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Aug 25 - Aug 31, 2025. Useful releases, risky migrations, and noisy updates from the GitHub channel.

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2025-08-28, Version 22.19.0 'Jod' (LTS), @aduh95

  • Introduce new CLI options (NODE_USE_SYSTEM_CA, ${pid} placeholder) and a threadCpuUsage API.
  • Enhance core modules: default TLS CA certificates, DNS max timeout, HTTP keepAliveTimeoutBuffer, net.blocklist file handling, ZSTD dictionary support, and remove the experimental flag from wasm modules in ESM.
  • Add extensive documentation updates, deprecate the http module, and upgrade dependencies (OpenSSL 3.5, SQLite, V8, etc.).

2025-08-27, Version 24.7.0 (Current), @targos

  • Added post‑quantum cryptography support (ML KEM, ML DSA) via new crypto.encapsulate/decapsulate methods and extended Web Crypto API with algorithms like AES‑OCB, ChaCha20‑Poly1305, SHA‑3, SHAKE, etc.
  • Enhanced single‑executable (sea) configuration with execArgv and execArgvExtension to control runtime Node.js arguments.
  • Introduced several minor features and fixes: argon2() APIs, http Agent keepAliveTimeoutBuffer, http2 raw header arrays, stream Brotli compression, root certificates update to NSS 3.114, plus extensive documentation updates.