Release Date: 2021-10-19 
Proposed major cut-off: 2021-09-21

(Early draft PR to enable test builds. Expected to be updated weekly up until ~1 week before the release.)

• Update doc/abi_version_registry.json

2021-10-19, Version 17.0.0 (Current), @BethGriggs

Notable Changes

Deprecations and Removals

• TBD

Other Notable Changes

Semver-Major Commits

• [1b2749ecbe] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) dns: default to verbatim=true in dns.lookup() (Ben Noordhuis) #39987
• [59d3d542d6] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) errors: disp ver on fatal except that causes exit (Divlo) #38332
• [f9447b71a6] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) fs: fix rmsync error swallowing (Nitzan Uziely) #38684
• [f27b7cf95c] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) fs: aggregate errors in fsPromises to avoid error swallowing (Nitzan Uziely) #38259
• [d0a898681f] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) lib: add structuredClone() global (Ethan Arrowood) #39759
• [e4b1fb5e64] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) lib: expose DOMException as global (Khaidi Chu) #39176
• [0a7f850123] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) src: return Maybe from a couple of functions (Darshan Sen) #39603
• [bdaf51bae7] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) src: allow custom PageAllocator in NodePlatform (Shelley Vohr) #38362
• [0c6f345cda] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) stream: fix highwatermark threshold and add the missing error (Rongjian Zhang) #38700
• [0e841b45c2] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) stream: don't emit 'data' after 'error' or 'close' (Robert Nagy) #39639
• [ef992f6de9] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) stream: do not emit end on readable error (Szymon Marczak) #39607
• [efd40eadab] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) stream: forward errored to callback (Robert Nagy) #39364
• [09d8c0c8d2] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) stream: destroy readable on read error (Robert Nagy) #39342
• [a5dec3a470] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) stream: validate abort signal (Robert Nagy) #39346
• [bb275ef2a4] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) stream: unify stream utils (Robert Nagy) #39294
• [b2ae12d422] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) stream: throw on premature close in Readable[AsyncIterator] (Darshan Sen) #39117
• [0738a2b7bd] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) stream: finished should error on errored stream (Robert Nagy) #39235
• [954217adda] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) stream: error Duplex write/read if not writable/readable (Robert Nagy) #34385
• [f4609bdf3f] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) stream: bypass legacy destroy for pipeline and async iteration (Robert Nagy) #38505
• [e1e669b109] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) url: throw invalid this on detached accessors (James M Snell) #39752
• [70157b9cb7] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) url: forbid certain confusable changes from being introduced by toASCII (Timothy Gu) #38631

Semver-Minor Commits

• TBD

Semver-Patch Commits

• TBD