Weekly GitHub Report for Node: September 01, 2025 - September 08, 2025 (12:02:20)

Weekly GitHub Report for Node

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Table of Contents

• I. News
  • 1.1. Recent Version Releases
  • 1.2. Other Noteworthy Updates
• II. Issues
  • 2.1. Top 5 Active Issues
  • 2.2. Top 5 Stale Issues
  • 2.3. Open Issues
  • 2.4. Closed Issues
  • 2.5. Issue Discussion Insights

• III. Pull Requests
  • 3.1. Open Pull Requests
  • 3.2. Closed Pull Requests
  • 3.3. Pull Request Discussion Insights

• IV. Contributors
  • 4.1. Contributors

I. News

1.1 Recent Version Releases:

The current version of this repository is v23.10.0

1.2 Version Information:

Released on March 13, 2025, this version introduces the --experimental-config-file feature, allowing developers to use JSON configuration files to simplify flag management for the test runner and related features, enhancing developer experience. Additionally, it includes updates to root certificates, new TLS and V8 methods, improved error handling, and various tooling and documentation enhancements.

II. Issues

2.1 Top 5 Active Issues:

We consider active issues to be issues that that have been commented on most frequently within the last week. Bot comments are omitted.

1. specs-compliance-issue: crypto.subtle.deriveKey implicit key leak on global Promise pollution: This issue reports a specs compliance problem in Node.js where the crypto.subtle.deriveKey method leaks a cryptographic key if the global Promise.prototype.then is polluted, a behavior that does not occur in browsers or other runtimes like Bun. The reporter demonstrates that malicious code can intercept the derived key through overridden Promise methods, violating web standards and exposing sensitive cryptographic material, which is unexpected and inconsistent with the security model of other JavaScript environments.

   • The comment discussion acknowledges the issue as a spec compliance problem rather than a security vulnerability under Node.js’s threat model, emphasizing that Node.js treats all code as trusted and is not a sandbox like browsers. Contributors highlight the difficulty of fully preventing prototype pollution due to Node.js’s JavaScript implementation, note ongoing efforts and patches addressing the problem, and encourage collaboration and contributions to fix the issue while also discussing the tone and communication style in the thread.
   • Number of comments this week: 19

2. test_runner: suite timeout doesn't overwrite run() timeout: This issue reports that when using the test runner with a suite-level timeout, the suite's timeout setting does not override the global run() timeout, causing tests to time out prematurely. The user expects the suite timeout to take precedence so that tests within the suite can run longer than the global timeout, but currently the global timeout causes the tests to fail earlier than intended.

   • The comments discuss whether the current behavior is a bug or intended, with some participants suggesting the global timeout should act as a default while suite or parent test timeouts propagate to child tests. There is consensus that documentation could be clearer about how timeout options propagate, and that the --test-timeout flag should set a default timeout that can be overridden by suite-level timeouts.
   • Number of comments this week: 8

3. TCP connection timeout in https appears to be just 300ms, causing dropped connections for distant servers: This issue reports that Node.js has a hardcoded TCP connection timeout of approximately 300 milliseconds for HTTPS requests, which is too short for connections to distant servers and causes premature connection drops. The user demonstrates this with a test script that fails to download a file due to ETIMEDOUT errors, while other clients like browsers and Python succeed, and discusses attempts to work around the problem using various Node.js options and environment variables, which only partially help and do not resolve issues in package managers like pnpm.

   • The comments suggest using the timeout option and autoSelectFamilyAttemptTimeout to mitigate the issue, with one user confirming that setting autoSelectFamilyAttemptTimeout helps in a test script but does not fix timeouts in pnpm. Attempts to apply NODE_OPTIONS to influence the timeout during builds also fail due to how pnpm is invoked, indicating that while some workarounds exist for direct Node.js usage, the problem persists in broader tooling environments.
   • Number of comments this week: 6

4. http: RangeError: This issue reports a RangeError occurring in Node.js v24.6.0 related to an invalid "msecs" value being passed, which appears to be a core Node.js bug triggered during HTTP/2 to HTTP/1 fallback scenarios. The user provides a minimal reproducible example demonstrating the error when using an HTTP/2 secure server with HTTP/1 fallback and notes that certain timeout properties remain undefined, leading to the RangeError.

   • The comments discuss the potential cause of the error being related to the HTTP/2 to HTTP/1 fallback mechanism and undefined timeout properties. A related pull request addressing keep-alive timeout handling is mentioned, and it is noted that follow-up fixes are already underway, clarifying that the issue is recognized and being actively worked on.
   • Number of comments this week: 4

5. fetch('/') in the Repl causing infinite errors: This issue describes a problem where calling fetch('/') in the Node.js REPL causes an infinite error loop instead of a single error due to the URL not being absolute. The user expects one error message, but instead the REPL repeatedly tries to parse the invalid URL, leading to a busy loop and eventually the process being killed.

   • Commenters attempted to reproduce the issue on different platforms and Node.js 24.7.0 but only observed a single error message as expected. One commenter noted the unusually high REPL input line number in the original error log, indicating the command was processed nearly 190,000 times, which is unexpected and unexplained.
   • Number of comments this week: 3

2.2 Top 5 Stale Issues:

We consider stale issues to be issues that has had no activity within the last 30 days. The team should work together to get these issues resolved and closed as soon as possible.

1. Flaky GC-related tests with V8 12.2: This issue addresses flaky garbage collection (GC)-related tests that have become unreliable with the update to V8 version 12.2, specifically highlighting problems with the test-shadow-realm-gc-module, test-shadow-realm-gc, and test-net-write-fully-async-hex-string tests. The discussion suggests skipping these tests temporarily due to their instability caused by changes in V8's GC strategy, with a note that the failures are likely due to incorrect test assumptions rather than actual bugs, and proposes finding a more reliable testing approach in the future.
2. Flaky test-worker-arraybuffer-zerofill with V8 12.2: This issue concerns the flaky behavior of the test-worker-arraybuffer-zerofill test when running with V8 version 12.2, where the test intermittently fails due to a timeout after approximately 300 seconds. The problem may stem from either an actual bug or broken timing assumptions causing lost messages, and the current approach is to mark the test as flaky while adding additional logging to aid in debugging.
3. Support loading dynamic addon modules (.node files) when embedding the Node.js shared library without needing to link with node.def: This issue addresses the challenge of loading dynamic Node.js addon modules (.node files) on Windows when Node.js is embedded as a shared library, specifically without requiring the embedding executable to link against the node.def file to reexport necessary symbols. The proposed feature suggests enhancing the delay load hook mechanism to optionally use an environment variable to locate the Node.js shared library module handle, thereby enabling addon modules to load correctly without the current linking dependency, though potential security concerns remain to be evaluated.
4. Please make Node.js embeddable (e.g. libnode): This issue requests the creation of an embeddable version of Node.js, such as a libnode library, to allow projects to integrate the Node.js runtime and standard library within other host environments, like Rust-based applications. The current lack of an easily embeddable Node.js runtime forces developers to rely on incomplete alternatives, and this feature would enable better reuse of existing tooling and dependencies without requiring significant rewrites.
5. unable to sign with external OpenSSL engine after usage of crypto.hash: This issue describes a problem where signing data with an external OpenSSL engine (specifically the gost-engine) fails after using the crypto.createHash function in Node.js version 21.7.1 on a Linux Debian system. The error occurs consistently and produces an "unsupported" digital envelope routines error, which did not happen in earlier Node.js versions (21.6.2 and before), suggesting a regression likely related to recent changes in the crypto subsystem.

2.3 Open Issues

This section lists, groups, and then summarizes issues that were created within the last week in the repository.

Issues Opened This Week: 19

Summarized Issues:

• Security and Cryptography Issues: Node.js v24.0.1's crypto.subtle.deriveKey leaks derived keys when Promise.prototype.then is overridden, allowing untrusted code to access secret keys and violating web standards. Additionally, a segmentation fault on Alpine Linux in v22.19.0 is likely caused by an OpenSSL upgrade, indicating stability issues related to cryptographic dependencies.
• [issues/59699, issues/59740]

• Test Runner and Flakiness Problems: The Node.js test runner does not properly apply suite-level timeouts over run() or --test-timeout flags, causing premature test failures. Moreover, the client-proxy/test-https-proxy-request-invalid-char-in-url test is flaky due to intermittent assertion errors handling invalid URL characters.
• [issues/59701, issues/59741]

• Documentation and Specification Discrepancies: The OpenSSL security level increase to 2 in Node.js 24.5 is not reflected in official docs, causing unexpected breaking changes. The file system documentation unnecessarily includes toggle buttons for every code snippet, potentially confusing developers. Also, the HTTP 422 status code reason phrase is outdated and should be updated to "Unprocessable Content" per RFC 9110 (2022).
• [issues/59715, issues/59769, issues/59789]

• REPL and Input Handling Bugs: The REPL enters an infinite error loop when fetch('/') is called with a non-absolute URL instead of producing a single error. Additionally, pressing Enter after typing typeof Reflect.construct triggers unwanted autocompletion to typeof Reflect.constructor, causing incorrect input execution and history saving.
• [issues/59731, issues/59763]

• Memory and Performance Regressions: A regression in heap memory usage in Node.js v22.19.0 is linked to a new cache for package.json metadata, causing excessive memory consumption especially with certain packages like date-fns.
• [issues/59733]

• Experimental Features and Syntax Errors: Using the --experimental-transform-types flag causes the logical AND assignment operator (&&=) to concatenate "undefined" strings instead of short-circuiting, leading to incorrect TypeScript behavior.
• [issues/59737]

• Networking and Timeout Issues: Node.js enforces a hardcoded 300ms TCP timeout for HTTPS requests, causing premature failures with high-latency servers and breaking package downloads. The httpServer.close method calls its callback prematurely before keep-alive connections close, causing race conditions and connection resets. Also, HTTP/1 fallback in the HTTP/2 secure server mishandles keep-alive timeout settings, leading to invalid or undefined timeout values and RangeErrors.
• [issues/59738, issues/59746, issues/59772, issues/59783]

• Permission and Containerization Problems: Running Node.js inside Docker with broad filesystem permissions still results in access denied errors for symbolic link targets during npm install, indicating permission model issues affecting child processes.
• [issues/59752]

• API Deprecation and Diagnostics Channel: There is ongoing discussion about whether to withdraw or advance the runtime deprecation of subscription methods on diagnostics channel objects, following fixes to garbage collection concerns and API consistency improvements.
• [issues/59756]

• Database Module Inconsistencies: The node:sqlite module incorrectly reports nonzero change counts for read-only SQL statements, inheriting values from previous effectful statements instead of zero as expected.
• [issues/59764]

• Internal Errors and Stability: Node.js experiences recurring random internal assertion errors causing Node-RED to quit unexpectedly without identifying the faulty node, suggesting a core bug or misuse internally.
• [issues/59780]

2.4 Closed Issues

This section lists, groups, and then summarizes issues that were closed within the last week in the repository. This section also links the associated pull requests if applicable.

Issues Closed This Week: 16

Summarized Issues:

• Node.js Version Compatibility and Regression Issues: Several issues highlight regressions and compatibility problems introduced in newer Node.js versions, such as the ts-node REPL malfunctioning in v24.5.0 but not in v22, and extending DOMException failing to preserve custom properties in v24.6.0 and v24.7.0 compared to v22. Additionally, requiring ES Modules in Node.js 22.18 and 22.19 causes ERR_INTERNAL_ASSERTION errors linked to race conditions, which are absent in v22.17.1.
• issues/59501, issues/59677, issues/59759

• Security and Dependency Updates: There is a request to update the OpenSSL version bundled with Node.js 20.19.4 from 3.0.15 to 3.0.16 due to known security vulnerabilities fixed in the latter. This update is suggested for a future Node.js 20.x LTS patch release to improve security.
• issues/59548

• Native Addon and SEA Application Issues: The Node.js Single Executable Application (SEA) crashes silently on Windows when loading a working .node DLL, indicating a lack of built-in support for native addons in SEA. Manual bundling and runtime loading via process.dlopen() are required to work around this limitation.
• issues/59574

• Filesystem and Test Flakiness on Windows: Intermittent test failures occur on Windows due to errors cleaning up temporary directories, caused by files not being deleted promptly. This flaky behavior is related to the Windows filesystem's handling of file removal during test teardown.
• issues/59638

• Fetch API Crashes on Linux: Using the native fetch() function in Node.js 20.11.0 on Ubuntu 22.04 causes unexpected crashes when called without a polyfill, indicating stability issues with the built-in fetch implementation on this platform.
• issues/59657

• Build System and Test Suite Management: Enhancements and fixes are needed in the build system to properly integrate C++ test suites, manage test data files and scripts with Python 3, handle dependencies and race conditions during parallel builds, and allow selective execution or skipping of mbedTLS test suites.
• issues/59694

• UI and Data Formatting Fixes: Several UI and data formatting issues were addressed, including fixing bugs in daily update processing, rounding logo dimensions to integers, and replacing a textarea with an input in the logos:remove form. Additionally, logo width and height values added before a specific patch were rounded for consistency.
• issues/59697, issues/59702

• Assertion and Import Errors in Testing: Importing assert incorrectly in Mocha tests under Node.js v24.7.0 on Windows triggers ERR_INTERNAL_ASSERTION errors, causing test failures. This points to issues with module export usage and test environment compatibility.
• issues/59706

• Platform-Specific Build Failures: A build failure on NetBSD arises from conflicts between FPCLASSIFY_NAMESPACE::fpclassify and a macro in NetBSD's math.h. Workarounds include conditional compilation and adding <cmath> to resolve namespace specification problems.
• issues/59714

• Test Runner Behavior with TODO Tests: The test runner does not ignore subtest failures when the parent test is marked as todo, causing the process to exit with code 1 instead of the expected 0, which affects test result interpretation.
• issues/59719

• REPL Preview Bug Causing Global Object Deletion: A bug in the Node.js REPL preview feature causes the globalThis object to be deleted if a delete globalThis._ expression is typed and then deleted before execution, leading to a ReferenceError on subsequent access.
• issues/59735

• Enhancements for AI and Cloud-Native Workflows: There is a request for improvements in Node.js to better support AI-powered and cloud-native workflows, focusing on environment variable management, optimized streaming APIs, improved TypeScript support, and enhanced ergonomics for serverless environments to support the ERIFY™ AI social and fintech ecosystem.
• issues/59739

• Frontend Documentation Usability Issue: The Node.js file system documentation page lacks toggle buttons for each code snippet, which reduces usability because developers may not have imported the fs module in every example, limiting the usefulness of the code blocks.
• issues/59768

2.5 Issue Discussion Insights

This section will analyze the tone and sentiment of discussions within this project's open and closed issues that occurred within the past week. It aims to identify potentially heated exchanges and to maintain a constructive project environment.

Based on our analysis, there are no instances of toxic discussions in the project's open or closed issues from the past week.

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III. Pull Requests

3.1 Open Pull Requests

This section provides a summary of pull requests that were opened in the repository over the past week. The top three pull requests with the highest number of commits are highlighted as 'key' pull requests. Other pull requests are grouped based on similar characteristics for easier analysis. Up to 25 pull requests are displayed in this section, while any remaining pull requests beyond this limit are omitted for brevity.

Pull Requests Opened This Week: 40

Key Open Pull Requests

1. util: add skipPrototypeComparison option to deep equality checks: This pull request introduces a new skipPrototypeComparison option to the util.isDeepStrictEqual() and assert.deepStrictEqual() methods, enabling users to bypass prototype and constructor comparisons during deep strict equality checks.

• URL: pull/59762

• Merged: No

• Associated Commits: 3cd87, 0a88d, cf0d1, 5d5a6, 68d6d, c9cef, 54009, e8ca0, 64291, 15325, dc0c5, d14f0, 3c6bf

2. test_runner: simplify logic, nix dead reporter code: This pull request simplifies the logic of the formatTestReport function in the test runner by removing dead code related to error reporting conditions that never occur in practice, streamlining nested ternary expressions, and clarifying the function signature to better reflect its actual usage in built-in test reporters.

• URL: pull/59700

• Merged: No

• Associated Commits: d6a40, adada, dac69, 44cca

3. lib: prefer TypedArrayPrototype primordials: This pull request proposes changes to the Node.js library to prefer using TypedArrayPrototype primordials, aiming to improve code reliability or consistency as referenced in issue #59699.

• URL: pull/59766

• Merged: No

• Associated Commits: e48e5, fcb69, 58125, 94c21

Other Open Pull Requests

• Permission and Inspector Enhancements: These pull requests focus on stabilizing and enhancing permission handling related to the inspector feature in Node.js. They introduce the --disable-sigusr1 option stabilization, add a new --allow-inspector permission flag, and address related security considerations including WebSocket connection handling and test coverage to prevent regressions.
• [pull/59707, pull/59711]

• Benchmark Configuration and Optimization: Multiple pull requests update and optimize dgram benchmarks by replacing the num parameter with n for CLI compatibility, adjusting chunk sizes to reduce runtime, and improving coverage. These changes reduce execution times significantly and provide detailed before-and-after performance results.
• [pull/59708, pull/59696]

• HTTP Module Improvements: These pull requests propose optimizations in the HTTP module, including caching the '1.1' HTTP version string to reduce string allocations and implementing lazy allocation of the cookies array to optimize resource usage.
• [pull/59717, pull/59734]

• Documentation Updates and Clarifications: Several pull requests enhance Node.js documentation by providing examples for the using keyword in SQLite, offering alternatives to deprecated url.parse() with the WHATWG URL API, correcting typos in function parameter names, updating TLS documentation to reflect OpenSSL security level changes, and detailing differences in Node.js's fetch() API compared to the standard Fetch API.
• [pull/59765, pull/59736, pull/59698, pull/59723, pull/59748]

• Code Refactoring and Error Handling Enhancements: These pull requests refactor the assert module to load error source code from memory using the V8 API, add support for cached source maps in error messages, and add a test case to improve coverage for the util._exceptionWithHostPort function.
• [pull/59751, pull/59757]

• Build and Workflow Improvements: These pull requests improve the build process by removing unused actions from the build-tarball.yml workflow and implementing sparse checkout to speed up the workflow and ensure tarballs are self-sufficient for building Node.js.
• [pull/59787, pull/59788]

• V8 and Debugging Enhancements: These pull requests add a configure option to build the v8windbg extension for accurate debugging on Windows, and propose storing the Local handle for CallbackScope on the stack to comply with V8 API requirements, noting the semver-major and ABI-breaking nature of the change.
• [pull/59760, pull/59705]

• Path Module Optimization: This pull request proposes changing the win32.join method to use array.join for improved clarity and performance, supported by a local benchmark showing a confidence improvement.
• [pull/59781]

• Test and Proxy Server Fixes: This pull request adds a safeguard in the testing proxy server to prevent writing error notifications to a closed proxy client, addressing a scenario where the upstream connection fails after the client has ended the connection.
• [pull/59742]

• Deprecation and API Behavior Changes: These pull requests remove an outdated TODO comment related to deprecation handling, revoke the deprecation DEP0163 in the diagnostics_channel module, and propose lenient type checking in urlToHttpOptions() to prevent incorrect object returns.
• [pull/59760, pull/59758, pull/59753]

3.2 Closed Pull Requests

This section provides a summary of pull requests that were closed in the repository over the past week. The top three pull requests with the highest number of commits are highlighted as 'key' pull requests. Other pull requests are grouped based on similar characteristics for easier analysis. Up to 25 pull requests are displayed in this section, while any remaining pull requests beyond this limit are omitted for brevity.

Pull Requests Closed This Week: 43

Key Closed Pull Requests

1. Feat/prevent autocompletion: This pull request proposes a feature to prevent unwanted autocompletion in the Node.js REPL when pressing Enter, aiming to improve the user experience by avoiding accidental completions.

• URL: pull/59776

• Merged: No

• Associated Commits: 82d41, 7fc31, 88e43, 6f81b, 4ffa7, 83023, d8939, f1226, fb52d, 3f813, 15d8c, c6070, 51b8d, 2a5f3, f67b6, 20be9, 72adf, 88b99, b919f, bfe47, a34e4, af789, 2b5d4, 96c9d, 7e0a0, 86bab, 77649, 075d1, dfb72, 06cd7, 51f57, d5640, 3da5b, ad675, 09717, a28d8, 28538, a0d22, 195d6, 55838, 5457c, 3d2f9, 9a8d2, 1c3aa, 55a90, fe019, f2812, f5da4, 39978, dc664, ba8e9, 1e990, 92774, 1f06c, 998ce, 931ec, c37be, 05667, 7ab13, 4a907, bd68f, 564e6, 5a98b, 31a92, cff37, 33728, aeb4d, 713c7, 6a47f, 7b949, 0fb00, 41978, 8c609, e2fb4, 848e4, 5b236, 31a46, 22d46, 84c35, 1e2c5, a056d, 2990f, dab7f, 1e37e, c89b6, d69f3, c144d, 244d0, 76bc4, 95e9c, 4ee46, a2b72, f9f3d, e91b5, d140c, 46527, 41bcf, 0eb59, 1e5f6, e79c9, 20130, db241, 95b8b, a312e, 8686b, eecd3, 3c88b, f834a, e3e48, 83419, 41b4f, 38aed, 42ef8, 72cff, e9c66, fa70f, 33b06, 8d9ce, f7484, c6911, 6a3bf, 16bbc, e4ca3, 47543, a271a, 319df, fd615, 3a7c2, 64add, 471fe, 7e10f, d2183, fb0a6, e0555, 269cd, 7c189, 09dc7, b1889, 52ab6, 9a12f, b3504, f54ac, 823dc, 64ffd, 6ae20, 9a770, eb8b1, 9ff71, 8d282, 852b8, c38b7, dd5f8, b56d8, f4722, 7dee3, f8783, c0f08, 78809, c022c, 37809, 61c3b, c3898, 3e155, 7f457, b7ea3, c6e3d, 9b69b, b3af1, 0930c, 3462b, 44a8e, 9a6a8, 65c87, 99e4a, 71675, 0ecd8, ca785, 9e760, 8f896, e7809, 2b7a7, e076f, 15ae2, ebe92, b68e0, a5538, f4fbc, 247d0, 76cde, 6fcce, 5598b, a6a31, 16afd, 3f47a, a9538, 93fc8, 4fe38, e13de, 31092, e6a6c, d3afc, b9625, e5177, 027b8, b4a23, 89dd7, 14741, 5347c, 2fafe, 1784c, fe86b, 99da7, ed339, 8dc6f, dafee, 0821b, 42765, 207ff, 2d05c, 4bf6e, 0e8bc, baa22, cf84f, f78f4, 99128, 93a36, e2b6b, 389a2, b7383, e3ad5, b2b83, 72937, 566fb, 18a2e, e964c, e7084, c6c41, 152c5, dfd49, 8ebd4, f5ece, 40b21, 89fe6, 352d6, 0fa22, b4f20, 4e02e, fe717, d795e, ab8fc

2. v20.19.5 proposal: This pull request is a proposal for the Node.js v20.19.5 "Iron" (LTS) release, incorporating numerous updates including collaborator additions, fixes to build processes, improvements to DNS and HTTP modules, security and permission model enhancements, dependency upgrades (such as OpenSSL, zlib, and llhttp), documentation improvements, and various bug fixes across core modules and tooling.

• URL: pull/59551

• Merged: 2025-09-03T18:15:27Z

• Associated Commits: fee08, 84d5c, 959a6, 182ae, 516fc, c1341, 7f8d1, 89366, 199dc, da0d3, 70c8b, 2bba1, b2a17, 1ab19, 87ec1, 6facd, 42181, f0456, e06e1, 93e85, 58c7b, c58e6, 6267a, 44887, 90d4d, 75052, 8fc87, 42f21, 3df44, 11260, 8e849, 549b3, 673e3, 44b09, b92cf, f0199, 0ad44, f8cd6, 69461, 3dc82, 69d31, 1bec9, 44102, 6ceab, b515c, 35fdd, be1bf, 3d656, dbd39, b76d6, 4b24a, 58088, ab70c, 266de, 44b90, 33092, 222dc, e8a3d, d4c23, eff99, 99b39, 1871b, ce7ed, 2bca4, 42d49, a4f30, 2f59c, 24dbb, f28b6, b58b5, e08a7, cc4c3, bebc9, aed7b, 00ee4, 83216, 64e41, 0e71e, 9632c, a2ce4, 8f3c4, 8063c, 4ae3f, eeaa5, 95b12, 68fc7, af739, 43839, 69717, 652e5, 9b376, 62975, 45b3d, 0afa8, 02340, ec7c1, 6312d, 80197, d6b8d, 510b4, fd154, 42d2f, d232b, 39b06, 66fc7, b8cb9, b6425, 1a283, 42361, 41e62, eac04, 4cfee, 4f858, 0a184, ff322, 27971, be901, 319f7, 9fb3b, de73b, 9c8a9, 145a9, 39d35, fae89, 0781b, 5407e, 0df0a, d27db, bbbad, f2211, 91845, 16ad7, 4fd7f, b94b8

3. util,console: colorize regexp groups, character classes, etc: This pull request introduces a parser that colorizes different parts of regular expressions, such as groups and character classes, when colors are active, enabling fine-grained syntax highlighting with minimal parsing overhead and allowing users to create custom styles for inspected values.

• URL: pull/59710

• Merged: 2025-09-05T14:29:21Z

• Associated Commits: a0cd9, 7c528, 0d714, 6f0a3, d041b, 5edbd, 0d04c, d727c, e013b, a16eb, 88f87

Other Closed Pull Requests

• Retry logic for resource exhaustion in threading and workers: This topic covers pull requests that implement retry mechanisms with exponential backoff to handle failures in pthread_create and Node.js Worker creation due to resource exhaustion, improving CI test stability and runtime robustness. These changes avoid simply increasing timeouts and instead provide a more resilient approach to transient resource limits.
  [pull/59522]

• Documentation updates and clarifications: Several pull requests update and clarify Node.js documentation, including TLS security level changes, type stripping in dependencies, and fixing broken Markdown links. These improvements ensure documentation accuracy and better user understanding of Node.js features and behaviors.
  [pull/59722, pull/59652, pull/59427]

• Crypto module enhancements: This includes adding KMAC algorithms to the SubtleCrypto interface following modern cryptography standards, enhancing Node.js's cryptographic capabilities.
  [pull/59647]

• Build and performance optimizations: Pull requests in this category add sccache to speed up builds, fix platform-specific build errors, and optimize HTTP module throughput and buffer handling in streams. These changes improve build efficiency and runtime performance across platforms.
  [pull/59720, pull/59547, pull/59747, pull/59675]

• Code safety and refactoring improvements: This includes adding nullptr checks, refactoring SQLite methods to reduce complexity, replacing deprecated V8 methods, and improving asynchronous resource tracking by using stack-allocated handles. These changes enhance code maintainability and safety.
  [pull/59628, pull/59659, pull/59671, pull/59704, pull/59609]

• Bug fixes in core modules: Fixes include resolving race conditions with OpenSSL API usage during process exit, correcting OpenSSL version detection on Windows, fixing subclassing of DOMException, and addressing cpSync option behavior. These fixes improve stability and correctness in core Node.js modules.
  [pull/59632, pull/59609, pull/59680, pull/59681]

• Testing improvements and compatibility: This topic covers rewriting tests to use the node:test module with better resource management and making child_process benchmarks compatible with Windows. These changes improve test reliability and cross-platform support.
  [pull/59667, pull/59469]

• Project management and community contributions: This includes adding a new triager to the Node.js project, recognizing community involvement and support contributions.
  [pull/59562]

• New API additions: Introduction of the sea.getAssetKeys() API enables querying bundled script assets, expanding Node.js's scripting capabilities.
  [pull/59661]

3.3 Pull Request Discussion Insights

This section will analyze the tone and sentiment of discussions within this project's open and closed pull requests that occurred within the past week. It aims to identify potentially heated exchanges and to maintain a constructive project environment.

Based on our analysis, there are no instances of toxic discussions in the project's open or closed pull requests from the past week.

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IV. Contributors

4.1 Contributors

Active Contributors:

We consider an active contributor in this project to be any contributor who has made at least 1 commit, opened at least 1 issue, created at least 1 pull request, or made more than 2 comments in the last month.

If there are more than 10 active contributors, the list is truncated to the top 10 based on contribution metrics for better clarity.

Contributor	Commits	Pull Requests	Issues	Comments
joyeecheung	62	8	8	33
panva	66	6	2	7
jasnell	9	1	2	40
RafaelGSS	34	4	0	0
legendecas	22	5	0	11
aduh95	17	4	0	12
addaleax	5	3	0	22
Renegade334	11	3	3	12
ronag	8	5	3	11
theanarkh	15	4	0	6