--- title: "Google Cloud Functions adds Node 14 support" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 372 published_at: "2021-01-21" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/372" --- Plus securing your GitHub project, naming variables, and Node 15.6.0. | #372 — January 21, 2021 [Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/372) Node Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/v1611239731/dep8j8ozgkjbtyumns8n.png)](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v15.6.0/) [Node v15.6.0 (Current) Released](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v15.6.0/) — `fork` gains AbortSignal support, and Node’s cryptography library gains basic secure heap support, a X509Certificate API, and [a `randomUUID` function](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/36729). 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