Node.js 26.5.0 (Current)

Node.js — Node.js 26.5.0 (Current)

Node.js 26.5.0 (Current)

RL

Richard Lau

Node.js 26.5.0 (Current)

2026-07-08, Version 26.5.0 (Current), @richardlau

Notable Changes

#### New release key

Welcome to our newest releaser, Stewart X Addison . Future Node.js releases may be signed with his release key , 655F3B5C1FB3FA8D1A0CA6BDE4A7D232B936D2FD .

#### Other notable changes

• [ 55f48446c7 ] - (SEMVER-MINOR) buffer : implement blob.textStream() (Matthew Aitken) #64036

• [ b373202efc ] - (SEMVER-MINOR) esm : add --experimental-import-text flag (Efe) #62300

• [ 39e0c14455 ] - (SEMVER-MINOR) perf_hooks : sample delay per event loop iteration (Pablo Erhard) #62935

• [ 999a83c937 ] - (SEMVER-MINOR) stream : expose ReadableStreamTee (Matteo Collina) #64195

• [ 4e0236dc3d ] - (SEMVER-MINOR) tls : report negotiated TLS groups (Filip Skokan) #64119

Commits

• [ 87648c0a6c ] - benchmark : trim down the argon2 sets (Filip Skokan) #64218

• [ a483bfd3f0 ] - buffer : remove unreachable overflow check in atob (haramjeong) #60161

• [ 6d14279688 ] - buffer : add fast api for isUtf8 and isAscii (Gürgün Dayıoğlu) #64169

• [ a67d9a7a44 ] - build : allow linting node.1 (Aviv Keller) #64157

• [ 06c1fbc25b ] - build : enable Maglev for riscv64 (Jamie Magee) #62605

• [ 518309c363 ] - build : suppress clang errors building libffi on Windows (René) #64222

• [ 6a80ab485c ] - build : add manually-dispatched stress-test workflow (Joyee Cheung) #64118

• [ f4e7bf1f1c ] - build : pin envinfo versions in github actions (Joyee Cheung) #64117

• [ 66f6ac0d86 ] - build : support setting an emulator from configure script (Ivan Trubach) #53899

• [ 7f26c54aa6 ] - child_process : fix permission model propagation via NODE_OPTIONS (Matteo Collina) #63972

• [ 32bb554f5b ] - crypto : fix large DH generator validation (Tobias Nießen) #64092

• [ 0908d76ef6 ] - crypto : reject small-order EdDSA points during verify (Filip Skokan) #64026

• [ 7f7e5863c2 ] - deps : update undici to 8.7.0 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #64282

• [ af91029801 ] - deps : update nghttp3 to 1.17.0 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #64182

• [ 2e500ba7b0 ] - deps : update googletest to 8b53336594cc52213c6c2c7a0b29194fa896d039 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #64181

• [ 74e3aa24ba ] - deps : update sqlite to 3.53.3 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #64180

• [ c7e57f55a7 ] - deps : c-ares: cherry-pick 8ba37af8e3fb (René) #64110

• [ 879fdc4daf ] - deps : V8: backport da20a197a7f9 (Kevin Gibbons) #64101

• [ a640543a7c ] - deps : V8: cherry-pick 0cc9eb22c0b0 (Kevin Gibbons) #64101

• [ feefd179e5 ] - deps : V8: cherry-pick 1a391f98cc7a (Kevin Gibbons) #64101

• [ 8ef643d4b0 ] - deps : update googletest to 0b1e895ba4226c2fda5ee0178c9b5b1195a741aa (Node.js GitHub Bot) #64039

• [ 9e50bb0655 ] - dgram : skip dns.lookup() for literal IP addresses (Ruben Bridgewater) #64133

• [ dc052c095c ] - diagnostics_channel : return original thenable (Stephen Belanger) #62407

• [ a22a840293 ] - doc : clarify QUIC stream state wording (EduardF1) #63660

• [ 8d4bec2d71 ] - doc : update Http2SecureServer.on("timeout") default value (YuSheng Chen) #64187

• [ da88f70afa ] - doc : add note on visibility of CI failures to new contributor guide (Stewart X Addison) #64256

• [ 20ce359ccb ] - doc : clarify HTTP/1.1 response ordering (Matteo Collina) #64213

• [ 05eae2835c ] - doc : recommend node-stress-single-test for flaky tests (Trivikram Kamat) #64223

• [ 3966eb67e7 ] - doc : fix typo in examples (Vas Sudanagunta) #64184

• [ 12a2b9daa3 ] - doc : fix typo in node-config-schema.json (Hamid Reza Ghavami) #64188

• [ 0854482671 ] - doc : clarify defense-in-depth issues (Matteo Collina) #64215

• [ ef4915fc3a ] - doc : fix Fast FFI argument count in ffi.md (Daijiro Wachi) #63960

• [ bb2eed863c ] - doc : add sxa GPG key (ed25519) (Stewart X Addison) #64193

• [ b7bf6e3a06 ] - doc : add guide and answers to FAQs for first-time contributors (Joyee Cheung) #63685

• [ ff537ba858 ] - doc : update Http2Server.close & Http2SecureServer.close (YuSheng Chen) #63298

• [ f3db304588 ] - doc : update list of people in SECURITY.md (Richard Lau) #64152

• [ 2a126647b0 ] - doc : clarify vfs is not a sandbox (Matteo Collina) #64143

• [ 85fc79dd9b ] - doc : fix broken links and duplicate stability label (Antoine du Hamel) #64130

• [ 189e830eb3 ] - doc : add missing option to man page (Richard Lau) #64156

• [ 7a16ccccd0 ] - doc : announce upcoming end of tier 2 support for macOS x64 (Antoine du Hamel) #63931

• [ d5f826045f ] - doc : update toolchain for official AIX releases (Richard Lau) #64068

• [ 60abc4400f ] - doc : fix callback example import in fs docs (Kamal Rawal) #63912

• [ e470c74a6c ] - doc : fix keepAliveTimeout default in http.createServer options (Jahanzaib iqbal) #63974

• [ 851b460583 ] - esm : improve ERR_REQUIRE_ASYNC_MODULE (Joyee Cheung) #64260

• [ 0cd443df39 ] - esm : print required top-level await locations without evaluating (Joyee Cheung) #64154

• [ eacfbd0ca5 ] - http : add CONNECT method handling for default Host header with proxy (Archkon) #64114

• [ aeb539a383 ] - http : fix drain event with cork/uncork (David Evans) #64038

• [ 8e8874b216 ] - http : document and validate options.path when it's in absolute-form (Joyee Cheung) #64108

• [ eb2e96bc28 ] - inspector : fix crash when writing to closed inspector socket (ympark2011) #64209

• [ 243b0e4e57 ] - lib : reject string "0" in validatePort when allowZero is false (Daijiro Wachi) #64174

• [ 34a537c0ed ] - lib : use __proto__: null when calling ObjectDefineProperty (Antoine du Hamel) #64239

• [ 1f72393f19 ] - lib : lazily initialize kEvents and kHandlers maps (Guilherme Araújo) #63702

• [ 92a3dc3191 ] - lib,permission : fix addon permission drop (Martin Wagner) #64007

• [ 87b8f2a296 ] - meta : fix linter warning in stale.yml (Antoine du Hamel) #64281

• [ 829c4a5913 ] - meta : bump actions/cache from 5.0.5 to 6.1.0 (dependabot[bot]) #64248

• [ 0808dcd31c ] - meta : bump github/codeql-action/autobuild from 4.36.1 to 4.36.2 (dependabot[bot]) #64247

• [ 64aa17058f ] - meta : bump github/codeql-action/analyze from 4.36.1 to 4.36.2 (dependabot[bot]) #64246

• [ 873d1e0412 ] - meta : bump actions/checkout from 6.0.2 to 7.0.0 (dependabot[bot]) #64245

• [ fe460ccf0b ] - meta : bump codecov/codecov-action from 6.0.1 to 7.0.0 (dependabot[bot]) #64244

• [ 845c63ed50 ] - meta : bump rtCamp/action-slack-notify from 2.3.3 to 2.4.0 (dependabot[bot]) #64243

• [ 2cad2d6de5 ] - meta : bump github/codeql-action/init from 4.36.1 to 4.36.2 (dependabot[bot]) #64242

• [ 0ddde950c7 ] - meta : bump actions/setup-python from 6.2.0 to 6.3.0 (dependabot[bot]) #64241

• [ c0a8760d2f ] - meta : bump github/codeql-action/upload-sarif from 4.36.1 to 4.36.2 (dependabot[bot]) #64240

• [ f49704b9d0 ] - meta : clarify V8 flags are outside threat model (Matteo Collina) #64224

• [ 6b8dc58e6e ] - meta : move one or more collaborators to emeritus (Node.js GitHub Bot) #64057

• [ fe5260cca7 ] - meta : update status of past strategic initiatives (Joyee Cheung) #63480

• [ 7b01040008 ] - meta : speed up stale bot (Aviv Keller) #64075

• [ 874c46c24f ] - meta : update sccache version in test-linux-quic (René) #64043

• [ 48c5c86363 ] - module : enable import support for addons by default (Chengzhong Wu) #64221

• [ f90f1bd032 ] - perf_hooks : add NODE_PERFORMANCE_GC_MINOR_MARK_SWEEP constant (Attila Szegedi) #63877

• [ bdf32628c7 ] - process : fix finalization cleanup ref tracking (Trivikram Kamat) #64087

• [ 9a65b7fff4 ] - quic : drop version negotiation packets with oversized CIDs (Mohamed Sayed) #64228

• [ 2699fe4706 ] - quic : fixes undefined handle in QuicStream kInspect (Marten Richter) #64170

• [ 00dea28bb3 ] - repl : lazy-load acorn and defer vm context creation (Daijiro Wachi) #63879

• [ ce659a1cf9 ] - src : fix escaping of single quotes in task runner (Antoine du Hamel) #64089

• [ dbb3126e5c ] - src : abstract tracing agent for both legacy and perfetto (Chengzhong Wu) #64053

• [ 12edf1d68d ] - src : avoid redundant call to std::get_if<>() (Tobias Nießen) #64094

• [ eda91b6d01 ] - src : avoid copying source string in TextEncoder.encode (Yagiz Nizipli) #63897

• [ efbbb9a03c ] - stream : preserve half-open duplexes in async iteration (Efe) #64275

• [ ab5ed72903 ] - stream : reject iter consumers on abort (Trivikram Kamat) #64066

• [ d3fa77c5e2 ] - stream : fix merge abort for pending sources (Trivikram Kamat) #64013

• [ 38b99140ed ] - stream : refactor unnecessary optional chaining away (Antoine du Hamel) #64253

• [ c81f894ebe ] - stream : cut per-chunk overhead in WHATWG streams (Matteo Collina) #64252

• [ f162234f24 ] - stream : normalize Broadcast.from() byte inputs (Trivikram Kamat) #64082

• [ 1182ad8f3b ] - stream : proxy first own method in Readable.wrap() (Daijiro Wachi) #64048

• [ d0b830b382 ] - stream : observe abort while awaiting pipeTo source (Trivikram Kamat) #64015

• [ f7adcd8359 ] - stream : respect iter consumer abort signals (Trivikram Kamat) #63997

• [ b09e624c6f ] - test : make blob desiredSize assertion robust (Trivikram Kamat) #64106

• [ d0d8f0c774 ] - test : update WPT for urlpattern to 11a459a2b1 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #64037

• [ ff9122c20c ] - test : improve lcov reporter snapshot diagnostics (Trivikram Kamat) #64049

• [ 570952d4f3 ] - test : keep finalization close fixture ref alive (Trivikram Kamat) #64085

• [ 1b4f213380 ] - test : fix typo from overriden to overridden (parkhojeong) #63403

• [ 4c91090b8b ] - test : fix typo from funciton to function (parkhojeong) #63403

• [ bf080c7917 ] - test : mark hr-time WPT flaky on macos15-x64 (Trivikram Kamat) #64054

• [ 24e32098c5 ] - test : use one-off agent in http consumed timeout test (Trivikram Kamat) #64052

• [ 3229886de2 ] - test : fix flaky test-runner coverage threshold test (Trivikram Kamat) #64051

• [ 83b91ea6ec ] - test_runner : filter execArgv fallback for child tests (Trivikram Kamat) #64056

• [ 269b609a3d ] - test_runner : improve coverage failure diagnostics (Trivikram Kamat) #64050

• [ 0342744c34 ] - test_runner : add timestamp to JUnit reporter testsuites (sangwook) #64029

• [ 086741d121 ] - timers : reuse Timeout objects in setStreamTimeout (Matteo Collina) #64254

• [ 3bdd7e20be ] - tls : handle large RSA exponents in X.509 cert (Tobias Nießen) #64093

• [ c96c838977 ] - tools : update RUSTC_VERSION for remaining GHA workflows (René) #64325

• [ ee873b7aaf ] - tools : bump temporal_rs version (Antoine du Hamel) #63281

• [ ea3b870155 ] - tools : remove envinfo from our workflows (Antoine du Hamel) #64259

• [ d940f02e8b ] - tools : bump the eslint group in /tools/eslint with 8 updates (dependabot[bot]) #64249

• [ fe0ea2bb5d ] - tools : bump @node-core/doc-kit (dependabot[bot]) #64010

• [ 4dceefde1e ] - tools : bump undici from 6.24.1 to 6.27.0 in /tools/doc (dependabot[bot]) #64031

• [ 6e187db7d7 ] - tools : update c-ares updater script (Antoine du Hamel) #64194

• [ 657a35f5a2 ] - tools : validate version number in release proposal commit message lint (Antoine du Hamel) #64070

• [ 17228a861c ] - tools : add GHA benchmark runner (Antoine du Hamel) #60293

• [ 6d11a71d91 ] - tools : update build-shared/action.yml to a reusable workflow (Antoine du Hamel) #64059

• [ 7a17c50b7f ] - tools : update libffi updater script (Antoine du Hamel) #64046

• [ 28047a3e71 ] - tools : exclude libffi changes from test-shared GHA CI (Antoine du Hamel) #64047

• [ 58d9685acc ] - typings : add typing for crypto (Filip Skokan) #64122

• [ 7a9dcad44d ] - util : fix OOM in inspect color stack formatting (Ijtihed Kilani) #64022

• [ d5f01bbbde ] - vfs : reject rename into descendant directory (Trivikram Kamat) #64285

• [ 0b6af91081 ] - vfs : handle current-position sentinel in memory files (Trivikram Kamat) #64163

• [ 322230d641 ] - vfs : support writeFileSync with virtual fds (Trivikram Kamat) #64165

• [ 9395d209c7 ] - vfs : avoid recursive readdir symlink cycles (Matteo Collina) #64168

• [ bbdd7643b6 ] - vfs : read RealFSProvider files from open fd (Trivikram Kamat) #64104

• [ 92859b8097 ] - vm : fix copying PropertyDescriptor (Chengzhong Wu) #64073

• [ 9046035475 ] - zlib : validate flush king for all streams (Ic3b3rg) #63746

• [ 98be4304a3 ] - zlib : validate flush kind for brotli streams (Ic3b3rg) #63746

• [ 90007a59a9 ] - zlib : expose rejectGarbageAfterEnd option (Filip Skokan) #64023

• [ 5933516066 ] - zlib : reject trailing gzip members in web streams (Filip Skokan) #64023

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