2016-11-08, Version 7.1.0 (Current)

Notable changes:

* buffer: add buffer.transcode to transcode a buffer's content from one
  encoding to another primarily using ICU (James M Snell)
* child_process: add public API for IPC channel (cjihrig)
* icu
  * Upgraded to ICU 58 - small icu (Steven R. Loomis)
  * Add `cldr`, `tz`, and `unicode` to `process.versions` (Steven R. Loomis)
* lib: make `String(global) === '[object global]'` (Anna Henningsen)
* libuv: Upgraded to 1.10.0 (cjihrig)
* readline: use icu based string width calculation (James M Snell)
* src:
  * add NODE_PRESERVE_SYMLINKS environment variable that has the same
    effect as the `--preserve-symlinks` flag (Marc Udoff)
  * Fix `String#toLocaleUpperCase()` and `String#toLocaleLowerCase()`
    (Steven R. Loomis)

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9438