flag until, hopefully, being enabled by default in Node 18 and beyond.
Yavor Georgiev
‘How I Reversed a Node.js Malware and Found The Author’ — Someone was sending messages to people on the author’s Discord server encouraging them to download and run a nefarious .exe file.. which turned out to be a packaged up Node.js app. Here’s the rest of the story.
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State of Node.js Community Survey — What are your favorite packages? Where do you learn more about Node.js? Take our survey, and we’ll send you swag or make a donation to Node.js open-source projects on your behalf.
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Top 100 npm Package Maintainers Now Must Use 2FA — We mentioned npm’s forthcoming enhanced security procedures a while ago, and now they’re beginning to roll out in a phased manner. The maintainers of the top 100 npm packages judged by number of dependent projects now have to use two-factor auth, but all package maintainers need to be aware of the forthcoming changes outlined here.
module in Node.js to build high(er)-performing apps.
Deepal Jayasekara
In brief:
Using Node 12 (LTS) anywhere? Node 12.22.10 has been released, with updates for npm (to v6.14.16) and timezone data.
Node 14 has also been updated with Node 14.19.0 which brings Corepack (the ‘package manager manager’), ICU 70.1, and updated root certificates to the LTS release.
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