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V8 6.0: The V8 engine has been upgraded to version 6.0, which has a significantly changed performance profile. [#14574](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14574) More detailed information on performance differences can be found at https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/get-ready-a-new-v8-is-coming-node-js-performance-is-changing-46a63d6da4de Other notable changes: * **DNS** * Independent DNS resolver instances are supported now, with support for cancelling the corresponding requests. [#14518](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14518) * **N-API** * Multiple N-API functions for error handling have been changed to support assigning error codes. [#13988](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/13988) * **REPL** * Autocompletion support for `require()` has been improved. [#14409](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14409) * **Utilities** * The WHATWG Encoding Standard (`TextDecoder` and `TextEncoder`) has been implemented as an experimental feature. [#13644](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/13644) * **Added new collaborators** * [XadillaX](https://github.com/XadillaX) – Khaidi Chu * [gabrielschulhof](https://github.com/gabrielschulhof) – Gabriel Schulhof Conflicts: src/node_version.h
