Software Update: Node.js 10.16.0

Node.js is open source and platform independent, and is focused on developing server-side web applications. Those applications are written in JavaScript and run within the Node.js runtime on the server. It offers an event-driven environment where non-blocking I/O has been an important starting point. For more information, please refer to this page. The development team has released version 10.16.0 in the lts branch. The list of important changes looks like this:

Node v10.16.0 (LTS) – Notable Changes

• deps:
  • update ICU to 64.2 (Ujjwal Sharma) #27361
  • upgrade npm to 6.9.0 (Kat Marchán) #26244
  • upgrade openssl sources to 1.1.1b (Sam Roberts) #26327
  • upgrade to libuv 1.28.0 (cjihrig) #27241
• events: add once method to use promises with EventEmitter (Matteo Collina) #26078
• n-api: mark thread-safe function as stable (Gabriel Schulhof) #25556
• repl: support top-level for-await-of (Shelley Vohr) #23841
• zlib: add brotli support (Anna Henningsen) #24938