] - src: fix typo in node_mutex (Tobias Nießen) #38011
• [e61cc0bfb0] - src: fix typos in crypto comments (Tobias Nießen) #38024
• [6ad0b6f0f5] - src: fix error handling for CryptoJob::ToResult (Tobias Nießen) #37076
• [3175559bed] - test: add extra space in test failure output (Qingyu Deng) #37957
• [0243376cfc] - test: use faster variant for rss (Pooja D P) #36839
• [b02c352ad6] - test: fix test-tls-no-sslv3 for OpenSSL 3 (Richard Lau) #38027
• [0db1a1eacf] - test: deflake test-fs-read-optional-params (Luigi Pinca) #37991
• [4d50975cd7] - test: improve clarity of ALS-enable-disable.js (Darkripper214) #38008
• [5e15ae05d0] - test: add DataView test case for v8 serdes (Rich Trott) #37955
• [6d28a24f1c] - tools: update ESLint to 7.23.0 (Luigi Pinca) #37979
• [51e7a33d54] - tools,doc: add "legacy" badge in the TOC (Antoine du Hamel) #37949
• [570fbcef93] - url: forbid pipe in URL host (Darshan Sen) #37877