Log Message:
nodejs18: updated to 18.19.0

Version 18.19.0 'Hydrogen' (LTS)

Notable Changes

npm updated to v10

After two months of baking time in Node.js 20, npm 10 is backported, so that all \ 
release lines include a supported version of npm. This release includes npm \ 
v10.2.3.

ESM and customization hook changes

Leverage loaders when resolving subsequent loaders

Loaders now apply to subsequent loaders, for example: --experimental-loader \ 
ts-node --experimental-loader loader-written-in-typescript.

New node:module API register for module customization hooks; new initialize hook

There is a new API register available on node:module to specify a file that \ 
exports module customization hooks, and pass data to the hooks, and establish \ 
communication channels with them. The “define the file with the hooks” part \ 
was previously handled by a flag --experimental-loader, but when the hooks moved \ 
into a dedicated thread in 20.0.0 there was a need to provide a way to \ 
communicate between the main (application) thread and the hooks thread. This can \ 
now be done by calling register from the main thread and passing data, including \ 
MessageChannel instances.

We encourage users to migrate to an approach that uses --import with register, \ 
such as:

node --import ./file-that-calls-register.js ./app.js
Using --import ensures that the customization hooks are registered before any \ 
application code runs, even the entry point.

import.meta.resolve unflagged

In ES modules, import.meta.resolve(specifier) can be used to get an absolute URL \ 
string to which specifier resolves, similar to require.resolve in CommonJS. This \ 
aligns Node.js with browsers and other server-side runtimes.

--experimental-default-type flag to flip module defaults

The new flag --experimental-default-type can be used to flip the default module \ 
system used by Node.js. Input that is already explicitly defined as ES modules \ 
or CommonJS, such as by a package.json "type" field or .mjs/.cjs file \ 
extension or the --input-type flag, is unaffected. What is currently implicitly \ 
CommonJS would instead be interpreted as ES modules under \ 
--experimental-default-type=module:

String input provided via --eval or STDIN, if --input-type is unspecified.

Files ending in .js or with no extension, if there is no package.json file \ 
present in the same folder or any parent folder.

Files ending in .js or with no extension, if the nearest parent package.json \ 
field lacks a type field; unless the folder is inside a node_modules folder.

In addition, extensionless files are interpreted as Wasm if \ 
--experimental-wasm-modules is passed and the file contains the "magic \ 
bytes" Wasm header.