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Node.js 25.6.0 (Current)

ADH

Antoine du Hamel

2026-02-03, Version 25.6.0 (Current), @aduh95

Notable Changes

  • [796ff46ae6] - (SEMVER-MINOR) async_hooks: add trackPromises option to createHook() (Joyee Cheung) #61415
  • [4cf94fae17] - (SEMVER-MINOR) net: add setTOS and getTOS to Socket (Amol Yadav) #61503
  • [dce657071e] - (SEMVER-MINOR) src: add initial support for ESM in embedder API (Joyee Cheung) #61548
  • [e62608bbcf] - src: improve TextEncoder encode performance with simdutf (Mert Can Altin) #61496
  • [93938a4738] - (SEMVER-MINOR) stream: add bytes() method to node:stream/consumers (wantaek) #60426
  • [5fe2582329] - (SEMVER-MINOR) test_runner: add env option to run function (Ethan Arrowood) #61367
  • [a181d0c43d] - url: update Ada to v3.4.2 and support Unicode 17 (Yagiz Nizipli) #61593

Commits

  • [9c8d1b0278] - assert: fix loose deepEqual arrays with undefined and null failing (Ruben Bridgewater) #61587
  • [796ff46ae6] - (SEMVER-MINOR) async_hooks: add trackPromises option to createHook() (Joyee Cheung) #61415
  • [d23ee89693] - benchmark: add streaming TextDecoder benchmark (Сковорода Никита Андреевич) #61549
  • [8759db9d21] - buffer: disallow ArrayBuffer transfer on pooled buffer (Chengzhong Wu) #61372
  • [b2fb82946b] - build: add --shared-lief configure flag (Antoine du Hamel) #61536
  • [0ef99de9da] - build: aix: deoptimize implementation-visitor.cc with --shared (Stewart X Addison) #61550
  • [8f2083e73a] - build: enable -DV8_ENABLE_CHECKS flag (Ryuhei Shima) #61327
  • [150910da70] - build,test: add tests for binary linked with shared libnode (Joyee Cheung) #61463
  • [fb7868ba98] - build,win: fix vs2022 compilation (Stefan Stojanovic) #61530
  • [2c39a9234c] - deps: update undici to 7.19.2 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #61566
  • [2a74379367] - deps: update archs files for openssl-3.5.5 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #61547
  • [9e26a15c29] - deps: upgrade openssl sources to openssl-3.5.5 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #61547
  • [f16b532e97] - deps: update corepack to 0.34.6 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #61510
  • [780e65c5c5] - deps: V8: cherry-pick c5ff7c4d6cde (Chengzhong Wu) #61372
  • [2eb8e9d760] - deps: update nghttp3 to 1.15.0 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #61512
  • [a999edd8fd] - deps: update ngtcp2 to 1.20.0 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #61511
  • [eedd3bb6b6] - deps: update undici to 7.19.1 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #61514
  • [7d2bd59984] - deps: update undici to 7.19.0 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #61470
  • [3ad4d9b11b] - doc: align Buffer.concat documentation with behavior (Gürgün Dayıoğlu) #60405
  • [7e3eab5963] - doc: fix node-config-schema (Сковорода Никита Андреевич) #61596
  • [cbcfaf9a35] - doc: update IBM/Red Hat volunteers with dedicated project time (Beth Griggs) #61588
  • [3d68811d1a] - doc: regenerate node.1 using doc-kit (Aviv Keller) #61535
  • [71702c581a] - doc: restore @ChALkeR to collaborators (Сковорода Никита Андреевич) #61553
  • [0ceb8cad59] - doc: added requestOCSP option to tls.connect (ikeyan) #61064
  • [da93e2178c] - doc: move Security-Team from TSC to SECURITY (Rafael Gonzaga) #61495
  • [4bea821b4c] - lib: use utf8 fast path for streaming TextDecoder (Сковорода Никита Андреевич) #61549
  • [f05bad91d8] - lib: recycle queues (Robert Nagy) #61461
  • [44b1927938] - lib: use StringPrototypeStartsWith from primordials in locks (Taejin Kim) #61492
  • [a78259828a] - lib: unify ICU and no-ICU TextDecoder (Сковорода Никита Андреевич) #61409
  • [a28ddd4594] - module: do not wrap module._load when tracing is not enabled (Joyee Cheung) #61479
  • [4cf94fae17] - (SEMVER-MINOR) net: add setTOS and getTOS to Socket (Amol Yadav) #61503
  • [b861451d57] - process: do not truncate long strings in --print (Mohamed Akram) #61497
  • [4a2e184753] - sea: print error information when fs operations fail (Joyee Cheung) #61581
  • [45d25c47da] - sqlite: change approach to fix segfault SQLTagStore (Bart Louwers) #60462
  • [6993386320] - sqlite: reserve vectors space (Guilherme Araújo) #61540
  • [dce657071e] - (SEMVER-MINOR) src: add initial support for ESM in embedder API (Joyee Cheung) #61548
  • [e62608bbcf] - src: improve textEncoder encode performance with simdutf (Mert Can Altin) #61496
  • [0fce52d22c] - src: expose help texts into node-config-schema.json (Pietro Marchini) #58680
  • [be644e2569] - src: throw RangeError on failed ArrayBuffer BackingStore allocation (Chengzhong Wu) #61480
  • [93938a4738] - (SEMVER-MINOR) stream: add bytes() method to stream/consumers (wantaek) #60426
  • [83b2bf8ea2] - test: split test-fs-watch-ignore-* (Luigi Pinca) #61494
  • [4726627443] - test: aix: unflake test_threadsafe_function/test flaky on AIX (Stewart X Addison) #61560
  • [6fbb0b7572] - test: delay writing the files only on macOS (Luigi Pinca) #61532
  • [0a952b88bb] - test: ensure removeListener event fires for once() listeners (sangwook) #60137
  • [945b141c5d] - test: fix flaky debugger test (Ryuhei Shima) #58324
  • [256fc6770b] - test: update WPT for url to 81a2aed262 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #61509
  • [7725c8d596] - test: skip --build-sea tests on platforms where SEA is flaky (Joyee Cheung) #61504
  • [915d105ffd] - test_runner: update node-config-schema (Pietro Marchini) #58680
  • [fd8be14b33] - test_runner: fix passing expectFailure (Moshe Atlow) #61568
  • [c0dd9826bd] - test_runner: differentiate todo and failure styles (Moshe Atlow) #61564
  • [5fe2582329] - (SEMVER-MINOR) test_runner: add env option to run function (Ethan Arrowood) #61367
  • [39bea2236e] - tools: update gyp-next to 0.21.1 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #61528
  • [d5beb4fe1c] - tools: move Quic dependencies behind ad-hoc flag (Antoine du Hamel) #61446
  • [5c26087c29] - tools: add LIEF to license builder (Chengzhong Wu) #61523
  • [a181d0c43d] - url: update ada to v3.4.2 and support unicode 17 (Yagiz Nizipli) #61593

Windows 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.6.0/node-v25.6.0-x64.msi
Windows ARM 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.6.0/node-v25.6.0-arm64.msi
Windows 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.6.0/win-x64/node.exe
Windows ARM 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.6.0/win-arm64/node.exe
macOS 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.6.0/node-v25.6.0.pkg
macOS Apple Silicon 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.6.0/node-v25.6.0-darwin-arm64.tar.gz
macOS Intel 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.6.0/node-v25.6.0-darwin-x64.tar.gz
Linux 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.6.0/node-v25.6.0-linux-x64.tar.xz
Linux PPC LE 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.6.0/node-v25.6.0-linux-ppc64le.tar.xz
Linux s390x 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.6.0/node-v25.6.0-linux-s390x.tar.xz
AIX 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.6.0/node-v25.6.0-aix-ppc64.tar.gz
ARMv8 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.6.0/node-v25.6.0-linux-arm64.tar.xz
Source Code: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.6.0/node-v25.6.0.tar.gz
Other release files: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.6.0/
Documentation: https://nodejs.org/docs/v25.6.0/api/

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