--- title: "Node 16 to duck out early in September 2023" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 442 published_at: "2022-06-16" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/442" --- Plus scaling with Redis consumer groups, and who needs some cat names stat? | #​442 — June 16, 2022 [Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/442) ![Node.js Weekly](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/v1653576619/lgfqinzbdqttwmhvljxb.png) [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/jowpbxj6eevdnde1pfcd.jpg)](https://github.com/google/zx/releases/tag/7.0.0) [zx v7.0: Better Script Writing with Node.js](https://github.com/google/zx/releases/tag/7.0.0) — No, not movie scripts, but shell scripts and the like. 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