Node.js v18.19.0 released!

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Node.js v18.19.0 has been released.

Notable Changes

npm updated to v10

After two months of baking time in Node.js 20, npm 10 is backported, so that all
release lines include a supported version of npm. This release includes npm v10.2.3.

Refer to https://github.com/nodejs/Release/issues/884 for the plan to land npm 10.

ESM and customization hook changes

Leverage loaders when resolving subsequent loaders

Loaders now apply to subsequent loaders, for example: --experimental-loader ts-node --experimental-loader loader-written-in-typescript.

Contributed by Maël Nison in #43772.

New node:module API register for module customization hooks; new initialize hook

There is a new API register available on node:module to specify a file that exports module customization hooks, and pass data to the hooks, and establish communication channels with them. The “define the file with the hooks” part was previously handled by a fl…

Link: Release 2023-11-29, Version 18.19.0 'Hydrogen' (LTS), @targos · nodejs/node · GitHub