2026-10-07, Version 26.11.0 (Current)

Notable changes:

benchmark:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add http header validator benchmark (James M Snell) #66334
buffer:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add isLatin1 (James M Snell) #66298
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add isLatin1 (James M Snell) #66298
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add Buffer.stringLength() (Matteo Collina) #66064
build, doc:
  * move to redesign (Aviv Keller) #62045
http:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add isValidHeaderName() and isValidHeaderValue() (James M Snell) #66334
http2:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add new connectionWindowSize option (Tim Perry) #65619
lib:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) fix stream loading bug in node:bench (James M Snell) #66114
perf_hooks:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) fix truncation of monitorEventLoopDelay() resolution (James M Snell) #66115
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) allow RecordableHistogram to record 0 (James M Snell) #66114
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add histogram.diff() (James M Snell) #66099
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) report histogram memory to V8 (James M Snell) #66099
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add histogram.snapshot() (James M Snell) #66099
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add histogram export format version 2 (James M Snell) #66098
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) harden histogram CBOR import validation (James M Snell) #66098
process:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) graduate process.ref/unref from experimental (James M Snell) #66213
sqlite:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) rename DatabaseSync and StatementSync (Guilherme Araújo) #65988
src:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add --process-timeout=N (James M Snell) #66138
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) expose size and count in heap profile output (Ilyas Shabi) #65737
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) let embedders exempt linked bindings from the addon permission (Shelley Vohr) #66067
test:
  * deflake sliding window histogram test (James M Snell) #66132

PR-URL: #66546

Author: nodejs-github-bot

CHANGELOG.md

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doc/api/buffer.md

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 * `input` {Buffer | ArrayBuffer | TypedArray} The bytes that would be decoded.
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doc/api/cli.md

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doc/api/deprecations.md

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doc/api/events.md

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doc/api/http.md

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doc/api/http2.md

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doc/api/perf_hooks.md

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doc/api/process.md

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doc/api/sqlite.md

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