--- title: "Node 14 has been released" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 335 published_at: "2020-04-23" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/335" --- This week's Node news, links, and releases. #335 — April 23, 2020 [Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/335) Node Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/h2knpfbzsvg99xwfshse.jpg)](https://medium.com/@nodejs/node-js-version-14-available-now-8170d384567e) [Node.js 14 Released](https://medium.com/@nodejs/node-js-version-14-available-now-8170d384567e) — Woo-hoo another major release of Node.js is here. v14 now becomes the current ‘release’ line with it becoming a LTS (Long Term Support) release in October.. so production apps would, ideally, remain on v12 for now. So what’s new..? - [Diagnostic reports](https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/easily-identify-problems-in-node-js-applications-with-diagnostic-report-dc82370d8029) are now a stable feature. - It's based on [V8 8.1.](https://v8.dev/blog/v8-release-81) - An experimental [Async Local Storage API](https://nodejs.org/api/async_hooks.html#async_hooks_class_asynclocalstorage) - Improvements to streams. - An experimental WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) to support future WebAssembly use cases. - Bye bye to the ESM module ‘experimental’ warning (though it still _is_experimental). 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