UPD. The release has been postponed
>We have identified an issue in our OSX Release builds related to the Temporal API. Until this issue is solved, we won't be able to release Node.js v26.0.0. Therefore, I'm postponing this release (again) to May 4th (next Tuesday)
RafaelGSS commented
Announcement
The latest release of Node.js (v26.0) is full of small improvements, and bug fixes of different severity, and tweaks here and there across the modules and core. Even the upgrade of V8 to the version 14.6 is nothing big. There are module version changes to match with Electron, so some native modules would require rebuilding, it means that for those who uses native modules it probably would be useful to test them against the new Node.js before upgrading
The promised cherry. The most notable thing is the removal of --experimental-transform-types flag, so now TypeScript is not experimental nor optional. Since default support of TypeScript since the v25 it's only a symbolic change
Here are some of the changes:
- update V8 to v14.6.202.33
- update NODE_MODULE_VERSION to 147
- Temporal API is enabled by default. Also it has been improved with V8's update
- Upsert proposal support: map.getOrInsert() and map.getOrInsertComputed()
- Iterator concatenation: Iterator.concat()
- better Rust support, from crate's CLI flags to ENV variables
- sqlite: enabled percentile extension required for statistics with such functions as median and percentile
Seems like the biggest changes are about to be made to the next LTS release