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

Node v12.12.0 (Current)

Notable changes build : Add --force-context-aware flag to prevent usage of native node addons that aren't context aware #29631 deprecations : Add documentation-only deprecation for process._tickCallback() #29781 esm : Using JSON modules is experimental ... more

Node v8.16.2 (LTS)

Notable changes deps : upgrade openssl sources to 1.0.2s (Sam Roberts) #28230 Commits [ cc9d005628 ] - crypto : update root certificates (Sam Roberts) #28808 [ 347fcd35e3 ] - crypto : update root certificates (Sam Roberts) #27374 [ b2a6b3254d ] - crypto ... more

Node v12.11.1 (Current)

Notable changes build : This release fixes a regression that prevented from building Node.js using the official source tarball (Richard Lau) #29712. deps : Updated small-icu data to support "unit" style in the Intl.NumberFormat API (Michaël ... more

Node v12.11.0 (Current)

Notable changes crypto : Add oaepLabel option #29489 deps : Update V8 to 7.7.299.11 #28918 More efficient memory handling Stack trace serialization got faster The Intl.NumberFormat API gained new functionality For more information: https://v8.dev/blog/v8-release-77 ... more

OpenSSL security releases do not require Node.js security releases

Summary The OpenSSL Security releases of September 10th, 2019 do not affect Node.js. Analysis Our assessment of the security advisory is: ECDSA remote timing attack (CVE-2019-1547) Not affected. Node supports only named curves for ECDSA signing. Fork ... more

OpenSSL security releases may require Node.js security releases

Summary The Node.js project may be releasing new versions across all of its supported release lines early next week to incorporate upstream patches from OpenSSL. Please read on for full details. OpenSSL The OpenSSL project announced this week that they ... more

Node v12.10.0 (Current)

Notable changes deps : Update npm to 6.10.3 (isaacs) #29023 fs : Add recursive option to rmdir() (cjihrig) #29168 Allow passing true to emitClose option (Giorgos Ntemiris) #29212 Add *timeNs properties to BigInt Stats objects (Joyee Cheung) #21387 net ... more

Node v12.9.1 (Current)

Notable changes This release fixes two regressions in the http module: Fixes an event listener leak in the HTTP client. This resulted in lots of warnings during npm/yarn installs (Robert Nagy) #29245. Fixes a regression preventing the 'end' event from ... more

Node v12.9.0 (Current)

Notable changes crypto : Added an oaepHash option to asymmetric encryption which allows users to specify a hash function when using OAEP padding (Tobias Nießen) #28335. deps : Updated V8 to 7.6.303.29 (Michaël Zasso) #28955. Improves the performance ... more

Node v10.16.3 (LTS)

Notable changes This is a security release. Node.js, as well as many other implementations of HTTP/2, have been found vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks. See https://github.com/Netflix/security-bulletins/blob/master/advisories/third-party/2019-002.md ... more

Node v8.16.1 (LTS)

Notable changes This is a security release. Node.js, as well as many other implementations of HTTP/2, have been found vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks. See https://github.com/Netflix/security-bulletins/blob/master/advisories/third-party/2019-002.md ... more

Node v12.8.1 (Current)

Notable changes This is a security release. Node.js, as well as many other implementations of HTTP/2, have been found vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks. See https://github.com/Netflix/security-bulletins/blob/master/advisories/third-party/2019-002.md ... more

August 2019 Security Releases

Summary The Node.js project will release new versions of all supported release lines on, or shortly after, Thursday, August 15th, 2019 UTC. These releases will incorporate security fixes to HTTP/2 Denial of Service vulnerabilities in Node.js, the highest ... more

Node v10.16.2 (LTS)

Notable changes This release patches a regression in the OpenSSL upgrade to 1.1.1c that causes intermittent hangs in machines that have low entropy. Commits [ 894a9dd230 ] - deps : cherry-pick c19c5a6 from openssl upstream (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #28983 Windows ... more

Node v12.8.0 (Current)

Notable changes assert : Legacy mode deprecation ( DEP0089 ) is revoked (Colin Ihrig) #28892 crypto : The outputLength option is added to crypto.createHash (Tobias Nießen) #28805 The maxmem range is increased from 32 to 53 bits (Tobias Nießen) #28799 ... more

Node v10.16.1 (LTS)

Notable changes deps : upgrade openssl sources to 1.1.1c (Sam Roberts) #28212 stream : do not unconditionally call \_read() on resume() (Anna Henningsen) #26965 worker : fix nullptr deref after MessagePort deser failure (Anna Henningsen) #25076 Commits ... more

Node v12.7.0 (Current)

Notable changes deps : Updated nghttp2 to 1.39.1 (gengjiawen) #28448. Updated npm to 6.10.0 (isaacs) #28525. esm : Implemented experimental "pkg-exports" proposal. A new "exports" field can be added to a module's package.json file ... more

Node v12.6.0 (Current)

Notable changes build : Experimental support for building Node.js on MIPS architecture is back #27992. child_process : The promisified versions of child_process.exec and child_process.execFile now both return a Promise which has the child instance attached ... more

Node v12.5.0 (Current)

Notable changes build : The startup time is reduced by enabling V8 snapshots by default #28181 deps : Updated V8 to 7.5.288.22 #27375 The numeric separator feature is now enabled by default Updated OpenSSL to 1.1.1c #28211 inspector : The --inspect-publish-uid ... more

Node v12.4.0 (Current)

Notable changes doc : The JSON variant of the API documentation is no longer experimental (Rich Trott) #27842. esm : JSON module support is always enabled under --experimental-modules . The --experimental-json-modules flag has been removed (Myles Borins) ... more

Node v10.16.0 (LTS)

Notable Changes deps : update ICU to 64.2 (Ujjwal Sharma) #27361 upgrade npm to 6.9.0 (Kat Marchán) #26244 upgrade openssl sources to 1.1.1b (Sam Roberts) #26327 upgrade to libuv 1.28.0 (cjihrig) #27241 events : add once method to use promises with EventEmitter ... more