Node.js, the popular open-source JavaScript runtime, has released Node.js 26, shipping with a mix of platform modernization, new language features, and a round of deprecations and removals. Node.js 26 introduces several changes, including the Temporal API enabled by default, an update to the V8 JavaScript engine to 14.6, and a bump of the Undici HTTP client to 8.0. It also retires a number of long-flagged legacy APIs as the project continues to modernize the platform.