Node inspector now emits Network CDP events (
881cf73)
Deno’s Node inspector gained a custom Network domain, including Network.enable/disable tracking and broadcasting protocol events to subscribed sessions. That unblocks inspector workflows that rely on network event delivery instead of treating the domain as a stub.
node:vm now supports two-phase module linking (
f3fe4ab)
SourceTextModule picked up linkRequests(modules) and instantiate(), bringing it closer to Node’s newer vm.Module flow. This is a meaningful API expansion for code that separates resolution from instantiation, and it adds stricter link-state validation along the way.
URLSearchParams was aligned with Node semantics (f07cabe)
new URLSearchParams(null) and new URLSearchParams(undefined) now produce empty params instead of stringifying those values, matching Node’s behavior. The constructor also got more explicit iterable/record handling to satisfy node:url compatibility tests.
Node compat can now require() more internal modules
Several commits exposed previously internal-only modules to Node’s resolver: internal/webstreams/* and internal/worker/js_transferable (4510621), internal/fs/promises with deferred loading (a4463e1), and internal/async_hooks, internal/options, and internal/tty (849ee10, 3a6c894, 9732c5f). Together these fixes unblock a broad set of Node compatibility tests that depended on those internal entry points.
Async and filesystem compatibility were tightened
AsyncWrap now refreshes async IDs when agent sockets are reused, preventing stale async bookkeeping on pooled connections (b85d40c). Separately, FileHandle.read() argument normalization and close/unref internals were brought in line with Node, so monkey-patching FileHandle.prototype.fd no longer breaks internal close logic (a4463e1).
Node test runner and process resource APIs improved
test.expectFailure was added to node:test, expanding test-runner parity with Node’s API (08b03b3). The repo also gained active process resource tracking hooks used by fs/process internals and compatibility tests (a4cb611).
Other misc changes
- Underscored V8 flags are now normalized in node-compat test parsing (38b79c2).
- Node compat configs and test fixtures were updated for the new APIs and expected outputs.
- Minor internal plumbing changes to support the above compatibility fixes.