2024-10-03, Version 20.18.0 'Iron' (LTS)

Notable changes:

buffer:
  * optimize createFromString (Robert Nagy) #54324
inspector:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) support `Network.loadingFailed` event (Kohei Ueno) #54246
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add initial support for network inspection (Kohei Ueno) #53593
lib:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add EventSource Client (Aras Abbasi) #51575
repl:
  * doc-deprecate instantiating `node:repl` classes without `new` (Aviv Keller) #54842
src,lib:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add performance.uvMetricsInfo (Rafael Gonzaga) #54413
test_runner:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) support module mocking (Colin Ihrig) #52848
tls:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add `allowPartialTrustChain` flag (Anna Henningsen) #54790
url:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) implement parse method for safer URL parsing (Ali Hassan) #52280
vm:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) introduce vanilla contexts via vm.constants.DONT_CONTEXTIFY (Joyee Cheung) #54394
zlib:
  * deprecate instantiating classes without new (Yagiz Nizipli) #54708

PR-URL: #55170

CHANGELOG.md

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doc/api/cli.md

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doc/api/deprecations.md

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doc/api/globals.md

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doc/api/inspector.md

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doc/api/n-api.md

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doc/api/perf_hooks.md

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doc/api/process.md

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doc/api/test.md

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doc/api/tls.md

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doc/api/util.md

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