Evolving the Node.js Release Schedule: A Work in Progress — The Node.js team has long been discussing shifting Node to a new schedule of one major release per year (instead of two), removing the odd/even distinction, and making every release LTS (with a prior 11 months of alpha/current status). This is a preview post not intended for final publication till April, so things are subject to change (backup version).

The Node.js Team

Memetria K/V: Efficient Redis & Valkey Hosting — Memetria K/V hosts Redis OSS and Valkey for Node.js apps, featuring large key tracking and detailed analytics.

Memetria sponsor

Node.js 25.8.0 (Current) Released — A typical incremental maintenance release, with the interesting addition of --permission-audit if you want to adopt the permission model, or are debugging failures with it. It enables the permission model in warning-only mode, so it could be a good way to audit your app in advance of enabling the full feature.

Richard Lau

We Deserve a Better Streams API for JavaScript — “I’m publishing this to start a conversation,” says James who shows off an alternative approach to streams working around the current standard’s “fundamental usability and performance issues.” Following the success of this post, James has since created a PR for Node.js to foster discussion and to demonstrate how his new approach can sit safely alongside the existing implementation.

James M Snell

Upgrading OpenClaw on NVIDIA's Jetson Nano with Node 22 — Mostly interesting to see Node running on NVIDIA’s tiny AI-focused computer. It took Node 27 hours to compile and required a patch to do so.

Bharat Kunwar

Reliability Infrastructure Hits $5B Valuation — Temporal’s Series D signals durable execution is becoming core to modern Node and backend systems.

Temporal Technologies sponsor

📄 VMPrint: Pure JS Typesetting Engine for Perfect PDF Output — It’s common to defer to headless Chrome instances for print-to-PDF type work, but VMPrint “guarantees identical layout given identical input, down to the sub-point position of every glyph.” Here’s a sample PDF. I gave it a test for myself and it seemed to work pretty well.

Cosmic Iron

💰  Dinero.js 2.0: Create, Calculate, and Format Money Safely — An immutable library for expressing monetary values and performing calculations with them. v2.0 is a complete rewrite with a new, fully tree-shakeable functional architecture.

Sarah Dayan

Bun v1.3.10 Released — A hefty release. Bun’s REPL has been rewritten with many practical and cosmetic improvements, there's a --compile --target=browser option for building self-contained HTML files with all assets included, full support for TC39 ES decorators, and more.

Jarred Sumner

Unbarrelify: Barrel File Removal Tool for JavaScript — From the creators of Knip, a barrel file removal tool for JS/TS projects (ESM-only).

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