⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• use .npmignore file to limit which files are published (#2921)
• the Gyp class exported is now created using ECMAScript classes and therefore might have small differences to classes that were previously created with util.inherits.
• All internal functions have been coverted to return promises and no longer accept callbacks. This is not a breaking change for users but may be breaking to consumers of node-gyp if you are requiring internal functions directly.
• node-gyp now supports node ^16.14.0 || >=18.0.0

Features

• convert all internal functions to async/await (355622f)
• convert internal classes from util.inherits to classes (d52997e)
• drop node 14 support (#2929) (1b3bd34)
• drop rimraf dependency (4a50fe3)
• gyp: update gyp to v0.16.1 (#2923) (707927c)
• replace npmlog with proc-log (4a50fe3)
• update engines.node to ^14.17.0 || ^16.13.0 || >=18.0.0 (4a50fe3)
• use .npmignore file to limit which files are published (#2921) (864a979)

Bug Fixes

• create Python symlink only during builds, and clean it up after (#2721) (0f1f667)
• promisify build command (4a50fe3)
• use fs/promises in favor of fs.promises (4a50fe3)

Tests

• increase mocha timeout (#2887) (445c28f)
• update expired certs (#2908) (5746691)

Doc

• Add note about Python symlinks (PR 2362) to CHANGELOG.md for 9.1.0 (#2783) (b3d41ae)
• README.md Do not hardcode the supported versions of Python (#2880) (bb93b94)
• update applicable GitHub links from master to main (#2843) (d644ce4)
• Update windows installation instructions in README.md (#2882) (c9caa2e)

Core

• find python checks order changed on windows (#2872) (b030555)
• glob@10.3.10 (#2926) (4bef1ec)
• glob@8.0.3 (4a50fe3)
• make-fetch-happen@13.0.0 (#2927) (059bb6f)
• nopt@^7.0.0 (4a50fe3)
• standard@17.0.0 and fix linting errors (4a50fe3)
• which@3.0.0 (4a50fe3)
• which@4.0.0 (#2928) (e388255)

Miscellaneous

• add check engines script to CI (#2922) (21a7249)
• empty commit to add changelog entries from #2770 (4a50fe3)
• GitHub Workflows security hardening (#2740) (26683e9)
• misc testing fixes (#2930) (4e493d4)
• run tests after release please PR (3032e10)