September 2026 · 655 commits
Node 24.21.0 month: VFS, streams, crypto, and perf hardening
Major VFS and stream API growth, faster core paths, stricter security controls, and broad crypto/SQLite hardening landed throughout September.
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← RecentAugust 2026 · 555 commits
Node ships new crypto, ZIP, workers, and perf upgrades
August brought major experimental APIs, stronger security fixes, faster IO/streams, and deeper TLS/SQLite hardening across core.
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Node sharpens security, streams, and worker transfer
July brought security fixes, worker-thread socket transfers, major stream and HTTP/2 tuning, plus new net and tracing APIs.
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Node tightens core APIs while shipping new module and crypto features
June brought package maps, text modules, BoundSocket, and big crypto/TLS updates, alongside security hardening and stream/fs fixes.
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Node 26 ships QUIC, VFS, DTLS, and major hardening
May brought new networking and filesystem APIs, a permission revamp, and broad crypto/streams correctness and performance work.
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Node 25.9, ffi module, and big runtime hardening
April brought a new core ffi module, Temporal on by default, major QUIC/HTTP/streams work, and a V8 bump with many fixes.
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Node March 2026: major crypto, streams, and security hardening
March brought new stream/iter APIs, broad crypto expansion, a security release, and major fixes across HTTP, QUIC, REPL, and test runner.
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