Node.js Release Working Group

Release schedule

Release	Status	Codename	Initial Release	Active LTS Start	Maintenance Start	End-of-life
18.x	Maintenance	Hydrogen	2022-04-19	2022-10-25	2023-10-18	2025-04-30
20.x	Maintenance	Iron	2023-04-18	2023-10-24	2024-10-22	2026-04-30
22.x	LTS	Jod	2024-04-24	2024-10-29	2025-10-21	2027-04-30
23.x	Current		2024-10-15	-	2025-04-01	2025-06-01
24.x	Pending		2025-04-22	2025-10-28	2026-10-20	2028-04-30

Dates are subject to change.

The Release schedule is available also as a JSON file.

Release Phases

There are three phases that a Node.js release can be in: 'Current', 'Active Long Term Support (LTS)', and 'Maintenance'. Odd-numbered release lines are not promoted to LTS - they will not go through the 'Active LTS' or 'Maintenance' phases.

Current - Should incorporate most of the non-major (non-breaking) changes that land on nodejs/node main branch.
Active LTS - New features, bug fixes, and updates that have been audited by the Release team and have been determined to be appropriate and stable for the release line.
Maintenance - Critical bug fixes and security updates. New features may be added at the discretion of the Release team - typically only in cases where the new feature supports migration to later release lines.

Changes required for critical security and bug fixes may lead to semver-major changes landing within a release stream, such situations will be rare and will land as semver-minor. Although, those changes should have a revert option included.

The term 'supported release lines' will be used to refer to all release lines that are not End-of-Life.

End-of-Life Releases

Release	Status	Codename	Initial Release	Active LTS Start	Maintenance LTS Start	End-of-life
v0.10.x	End-of-Life	-	2013-03-11	-	2015-10-01	2016-10-31
v0.12.x	End-of-Life	-	2015-02-06	-	2016-04-01	2016-12-31
4.x	End-of-Life	Argon	2015-09-08	2015-10-01	2017-04-01	2018-04-30
5.x	End-of-Life		2015-10-29	-		2016-06-30
6.x	End-of-Life	Boron	2016-04-26	2016-10-18	2018-04-30	2019-04-30
7.x	End-of-Life		2016-10-25	-		2017-06-30
8.x	End-of-Life	Carbon	2017-05-30	2017-10-31	2019-01-01	2019-12-31
9.x	End-of-Life		2017-10-01	-		2018-06-30
10.x	End-of-Life	Dubnium	2018-04-24	2018-10-30	2020-05-19	2021-04-30
11.x	End-of-Life		2018-10-23	-		2019-06-01
12.x	End-of-Life	Erbium	2019-04-23	2019-10-21	2020-11-30	2022-04-30
13.x	End-of-Life		2019-10-22	-		2020-06-01
14.x	End-of-Life	Fermium	2020-04-21	2020-10-27	2021-10-19	2023-04-30
15.x	End-of-Life		2020-10-20	-		2021-06-01
16.x	End-of-Life	Gallium	2021-04-20	2021-10-26	2022-10-18	2023-09-11
17.x	End-of-Life		2021-10-19	-		2022-06-01
19.x	End-of-Life		2022-10-18	-		2023-06-01
21.x	End-of-Life		2023-10-17	-	2024-04-01	2024-06-01

Mandate

The Release working group's purpose is:

Management/execution of the release and support process for all releases.

Its responsibilities are:

Define the release process.
Define the content of releases.
Generate and create releases.
Test Releases.
Manage the LTS and Current branches including backporting changes to these branches.
Define the policy for what gets backported to release streams.

The Release working group is structured into teams and membership in the working group does not automatically result in membership in these teams. These teams are:

Releasers team
Backporters team
CITGM team

The releasers team is entrusted with the secrets and CI access to be able build and sign releases. Additions to the releasers team must be approved by the TSC following the process outlined in GOVERNANCE.md.

The Release team manages the process/content of LTS releases and the required backporting for these releases. Additions to the Release team needs sign off from the rest of the Release team.

The Canary in the Gold Mine (CITGM) team maintains CITGM as one of the key sanity checks for releases. This team maintains the CITGM repository and works to keep CITGM builds running and passing regularly. This also includes maintaining the CI jobs in collaboration with the Build Working Group.

Release Plan

New semver-major releases of Node.js are branched from main every six months. New even-numbered versions are released in April and odd-numbered versions in October.

In coordination with a new odd-numbered major release, the previous even-numbered major version will transition to Long Term Support. The transition to Long Term Support will happen in a semver-minor release and should happen after the new major version is released.

Every even (LTS) major version will be actively maintained for 12 months from the date it enters LTS coverage. Following those 12 months of active support, the major version will transition into "maintenance" mode for 18 months. Prior to Node.js 12, the active period was 18 months and the maintenance period 12 months. See Releases Phases for details of which changes are expected to land during each release phase.

The exact date that a release will be moved to LTS, moved between LTS modes, or deprecated will be chosen no later than the first day of the month it is to change. If the release team plans to change the release date, it will be done with no less than 14 days notice.

All LTS releases will be assigned a codename. A list of expected upcoming codenames is available in CODENAMES.md.

LTS Staging Branches

Every LTS major version has two branches in the GitHub repository: a release branch and a staging branch. The release branch is used to cut new releases. Only members of the @nodejs/releasers team should land commits onto release branches. The staging branch is used to land cherry-picked or backported commits from main that need to be included in a future release. Only members of @nodejs/backporters should land commits onto staging branches.

For example, for Node.js v4, there is a v4.x branch and a v4.x-staging branch. When commits land in main that must be cherry-picked for a future Node.js v4 release, those must be landed into the v4.x-staging branch. When commits are backported for a future Node.js v4 release, those must come in the form of pull requests opened against the v4.x-staging branch. Commits are only landed in the v4.x branch when a new v4.x release is being prepared.

Generally, changes are expected to live in a Current release for at least 2 weeks before being backported. It is possible for a commit to land earlier at the discretion of the Release working group.

The working group members are the union of the Releasers, Backporters and CITGM team members listed below.

Backporters team

@BethGriggs - Bethany Griggs
@codebytere - Shelley Vohr
@danielleadams - Danielle Adams
@guybedford - Guy Bedford
@mhdawson - Michael Dawson
@RafaelGSS - Rafael Gonzaga
@richardlau - Richard Lau

Releasers team

@juanarbol - Juan José
@marco-ippolito - Marco Ippolito
@RafaelGSS - Rafael Gonzaga
@richardlau - Richard Lau
@ruyadorno - Ruy Adorno
@targos - Michaël Zasso
@UlisesGascon - Ulises Gascón

CITGM team

https://github.com/nodejs/citgm#citgm-team

Emeritus

LTS team

@addaleax - Anna Henningsen
@BethGriggs - Bethany Griggs
@bnoordhuis - Ben Noordhuis
@danielleadams - Danielle Adams
@ErisDS - Hannah Wolfe
@Fishrock123 - Jeremiah Senkpiel
@geek - Wyatt Preul
@gibfahn - Gibson Fahnestock
@jasnell - James M Snell
@MylesBorins - Myles Borins
@othiym23 - Forrest L Norvell
@rvagg - Rod Vagg
@sam-github - Sam Roberts
@shigeki - Shigeki Ohtsu
@srl295 - Steven R. Loomis
@trevnorris - Trevor Norris
@yunong - Yunong Xiao

Releasers team

@bengl - Bryan English
@BethGriggs - Bethany Griggs
@BridgeAR - Ruben Bridgewater
@cjihrig - Colin Ihrig
@codebytere - Shelley Vohr
@danielleadams - Danielle Adams
@evanlucas - Evan Lucas
@Fishrock123 - Jeremiah Senkpiel
@gibfahn - Gibson Fahnestock
@jasnell - James M Snell
@MylesBorins - Myles Borins
@rvagg - Rod Vagg

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