2023-04-12, Version 18.16.0 'Hydrogen' (LTS)

Notable changes:

Add initial support for single executable applications

Compile a JavaScript file into a single executable application:

```console
$ echo 'console.log(`Hello, ${process.argv[2]}!`);' > hello.js

$ cp $(command -v node) hello

$ npx postject hello NODE_JS_CODE hello.js \
    --sentinel-fuse NODE_JS_FUSE_fce680ab2cc467b6e072b8b5df1996b2

$ npx postject hello NODE_JS_CODE hello.js \
    --sentinel-fuse NODE_JS_FUSE_fce680ab2cc467b6e072b8b5df1996b2 \
    --macho-segment-name NODE_JS

$ ./hello world
Hello, world!
```

Contributed by Darshan Sen in #45038

Replace url parser with Ada

Node.js gets a new URL parser called Ada that is compliant with the WHATWG
URL Specification and provides more than 100% performance improvement to
the existing implementation.

Contributed by Yagiz Nizipli in #46410

Other notable changes:

* buffer:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add Buffer.copyBytesFrom(...) (James M Snell) #46500
* doc:
  * add marco-ippolito to collaborators (Marco Ippolito) #46816
  * add debadree25 to collaborators (Debadree Chatterjee) #46716
  * add deokjinkim to collaborators (Deokjin Kim) #46444
* events:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add listener argument to listenerCount (Paolo Insogna) #46523
* lib:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add AsyncLocalStorage.bind() and .snapshot() (flakey5) #46387
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add aborted() utility function (Debadree Chatterjee) #46494
* src:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) allow optional Isolate termination in node::Stop() (Shelley Vohr) #46583
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) allow embedder control of code generation policy (Shelley Vohr) #46368
* stream:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add abort signal for ReadableStream and WritableStream (Debadree Chatterjee) #46273
* tls:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) support automatic DHE (Tobias Nießen) #46978
* url:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) implement URLSearchParams size getter (James M Snell) #46308
* worker:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add support for worker name in inspector and trace_events (Debadree Chatterjee) #46832

PR-URL: #47502

CHANGELOG.md

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doc/api/async_context.md

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doc/api/stream.md

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doc/api/test.md

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doc/api/tls.md

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doc/api/url.md

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doc/api/util.md

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doc/api/worker_threads.md

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