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Node.js 21 21.4.0 download

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Release notes

Notable Changes
This release fixes a regression introduced in v21.3.0 that caused the fs.writeFileSync method to throw when called with 'utf8' encoding, no flag option, and if the target file didn't exist yet.
- [32acafeeb6] - (SEMVER-MINOR) fs: introduce dirent.parentPath (Antoine du Hamel) #50976
- [724548674d] - fs: use default w flag for writeFileSync with utf8 encoding (Murilo Kakazu) #50990
Commits
- [b24ee15fb2] - benchmark: update iterations in benchmark/crypto/hkdf.js (Lei Shi) #50866
- [f79b54e60e] - benchmark: update iterations in benchmark/crypto/get-ciphers.js (Lei Shi) #50863
- [dc049acbbb] - benchmark: update number of iterations for util.inspect (kylo5aby) #50651
- [d7c562ae38] - deps: update googletest to 76bb2af (Node.js GitHub Bot) #50555
- [59a45ddbef] - deps: update googletest to b10fad3 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #50555
- [099ebdb781] - deps: update undici to 5.28.1 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #50975
- [4b1bed04f7] - deps: update undici to 5.28.0 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #50915
- [b281e98b1e] - doc: add additional details about --input-type (Shubham Pandey) #50796
- [b7036f2028] - doc: add procedure when CVEs don't get published (Rafael Gonzaga) #50945
- [7adf239af0] - doc: fix some errors in esm resolution algorithms (Christopher Jeffrey (JJ)) #50898
- [759ebcaead] - doc: reserve 121 for Electron 29 (Shelley Vohr) #50957
- [cedc3427fa] - doc: run license-builder (github-actions[bot]) #50926
- [30a6f19769] - doc: document non-node_modules-only runtime deprecation (Joyee Cheung) #50748
- [eecab883f0] - doc: add doc for Unix abstract socket (theanarkh) #50904
- [ec74b93b38] - doc: remove flicker on page load on dark theme (Dima Demakov) #50942
- [724548674d] - fs: use default w flag for writeFileSync with utf8 encoding (Murilo Kakazu) #50990
- [32acafeeb6] - (SEMVER-MINOR) fs: introduce dirent.parentPath (Antoine du Hamel) #50976
- [c1ee506454] - fs: remove workaround for esm package (Yagiz Nizipli) #50907
- [1cf087dfb3] - lib: refactor to use validateFunction in diagnostics_channel (Deokjin Kim) #50955
- [c37d18d5e1] - lib: streamline process.binding() handling (Joyee Cheung) #50773
- [246cf73631] - lib,src: replace toUSVString with toWellFormed() (Yagiz Nizipli) #47342
- [9bc79173a0] - loader: speed up line length calc used by moduleProvider (Mudit) #50969
- [812ab9e4f8] - meta: bump step-security/harden-runner from 2.6.0 to 2.6.1 (dependabot[bot]) #50999
- [1dbe1af19a] - meta: bump github/codeql-action from 2.22.5 to 2.22.8 (dependabot[bot]) #50998
- [bed1b93f8a] - meta: move one or more collaborators to emeritus (Node.js GitHub Bot) #50931
- [1e7d101428] - src: make ModifyCodeGenerationFromStrings more robust (Joyee Cheung) #50763
- [709ac479eb] - src: disable uncaught exception abortion for ESM syntax detection (Yagiz Nizipli) #50987
- [f6ff11c9f9] - src: fix backtrace with tail [[noreturn]] abort (Chengzhong Wu) #50849
- [74f5a1cbc9] - src: print MKSNAPSHOT debug logs to stderr (Joyee Cheung) #50759
- [3a1c664a97] - test: replace forEach to for.. test-webcrypto-export-import-cfrg.js (Angelo Parziale) #50785
- [ac3a6eefe3] - test: log more information in SEA tests (Joyee Cheung) #50759
- [94462d42f5] - test: consolidate utf8 text fixtures in tests (Joyee Cheung) #50732
- [8e1a70a347] - tools: add triggers to update release links workflow (Moshe Atlow) #50974
- [ca10cbb774] - tools: update lint-md-dependencies to rollup@4.5.2 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #50913
- [1e40c4a366] - tools: fix current version check (Marco Ippolito) #50951
- [3faed331e1] - typings: fix JSDoc in internal/modules/esm/hooks (Alex Yang) #50887
- [6a087ceffa] - url: throw error if argument length of revokeObjectURL is 0 (DylanTet) #50433

https://github.com/nodejs/node/releases/tag/v21.4.0

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