[Quoting the article:]

[...] the ECMAScript standard for the language has continued to be driven primarily by the needs of browsers. Even in new environments, like serverside and embedded JavaScript runtimes, those runtimes are still using the JavaScript engines from browsers — though their requirements are often rather different.

The first feature that’s coming into the language from those serverside runtimes — async context — also turns out to be useful in browsers, and even for building some browser features. That might mean the focus for new JavaScript standards extending beyond the browsers that have tended to dominate the language’s evolution: at the very least, we can expect more collaboration and compatibility between serverside runtimes.

[Quoting the blog post:]

We have made the migration to using ECMAScript Modules for all our source code. This change has significantly improved the development experience for the Prettier team. Please rest assured that when using Prettier as a library, you can still use it as CommonJS as well.

This update comes with several breaking changes. One notable example is the alteration in markdown formatting - spaces are no longer inserted between Latin characters and Chinese or Japanese characters. [...] Additionally, the default value of trailingComma has been changed to "all".

Another important change in this release is the significant overhaul of the plugin interface. Prettier now supports plugins written using ECMAScript Modules and async parsers. [...]

This release also includes numerous formatting improvements and bug fixes.

• Experimental support for Lightning CSS
• esbuild 0.18 update
• Templates for Solid and Qwik in create-vite

• Change array by copy provides additional methods on Array.prototype and TypedArray.prototype to enable changes on the array by returning a new copy of it with the change.
• Added the URL.canParse() function to allow easy and fast checking if URLs are valid and parseable.

• Mock timers allow developers to write more reliable and predictable tests for time-dependent functionality. Class MockTimers provides the ability to mock setTimeout, setInterval from globals, node:timers, and node:timers/promises.
• Node has added support for the ECMAScript proposal “explicit resource management” to its resources, allowing users of TypeScript/Babel to use using/await using, with V8 support for everyone else on the way.

Highlights, as mentioned in the blog post:

• A fast and convenient way to build web servers, Deno.serve(), is now stable.
• Improving npm support with the addition of highly anticipated packages

• Targetting tasks by tags
• Next.js 13 support
• New Nx “recipes” (example repos)
• Angular 16 support and migrations
• New verdaccio support
• Create your own CLI with Nx
• New externalDependencies input type
• New @nx/dependency-checks ESLint Rule
• Performance improvements
• Nx Console revamped
• Nx Changelog launched