nodejs/node
Node.js JavaScript runtime ✨🐢🚀✨
Recent Releases
2026-09-16, Version 26.9.0 (Current), @aduh95
### Notable Changes * \[[`d414624dce`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d414624dce)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **crypto**: add a generic MAC API (Filip Skokan) [#65553](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/65553) * \[[`7ac458f802`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7ac458f802)] - **(SEMVER-MI...
2026-09-09, Version 26.8.2 (Current), @aduh95
### Notable Changes * \[[`616bd3fa26`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/616bd3fa26)] - **doc**: deprecate `Server.prototype._listen2` in `node:net` (Antoine du Hamel) [#65593](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/65593) * \[[`ae1801eb55`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ae1801eb55)] - ...
2026-09-08, Version 24.21.0 'Krypton' (LTS), @aduh95
### Notable Changes * \[[`71106e1f17`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/71106e1f17)] - **crypto**: update root certificates to NSS 3.126 (Node.js GitHub Bot) [#65495](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/65495) * \[[`afca0a912d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/afca0a912d)] - **(SEMVER...
2026-08-26, Version 26.8.1 (Current), @aduh95
### Notable Changes Out-of-band release to fix `node --version` which was reporting an alpha version. ### Commits * \[[`ebd35a9eec`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ebd35a9eec)] - **src**: revert accidental alpha designation (Antoine du Hamel) [#65568](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull...
2026-08-26, Version 26.8.0 (Current), @aduh95
### Notable Changes * \[[`74234ee30e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/74234ee30e)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **benchmark**: add --analyze mode to compare.js (James M Snell) [#65416](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/65416) * \[[`4232997fa2`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4232997fa2)]...
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