nodejs/node

Node.js JavaScript runtime ✨🐢🚀✨

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Dominant language: JavaScript
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Last GitHub push: Sep 19, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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child_process: parent disconnect() suppresses 'close' after exit on v22, v24, and v26 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

nodejs/node#65646 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 29, 2026
events: addAbortListener ignores disposal and passes undefined event when signal is already aborted Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 75/100

nodejs/node#65637 · Opened Aug 29, 2026
NO_PROXY=example.com does not bypass subdomains for http.request(), unlike fetch() Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

nodejs/node#65616 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 28, 2026
Node.js QUIC Team Meeting 2026-09-03 Open

quic

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 10/100

nodejs/node#65608 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 28, 2026
zlib: one-shot gzip()/deflate() results accumulate in arrayBuffers until OOM — GC never prompted (regression in v24.15.0) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

nodejs/node#65600 · Opened Aug 27, 2026
REPL spamming and stuck when `Promise.any([]).` is typed Open

v22.x

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

nodejs/node#65581 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 27, 2026
`node:test` Tests without callback should not be reported as ok Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

nodejs/node#65563 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 26, 2026
proposal for shared microtask queues Open

feature request vm

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

nodejs/node#65555 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 26, 2026
Proposal: Remove ESM/CJS duality from code samples in API docs Open

discuss doc

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

nodejs/node#65536 · 3 comments · 18 reactions · Opened Aug 25, 2026
net: setKeepAlive() ignores the error returned by the handle Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

nodejs/node#65529 · Opened Aug 25, 2026
`Symbol.toStringTag` on `MessageChannel` and `MessagePort` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

nodejs/node#65527 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 25, 2026
quic: emit RFC 9114 stream-closure error codes (H3_REQUEST_CANCELLED, H3_REQUEST_INCOMPLETE) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

nodejs/node#65509 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 23, 2026
Package map subpath resolves outside the target package directory Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 70/100

nodejs/node#65501 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 23, 2026
fs.cpSync fails with EACCES when the destination is on a Docker bind mount (regression in 22.17) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

nodejs/node#65497 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 23, 2026
using/await using rejects bound functions and proxied callables as dispose methods Open

v24.x v8 engine

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

nodejs/node#65482 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 22, 2026
sea: `--build-sea` produces a segfaulting executable on macOS x64 (v26.7.0), while the blob + postject path works on the same runtime Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

nodejs/node#65479 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 22, 2026
module: compile cache leaks temporary files when persistence fails Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

nodejs/node#65473 · Opened Aug 21, 2026
Sync alternative to `fs.openAsBlob` Open

feature request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

nodejs/node#65462 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 21, 2026
Backport Windows PGO + ThinLTO from main to v24 LTO builds for builds (x64 and Arm64) Open

feature request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

nodejs/node#65452 · Opened Aug 21, 2026
24.19.0: `node::ObjectWrap` cleanup hooks backported without the cleanup hook registry, aborts on every 24.x runtime Open

addons

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

nodejs/node#65446 · 1 comment · 4 reactions · Opened Aug 20, 2026
sqlite: incremental BLOB I/O via sqlite3_blob_open() Open

sqlite

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

nodejs/node#65445 · Opened Aug 20, 2026
quic: expose an API for client connection migration Open

feature request quic

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

nodejs/node#65429 · Opened Aug 20, 2026
Permission allow-fs-* to resolve env variables Open

feature request permission

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

nodejs/node#65422 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 20, 2026
New permission: `--allow-fs-tmp` boolean Open

feature request permission

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

nodejs/node#65420 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 20, 2026
Node.js server fails to bind on ipv6 if ipv4 is not available Open

http

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

nodejs/node#65400 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 19, 2026
dns: Resolver timeout seemingly doubled upon tries=1 Open

dns

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

nodejs/node#65340 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 16, 2026
diagnostics_channel: add a channel for filesystem operations Open

feature request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

nodejs/node#65330 · Opened Aug 16, 2026
quic: Add mechanism similar to waitUntilAvailable to create(Bi|Uni)directionalStream Open

quic

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

nodejs/node#65321 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 16, 2026
Request for early feedback: Fetch server API Open

discuss http http2 http3 https quic quic-agenda

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

nodejs/node#65314 · 1 comment · 6 reactions · Opened Aug 15, 2026
TLS memory overflow - V8 garbage collection Open

tls

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nodejs/node#65263 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 13, 2026
`ObjectWrap` cleanup hooks break pre-built addons on Node.js 26.0.0-26.3.1 runtimes Open

addons c++

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

nodejs/node#65262 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 13, 2026
assert: add `expect()` Open

assert feature request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

nodejs/node#65247 · 11 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Aug 12, 2026
Dynamic V8 Heap Resizing for Kubernetes In-Place Scaling (--max-old-space-size-percentage) Open

feature request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

nodejs/node#65235 · 1 comment · 7 reactions · Opened Aug 12, 2026
sqlite: excess bound parameters produce an opaque "column index out of range" error Open

sqlite

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

nodejs/node#65163 · Opened Aug 9, 2026
v22.x: main thread self-deadlocks when creating a CpuProfiler under GC pressure — backport request for V8 a6eaf75741 (RecursiveMutex for Logger, crbug 41497149) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

nodejs/node#65140 · Opened Aug 8, 2026
`stream.pipeline()` can both throw synchronously and invoke the callback reporting success Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

nodejs/node#65127 · Opened Aug 8, 2026
worker_threads Worker exit aborts (SIGABRT) when a native addon (fsevents) has an in-flight napi_threadsafe_function — napi_release_threadsafe_function / uv_mutex_lock Open

confirmed-bug node-api worker

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

nodejs/node#65100 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 7, 2026
fs.cp and fs.cpSync fail to repeatedly copy directory with symlinks Open

fs

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

nodejs/node#65097 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 7, 2026
`stream.pipeline()` leaks file descriptors when it throws synchronously (ERR_STREAM_UNABLE_TO_PIPE) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

nodejs/node#65063 · Opened Aug 6, 2026
Windows: fs calls abort the process on a path containing U+10FFFF (libuv assert, fixed in libuv 1.52.0 but not in v22/v25) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

nodejs/node#65060 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 5, 2026
TTY detection foreground/background color Open

feature request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

nodejs/node#65058 · 9 comments · Opened Aug 5, 2026
NODE_PENDING_PIPE_INSTANCES causes 0xC0000005 crash on Windows when a named-pipe listen() loses a bind race (EADDRINUSE) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

nodejs/node#65057 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 5, 2026
watch mode triggers unsolicided messages to Workers Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

nodejs/node#65044 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 5, 2026
test_runner: `--watch` with `--test-isolation=none` reruns every test file, not the affected one Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nodejs/node#65037 · Opened Aug 5, 2026
During OpenSSL callbacks, calling OpenSSL functions is unsafe Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

nodejs/node#65035 · 8 comments · Opened Aug 5, 2026
vm: lexical declaration no longer throws SyntaxError over a global function declaration in vm context (regression in v26.6.0) Open

confirmed-bug v8 engine vm

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

nodejs/node#65025 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 4, 2026
Test runner: --test-reporter-destination should create the folder if not found Open

feature request test_runner

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

nodejs/node#64994 · Opened Aug 3, 2026
WasmGC cumulative array allocations crash Node.js process with FATAL ERROR instead of trapping Open

blocked v8 engine

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nodejs/node#64981 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 3, 2026
ubuntu-slim runners time out after 15 mins while it usually takes <3 mins Open

meta

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nodejs/node#64972 · 13 comments · Opened Aug 3, 2026
quic: sendHeaders with non conforming path Open

quic

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nodejs/node#64924 · Opened Aug 1, 2026

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