Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. For more information on using Node.js, see the Node.js Website.
The Node.js project uses an open governance model. The OpenJS Foundation provides support for the project.
This project is bound by a Code of Conduct.
- Support
- Release Types
- Building Node.js
- Security
- Contributing to Node.js
- Current Project Team Members
Looking for help? Check out the instructions for getting support.
- Current: Under active development. Code for the Current release is in the branch for its major version number (for example, v10.x). Node.js releases a new major version every 6 months, allowing for breaking changes. This happens in April and October every year. Releases appearing each October have a support life of 8 months. Releases appearing each April convert to LTS (see below) each October.
- LTS: Releases that receive Long-term Support, with a focus on stability and security. Every even-numbered major version will become an LTS release. LTS releases receive 18 months of Active LTS support and a further 12 months of Maintenance. LTS release lines have alphabetically-ordered codenames, beginning with v4 Argon. There are no breaking changes or feature additions, except in some special circumstances.
- Nightly: Code from the Current branch built every 24-hours when there are changes. Use with caution.
Current and LTS releases follow Semantic Versioning. A member of the Release Team signs each Current and LTS release. For more information, see the Release README.
Binaries, installers, and source tarballs are available at https://nodejs.org/en/download/.
https://nodejs.org/download/release/
The latest directory is an alias for the latest Current release. The latest-codename directory is an alias for the latest release from an LTS line. For example, the latest-carbon directory contains the latest Carbon (Node.js 8) release.
https://nodejs.org/download/nightly/
Each directory name and filename contains a date (in UTC time) and the commit SHA at the HEAD of the release.
Documentation for the latest Current release is at https://nodejs.org/api/. Version-specific documentation is available in each release directory in the docs subdirectory. Version-specific documentation is also at https://nodejs.org/download/docs/.
Download directories contain a SHASUMS256.txt file with SHA checksums for the
files.
To download SHASUMS256.txt using curl:
$ curl -O https://nodejs.org/dist/vx.y.z/SHASUMS256.txtTo check that a downloaded file matches the checksum, run
it through sha256sum with a command such as:
$ grep node-vx.y.z.tar.gz SHASUMS256.txt | sha256sum -c -For Current and LTS, the GPG detached signature of SHASUMS256.txt is in
SHASUMS256.txt.sig. You can use it with gpg to verify the integrity of
SHASUM256.txt. You will first need to import
the GPG keys of individuals authorized to create releases. To
import the keys:
$ gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys DD8F2338BAE7501E3DD5AC78C273792F7D83545DSee the bottom of this README for a full script to import active release keys.
Next, download the SHASUMS256.txt.sig for the release:
$ curl -O https://nodejs.org/dist/vx.y.z/SHASUMS256.txt.sigThen use gpg --verify SHASUMS256.txt.sig SHASUMS256.txt to verify
the file's signature.
See BUILDING.md for instructions on how to build Node.js from source and a list of supported platforms.
For information on reporting security vulnerabilities in Node.js, see SECURITY.md.
For information about the governance of the Node.js project, see GOVERNANCE.md.
- addaleax - Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net> (she/her)
- apapirovski - Anatoli Papirovski <apapirovski@mac.com> (he/him)
- ChALkeR - Сковорода Никита Андреевич <chalkerx@gmail.com> (he/him)
- cjihrig - Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com> (he/him)
- danbev - Daniel Bevenius <daniel.bevenius@gmail.com> (he/him)
- fhinkel - Franziska Hinkelmann <franziska.hinkelmann@gmail.com> (she/her)
- Fishrock123 - Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
- gabrielschulhof - Gabriel Schulhof <gabriel.schulhof@intel.com>
- gireeshpunathil - Gireesh Punathil <gpunathi@in.ibm.com> (he/him)
- jasnell - James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> (he/him)
- joyeecheung - Joyee Cheung <joyeec9h3@gmail.com> (she/her)
- mcollina - Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com> (he/him)
- mhdawson - Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com> (he/him)
- MylesBorins - Myles Borins <myles.borins@gmail.com> (he/him)
- sam-github - Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
- targos - Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com> (he/him)
- thefourtheye - Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com> (he/him)
- Trott - Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com> (he/him)
- bnoordhuis - Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
- chrisdickinson - Chris Dickinson <christopher.s.dickinson@gmail.com>
- evanlucas - Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com> (he/him)
- gibfahn - Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com> (he/him)
- indutny - Fedor Indutny <fedor.indutny@gmail.com>
- isaacs - Isaac Z. Schlueter <i@izs.me>
- joshgav - Josh Gavant <josh.gavant@outlook.com>
- mscdex - Brian White <mscdex@mscdex.net>
- nebrius - Bryan Hughes <bryan@nebri.us>
- ofrobots - Ali Ijaz Sheikh <ofrobots@google.com> (he/him)
- orangemocha - Alexis Campailla <orangemocha@nodejs.org>
- piscisaureus - Bert Belder <bertbelder@gmail.com>
- rvagg - Rod Vagg <r@va.gg>
- shigeki - Shigeki Ohtsu <ohtsu@ohtsu.org> (he/him)
- TimothyGu - Tiancheng "Timothy" Gu <timothygu99@gmail.com> (he/him)
- trevnorris - Trevor Norris <trev.norris@gmail.com>
- addaleax - Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net> (she/her)
- ak239 - Aleksei Koziatinskii <ak239spb@gmail.com>
- AndreasMadsen - Andreas Madsen <amwebdk@gmail.com> (he/him)
- antsmartian - Anto Aravinth <anto.aravinth.cse@gmail.com> (he/him)
- apapirovski - Anatoli Papirovski <apapirovski@mac.com> (he/him)
- aqrln - Alexey Orlenko <eaglexrlnk@gmail.com> (he/him)
- bcoe - Ben Coe <bencoe@gmail.com> (he/him)
- bengl - Bryan English <bryan@bryanenglish.com> (he/him)
- benjamingr - Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
- BethGriggs - Beth Griggs <Bethany.Griggs@uk.ibm.com> (she/her)
- bmeck - Bradley Farias <bradley.meck@gmail.com>
- bmeurer - Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer@gmail.com>
- bnoordhuis - Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
- boneskull - Christopher Hiller <boneskull@boneskull.com> (he/him)
- brendanashworth - Brendan Ashworth <brendan.ashworth@me.com>
- BridgeAR - Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de> (he/him)
- bzoz - Bartosz Sosnowski <bartosz@janeasystems.com>
- calvinmetcalf - Calvin Metcalf <calvin.metcalf@gmail.com>
- cclauss - Christian Clauss <cclauss@me.com> (he/him)
- ChALkeR - Сковорода Никита Андреевич <chalkerx@gmail.com> (he/him)
- cjihrig - Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com> (he/him)
- claudiorodriguez - Claudio Rodriguez <cjrodr@yahoo.com>
- codebytere - Shelley Vohr <codebytere@gmail.com> (she/her)
- danbev - Daniel Bevenius <daniel.bevenius@gmail.com> (he/him)
- DavidCai1993 - David Cai <davidcai1993@yahoo.com> (he/him)
- davisjam - Jamie Davis <davisjam@vt.edu> (he/him)
- devsnek - Gus Caplan <me@gus.host> (he/him)
- digitalinfinity - Hitesh Kanwathirtha <digitalinfinity@gmail.com> (he/him)
- edsadr - Adrian Estrada <edsadr@gmail.com> (he/him)
- eljefedelrodeodeljefe - Robert Jefe Lindstaedt <robert.lindstaedt@gmail.com>
- eugeneo - Eugene Ostroukhov <eostroukhov@google.com>
- evanlucas - Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com> (he/him)
- fhinkel - Franziska Hinkelmann <franziska.hinkelmann@gmail.com> (she/her)
- Fishrock123 - Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
- gabrielschulhof - Gabriel Schulhof <gabriel.schulhof@intel.com>
- gdams - George Adams <george.adams@uk.ibm.com> (he/him)
- geek - Wyatt Preul <wpreul@gmail.com>
- gengjiawen - Jiawen Geng <technicalcute@gmail.com>
- gibfahn - Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com> (he/him)
- gireeshpunathil - Gireesh Punathil <gpunathi@in.ibm.com> (he/him)
- guybedford - Guy Bedford <guybedford@gmail.com> (he/him)
- hashseed - Yang Guo <yangguo@chromium.org> (he/him)
- hiroppy - Yuta Hiroto <hello@hiroppy.me> (he/him)
- iarna - Rebecca Turner <me@re-becca.org>
- imyller - Ilkka Myller <ilkka.myller@nodefield.com>
- indutny - Fedor Indutny <fedor.indutny@gmail.com>
- italoacasas - Italo A. Casas <me@italoacasas.com> (he/him)
- JacksonTian - Jackson Tian <shyvo1987@gmail.com>
- jasnell - James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> (he/him)
- jasongin - Jason Ginchereau <jasongin@microsoft.com>
- jbergstroem - Johan Bergström <bugs@bergstroem.nu>
- jdalton - John-David Dalton <john.david.dalton@gmail.com>
- jkrems - Jan Krems <jan.krems@gmail.com> (he/him)
- joaocgreis - João Reis <reis@janeasystems.com>
- joshgav - Josh Gavant <josh.gavant@outlook.com>
- joyeecheung - Joyee Cheung <joyeec9h3@gmail.com> (she/her)
- julianduque - Julian Duque <julianduquej@gmail.com> (he/him)
- JungMinu - Minwoo Jung <minwoo@nodesource.com> (he/him)
- kfarnung - Kyle Farnung <kfarnung@microsoft.com> (he/him)
- kunalspathak - Kunal Pathak <kunal.pathak@microsoft.com>
- lance - Lance Ball <lball@redhat.com> (he/him)
- Leko - Shingo Inoue <leko.noor@gmail.com> (he/him)
- lpinca - Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com> (he/him)
- lucamaraschi - Luca Maraschi <luca.maraschi@gmail.com> (he/him)
- lundibundi - Denys Otrishko <shishugi@gmail.com> (he/him)
- maclover7 - Jon Moss <me@jonathanmoss.me> (he/him)
- mafintosh Mathias Buus <mathiasbuus@gmail.com> (he/him)
- mcollina - Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com> (he/him)
- mhdawson - Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com> (he/him)
- misterdjules - Julien Gilli <jgilli@nodejs.org>
- mmarchini - Matheus Marchini <mat@mmarchini.me>
- MoonBall - Chen Gang <gangc.cxy@foxmail.com>
- mscdex - Brian White <mscdex@mscdex.net>
- MylesBorins - Myles Borins <myles.borins@gmail.com> (he/him)
- not-an-aardvark - Teddy Katz <teddy.katz@gmail.com> (he/him)
- ofrobots - Ali Ijaz Sheikh <ofrobots@google.com> (he/him)
- oyyd - Ouyang Yadong <oyydoibh@gmail.com> (he/him)
- princejwesley - Prince John Wesley <princejohnwesley@gmail.com>
- psmarshall - Peter Marshall <petermarshall@chromium.org> (he/him)
- Qard - Stephen Belanger <admin@stephenbelanger.com> (he/him)
- refack - Refael Ackermann (רפאל פלחי) <refack@gmail.com> (he/him/הוא/אתה)
- richardlau - Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com>
- ronkorving - Ron Korving <ron@ronkorving.nl>
- RReverser - Ingvar Stepanyan <me@rreverser.com>
- rubys - Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- rvagg - Rod Vagg <rod@vagg.org>
- ryzokuken - Ujjwal Sharma <usharma1998@gmail.com> (he/him)
- saghul - Saúl Ibarra Corretgé <saghul@gmail.com>
- sam-github - Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
- santigimeno - Santiago Gimeno <santiago.gimeno@gmail.com>
- sebdeckers - Sebastiaan Deckers <sebdeckers83@gmail.com>
- seishun - Nikolai Vavilov <vvnicholas@gmail.com>
- shigeki - Shigeki Ohtsu <ohtsu@ohtsu.org> (he/him)
- shisama - Masashi Hirano <shisama07@gmail.com> (he/him)
- silverwind - Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
- srl295 - Steven R Loomis <srloomis@us.ibm.com>
- starkwang - Weijia Wang <starkwang@126.com>
- targos - Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com> (he/him)
- thefourtheye - Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com> (he/him)
- thekemkid - Glen Keane <glenkeane.94@gmail.com> (he/him)
- thlorenz - Thorsten Lorenz <thlorenz@gmx.de>
- TimothyGu - Tiancheng "Timothy" Gu <timothygu99@gmail.com> (he/him)
- tniessen - Tobias Nießen <tniessen@tnie.de>
- trevnorris - Trevor Norris <trev.norris@gmail.com>
- trivikr - Trivikram Kamat <trivikr.dev@gmail.com>
- Trott - Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com> (he/him)
- vdeturckheim - Vladimir de Turckheim <vlad2t@hotmail.com> (he/him)
- vkurchatkin - Vladimir Kurchatkin <vladimir.kurchatkin@gmail.com>
- watilde - Daijiro Wachi <daijiro.wachi@gmail.com> (he/him)
- watson - Thomas Watson <w@tson.dk>
- XadillaX - Khaidi Chu <i@2333.moe> (he/him)
- yhwang - Yihong Wang <yh.wang@ibm.com>
- yorkie - Yorkie Liu <yorkiefixer@gmail.com>
- yosuke-furukawa - Yosuke Furukawa <yosuke.furukawa@gmail.com>
- ZYSzys - Yongsheng Zhang <zyszys98@gmail.com> (he/him)
- andrasq - Andras <andras@kinvey.com>
- AnnaMag - Anna M. Kedzierska <anna.m.kedzierska@gmail.com>
- estliberitas - Alexander Makarenko <estliberitas@gmail.com>
- chrisdickinson - Chris Dickinson <christopher.s.dickinson@gmail.com>
- firedfox - Daniel Wang <wangyang0123@gmail.com>
- imran-iq - Imran Iqbal <imran@imraniqbal.org>
- isaacs - Isaac Z. Schlueter <i@izs.me>
- jhamhader - Yuval Brik <yuval@brik.org.il>
- lxe - Aleksey Smolenchuk <lxe@lxe.co>
- matthewloring - Matthew Loring <mattloring@google.com>
- micnic - Nicu Micleușanu <micnic90@gmail.com> (he/him)
- mikeal - Mikeal Rogers <mikeal.rogers@gmail.com>
- monsanto - Christopher Monsanto <chris@monsan.to>
- Olegas - Oleg Elifantiev <oleg@elifantiev.ru>
- orangemocha - Alexis Campailla <orangemocha@nodejs.org>
- othiym23 - Forrest L Norvell <ogd@aoaioxxysz.net> (he/him)
- petkaantonov - Petka Antonov <petka_antonov@hotmail.com>
- phillipj - Phillip Johnsen <johphi@gmail.com>
- piscisaureus - Bert Belder <bertbelder@gmail.com>
- pmq20 - Minqi Pan <pmq2001@gmail.com>
- rlidwka - Alex Kocharin <alex@kocharin.ru>
- rmg - Ryan Graham <r.m.graham@gmail.com>
- robertkowalski - Robert Kowalski <rok@kowalski.gd>
- romankl - Roman Klauke <romaaan.git@gmail.com>
- stefanmb - Stefan Budeanu <stefan@budeanu.com>
- tellnes - Christian Tellnes <christian@tellnes.no>
- tunniclm - Mike Tunnicliffe <m.j.tunnicliffe@gmail.com>
- vsemozhetbyt - Vse Mozhet Byt <vsemozhetbyt@gmail.com> (he/him)
- whitlockjc - Jeremy Whitlock <jwhitlock@apache.org>
Collaborators follow the COLLABORATOR_GUIDE.md in maintaining the Node.js project.
GPG keys used to sign Node.js releases:
- Beth Griggs <bethany.griggs@uk.ibm.com>
4ED778F539E3634C779C87C6D7062848A1AB005C - Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
94AE36675C464D64BAFA68DD7434390BDBE9B9C5 - Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com>
B9AE9905FFD7803F25714661B63B535A4C206CA9 - Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>
77984A986EBC2AA786BC0F66B01FBB92821C587A - James M Snell <jasnell@keybase.io>
71DCFD284A79C3B38668286BC97EC7A07EDE3FC1 - Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock@keybase.io>
FD3A5288F042B6850C66B31F09FE44734EB7990E - Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
8FCCA13FEF1D0C2E91008E09770F7A9A5AE15600 - Myles Borins <myles.borins@gmail.com>
C4F0DFFF4E8C1A8236409D08E73BC641CC11F4C8 - Rod Vagg <rod@vagg.org>
DD8F2338BAE7501E3DD5AC78C273792F7D83545D - Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
A48C2BEE680E841632CD4E44F07496B3EB3C1762 - Shelley Vohr <shelley.vohr@gmail.com>
B9E2F5981AA6E0CD28160D9FF13993A75599653C
To import the full set of trusted release keys:
gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys 4ED778F539E3634C779C87C6D7062848A1AB005C
gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys B9E2F5981AA6E0CD28160D9FF13993A75599653C
gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys 94AE36675C464D64BAFA68DD7434390BDBE9B9C5
gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys B9AE9905FFD7803F25714661B63B535A4C206CA9
gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys 77984A986EBC2AA786BC0F66B01FBB92821C587A
gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys 71DCFD284A79C3B38668286BC97EC7A07EDE3FC1
gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys FD3A5288F042B6850C66B31F09FE44734EB7990E
gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys 8FCCA13FEF1D0C2E91008E09770F7A9A5AE15600
gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys C4F0DFFF4E8C1A8236409D08E73BC641CC11F4C8
gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys DD8F2338BAE7501E3DD5AC78C273792F7D83545D
gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys A48C2BEE680E841632CD4E44F07496B3EB3C1762See the section above on Verifying Binaries for how to use these keys to verify a downloaded file.
Other keys used to sign some previous releases:
- Chris Dickinson <christopher.s.dickinson@gmail.com>
9554F04D7259F04124DE6B476D5A82AC7E37093B - Isaac Z. Schlueter <i@izs.me>
93C7E9E91B49E432C2F75674B0A78B0A6C481CF6 - Italo A. Casas <me@italoacasas.com>
56730D5401028683275BD23C23EFEFE93C4CFFFE - Julien Gilli <jgilli@fastmail.fm>
114F43EE0176B71C7BC219DD50A3051F888C628D - Timothy J Fontaine <tjfontaine@gmail.com>
7937DFD2AB06298B2293C3187D33FF9D0246406D