2023-11-22, Version 20.10.0 'Iron' (LTS)

Notable changes:

deps:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) update uvwasi to 0.0.19 (Node.js GitHub Bot) nodejs#49908
doc:
  * add H4ad to collaborators (Vinícius Lourenço) nodejs#50217
esm:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) detect ESM syntax in ambiguous JavaScript (Geoffrey Booth) nodejs#50096
  * use import attributes instead of import assertions (Antoine du Hamel) nodejs#50140
  * --experimental-default-type flag to flip module defaults (Geoffrey Booth) nodejs#49869
fs:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add flush option to appendFile() functions (Colin Ihrig) nodejs#50095
  * add flush option to writeFile() functions (Colin Ihrig) nodejs#50009
lib:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add WebSocket client (Matthew Aitken) nodejs#49830
stream:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) allow pass stream class to `stream.compose` (Alex Yang) nodejs#50187
  * call helper function from push and unshift (Raz Luvaton) nodejs#50173
  * optimize Writable (Robert Nagy) nodejs#50012
test_runner, cli:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add --test-concurrency flag (Colin Ihrig) nodejs#49996
vm:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) use import attributes instead of import assertions (Antoine du Hamel) nodejs#50141
  * use default HDO when importModuleDynamically is not set (Joyee Cheung) nodejs#49950
wasi:

PR-URL: nodejs#50682

Author: targos

CHANGELOG.md

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doc/api/cli.md

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doc/api/esm.md

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doc/api/fs.md

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doc/api/globals.md

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doc/api/module.md

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doc/api/n-api.md

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