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Download Node.js 16.0.0

Node.js 16.0.0

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What's new in this version:

Deprecations and Removals:
- Remove permissive rmdir recursive
- Runtime deprecate rmdir recursive option
- Runtime deprecate access to process.binding('http_parser')
- Runtime deprecate access to process.binding('url')
- Make process.binding('util') return only type checkers
- Runtime deprecate access to process.binding('crypto')
- Runtime deprecate access to process.binding('signal_wrap')
- Runtime deprecate access to process.binding('v8')
- Runtime deprecate access to process.binding('async_wrap')
- Remove module.createRequireFromPath
- Runtime deprecate subpath folder mappings
- Runtime deprecate "main" index and extension lookups
- Runtime deprecate invalid package.json main entries
- Runtime deprecate changing process.config

Stable Timers Promises API:
- The Timers Promises API provides an alternative set of timer functions that return Promise objects. Added in Node.js v15.0.0, in this release they graduate from experimental status to stable.
- Remove support for Python 2
- Default PYTHON to python3 in Makefile
- Update Makefile to support fat binary
- Warn for gcc versions earlier than 8.3.0
- Update minimum supported Xcode to 11
- Update minimum supported GCC to 8.3
- Update AIX to GCC8 for v16.x
- Set arch in Distribution.xml

V8 9.0:
- The V8 JavaScript engine is updated to V8 9.0, including performancetweaks and improvements.
- This update also brings the ECMAScript RegExp Match Indices, which provide the start and end indices of the captured string. The indices array is available via the `.indices` property on match objects when the regular expression has the `/d` flag.

Other Notable Changes:
- Graduate assert.match and assert.doesNotMatch
- Expose btoa and atob as globals
- Bump minimum ICU version to 68
- Update ICU to 69.1
- Update llhttp to 6.0.0
- Upgrade npm to 7.10.0
- Add http.ClientRequest.getRawHeaderNames()
- Update cluster to use Parent
- Add support for `node:`‑prefixed `require(…)`
- Add histogram option to timerify
- Add auto‑completion for `node:`‑prefixed `require(…)`
- Add getSystemErrorMap() impl

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