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date: '2026-03-03T17:07:45.477Z'
category: release
title: Node.js 25.8.0 (Current)
layout: blog-post
author: Richard Lau
---

## 2026-03-03, Version 25.8.0 (Current), @richardlau

### Notable Changes

- \[[`e55eddea2a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e55eddea2a)] - **build, doc**: use new api doc tooling (flakey5) [#57343](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/57343)
- \[[`4c181e2277`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4c181e2277)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **sqlite**: add limits property to DatabaseSync (Mert Can Altin) [#61298](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61298)
- \[[`46ee1eddd7`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/46ee1eddd7)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **src**: add C++ support for diagnostics channels (RafaelGSS) [#61869](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61869)
- \[[`9ddd1a9c27`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9ddd1a9c27)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **src,permission**: add --permission-audit (RafaelGSS) [#61869](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61869)
- \[[`0d97ec4044`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0d97ec4044)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **test_runner**: expose worker ID for concurrent test execution (Ali Hassan) [#61394](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61394)

### Commits

- \[[`940b58c8c1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/940b58c8c1)] - **buffer**: optimize buffer.concat performance (Mert Can Altin) [#61721](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61721)
- \[[`0589b0e5a1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0589b0e5a1)] - **build**: fix GN for new merve dep (Shelley Vohr) [#61984](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61984)
- \[[`f3d3968dcd`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f3d3968dcd)] - _**Revert**_ "**build**: add temporal test on GHA windows" (Antoine du Hamel) [#61810](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61810)
- \[[`e55eddea2a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e55eddea2a)] - **build, doc**: use new api doc tooling (flakey5) [#57343](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/57343)
- \[[`b7715292f8`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b7715292f8)] - **child_process**: add tracing channel for spawn (Marco) [#61836](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61836)
- \[[`a32a598748`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a32a598748)] - **crypto**: fix missing nullptr check on RSA_new() (ndossche) [#61888](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61888)
- \[[`dc384f95b3`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/dc384f95b3)] - **crypto**: fix handling of null BUF_MEM\* in ToV8Value() (Nora Dossche) [#61885](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61885)
- \[[`3337b095db`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3337b095db)] - **crypto**: fix potential null pointer dereference when BIO_meth_new() fails (Nora Dossche) [#61788](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61788)
- \[[`51ded81139`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/51ded81139)] - **deps**: update undici to 7.22.0 (Node.js GitHub Bot) [#62035](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/62035)
- \[[`8aa2fde931`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8aa2fde931)] - **deps**: update minimatch to 10.2.4 (Node.js GitHub Bot) [#62016](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/62016)
- \[[`57dc092eaf`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/57dc092eaf)] - **deps**: upgrade npm to 11.11.0 (npm team) [#61994](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61994)
- \[[`705bbd60a9`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/705bbd60a9)] - **deps**: update simdjson to 4.3.1 (Node.js GitHub Bot) [#61930](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61930)
- \[[`4d411d72e5`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4d411d72e5)] - **deps**: update acorn-walk to 8.3.5 (Node.js GitHub Bot) [#61928](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61928)
- \[[`f53a32ab84`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f53a32ab84)] - **deps**: update acorn to 8.16.0 (Node.js GitHub Bot) [#61925](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61925)
- \[[`9b483fbb27`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9b483fbb27)] - **deps**: update minimatch to 10.2.2 (Node.js GitHub Bot) [#61830](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61830)
- \[[`bdc18940ad`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/bdc18940ad)] - **doc**: expand SECURITY.md with non-vulnerability examples (Rafael Gonzaga) [#61972](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61972)
- \[[`4e54c103cb`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4e54c103cb)] - **doc**: separate in-types and out-types in SQLite conversion docs (René) [#62034](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/62034)
- \[[`ca78ebbeaa`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ca78ebbeaa)] - **doc**: fix small logic error in DETECT_MODULE_SYNTAX (René) [#62025](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/62025)
- \[[`e6b131f3fe`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e6b131f3fe)] - **doc**: fix module.stripTypeScriptTypes indentation (René) [#61992](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61992)
- \[[`7508540e19`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7508540e19)] - **doc**: update DEP0040 (punycode) to application type deprecation (Mike McCready) [#61916](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61916)
- \[[`33a364cb62`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/33a364cb62)] - **doc**: explicitly mention Slack handle (Rafael Gonzaga) [#61986](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61986)
- \[[`46a61922bd`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/46a61922bd)] - **doc**: support toolchain Visual Studio 2022 & 2026 + Windows 11 SDK (Mike McCready) [#61864](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61864)
- \[[`dc12a257aa`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/dc12a257aa)] - **doc**: rename invalid `function` parameter (René) [#61942](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61942)
- \[[`6259abcf55`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/6259abcf55)] - **http**: validate ClientRequest path on set (Matteo Collina) [#62030](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/62030)
- \[[`dafdc0a5b8`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/dafdc0a5b8)] - **http**: validate headers in writeEarlyHints (Richard Clarke) [#61897](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61897)
- \[[`3c94b56fa6`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3c94b56fa6)] - **inspector**: unwrap internal/debugger/inspect imports (René) [#61974](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61974)
- \[[`8a24c17648`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8a24c17648)] - **lib**: improve argument handling in Blob constructor (Ms2ger) [#61980](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61980)
- \[[`21d4baf256`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/21d4baf256)] - **meta**: bump github/codeql-action from 4.32.0 to 4.32.4 (dependabot\[bot]) [#61911](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61911)
- \[[`59a726a8e3`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/59a726a8e3)] - **meta**: bump step-security/harden-runner from 2.14.1 to 2.14.2 (dependabot\[bot]) [#61909](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61909)
- \[[`0072b7f991`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0072b7f991)] - **meta**: bump actions/stale from 10.1.1 to 10.2.0 (dependabot\[bot]) [#61908](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61908)
- \[[`3d160cd049`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3d160cd049)] - **module**: run require.resolve through module.registerHooks() (Joyee Cheung) [#62028](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/62028)
- \[[`999bf22f47`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/999bf22f47)] - **repl**: keep reference count for `process.on('newListener')` (Anna Henningsen) [#61895](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61895)
- \[[`4c181e2277`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4c181e2277)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **sqlite**: add limits property to DatabaseSync (Mert Can Altin) [#61298](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61298)
- \[[`aee2a18257`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/aee2a18257)] - **src**: fix flags argument offset in JSUdpWrap (Weixie Cui) [#61948](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61948)
- \[[`46ee1eddd7`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/46ee1eddd7)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **src**: add C++ support for diagnostics channels (RafaelGSS) [#61869](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61869)
- \[[`9ddd1a9c27`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9ddd1a9c27)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **src,permission**: add --permission-audit (RafaelGSS) [#61869](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61869)
- \[[`ea2df2a16f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ea2df2a16f)] - **stream**: fix pipeTo to defer writes per WHATWG spec (Matteo Collina) [#61800](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61800)
- \[[`aa0c7b09e0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/aa0c7b09e0)] - **test**: remove unnecessary `process.exit` calls from test files (Antoine du Hamel) [#62020](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/62020)
- \[[`ad96a6578f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ad96a6578f)] - **test**: skip `test-url` on `--shared-ada` builds (Antoine du Hamel) [#62019](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/62019)
- \[[`7c72a31e4b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7c72a31e4b)] - **test**: skip strace test with shared openssl (Richard Lau) [#61987](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61987)
- \[[`604456c163`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/604456c163)] - **test**: avoid flaky debugger restart waits (Yuya Inoue) [#61773](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61773)
- \[[`4890d6bd43`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4890d6bd43)] - **test_runner**: run afterEach on runtime skip (Igor Shevelenkov) [#61525](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61525)
- \[[`fce2930110`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/fce2930110)] - **test_runner**: expose expectFailure message (sangwook) [#61563](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61563)
- \[[`0d97ec4044`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0d97ec4044)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **test_runner**: expose worker ID for concurrent test execution (Ali Hassan) [#61394](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61394)
- \[[`243e6b2009`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/243e6b2009)] - **test_runner**: replace native methods with primordials (Ayoub Mabrouk) [#61219](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61219)
- \[[`bf1ed7e647`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/bf1ed7e647)] - **tls**: forward keepAlive, keepAliveInitialDelay, noDelay to socket (Sergey Zelenov) [#62004](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/62004)
- \[[`746d0cebbf`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/746d0cebbf)] - **tools**: fix parsing of commit trailers in `lint-release-proposal` GHA (Antoine du Hamel) [#62077](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/62077)
- \[[`0f15079d94`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0f15079d94)] - **tools**: remove custom logic for skipping `test-strace-openat-openssl` (Antoine du Hamel) [#62038](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/62038)
- \[[`54a055a59d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/54a055a59d)] - **tools**: bump minimatch from 3.1.2 to 3.1.3 in `/tools/clang-format` (dependabot\[bot]) [#61977](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61977)
- \[[`a28744cb62`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a28744cb62)] - **tools**: fix permissions for merve update script (Richard Lau) [#62023](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/62023)
- \[[`31e7936354`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/31e7936354)] - **tools**: revert tools GHA workflow to ubuntu-latest (Richard Lau) [#62024](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/62024)
- \[[`0a96a16e1f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0a96a16e1f)] - **tools**: bump minimatch from 3.1.2 to 3.1.3 in /tools/eslint (dependabot\[bot]) [#61976](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61976)
- \[[`f279233412`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f279233412)] - **tools**: roll back to x86 runner on `scorecard.yml` (Antoine du Hamel) [#61944](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61944)
- \[[`192c0382f4`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/192c0382f4)] - **util**: add fast path to stripVTControlCharacters (Hiroki Osame) [#61833](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61833)

Windows 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.8.0/node-v25.8.0-x64.msi \
Windows ARM 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.8.0/node-v25.8.0-arm64.msi \
Windows 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.8.0/win-x64/node.exe \
Windows ARM 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.8.0/win-arm64/node.exe \
macOS 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.8.0/node-v25.8.0.pkg \
macOS Apple Silicon 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.8.0/node-v25.8.0-darwin-arm64.tar.gz \
macOS Intel 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.8.0/node-v25.8.0-darwin-x64.tar.gz \
Linux 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.8.0/node-v25.8.0-linux-x64.tar.xz \
Linux PPC LE 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.8.0/node-v25.8.0-linux-ppc64le.tar.xz \
Linux s390x 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.8.0/node-v25.8.0-linux-s390x.tar.xz \
AIX 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.8.0/node-v25.8.0-aix-ppc64.tar.gz \
ARMv8 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.8.0/node-v25.8.0-linux-arm64.tar.xz \
Source Code: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.8.0/node-v25.8.0.tar.gz \
Other release files: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.8.0/ \
Documentation: https://nodejs.org/docs/v25.8.0/api/

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