“Node.js 22” released – Long term support (LTS) version for a total of 3 years – Window Forest

A new major version of the JavaScript environment Node.js that runs on the V8 engine, Node.js 22, was released on April 24th. Currently, it can be downloaded for free from the official website “nodejs.org”.

In “Node.js 22”, “V8” has been updated to v12.4, and “Array.fromAsync”, “Set methods”, and “Iterator Helpers” are now available. The Maglev compiler is also enabled by default and can improve the performance of short-lived CLI programs on supported CPU architectures.

In addition, the following improvements are included:

• Support for synchronous ESM graphs with require() (–experimental-require-module flag)
• Execute the package.json script
• Stream default highWaterMark from 16KiB to 64KiB.Memory usage will increase slightly, but overall performance can be improved.
• Watch Mode (node ​​–watch) is now stable
• WebSocket implementation enabled by default
• Functions “glob” and “globSync” for pattern matching have been added to node:fsmodule.
• Improved AbortSignal creation performance

Additionally, “Node.js 22” will receive the latest patches every two weeks as a “Current” release for six months until October 2024. After that, it will become “LTS” (Long Term Support) which will replace “Node.js 22” and will be supported for 30 months.