--- title: "Node 10.5 released with experimental worker thread support" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 243 published_at: "2018-06-21" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/243" --- The latest Node.js news, articles, tools, and projects. #243 — June 21, 2018 [Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/243) Node Weekly [Node 10.5 (Current) Released](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v10.5.0/) — Significantly, there’s now _experimental_ support for multi-threading by way of worker threads ([FAQ](https://gist.github.com/benjamingr/3d5e86e2fb8ae4abe2ab98ffe4758665), plus [pull request with example usage](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/20876)). Support for [crypto.scrypt()](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/20816) has also been added. 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