This is an older version. The current version is 26.12.1. Node.js 26.12.1 · Released:
25.6.1 is part of the 25 line, which reached its end of life on June 1, 2026. It no longer receives security fixes. endoflife.date
Installer files 25.6.1
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| ARM64 | MSI | All users | — | nodejs.org | VirusTotal |
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Release notes
Notable Changes
- [47df4328d7] - build,deps: replace cjs-module-lexer with merve (Yagiz Nizipli) #61456
Commits
- [47df4328d7] - build,deps: replace cjs-module-lexer with merve (Yagiz Nizipli) #61456
- [a727054503] - deps: upgrade npm to 11.9.0 (npm team) #61685
- [c78c49ed6b] - deps: update amaro to 1.1.7 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #61730
- [4790816d9b] - deps: update minimatch to 10.1.2 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #61732
- [8c71740e8a] - deps: update undici to 7.21.0 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #61683
- [e559ef6ab1] - deps: update googletest to 56efe3983185e3f37e43415d1afa97e3860f187f (Node.js GitHub Bot) #61605
- [300de2bb5a] - deps: update amaro to 1.1.6 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #61603
- [e71e9505ef] - dns: fix Windows SRV ECONNREFUSED by adjusting c-ares fallback detection (notvivek12) #61453
- [439b816bc7] - doc: clarify EventEmitter error handling in threat model (Matteo Collina) #61701
- [c1c6641f23] - doc: mention default option for test runner env (Steven) #61659
- [41ec451f98] - doc: fix --inspect security warning section (Tim Perry) #61675
- [bb90ef2356] - doc: document url.format(urlString) as deprecated under DEP0169 (René) #61644
- [513df82e6f] - doc: update to Visual Studio 2026 manual install (Mike McCready) #61655
- [9409d30736] - doc: deprecation add more codemod (Augustin Mauroy) #61642
- [75a7a67151] - doc: fix grammatical error in README.md (ayj8201) #61653
- [821e59e884] - doc: correct tools README Boxstarter link (Mike McCready) #61638
- [4998f539a0] - doc: update server.dropMaxConnection link (YuSheng Chen) #61584
- [9383ac4ab7] - http: implement slab allocation for HTTP header parsing (Mert Can Altin) #61375
- [e90eb1d561] - meta: persist sccache daemon until end of build workflows (René) #61639
- [ade36ac367] - meta: bump github/codeql-action from 4.31.9 to 4.32.0 (dependabot[bot]) #61622
- [26638bd67f] - meta: bump step-security/harden-runner from 2.14.0 to 2.14.1 (dependabot[bot]) #61621
- [eaa9a96cb6] - meta: bump actions/setup-python from 6.1.0 to 6.2.0 (dependabot[bot]) #61627
- [fd98187828] - meta: bump cachix/cachix-action (dependabot[bot]) #61626
- [820c1d021c] - meta: bump actions/setup-node from 6.1.0 to 6.2.0 (dependabot[bot]) #61625
- [72a4136bd5] - meta: bump actions/cache from 5.0.1 to 5.0.3 (dependabot[bot]) #61624
- [e3ef6cb3bc] - meta: bump peter-evans/create-pull-request from 8.0.0 to 8.1.0 (dependabot[bot]) #61623
- [020a836202] - meta: bump actions/stale from 10.1.0 to 10.1.1 (dependabot[bot]) #61620
- [0df72f07c8] - meta: bump actions/checkout from 6.0.1 to 6.0.2 (dependabot[bot]) #61619
- [d147c08b83] - module: do not invoke resolve hooks twice for imported cjs (Joyee Cheung) #61529
- [a2843f8556] - net: defer synchronous destroy calls in internalConnect (RajeshKumar11) #61658
- [7fb7030781] - repl: fix flaky test-repl-programmatic-history (Matteo Collina) #61614
- [d4c9b5cf5b] - sqlite: avoid extra copy for large text binds (Ali Hassan) #61580
- [aa1b3661d9] - sqlite: use DictionaryTemplate for run() result (Mert Can Altin) #61432
- [9c8ad7e881] - src: elide heap allocation in structured clone implementation (Anna Henningsen) #61703
- [c4ecfef93d] - src: use simdutf for one-byte string UTF-8 write in stringBytes (Mert Can Altin) #61696
- [28905b9734] - src: consolidate C++ ReadFileSync/WriteFileSync utilities (Joyee Cheung) #61662
- [e90cec2f69] - test: restraint version replacement pattern in snapshots (Chengzhong Wu) #61748
- [adce20c0a1] - test: print stack immediately avoiding GC interleaving (Chengzhong Wu) #61699
- [7643bc8999] - test: fix case-insensitive path matching on Windows (Matteo Collina) #61682
- [23d1ecf66f] - test: fix flaky test-performance-eventloopdelay (Matteo Collina) #61629
- [99012a88ed] - test: remove duplicate wpt tests (Filip Skokan) #61617
- [a8b32b8ce1] - test: fix race condition in watch mode tests (Matteo Collina) #61615
- [086a5a5a25] - test: update WPT for url to e3c46fdf55 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #61602
- [f0574fd419] - test: use the skipIfNoWatch() utility function (Luigi Pinca) #61531
- [b064ddc221] - test: unify assertSnapshot common patterns (Chengzhong Wu) #61590
- [17122e521b] - test_runner: fix test enqueue when test file has syntax error (Edy Silva) #61573
- [bad3f02dd9] - tools: enforce removal of lts-watch-* labels on release proposals (Antoine du Hamel) #61672
- [a8f33fd6bd] - tools: use ubuntu-slim runner in meta GitHub Actions (Tierney Cyren) #61663
- [c843e447ca] - tools: test --shared-merve in test-shared workflow (Antoine du Hamel) #61649
- [2fedc03f96] - tools: update OpenSSL to 3.5.5 in test-shared (Antoine du Hamel) #61551
- [1c1db94670] - tools,win: upgrade install additional tools to Visual Studio 2026 (Mike McCready) #61562
