2017-10-31, Version 8.9.0 'Carbon' (LTS) Release

This LTS release comes with 87 commits. This includes 30 that are
updates to lib/ or src/, 20 that are test related, 13 that are doc
related, 19 which are build / tools related, and 4 commits which are
updates to dependencies.

Notable Changes:

* doc:
  - add Gibson Fahnestock to Release team (Gibson Fahnestock)
    nodejs/node#16620
* deps:
  - update npm to 5.5.1 (Myles Borins)
    nodejs/node#16509
* http2:
  - The exposed http2 socket is no longer manipulatable
    (Anatoli Papirovski)
    nodejs/node#16330
* module:
  - support custom paths to require.resolve() (cjihrig)
    nodejs/node#16397
* util:
  - util.TextEncoder and util.TextDecoder are no longer experimental.
    There will no longer be a warning when they are used
    (James M Snell)
    nodejs/node#15743

PR-URL: nodejs/node#16630

Author: gibfahn

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -20,14 +20,15 @@ release.
 
 <table>
 <tr>
-  <th><a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V8.md">8</a><sup>Current</sup></th>
+  <th title="LTS Until 2019-12"><a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V8.md">8</a><sup>LTS</sup></th>
   <th title="Supported until 2016-07-01"><a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V7.md">7</a><sup>-</sup></th>
   <th title="LTS Until 2019-04"><a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V6.md">6</a><sup>LTS</sup></th>
   <th title="LTS Until 2018-04"><a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V4.md">4</a><sup>LTS</sup></th>
 </tr>
 <tr>
     <td valign="top">
-<b><a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V8.md#8.8.1">8.8.1</a></b><br/>
+<b><a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V8.md#8.9.0">8.9.0</a></b><br/>
+<a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V8.md#8.8.1">8.8.1</a><br/>
 <a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V8.md#8.8.0">8.8.0</a><br/>
 <a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V8.md#8.7.0">8.7.0</a><br/>
 <a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V8.md#8.6.0">8.6.0</a><br/>

doc/api/modules.md

@@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ should be discouraged.
 <!-- YAML
 added: v0.3.0
 changes:
-  - version: REPLACEME
+  - version: v8.9.0
     pr-url: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/16397
     description: The `paths` option is now supported.
 -->
@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ but rather than loading the module, just return the resolved filename.
 
 #### require.resolve.paths(request)
 <!-- YAML
-added: REPLACEME
+added: v8.9.0
 -->
 
 * `request` {string} The module path whose lookup paths are being retrieved.