Node.js 24 has been released. The latest version of the open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime upgrades the Google V8 JavaScript engine to version 13.6 and the NPM package manager to version 11. Node.js 24 also drops support for MSVC, Microsoft’s C/C++ compiler, and ClangCL is now required to compile Node.js on Windows.
Introduced on May 6 as the “Current” release of Node.js, Node.js 24 enters long-term support status in October. It can be downloaded from nodejs.org.
The Node.js 24 release features V8 13.6, with new JavaScript features including Float16Array, explicit resource management, and WebAssembly Memory64 support, which adds support for 64-bit memory indexes to WebAssembly. NPM 11, meanwhile, offers performance and security improvements and better compatibility with modern JavaScript packages. With the removal of support for MSVC, ClangCL is now required to compile Node.js on Windows.
