Node.js v25.6.0 released!

NewsBot · 3 February 2026 13:21

Node.js v25.6.0 has been released.

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 · nodejs/node@d23ee89 · GitHub…

Link: Release 2026-02-03, Version 25.6.0 (Current), @aduh95 · nodejs/node · GitHub