--- title: "#190: The Node 8 and npm 5 Release Edition " publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 190 published_at: "2017-06-01" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/190" --- #190: The Node 8 and npm 5 Release Edition This week's Node news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/190) Node WeeklyJune 1, 2017 #190 Node.js Foundation [Node 8 Released](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v8.0.0/)A new major release of Node is here with many significant updates. It now runs on V8 5.8, includes npm 5, async_hooks, the Node.js API (N-API)… npm Inc. [npm 5.0 Released](http://blog.npmjs.org/post/161081169345/v500)The popular package manager takes some big steps forward with significantly improved performance. It’s also included with Node 8. [npm 5 is also now npm@latest](http://blog.npmjs.org/post/161276872334/npm5-is-now-npmlatest). RisingStack Engineering [The Important Features and Fixes of Node 8](https://blog.risingstack.com/important-features-fixes-node-js-version-8/)Tthe most important features and fixes of the new Node.js version 8, (which should become the current LTS release in October.) Frontend MastersSponsor [👞🕷 [Free For a Limited Time\] Squash Common JavaScript Bugs](https://frontendmasters.com/trial/)Learn from Todd Gardner (Co-founder of TrackJS) on Debugging and Fixing Common JavaScript Errors. In this course, you’ll be armed to find and squash JS bugs faster, and for good. — Free until June 26. [![Frontend Masters\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/f5ef453a.png)](https://frontendmasters.com/trial/) Arunesh Chandra and Michael Dawson [N-API: Next Generation Node APIs for Native Modules](https://medium.com/@nodejs/n-api-next-generation-node-js-apis-for-native-modules-169af5235b06)N-API is available in Node.js 8.0 as an experimental feature. This post explains what it is. 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