2021-12-16, Version 12.22.8 'Erbium' (LTS), @richardlau

Notable Changes

This release contains a c-ares update to fix a regression introduced in
Node.js 12.22.5 resolving CNAME records containing underscores
#39780.

Root certificates have been updated to those from Mozilla's Network
Security Services 3.71 #40281.

Commits

• [2d42295d2a] - build: pin macOS GitHub runner to macos-10.15 (Richard Lau) #41124
• [41e09ec71b] - child_process: retain reference to data with advanced serialization (Anna Henningsen) #38728
• [f0be07796e] - crypto: update root certificates (Richard Lau) #40280
• [4c9f920d34] - deps: update archs files for OpenSSL-1.1.1m (Richard Lau) #41172
• [60d7d4171e] - deps: upgrade openssl sources to 1.1.1m (Richard Lau) #41172
• [7feff67419] - deps: add -fno-strict-aliasing flag to libuv (Daniel Bevenius) #40631
• [534ac7c7c6] - deps: update c-ares to 1.18.1 (Richard Lau) #40660
• [c019fa9b70] - deps: update to cjs-module-lexer@1.2.2 (Guy Bedford) #39402
• [b13340eff4] - doc: add alternative version links to the packages page (Filip Skokan) #36915
• [243b2fbfdb] - lib: fix regular expression to detect `/` and `\` (Francesco Trotta) #40325
• [70e094a26b] - repl: fix error message printing (Anna Henningsen) #38209
• [02b432a704] - src: fix crash in AfterGetAddrInfo (Anna Henningsen) #39735
• [7479447d6a] - test: deflake child-process-pipe-dataflow (Luigi Pinca) #40838
• [833e199393] - tools: update certdata.txt (Richard Lau) #40280
• [e4339fe286] - tools: add script to update c-ares (Richard Lau) #40660
• [f50b9c1e8a] - worker: avoid potential deadlock on NearHeapLimit (Santiago Gimeno) #38403