This LTS release comes with 219 commits. This includes 80 commits that are docs related, 58 commits that are test related, 20 commits that are build / tool related, and 9 commits that are updates to dependencies.

### Notable Changes

* **build**: It is now possible to build the documentation from the release tarball (Anna Henningsen) [#8413](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8413)

* **buffer**: Buffer.alloc() will no longer incorrectly return a zero filled buffer when an encoding is passed (Teddy Katz) [#9238](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9238)

* **deps**: upgrade npm in LTS to 2.15.11 (Kat Marchán) [#8928](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8928)

* **repl**: Enable tab completion for global properties (Lance Ball) [#7369](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/7369)

* **url**: `url.format()` will now encode all `#` in `search` (Ilkka Myller) [#8072](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8072)

### Commits

* [[`06a1c9bf80`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/06a1c9bf80)] - **assert**: remove code that is never reached (Rich Trott) [#8132](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8132)

* [[`861e584d46`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/861e584d46)] - **async_wrap**: add a missing case to test-async-wrap-throw-no-init (yorkie) [#8198](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8198)