Node.js v24.5.0 and v22.18.0 released!

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Node.js v24.5.0 and v22.18.0 has been released.

Notable Changes

Upgrade to OpenSSL 3.5

This release is distributed with OpenSSL 3.5.1, following the announcement that
OpenSSL 3.5 will be supported until April 2030, while Node.js 24 will be
supported until April 2028. Read more about OpenSSL support in their blog post:
https://openssl-library.org/post/2025-02-20-openssl-3.5-lts/.

Contributed by Richard Lau in #58100.

Unflag --experimental-wasm-modules

Node.js supports both source phase imports and instance phase imports to WebAssembly
modules and for WASM imports to JavaScript, in line with the current Phase 3
WebAssembly ESM Integration proposal.
The implementation and the specification are still subject to change.

Contributed by Guy Bedford in #57038.

Built-in proxy support in request() and Agent

node:http and node:https now support proxies. When NODE_USE_ENV_PROXY
is set to 1, the default global agent would parse the http_proxy/HTTP_PROXY,
https_proxy/HTTPS_PROXY, no_proxy/NO_PROXY settings from the
environment variables, and proxy the requests sent through the built-in http/https
client accordingly.

To use global proxy support from the command line:

NODE_USE_ENV_PROXY=1 HTTP_PROXY=http://proxy.example.com:8080 HTTPS_PROXY=http://proxy.example.com:8080 NO_PROXY=localhost,127.0.0.1 node client.js

In addition, http.Agent and https.Agent now support the custom proxyEnv options.

const agent = new https.Agent({ proxyEnv: { HTTPS_PROXY: 'http://proxy.example.com:8080' } });

For reference, fetch() already supports NODE_USE_ENV_PROXY as of Node.js 24.0.0.

Contributed by Joyee Cheung in https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/58980.

Add setDefaultCACertificates() to node:tls

This API allows dynamically configuring CA certificates that will be used by the
Node.js TLS clients by…

Link: Release 2025-07-31, Version 24.5.0 (Current), @aduh95 · nodejs/node · GitHub

Notable Changes

Type stripping is enabled by default

Node.js will be able to execute TypeScript files without additional configuration:

$ echo 'const foo: string = 'World'; console.log(`Hello ${foo}!`);' > file.ts
$ node file.ts
Hello World!

There are some limitations in the supported syntax documented at
https://nodejs.org/api/typescript.html#type-stripping.

This feature is experimental and is subject to change. Disable it by passing
--no-experimental-strip-types CLI flag.

Contributed by Marco Ippolito in #56350.

Other notable changes

• [26f3711228] - (SEMVER-MINOR) deps: update amaro to 1.1.0 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #56350
• [d80ef2a71f] - (SEMVER-MINOR) doc: add all watch-mode related flags to node.1 (Dario Piotrowicz) #58719
• [8ab24d21c9] - doc: add islandryu to collaborators (Shima Ryuhei) #58714
• [430e66b9b8] - (SEMVER-MINOR) esm: implement import.meta.main (Joe) #57804
• [62f7926b6a] - (SEMVER-MINOR) fs: allow correct handling of burst in fs-events with AsyncIterator (Philipp Dunkel) #58490
• [65f19a00c3] - (SEMVER-MINOR) permission: propagate permission model flags on spawn (Rafael Gonzaga) #58853
• [ccca1517f9] - (SEMVER-MINOR) sqlite: add support for readBigInts option …

Link: Release 2025-07-31, Version 22.18.0 'Jod' (LTS), @aduh95 · nodejs/node · GitHub