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AbortSignal gets up to 11x faster; http2 stops hanging on GOAWAY
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Node's hot cancellation paths got a substantial speedup and an http2 fix closes a case where a peer's graceful GOAWAY could leave streams open indefinitely.
lib: speed up AbortSignal nodejs/node
ronag reworked the hot AbortController and AbortSignal paths: aborting a controller is 3.5-11x faster (2.7x with the default reason), signal creation 1.8x, listener add/remove 1.5-1.6x, with AbortSignal.any() ~2x and AbortSignal.timeout() ~1.75x. Plain EventTarget listener add/remove and dispatch are unchanged within noise, so the win is scoped to abort semantics rather than the whole event layer.
http2: don't suppress internal termination detection on a peer GOAWAY nodejs/node
When a peer sends GOAWAY(NO_ERROR), core.js calls session.close(), which sets graceful_close_initiated_ and goaway_initiated_ without any application code involved. That disarmed detection of nghttp2 terminating the session internally after a protocol error, leaving open streams and the connection hanging. The fix also treats a session as internally terminated when nghttp2 wants neither read no...
sqlite: skip return() on exhausted virtual table iterators nodejs/node
CloseIterator() now skips cursors whose iteration has already reported done: true, matching for...of, which calls return() only on abrupt termination. Before this, an empty custom iterable with a throwing return() made an otherwise successful SQLite query fail.
tls,tools: update BoringSSL pin and TLS errors nodejs/node
Shared-library builds move to BoringSSL 0.20261020.0. The new verifier no longer emits UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE after Node's verification callback accepts a missing-issuer error; affected leaf certificates now produce UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT_LOCALLY, and that error suggests --use-system-ca. The SSL_get_server_tmp_key() fallback is dropped now that BoringSSL supplies SSL_get_peer_tmp_key.
test: remove obsolete BoringSSL skips nodejs/node
panva removed the BoringSSL test skips for supported DH, ECDH, legacy TLS, TLS 1.2 PSK, cipher metadata, raw key, and X.509 date cases, narrowing key/cert array exclusions to the multi-identity cases that still fail. Separately, release-cloudflare-worker dropped its www server fallback logic.
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