--- title: "Jod only knows what Node v22 LTS will be called" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 551 published_at: "2024-10-15" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/551" --- Plus what Deno and Bun are up to, TypeScript 5.7 beta, and making inquiries.. | #​551 — October 15, 2024 [Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/551) 😅 If you didn't get Node Weekly last week, don't panic - no one did! 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This update marks one of the last in Node 20’s run as the active LTS release, and introduces [experimental network inspection support.](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/53593) Node 22 will soon take over the active LTS crown ([as per schedule](https://nodejs.org/en/about/previous-releases)) but what will its codename be given there are no elements starting with J? Amazingly, [this question was asked _six years ago_](https://github.com/nodejs/Release/issues/304) and it's (_probably_) going to be **Jod.** Michaël Zasso [Announcing Deno 2: Node Done Right, Again(?)](https://deno.com/blog/v2.0) — What if the inventor of Node got to do it all over again? [Deno!](https://deno.com/) v2.0 refines the recipe with a focus on backwards compatibility with Node, an area surely impeding adoption till now. 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