2022-04-26, Version 16.15.0 'Gallium' (LTS)

Notable changes:

Add fetch API

Adds experimental support to the fetch API. This adds the `--experimental-fetch`
flag that installs the `fetch`, `Request`, `Response`, `Headers`, and `FormData`
globals.

* (SEMVER-MINOR) add fetch (Michaël Zasso) #41749
* (SEMVER-MINOR) add FormData global when fetch is enabled (Michaël Zasso) #41956

Other notable changes

* build:
  * remove broken x32 arch support (Ben Noordhuis) #41905
* crypto:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add KeyObject.prototype.equals method (Filip Skokan) #42093
* doc:
  * add @ShogunPanda to collaborators (Paolo Insogna) #42362
  * add JakobJingleheimer to collaborators list (Jacob Smith) #42185
  * add joesepi to collaborators (Joe Sepi) #41914
  * add marsonya to collaborators (Akhil Marsonya) #41991
  * deprecate string coercion in `fs.write`, `fs.writeFileSync` (Livia
    Medeiros) #42149
  * deprecate notice for process methods (Yash Ladha) #41587
* esm:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) support https remotely and http locally under flag
    (Bradley Farias) #36328
* module:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) unflag esm json modules (Geoffrey Booth) #41736
* node-api:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add node_api_symbol_for() (Darshan Sen) #41329
* process:
  * deprecate multipleResolves (Benjamin Gruenbaum) #41872
* stream:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) support some and every (Benjamin Gruenbaum) #41573
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add toArray (Benjamin Gruenbaum) #41553
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add forEach method (Benjamin Gruenbaum) #41445

PR-URL: #42847

CHANGELOG.md

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doc/api/async_context.md

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doc/api/buffer.md

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doc/api/cli.md

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doc/api/crypto.md

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     description: The `wildcards`, `partialWildcards`, `multiLabelWildcards`, and
                  `singleLabelSubdomains` options have been removed since they
                  had no effect.
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doc/api/deprecations.md

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doc/api/fs.md

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doc/api/globals.md

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doc/api/http.md

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doc/api/n-api.md

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doc/api/net.md

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doc/api/process.md

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