* chore: upgrade Node.js to v24.10.0 * chore: fixup crypto patch * chore: fixup crypto test patch * src: prepare for v8 sandboxing https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/58376 * esm: fix module.exports export on CJS modules https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/57366 * chore: fixup lazyload fs patch * esm: Source Phase Imports for WebAssembly https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/56919 * module: remove --experimental-default-type https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/56092 * lib,src: refactor assert to load error source from memory https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/59751 * src: add source location to v8::TaskRunner https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/54077 * src: remove dependency on wrapper-descriptor-based CppHeap https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/54077 * src: do not use soon-to-be-deprecated V8 API https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/53174 * src: stop using deprecated fields of v8::FastApiCallbackOptions https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/54077 * test: update v8-stats test for V8 12.6 https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/54077 * esm: unflag --experimental-wasm-modules https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/57038 * test: adapt assert tests to stack trace changes https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/58070 * src,test: unregister the isolate after disposal and before freeing https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/58070 * src: use cppgc to manage ContextifyContext https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/56522 * src: replace uses of FastApiTypedArray https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/58070 * module: integrate TypeScript into compile cache https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/56629 * deps: update ada to 3.2.7 https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/59336 * src: make minor cleanups in encoding_binding.cc https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/57448 * src: switch from `Get/SetPrototype` to `Get/SetPrototypeV2` https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/55453 * src: use non-deprecated Get/SetPrototype methods https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/59671 * src: simplify string_bytes with views https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/54876 * src: improve utf8 string generation performance https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/54873 * src: use non-deprecated Utf8LengthV2() method https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/58070 * src: use non-deprecated WriteUtf8V2() method https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/58070 * src: refactor WriteUCS2 and remove flags argument https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/58163 * src: use String::WriteV2() in TwoByteValue https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/58164 * node-api: use WriteV2 in napi_get_value_string_utf16 https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/58165 * node-api: use WriteOneByteV2 in napi_get_value_string_latin1 https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/58325 * src: migrate WriteOneByte to WriteOneByteV2 https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/59634 * fs: introduce dirent\.parentPath https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/50976 * src: avoid copy by using std::views::keys https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/56080 * chore: fixup patch indices * fix: errant use of context->GetIsolate() * fix: tweak BoringSSL compat patch for new changes * fix: add back missing isolate dtor declaration * fixup! esm: fix module.exports export on CJS modules * cli: remove --no-experimental-fetch flag https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/52611/files * esm: Source Phase Imports for WebAssembly https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/56919 * fixup! src: prepare for v8 sandboxing * chore: bump @types/node to v24 * chore: fix const assignment in crypto test * fix: sandbox pointer patch issues * chore: rework source phase import patch * src: add percentage support to --max-old-space-size https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/59082 * chore: fixup crypto tests * chore: HostImportModuleWithPhaseDynamically todo * fix: cjs esm failures * fix: v8::Object::Wrappable issues -b72a615754-490bac2496-4896a0dd69* chore: remove deleted specs * src: use v8::ExternalMemoryAccounter https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/58070 * fs: port SonicBoom module to fs module as FastUtf8Stream https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/58897 * chore: tweak sandboxed pr patch * test: disable parallel/test-os-checked-function * test: use WHATWG URL instead of url.parse * fix: OPENSSL_secure_zalloc doesn't work in BoringSSL * chore: fix accidental extra line * 7017517: [defer-import-eval] Parse import defer syntax https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/v8/v8/+/7017517
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