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 Node.js 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.txt
To 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 DD8F2338BAE7501E3DD5AC78C273792F7D83545D
See 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.sig
Then 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>
- 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 A48C2BEE680E841632CD4E44F07496B3EB3C1762
See 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