release: helix 0.2.12
Require Node 24, and build the crates for production
Node 24, not because it is the current LTS — that is AdonisJS v7's own
stated reason and it is not one for us, since 22 still receives security
fixes until 2027, npm 11 is irrelevant under pnpm, and node:sqlite is
not what atlas uses. The reason is measurable and it is the framework's:
AsyncLocalStorage is on the request hot path, and Node 24 backs it with
AsyncContextFrame by default — 0.61 us per request instead of 1.55 us on
that exact pattern. Before 24 the same mechanism sat behind an
experimental flag, and a framework cannot base its performance on a flag
the application has to remember to pass. The reason travels with the
constraint, in a "//engines" key beside it.
Where there are crates: the default release profile leaves lto = false
and codegen-units = 16, so nothing inlines across crate boundaries —
and here the hot loop and the N-API binding that calls it are always two
different crates. Measured on atom, a scalar call through the binding
went from 18.85 ms to 13.59 ms for 50 000 operations. No panic = "abort": napi-rs catches panics and turns them into JavaScript
exceptions.
CI moves to Node 24 with them, since that is what the packages now ask
for.
Changes since v0.2.11.