nodejs/node v26.5.0

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

on GitHub

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
• [55f48446c7] - (SEMVER-MINOR) buffer: implement blob.textStream() (Matthew Aitken) #64036
• [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
• [b373202efc] - (SEMVER-MINOR) esm: add --experimental-import-text flag (Efe) #62300
• [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
• [39e0c14455] - (SEMVER-MINOR) perf_hooks: sample delay per event loop iteration (Pablo Erhard) #62935
• [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
• [999a83c937] - (SEMVER-MINOR) stream: expose ReadableStreamTee (Matteo Collina) #64195
• [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
• [4e0236dc3d] - (SEMVER-MINOR) tls: report negotiated TLS groups (Filip Skokan) #64119
• [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