$ ls nodejs/reviews/ # the step-back reads
Node.js in review
One review per week (and month): what shipped, what broke, what to act on.
Sep 14–20, 2026 weekly [act] 8 stories
Node 26.9.0 ships generic crypto MAC API
The Current release lands alongside an undici backpressure reversal, QUIC truncation fixes, and four embedder and TLS crash repairs.
Sep 7–13, 2026 weekly 8 stories
Undici 8.10.2 lands in Node
The runtime dependency bump headlines a week that also tightened FFI argument checks and sped up cjs-module-lexer's UTF-16 scans.
Aug 31–Sep 6, 2026 weekly [act]
Domain runtime-deprecation lands; security patches ship
Node.js weekly: domain deprecated at runtime plus Undici fixes and crypto JWK corrections affect maintainers.
Aug 24–30, 2026 weekly
Compile cache goes read-only, TLS aborts become throws
This week Node.js hardened its compile cache into a read-only mode, turned TLS configuration aborts into proper throws, and landed a 10-2...
Aug 1–31, 2026 monthly
Node 26 line lands crypto, stream, and FFI hardening as deprecations tighten the core
August shipped two minor releases of Node 26 that carry performance, crypto, and stream changes while several runtime deprecations signal...
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