2018-02-22, Version 9.6.0 (Current)

Notable changes:

* async_hooks:
  - deprecate unsafe emit{Before,After} (Ali Ijaz Sheikh)
    https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/18513
  - rename PromiseWrap.parentId to PromiseWrap.isChainedPromise
    (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/18633
* deps:
  - update node-inspect to 1.11.3 (Jan Krems)
    https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/18354
  - ICU 60.2 bump (Steven R. Loomis)
    https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/17687
  - Introduce ScriptOrModule and HostDefinedOptions to V8 (Jan Krems)
    https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/16889
* http:
  - add options to http.createServer() for `IncomingMessage` and
    `ServerReponse` (Peter Marton)
    https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/15752
* http2:
  - add http fallback options to .createServer (Peter Marton)
    https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/15752
* https:
  - Adds the remaining options from tls.createSecureContext() to the
    string generated by Agent#getName(). This allows https.request()
    to accept the options and generate unique sockets appropriately.
    (Jeff Principe)
    https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/16402
* inspector:
  - --inspect-brk for es modules (Guy Bedford)
    https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/18194
* lib:
  - allow process kill by signal number (Sam Roberts)
    https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/16944
* module:
  - enable dynamic import (Myles Borins)
    https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/18387
  - dynamic import is now supported (Jan Krems)
    https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/15713
* napi:
  - add methods to open/close callback scope (Michael Dawson)
    https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/18089
* src:
  - allow --perf-(basic-)?prof in NODE_OPTIONS (Leko)
    https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/17600
* vm:
  - add support for es modules (Gus Caplan)
    https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/17560

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/18902