--- title: "A ready-to-launch Node user and auth system" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 388 published_at: "2021-05-13" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/388" --- Plus Node 14 gets some Node 15/16 goodies, TypeScript 4.3 RC, and a Node Docker cheatsheet. | #​388 — May 13, 2021 [Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/388) Node Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/if1sw54uxx2otar7vx6g.jpg)](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v14.17.0/) [Node v14.17.0 (LTS) Released](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v14.17.0/) — If you want to stay on a nice, safe LTS release but still get modern features backported in when they're ready, this is for you. Here's what's new this time: - [Diagnostics Channel](https://nodejs.org/api/diagnostics_channel.html) support. A way to create named channels to report arbitrary message data for diagnostics purposes. - UUID support in the crypto module. - Experimental support for `AbortController` and `AbortSignal` and `AbortSignal` support added to numerous methods. - Backporting of various V8 patches for Apple Silicon support. Of course, if you live on the edge with Node 16, you can walk on by. Node.js [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/168f0d47.png)](https://dashboard.redisgreen.net/nodeweekly) [Redis 6.2 on RedisGreen](https://dashboard.redisgreen.net/nodeweekly) — SSL encryption, key size tracking, memory mapping, online upgrades, and more. 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Curveball [ShellJS: Portable Unix Shell Commands for Node](https://github.com/shelljs/shelljs) — I loved [Ian Langworth’s review](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27099498) of this on Hacker News: _“ShellJS was a delight to use when we had to build a cross platform Electron-based (sorry) desktop application for Mac and Windows. It replaced batch and shell scripts, async operations were easy thanks to NodeJS, and the scripts were maintainable. 8/10, would use again.”_ ShellJS [Useful Tools for Parsing and Annotating PDFs in Node](https://spin.atomicobject.com/2021/05/04/tools-modifying-pdfs/) — Nothing beats an article by someone who’s just had to do the thing being covered. 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