Node.js v20.8.0 released!

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Node.js v20.8.0 has been released.

Notable Changes

Stream performance improvements

Performance improvements to writable and readable streams, improving the creation and destruction by ±15% and reducing the memory overhead each stream takes in Node.js

Contributed by Benjamin Gruenbaum in #49745 and Raz Luvaton in #49834.

Performance improvements for readable webstream, improving readable stream async iterator consumption by ±140% and improving readable stream pipeTo consumption by ±60%

Contributed by Raz Luvaton in #49662 and #49690.

Rework of memory management in vm APIs with the importModuleDynamically option

This rework addressed a series of long-standing memory leaks and use-after-free issues in the following APIs that support importModuleDynamically:

• vm.Script
• vm.compileFunction
• …

Link: Release 2023-09-28, Version 20.8.0 (Current), @ruyadorno · nodejs/node · GitHub