Developers of the Deno JavaScript and TypeScript runtime are exploring the possibility of JavaScript containers—and the JavaScript sandbox itself—as a higher-level alternative to Linux containers. In a blog post this week, Ryan Dahl, who spearheaded development of both the Deno and Node.js JavaScript runtimes, cited JavaScript as the “universal scripting Read more…
Summary The OpenSSL Security releases of May 3 2022 affects Node.js 17.x and 18.x but highest serverity is “Low” Analysis Our assessment of the security advisory is: The 1c_rehash script allows command injection (CVE-2022-1292) Node.js doesn’t use or ship the 1c_rehash script. Therefore, Node.js is not affected 1OCSP_basic_verify may incorrectly Read more…
#436 — May 5, 2022 Read on the Web Node Weekly Node v18.1.0 (Current) Released — There’s an initial version of a CLI based test runner (which you start with 1node –test – see docs here) and there have also been further developments on implementing the WebAssembly Web API. Michaël Zasso The Read more…
Notable Changes doc: New release key for Bryan English Learn more at: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/42102 Contributed by Bryan English (@bengl) npm: Upgrade 1npm to 1v6.14.17 . Learn more at: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/42900 Contributed by Ruy Adorno (@ruyadorno) V8: V8 had a stack overflow issue affecting the 1vm module, cherry-picking 1cc9a8a37445e from V8 solves this Read more…
Notable Changes [ 1c46e7bbf69 ] – doc: add @kuriyosh to collaborators (Yoshiki Kurihara) #42824 [ 1b0f7c4c8f9 ] – (SEMVER-MINOR) lib,src: implement WebAssembly Web API (Tobias Nießen) #42701 [ 178a860ae58 ] – (SEMVER-MINOR) test_runner: add initial CLI runner (Colin Ihrig) #42658 [ 1bf9240ae8c ] – (SEMVER-MINOR) worker: add hasRef() to MessagePort Read more…
Deno 1.21 has been released. This latest upgrade to the JavaScript/TypeScript runtime features improvements to the REPL (read-evaluate-print loop) and a move away from default type-checking. The Deno REPL is a tool for prototyping and trying out new things. With Deno 1.21, an 1-–eval-file flag can be used with the Read more…
🇺🇦 #435 — April 28, 2022 Read on the Web Node Weekly Node 18’s ‘Prefix-Only’ Core Modules — A look at a new type of core module that can’t be imported quite like the others, e.g. 1import test from ‘node:test’ – what is this unusual package name notation about? Colin Read more…
Notable changes Add fetch API Adds experimental support to the fetch API. This adds the 1–experimental-fetch flag that installs the 1fetch , 1Request , 1Response , 1Headers , and 1FormData globals. (SEMVER-MINOR) add fetch (Michaël Zasso) #41749 (SEMVER-MINOR) add FormData global when fetch is enabled (Michaël Zasso) #41956 Other notable Read more…
🇺🇦 #434 — April 21, 2022 Read on the Web Node Weekly Node.js 18 (Current) Released — Almost exactly one year after Node 16 and two after Node 14 comes the newest version of Node. It’s a ‘current’ branch release for now, but will become an LTS (Long-Term Support) release Read more…
Node.js 18, the latest version of the popular JavaScript runtime, has been released, bringing enhancements in cryptography and turning on an experimental fetch API by default. However, prebuilt binaries for 32-bit Windows are not yet available. Introduced April 19 and available from the Node.js website, Node.js 18 improves security with Read more…
