Node v13.12.0 (Current)

macOS package notarization and a change in builder configuration The macOS binaries for this release, and future 13.x releases, are now being compiled on macOS 10.15 (Catalina) with Xcode 11 to support package notarization, a requirement for installing ... more

Node v13.11.0 (Current)

Notable Changes async_hooks : add sync enterWith to ALS (Stephen Belanger) #31945 cli : allow --jitless V8 flag in NODE_OPTIONS (Andrew Neitsch) #32100 fs : return first folder made by mkdir recursive (Benjamin Coe) #31530 n-api : define release 6 (Gabriel ... more

Node v13.10.1 (Current)

Notable Changes In Node.js 13.9.0 deps/zlib was switched to the chromium maintained implementation. This change had the unforseen consequence of breaking building from the tarballs we release as we were too aggressively removing unneccessary files from ... more

Node v13.10.0 (Current)

Notable Changes async_hooks introduce async-context API (vdeturckheim) #26540 stream support passing generator functions into pipeline() (Robert Nagy) #31223 tls expose SSL_export_keying_material (simon) #31814 vm implement vm.measureMemory() for per-context ... more

Node v13.9.0 (Current)

Notable changes async_hooks add executionAsyncResource (Matteo Collina) #30959 crypto add crypto.diffieHellman (Tobias Nießen) #31178 add DH support to generateKeyPair (Tobias Nießen) #31178 simplify DH groups (Tobias Nießen) #31178 add key type 'dh' ... more

Node v12.16.1 (LTS)

Notable changes Node.js 12.16.0 included 6 regressions that are being fixed in this release Accidental Unflagging of Self Resolving Modules : 12.16.0 included a large update to the ESM implementation. One of the new features, Self Referential Modules, ... more

Node v12.16.0 (LTS)

Notable changes New assert APIs The assert module now provides experimental assert.match() and assert.doesNotMatch() methods. They will validate that the first argument is a string and matches (or does not match) the provided regular expression: const ... more

Node v12.15.0 (LTS)

Notable changes This is a security release. Vulnerabilities fixed: CVE-2019-15606 : HTTP header values do not have trailing OWS trimmed. CVE-2019-15605 : HTTP request smuggling using malformed Transfer-Encoding header. CVE-2019-15604 : Remotely trigger ... more

Node v13.8.0 (Current)

Notable Changes This is a security release. Vulnerabilities fixed: CVE-2019-15606 : HTTP header values do not have trailing OWS trimmed. CVE-2019-15605 : HTTP request smuggling using malformed Transfer-Encoding header. CVE-2019-15604 : Remotely trigger ... more

Node v10.19.0 (LTS)

Notable changes This is a security release. Vulnerabilities fixed: CVE-2019-15606 : HTTP header values do not have trailing OWS trimmed. CVE-2019-15605 : HTTP request smuggling using malformed Transfer-Encoding header. CVE-2019-15604 : Remotely trigger ... more

February 2020 Security Releases

Summary The Node.js project will release new versions of all supported release lines on or shortly after Tuesday, February 4th, 2020. One Critical severity and two High severity issues will be fixed. The release also includes stricter HTTP parsing. Impact ... more

Node v13.7.0 (Current)

Notable Changes deps : upgrade to libuv 1.34.1 (cjihrig) #31332 upgrade npm to 6.13.6 (Ruy Adorno) #31304 module add API for interacting with source maps (bcoe) #31132 loader getSource, getFormat, transform hooks (Geoffrey Booth) #30986 logical conditional ... more

Node v10.18.1 (LTS)

Notable changes http2 : fix session memory accounting after pausing (Michael Lehenbauer) #30684 n-api : correct bug in napi_get_last_error (Octavian Soldea) #28702 tools : update tzdata to 2019c (Myles Borins) #30479 Commits [ a80c59130e ] - build : ... more

Node v13.6.0 (Current)

Notable Changes assert : Implement assert.match() and assert.doesNotMatch() (Ruben Bridgewater) #30929 events : Add EventEmitter.on to async iterate over events (Matteo Collina) #27994 Allow monitoring error events (Gerhard Stoebich) #30932 fs : Allow ... more

Node v12.14.1 (LTS)

Notable changes crypto : fix key requirements in asymmetric cipher (Tobias Nießen) #30249 deps : update llhttp to 2.0.1 (Fedor Indutny) #30553 update nghttp2 to 1.40.0 (gengjiawen) #30493 v8 : mark serdes API as stable (Anna Henningsen) #30234 Commits ... more

Node v13.5.0 (Current)

Notable Changes cli : add --trace-exit cli option (legendecas) #30516 http,https : increase server headers timeout (Tim Costa) #30071 readline : update ansi-regex (Ruben Bridgewater) #30907 promote _getCursorPos to public api (Jeremy Albright) #30687 ... more

Node v8.17.0 (LTS)

Notable changes deps : update npm to 6.13.4 #30904 Commits [ 208b813e49 ] - build,win : add test-ci-native and test-ci-js (João Reis) #30724 [ 369a23a670 ] - deps : update npm to 6.13.4 (Audrey Eschright) #30904 Windows 32-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v8.17.0/node-v8.17.0-x86.msi ... more

Node v13.4.0 (Current)

Notable Changes deps : update npm to 6.13.4 #30904 update uvwasi (Anna Henningsen) #30745 upgrade to libuv 1.34.0 (Colin Ihrig) #30783 doc : docs deprecate http finished (Robert Nagy) #28679 events : add captureRejection option (Matteo Collina) #27867 ... more

Node v10.18.0 (LTS)

Notable changes deps : update npm to 6.13.4 #30904 Commits [ 54a466a865 ] - build,win : add test-ci-native and test-ci-js (João Reis) #30724 [ f9b31edb25 ] - deps : update npm to 6.13.4 (Isaac Z. Schlueter) #30904 Windows 32-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v10.18.0/node-v10.18.0-x86.msi ... more

Node v12.14.0 (LTS)

Notable changes deps : update npm to 6.13.4 #30904 Commits [ f01959a616 ] - build,win : add test-ci-native and test-ci-js (João Reis) #30724 [ d586682b0b ] - deps : update npm to 6.13.4 (Ruy Adorno) #30904 Windows 32-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v12.14.0/node-v12.14.0-x86.msi ... more

December 2019 Security Releases

Summary The Node.js project will release new versions of all supported release lines on or shortly after Tuesday December 17, 2019 UTC. The only update in these releases will be an updated version of npm addressing the vulnerability announced in https://blog.npmjs.org/post/189618601100/binary-planting-with-the-npm-cli. ... more

Node v13.3.0 (Current)

Notable Changes fs : Reworked experimental recursive rmdir() (cjihrig) #30644 The maxBusyTries option is renamed to maxRetries , and its default is set to 0. The emfileWait option has been removed, and EMFILE errors use the same retry logic as other ... more

Node v13.2.0 (Current)

Notable Changes addons : Deprecate one- and two-argument AtExit() . Use the three-argument variant of AtExit() or AddEnvironmentCleanupHook() instead (Anna Henningsen) #30227 child_process,cluster : The serialization option is added that allows child ... more

Node v12.13.1 (LTS)

Notable changes Experimental support for building Node.js with Python 3 is improved. ICU time zone data is updated to version 2019c. This fixes the date offset in Brazil. Commits [ 56be32d22d ] - async_hooks : only emit after for AsyncResource if stack ... more

Node v13.1.0 (Current)

Notable Changes cli : Added a new flag ( --trace-uncaught ) that makes Node.js print the stack trace at the time of throwing uncaught exceptions, rather than at the creation of the Error object, if there is any. This is disabled by default because it ... more

Node v13.0.1 (Current)

Notable Changes deps : Fixed a bug in npm 6.12.0 where warnings are emitted on Node.js 13.x (Jordan Harband) #30079. esm : Changed file extension resolution order of --es-module-specifier-resolution=node to match that of the CommonJS loader (Myles Borins) ... more

Node v10.17.0 (LTS)

Notable changes crypto : add support for chacha20-poly1305 for AEAD (chux0519) #24081 increase maxmem range from 32 to 53 bits (Tobias Nießen) #28799 deps : update npm to 6.11.3 (claudiahdz) #29430 upgrade openssl sources to 1.1.1d (Sam Roberts) #29921 ... more

Node v13.0.0 (Current)

Notable Changes assert : If the validation function passed to assert.throws() or assert.rejects() returns a value other than true , an assertion error will be thrown instead of the original error to highlight the programming mistake (Ruben Bridgewater) ... more

Node v12.13.0 (LTS)

This release marks the transition of Node.js 12.x into Long Term Support (LTS) with the codename 'Erbium'. The 12.x release line now moves into "Active LTS" and will remain so until October 2020. After that time, it will move into "Maintenance" ... more

The Difference Between Node.js 10 LTS and Node.js 12 LTS

With the transition of Node.js 12 from Current into LTS, a suite of new features are now available inside Node.js LTS release lines! In each release's changelog, we capture notable changes. But going through over two dozen individual release notes to ... more