Node.js v26.5.0 released!

NewsBot · 8 July 2026 12:21

Node.js v26.5.0 has been released.

Notable Changes

New release key

Welcome to our newest releaser, Stewart X Addison. Future Node.js releases may be signed with his release key, 655F3B5C1FB3FA8D1A0CA6BDE4A7D232B936D2FD.

Other notable changes

[55f48446c7] - (SEMVER-MINOR) buffer: implement blob.textStream() (Matthew Aitken) #64036

[b373202efc] - (SEMVER-MINOR) esm: add --experimental-import-text flag (Efe) #62300

[39e0c14455] - (SEMVER-MINOR) perf_hooks: sample delay per event loop iteration (Pablo Erhard) #62935

[999a83c937] - (SEMVER-MINOR) stream: expose ReadableStreamTee (Matteo Collina) #64195

[4e0236dc3d] - (SEMVER-MINOR) tls: report negotiated TLS groups (Filip Skokan) #64119

Commits

[87648c0a6c] - benchmark: trim down the argon2 sets (Filip Skokan) #64218

[a483bfd3f0] - buffer: remove unreachable overflow check in atob (haramjeong) #60161

[6d14279688] - buffer: add fast api for isUtf8 and isAscii (Gürgün Dayıoğlu) #64169

[55f48446c7] - **(SEMVER…

Link: Release 2026-07-08, Version 26.5.0 (Current), @richardlau · nodejs/node · GitHub