Oct 5–11, 2026 · 128 commits
Node ships sync ESM loads, stream fixes, and V8 15.5
A week of startup wins, major stream/Utf8Stream fixes, safer config/permission propagation, and a V8/ABI bump.
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Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2026 · 155 commits
V8 15.2 lands as Node sharpens FFI, HTTP, and crypto
Node upgraded to V8 15.2, dropped legacy async/CLIs, and shipped a week of hot-path, FFI, and correctness fixes.
Read the issue →Sep 21–27, 2026 · 172 commits
Node tightens security, stream performance, and runtime APIs
This week brought a new env-permission model, major stream and crypto work, SQLite API changes, and a cluster of perf/runtime fixes.
Read the issue →Sep 14–20, 2026 · 121 commits
Node lands new core APIs and a week of stability fixes
New throttle/debounce, DTLS, VFS startup, and sea/crypto updates shipped alongside many fixes for HTTP, streams, QUIC, TLS, and perf_hooks.
Read the issue →Sep 7–13, 2026 · 148 commits
Node adds new APIs while hardening core startup and I/O
This week brought native globbing, QRDE histograms, PKCS#12 parsing, QUIC/HTTP2 upgrades, and several startup, VFS, stream, and crypto fixes.
Read the issue →Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026 · 170 commits
Node adds a benchmark API, VFS support, and major core fixes
This week brought node:bench, ZIP/SEA virtual filesystems, faster fs and worker paths, plus stricter crypto, permission, and stream behavior.
Read the issue →Aug 24–30, 2026 · 110 commits
Node adds MAC API, tightens crypto/FS/HTTP, and fixes crashes
A busy week of new crypto APIs plus security, correctness, and performance fixes across fs, HTTP/2, QUIC, workers, sqlite, and more.
Read the issue →Aug 17–23, 2026 · 140 commits
Node.js week: security fixes, faster I/O, and QUIC/URL wins
A strong week of memory-safety fixes, module/compile-cache portability, faster URL and fs paths, plus QUIC and stream correctness work.
Read the issue →Aug 10–16, 2026 · 106 commits
Node adds Web Workers, hardens sqlite, and tightens core APIs
A week of major platform work: experimental Web Workers, richer sqlite/observability hooks, stricter FFI and ZIP checks, and several core fixes.
Read the issue →Aug 3–9, 2026 · 143 commits
Node ships big networking, crypto, and SQLite updates
Major HTTP/2 and TLS changes, a new SQLite statement API, stronger FIPS and DNS handling, plus several security fixes.
Read the issue →Jul 27 – Aug 2, 2026 · 95 commits
Node ships experimental ZIP APIs and tightens core safety
New ZIP archive support lands alongside FFI, crypto, QUIC, HTTP, and permissions hardening across the week.
Read the issue →Jul 20–26, 2026 · 79 commits
Node adds Perfetto tracing and sharpens stream/crypto APIs
Perfetto tracing lands, stream backpressure is refactored, and Node tightens crypto, FFI, net, sqlite, DNS, and REPL edge cases.
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