Node.js OpenJS Foundation Programming language Release Version Major Minor Patch End-of-life EOL Support End-of-support EOS Maintenance End-of-maintenance EOM Security Long-term support LTS Vulnerabilities Common vulnerabilities & exposures CVE Security product-release-end-of-life-overview.xml free-trial.xml 📅 Last update on 2025-08-08 What is Node.js?   The entire lifecycle of Node.js The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Node.js. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support. Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Node.js (OpenJS Foundation)   Major Node.js versions enter Current release status for six months, which gives library authors time to add support for them. After six months, odd-numbered releases (9, 11, etc.) become unsupported, and even-numbered releases (10, 12, etc.) move to Active LTS status and are ready for general use. LTS release status is "long-term support", which typically guarantees that critical bugs will be fixed for a total of 30 months. Production applications should only use Active LTS or Maintenance LTS releases. Product Node.js Vendor OpenJS Foundation Latest version 24.5.0 Number of releases 25 Number of versions 894 Number of unstable versions 27 Number of versions affected by CVE 819 Licence MIT Licence Licence details https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT-Lizenz Product site Release info Version command Wikipedia