Node.js v12.14.1 ‘Erbium’ (LTS) released
2 min readNode.js is a JavaScript runtime based on the Chrome V8 engine. Node.js uses efficient, lightweight event-driven, non-blocking I/O models that make it lightweight and efficient. The Node.js package ecosystem, npm, is the largest ecosystem of open source libraries in the world.
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Node.js v12.14.1 ‘Erbium’ (LTS) was released.
Notable changes
- crypto: fix key requirements in asymmetric cipher (Tobias Nießen) #30249
- deps:
- v8: mark serdes API as stable (Anna Henningsen) #30234
