Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal)
aarestad
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May 20, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (12 comments)
noodlesUK
I'm really looking forward to the temporal api being universally available. Moment and Luxon are fairly good but sensible date/time handling is something that really ought to be baked into the platform ootb.
pjmlp
26.2.0 is already out, why link to the previous release? https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v26.2.0 What I would expect with the inclusion of temporal, is having a section on nodejs docs about Rust addons, alongside the C and C++ sections.
cute_boi
Node JS team should look into bun and make progress. They are somewhat stable, but bun have lot of features and is more performant than Node.
torgoguys
I thought this was the release where the built in sqlite got its experimental tag removed, but I don't see it in the release notes. THAT'S got me excited more than Temporal. A stable API, huge utility and one less dependency.
chrisweekly
Tangent: if you use Node.js at build time you should check out VitePlus https://viteplus.dev (No affiliation, just a fan of VoidZero's consistently excellent tools.)
jauco
Also the release that drops typescript transforms: https://github.com/nodejs/typescript/issues/51 (I’m not disagreeing to remove it. It just took me a while to find out what happened to it)
actionfromafar
And here I thought that it was about https://github.com/temporalio/sdk-typescript
emilfihlman
It's so sad that node refuses to add websocket server support. Adding websocket would simplify stuff tremendously, as well as make deployments much, much more secure.
sedatk
Off-topic but, Safari seems to be the only browser that doesn't support Temporal yet. It looks like the only blocker for adopting it on web. https://caniuse.com/?search=Temporal
jdthedisciple
> Upsert ( https://github.com/tc39/proposal-upsert ): [Weak]Map.prototype.getOrInsert(), [Weak]Map.prototype.getOrInsertComputed() Their usage of upsert appears different than I was used to: Me: Upsert = Update or Insert Them: Upsert = Get or Insert
jollymonATX
(Now with Malware) I joke! It already had malware.
OptionOfT
Node v26 doesn't ship with corepack anymore. Annoying, it was a decent way to get pnpm in-band.