--- title: "This Week's Node.js News - Issue 160" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 160 published_at: "2016-10-20" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/160" --- This Week's Node.js News - Issue 160 This week's Node news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/160) Node WeeklyOctober 20, 2016 #160 Node.js Foundation [Node v6.9 (LTS) Released, a.k.a. Boron](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v6.9.0/)Node.js v6 transitions into a Long Term Support version that will be maintained until April 2019. [6.9.1 is now out](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v6.9.1/) due to a regression. Node.js Foundation [Node.js v6 Transitions to LTS](https://medium.com/@nodejs/node-js-v6-transitions-to-lts-be7f18c17159)Three major updates for Node this month, with v7 set to become the new ‘current’ release line, v6 transitioning to LTS, and v0.10 reaching its ‘end of life’ with no patches at all beyond October. Ryan Roemer [Safer, More Predictable npm Publishing with publish-diff](https://formidable.com/blog/2016/10/19/introducing-publish-diff/)publish-diff produces a prepublication text diffs of what is _about_ to be published versus what is currently in the npm registry. DatadogSponsor [Monitor Node.js app performance in real-time](https://www.datadoghq.com/monitor-nodejs/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=CooperPress&utm_campaign=CooperPress-NodeWeekly&utm_content=node)Graph custom Node metrics, correlate with metrics and events from the rest of your infrastructure, and set sophisticated alerts on app performance. Get started with Datadog in minutes. [![Datadog\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/480fcb06.png)](https://www.datadoghq.com/monitor-nodejs/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=CooperPress&utm_campaign=CooperPress-NodeWeekly&utm_content=node) Developer Express Inc. 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