2026-08-03, Version 24.19.0 'Krypton' (LTS)

Notable changes:

buffer:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) implement `blob.textStream()` (Matthew Aitken) #64036
deps:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) update OpenSSL build config to support compression (Tim Perry) #62217
doc:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) update `blockList` stability status to release candidate (alphaleadership) #63050
  * mark `stream.compose` stable (Matteo Collina) #62562
esm:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add `--experimental-import-text` flag (Efe) #62300
fs:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) support caller-supplied `readFile()` buffers (Matteo Collina) #63634
http:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add `httpValidation` option to configure header value validation (RajeshKumar11) #61597
net:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) support `TCP_KEEPINTVL` and `TCP_KEEPCNT` in `setKeepAlive` (Guy Bedford) #63825
perf_hooks:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) sample delay per event loop iteration (Pablo Erhard) #62935
src:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) allow empty `--experimental-config-file` (Marco Ippolito) #61610
stream:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) expose `ReadableStreamTee` (Matteo Collina) #64195
tls:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) report negotiated TLS groups (Filip Skokan) #64119
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add `certificateCompression` option (Tim Perry) #62217

PR-URL: #64654

Author: aduh95

CHANGELOG.md

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doc/api/buffer.md

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doc/api/cli.md

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 > Stability: 1.0 - Early development
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doc/api/debugger.md

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         condition is truthy at the probe location.
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doc/api/dgram.md

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doc/api/fs.md

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doc/api/http.md

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doc/api/net.md

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doc/api/perf_hooks.md

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doc/api/stream.md

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