Node.js: Lithium LTS and 27 Alpha Handoff
Node.js 26.13 became Lithium LTS supported through April 2029 as 27.0.0-alpha opened with breaking changes. Most other activity was targeted networking, crypto, and runtime correctness fixes.
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This episode is a short developer briefing from Node.js.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Node.js
- Published: 2026-10-28T13:05:57Z
- Audio duration: PT2M41S
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Hello, it's Wednesday, October 28th, 2026, and this is your Node.js briefing.
The dominant pattern is a release handoff: version 26 is now long-term support, while version 27 has opened as an alpha, with most other work focused on small reliability and correctness fixes around that transition.
First, releases. PR 66965 marks 26.13 as Lithium, moving 26 into long-term support through April 2029 with only metadata changes from the prior patch. At the same time, PR 67062 proposes 27 alpha zero, which includes breaking changes such as removal of the legacy async local storage implementation. A small follow-up…
Second, networking hardening. PR 67073 forward-ports the pending-read fix for C V E 2026 dash 105481 to the new internal H T T P agent location, closing a window where a premature response could leak into the next request on a reused socket. Related work tightens edge behavior: PR 67061 stops compatibility H T T P 2…
Third, runtime correctness and speed. Merged PR 66191 extends the module compile cache to Web Assembly, storing serialized compiled modules to avoid recompilation. PR 66801 replaces the Zip entry raw content getter with methods that return stored bytes without…
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