--- title: "This Week's Node.js News - Node 6.0 Released" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 135 published_at: "2016-04-28" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/135" --- This Week's Node.js News - Node 6.0 Released Node 6.0 has been released with 93% ES6 feature compatibility.[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/135) Node WeeklyApril 28, 2016 #135 Node.js Foundation [Node.js v6.0 Released - 93% of ES6 Features Supported](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v6.0.0/)Six months after Node 5.0 dropped, here’s 6. Node 5.x will be supported for two months, but Node 6 is now the ‘Current’ release (renamed from ‘Stable’ - considered confusing vs the 4.x LTS release). Jeremy Ruppel [Yakbak: Record & Playback HTTP Interactions in Node](http://code.flickr.net/2016/04/25/introducing-yakbak-record-and-playback-http-interactions-in-nodejs/)Flickr’s front-end team needed to record and playback HTTP interactions with the Flickr API to test their work properly. 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