VFS gains startup mount/load flags (
6a7f94c)
Node can now mount virtual file systems before user code runs via --vfs-mount, and --vfs-load can both mount and execute the program from that VFS. This makes it possible to boot directly from archives or directories, including in worker-thread startup, and formalizes how entry points and provider selection work.
Crypto switches asymmetric keys to algorithm names (
1a3712d)
Asymmetric key handling was reworked to identify and construct keys by algorithm name instead of OpenSSL numeric IDs, which matters for provider-backed keys that may not have one. The change centralizes algorithm metadata in ncrypto, updates key generation/serialization paths, and should make newer PQC/provider-backed algorithms work more consistently.
TLS single-use secure contexts are released correctly (
e204ae8)
singleUse is now propagated onto the secure context, and TLSSocket tracks that context so it can be closed as soon as the socket is done. This fixes a lifetime bug where SSL contexts could linger until GC, which especially matters for connections that swap handles during auto-select retries.
QUIC stream cleanup and HTTP/3 lookup behavior improve (
c2ddf93)
QUIC stream close handling was adjusted to tolerate already-gone streams and the HTTP/3 application glue was simplified around stream lifecycle/lookup management. The change also adds coverage for stream-credit behavior, reducing the chance of leaks or stale stream state during shutdown and cleanup.
Stream iterator sharing and broadcast semantics are tightened (
61fa321, bea0109, 1ad67bc, 0114dd0, 41a1ed2)
The stream/iter internals got several behavior fixes around backpressure, cancellation, and late joiners. Notably, sync sharing now rejects unbounded backpressure, drop-newest behavior was fixed to skip rather than detach prematurely, broadcast pumps now abort cleanly, and buffered data is retained when there are temporarily no consumers.
Trace event value storage avoids union type-punning (
99f0dde)
Trace value encoding was rewritten to use memcpy-based copying instead of reading inactive union members. That removes undefined behavior and aligns Node’s legacy tracing path with the corresponding V8 fix.
