Node.js v25.0.0 Released

Rafael Gonzaga

2025-10-15, Version 25.0.0 (Current), @RafaelGSS

Node.js 25 is here! We have upgraded V8 to 14.1, bringing major JSON.stringify performance improvements, built-in Uint8Array base64/hex conversion, and ongoing WebAssembly and JIT pipeline optimizations.

This release doubles down on secure-by-default apps and web-standard APIs: the permission model gains --allow-net, Web Storage is enabled by default, and ErrorEvent is now a global.

We’ve also removed or finalized long-deprecated APIs such as SlowBuffer, and added quality-of-life improvements like a portable compile cache and JSPI for WebAssembly.

Notable Changes

• [8bc7dfd16f] - build: test on Python 3.14 release candidate 3 (Christian Clauss) #59983
• [663554abdf] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) lib: expose global ErrorEvent (Richie Bendall) #58920
• [3312e4e946] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) src: unflag --experimental-webstorage by default (Daniel M Brasil) #57666
• [462c74181d] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) src,permission: add --allow-net permission (Rafael Gonzaga) #58517

Deprecations and Removals

• [d33f4b539a] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) assert: move assert.fail with multiple arguments to eol (James M Snell) #58532
• [b21574d63b] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) assert: move CallTracker to EOL (James M Snell) #58006
• [308b6bc6de] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) async_hooks: move asyncResource property on bound function to EOL (James M Snell) #58618
• [daced4ab98] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) buffer: move SlowBuffer to EOL (Filip Skokan) #58220
• [df16f0fd8d] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) child_process: move _channel to end-of-life (James M Snell) #58527
• [a472745958] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) crypto: runtime-deprecate default shake128/256 output lengths (Filip Skokan) #59008
• [c3b986853c] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) crypto: move deprecated hash and mgf1Hash options to EOL (James M Snell) #58706
• [66632648ba] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) crypto: runtime deprecate ECDH.setPublicKey() (James M Snell) #58620
• [a5f9ca1f77] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) dns: move falsy hostname in lookup to end-of-life (James M Snell) #58619
• [2bb7667475] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) fs: move FileHandle close on GC to EOL (James M Snell) #58536
• [eec0302088] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) fs: move rmdir recursive option to end-of-life (James M Snell) #58616
• [25dd206c29] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) fs: remove fs.F_OK, fs.R_OK, fs.W_OK, fs.X_OK (Livia Medeiros) #55862
• [91dadf2897] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) http: deprecate writeHeader (Sebastian Beltran) #59060
• [4e06a648ff] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) perf_hooks: move deprecated accessors to EOF (James M Snell) #58531
• [a3dfca90d1] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) process: move multipleResolves event to EOL (James M Snell) #58707
• [790acc8689] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) tls: move IP-address servername deprecation to eol (James M Snell) #58533
• [3aaa2ebe19] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) url: move bad port deprecation in legacy url to end-of-life (James M Snell) #58617

Semver-Major Commits

• [7c9fbc15bc] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) assert,util: fail promise comparison in deep equal checks (Ruben Bridgewater) #59448
• [11222f1a27] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) assert,util: handle invalid dates as equal in deep comparison (Ruben Bridgewater) #57627
• [acce2e8f87] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) build: reset embedder string to "-node.0" (Michaël Zasso) #59805
• [8a87ba031b] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) build: bump minimum Clang version to 19 (Michaël Zasso) #59048
• [21b131e93a] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) build: reset embedder string to "-node.0" (Michaël Zasso) #58064
• [f31c88021b] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) build: stop distributing Corepack (Antoine du Hamel) #57617
• [b3238442d8] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) deps: patch V8 for illumos (Dan McDonald) #59805
• [2a1da3260d] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) deps: patch V8 to avoid duplicated zlib symbol (Michaël Zasso) #54077
• [7772a2df9d] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) deps: update V8 to 14.1.146.11 (Michaël Zasso) #59805
• [6d61175db0] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) deps: V8: backport 1d3362c55396 (Shu-yu Guo) #58064
• [974773572e] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) deps: V8: cherry-pick 4f38995c8295 (Shu-yu Guo) #58064
• [70bfc398e9] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) deps: V8: cherry-pick 044b9b6f589d (Rezvan Mahdavi Hezaveh) #58064
• [6bfc525cf0] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) deps: V8: cherry-pick d2ad518a0b57 (Joyee Cheung) #58064
• [754d28e34f] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) deps: V8: revert 6d6c1e680c7b (Michaël Zasso) #58064
• [8c508b9399] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) deps: V8: revert e3cddbedb205 (Michaël Zasso) #58064
• [88ca8287b6] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) deps: use std::map in MSVC STL for EphemeronRememberedSet (Joyee Cheung) #58064
• [838e2332a5] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) deps: patch V8 for illumos (Dan McDonald) #58064
• [3522731d9a] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) deps: remove problematic comment from v8-internal (Michaël Zasso) #58064
• [d234475a33] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) deps: define V8_PRESERVE_MOST as no-op on Windows (Stefan Stojanovic) #58064
• [a738eb4a7f] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) deps: fix FP16 bitcasts.h (Stefan Stojanovic) #58064
• [1744c7d991] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) deps: patch V8 to avoid duplicated zlib symbol (Michaël Zasso) #58064
• [fff0d1554d] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) deps: update V8 to 13.7.152.9 (Michaël Zasso) #58064
• [968e2f47c8] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) dgram: move deprecated APIs to EOL (James M Snell) #58474
• [5623194a6b] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) doc,src,test: replace use of deprecated GetIsolate (Michaël Zasso) #59805
• [823ca6991f] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) fs: make processReadResult() and readSyncRecursive() private (Livia Medeiros) #58672
• [a273674dee] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) fs: move fs stream open method to eol (James M Snell) #58529
• [39d73036e7] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) lib: use validators for argument validation (Nam Yooseong) #59416
• [cd68e35704] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) lib: deprecate _stream_* modules (Dario Piotrowicz) #58337
• [a822a1cbe7] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) lib: deprecate _tls_common and _tls_wrap (Dario Piotrowicz) #57643
• [705bcc2a00] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) module: move Module._debug to end-of-life (James M Snell) #58473
• [5fe7800683] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) node-api: add warning for NAPI_EXPERIMENTAL (Miguel Marcondes Filho) #58280
• [e1d4d6ab49] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) repl: eol deprecate instantiating without new (Aviv Keller) #59495
• [ed94bc48f3] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) src: update crypto.getCipherInfo() to use DictionaryTemplate (James M Snell) #60036
• [37a3df3556] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) src: fix calls to v8::Object::wrap (Andreas Haas) #59805
• [801ae26fa3] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) src: update NODE_MODULE_VERSION to 141 (Michaël Zasso) #59805
• [10df38a38b] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) src: improve performance of dotenv ToObject (James M Snell) #60038
• [075936b413] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) src: use std::string_view from node_report (iknoom) #60006
• [234c26cca3] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) src: store Local for CallbackScope on stack (Anna Henningsen) #59705
• [708fd1945b] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) src: remove node.h APIs to make callback without an async context (Chengzhong Wu) #58471
• [56989d33f5] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) src: remove deprecated node::EmitBeforeExit and node::EmitExit (Chengzhong Wu) #58469
• [d429aa2d17] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) src: remove deprecated node::CreatePlatform and node::FreePlatform (Chengzhong Wu) #58470
• [e0ae14ce73] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) src: remove deprecated node::InitializeNodeWithArgs (Chengzhong Wu) #58470
• [db1700e4b5] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) src: update NODE_MODULE_VERSION to 138 (Michaël Zasso) #58064
• [0a87084150] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) test: update cppgc-object addon config (StefanStojanovic) #59805
• [7dd49d7da4] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) test: spin longer for sequential/test-worker-prof (Michaël Zasso) #59805
• [faba50df96] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) test: remove --always-turbofan flag (Michaël Zasso) #59805
• [496f12dec6] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) test: update snapshot for V8 14.1 (Michaël Zasso) #59805
• [05aa3a1c70] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) test,win: split addon tests (StefanStojanovic) #59805
• [308de27255] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) tools: update V8 gypfiles for 14.0 (Michaël Zasso) #59805
• [b736370c07] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) tools: update V8 gypfiles for 13.9 (Michaël Zasso) #59805
• [085a94ac9b] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) tools: update V8 gypfiles for 13.8 (Michaël Zasso) #59805
• [a71ae18ac8] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) tools: enable leaptiering for aix/ibmi (Abdirahim Musse) #59805
• [a8217a9eb8] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) tools: update V8 gypfiles for 13.7 (Michaël Zasso) #58064
• [fdef0725de] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) util,console: colorize regexp groups, character classes, etc (Ruben Bridgewater) #59710
• [411cc42d22] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) worker: move terminate callback to end-of-life (James M Snell) #58528

Semver-Minor Commits

• [94422e8a40] - (SEMVER-MINOR) src: add an option to make compile cache portable (Aditi) #58797
• [29738c7b42] - (SEMVER-MINOR) src,permission: add --allow-inspector ability (Rafael Gonzaga) #59711
• [f9fcc746f3] - (SEMVER-MINOR) v8: add cpu profile (theanarkh) #59807
• [4396cf2d45] - (SEMVER-MINOR) wasm: enable JSPI (Guy Bedford) #59941

Semver-Patch Commits

• [91f035e597] - assert: resolve TODO and rename function (Antoine du Hamel) #59451
• [2e675c4fa3] - benchmark: use non-deprecated WriteUtf8V2 method (Michaël Zasso) #60173
• [0fb040603b] - build: upgrade Python linter ruff, add rules ASYNC,PERF (Christian Clauss) #59984
• [f468b6c72b] - build: update minimum Xcode version to 16.4 (Michaël Zasso) #60079
• [0eda17ba20] - build: fix flags for ngtcp2 on IBM i (SRAVANI GUNDEPALLI) #60073
• [22a864a275] - build: remove corepack from release tarballs (Jordan Harband) #59835
• [7079041e0a] - build: only mention Apple when on Apple (Michaël Zasso) #59385
• [954d3f44ef] - build: check Apple clang version in configure script (Michaël Zasso) #59358
• [2b4a09ef8b] - build: fix OpenSSL version detection (Richard Lau) #59353
• [af77e4bf2f] - build: update macOS runner and Xcode (Michaël Zasso) #59238
• [86bfdb5528] - build: remove nocorepack vcbuild flag (Antoine du Hamel) #57772
• [b13f24c2da] - build, src: fix include paths for vtune files (Rahul) #59999
• [2216a3b1d5] - deps: V8: cherry-pick 1e190bbb0396 (Richard Lau) #60206
• [1b22f6049a] - deps: upgrade npm to 11.6.2 (npm team) #60168
• [a1b73fe430] - deps: V8: cherry-pick 2abc61361dd4 (Richard Lau) #60177
• [4eb6e6fd79] - deps: V8: cherry-pick 87356585659b (Joyee Cheung) #60069
• [c0b8c80164] - deps: define V8_PRESERVE_MOST as no-op on Windows (Stefan Stojanovic) #56238
• [65a32bac18] - deps: add ngtcp2 test binaries (James M Snell) #59946
• [ebfc28a037] - deps: update nghttp3 to 1.11.0 (James M Snell) #59249
• [dceb1fca40] - deps: update ngtcp2 to 1.14.0 (James M Snell) #59249
• [ee36b86ba3] - deps: patch V8 to 13.7.152.19 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #58713
• [0b3fc0d7a8] - deps: patch V8 to 13.7.152.14 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #58631
• [91b3bd3fe6] - deps: patch V8 to 13.7.152.13 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #58539
• [f77a96cd76] - deps: patch V8 to 13.7.152.10 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #58446
• [1cd16e5355] - doc: improve code snippet alternative of url.parse() using WHATWG URL (Steven) #60209
• [d54e6aec9e] - doc: createSQLTagStore -> createTagStore (Aviv Keller) #60182
• [aef3fc37eb] - doc: use markdown when branch-diff major release (Rafael Gonzaga) #60179
• [a2f088d516] - doc: update teams in collaborator-guide.md and add links (Bart Louwers) #60065
• [75a6fff6be] - doc: disambiguate top-level worker_threads module exports (René) #59890
• [51df7b92bc] - doc: update macOS version used to build releases (Michaël Zasso) #60080
• [910c8796f9] - doc: update BUILDING to reflect Clang 19 changes (Michaël Zasso) #59782
• [34f9b7eab9] - doc: reserve NMV 140 for Electron 39 (David Sanders) #59627
• [3f6f6db43f] - doc: update minimum Xcode and VS versions (Michaël Zasso) #59358
• [d9fe28bd6b] - doc: fix CHANGELOG.md version listing (Antoine du Hamel) #59299
• [0ab50c2768] - doc: reserve NMV 139 for Electron 38 (Calvin) #58779
• [516b4ebd3c] - doc: mark Node.js 23 as End-of-Life (Antoine du Hamel) #58563
• [59b70e5fe3] - http: fix http client leaky with double response (theanarkh) #60062
• [5cf3c3e24c] - http2: rename variable to additionalPseudoHeaders (Tobias Nießen) #60208
• [535efea962] - http2: do not crash on mismatched ping buffer length (René) #60135
• [4bfa387f6d] - lib: fix constructor in _errnoException stack tree (SeokHun) #60156
• [4daeec11b9] - lib: fix typo in QuicSessionStats (SeokHun) #60155
• [15278252bb] - lib: remove redundant destroyHook checks (Gürgün Dayıoğlu) #60120
• [83052ff9ad] - lib: add node: prefix in sys module deprecation warning (Dario Piotrowicz) #58442
• [d5abfbf582] - lib: add module to use in module deprecation warnings (Dario Piotrowicz) #58442
• [db0121bedd] - module: fix directory option in the enableCompileCache() API (Joyee Cheung) #59931
• [822a8c3244] - perf_hooks: fix stack overflow error (Antoine du Hamel) #60084
• [d52cd04591] - quic: continue working on quic api bits (James M Snell) #60123
• [b4af647920] - quic: reduce boilerplate and other minor cleanups (James M Snell) #59342
• [cd9fd09a27] - quic: multiple fixups and updates (James M Snell) #59342
• [a6c5d27739] - quic: update more of the quic to the new compile guard (James M Snell) #59342
• [ee7b8ab29c] - quic: few additional small comment edits in cid.h (James M Snell) #59342
• [c8b64bd023] - quic: fixup NO_ERROR macro conflict on windows (James M Snell) #59381
• [e2fefd78e2] - quic: fixup windows coverage compile error (James M Snell) #59381
• [99c80e3a45] - quic: update the guard to check openssl version (James M Snell) #59249
• [0e754fa5d1] - quic: start re-enabling quic with openssl 3.5 (James M Snell) #59249
• [200fe9e7f4] - repl: move completion logic to internal module (Dario Piotrowicz) #59889
• [3ac88a7a66] - src: use string_view in WriteReport() (Anna Henningsen) #60201
• [a1244f04de] - src: make additional cleanups in node locks impl (James M Snell) #60061
• [fdb6e66227] - src: update locks to use DictionaryTemplate (James M Snell) #60061
• [367bcce6a6] - src: fix usage of deprecated V8 API (Michaël Zasso) #60174
• [23fa18444f] - src: fix small compile warning in quic/streams.cc (James M Snell) #60118
• [0ec1d186f4] - src: always use strong reference to napi_async_context resource (Anna Henningsen) #59828
• [ce748f6cae] - src: use Global for storing resource in Node-API callback scope (Anna Henningsen) #59828
• [36256230b4] - src: cleanup quic TransportParams class (James M Snell) #59884
• [985e2fb383] - Revert "test: ensure message event fires in worker message port test" (Luigi Pinca) #60126
• [da9cd745c8] - test: ensure assertions are reachable in test/client-proxy (Antoine du Hamel) #60175
• [e105e821e9] - test: skip quic tests that IBM i does not support (SRAVANI GUNDEPALLI) #60160
• [bfc81ca228] - test: ensure assertions are reachable in test/async-hooks (Antoine du Hamel) #60150
• [712cee951c] - test: skip tests that cause timeouts on IBM i (SRAVANI GUNDEPALLI) #60148
• [f8a43f6f34] - test: deflake test-fs-promises-watch-iterator (Luigi Pinca) #60060
• [1f95d39997] - test: prepare junit file attribute normalization (sangwook) #59432
• [eb159a8cfd] - test: remove duplicated allocUnsafeSlow test (Michaël Zasso) #58524
• [d93cff5af3] - Revert "test: fix watch tests not including completion messages" (Joyee Cheung) #58190
• [6102159fa1] - test: fix watch tests not including completion messages (Dario Piotrowicz) #58183
• [ad2c1bf62e] - test,doc: skip --max-old-space-size-percentage on 32-bit platforms (Asaf Federman) #60144
• [6dbf7086bb] - test_runner: fix suite timeout (Moshe Atlow) #59853
• [f0aa073907] - test_runner: add junit file attribute support (sangwook) #59432
• [cff138c6b1] - tests: start adding quic test server utilities (James M Snell) #59946
• [20dc4b514a] - tools: use cooldown property correctly (Rafael Gonzaga) #60134
• [ec26b1c01a] - tools: add lint rule to ensure assertions are reached (Antoine du Hamel) #60125
• [bab752d4db] - typings: add buffer internalBinding typing (방진혁) #60163
• [1986ee4b65] - vm: hint module identifier in instantiate errors (Chengzhong Wu) #60199
• [23b834058c] - wasm: revert enable JSPI as already enabled (Guy Bedford) #60014
• [4bfcad1ac5] - Revert "watch: fix watch args not being properly filtered" (Joyee Cheung) #58190
• [4acb854039] - watch: fix watch args not being properly filtered (Dario Piotrowicz) #57936

Windows 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.0.0/node-v25.0.0-x64.msi
Windows ARM 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.0.0/node-v25.0.0-arm64.msi
Windows 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.0.0/win-x64/node.exe
Windows ARM 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.0.0/win-arm64/node.exe
macOS 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.0.0/node-v25.0.0.pkg
macOS Apple Silicon 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.0.0/node-v25.0.0-darwin-arm64.tar.gz
macOS Intel 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.0.0/node-v25.0.0-darwin-x64.tar.gz
Linux 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.0.0/node-v25.0.0-linux-x64.tar.xz
Linux PPC LE 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.0.0/node-v25.0.0-linux-ppc64le.tar.xz
Linux s390x 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.0.0/node-v25.0.0-linux-s390x.tar.xz
AIX 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.0.0/node-v25.0.0-aix-ppc64.tar.gz
ARMv8 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.0.0/node-v25.0.0-linux-arm64.tar.xz
Source Code: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.0.0/node-v25.0.0.tar.gz
Other release files: https://nodejs.org/dist/v25.0.0/
Documentation: https://nodejs.org/docs/v25.0.0/api/

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