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Node 22.6, Protobuf-ES 2.0, and Volta 2.0

August 20, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

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Node v22.6.0 (Current) Released — v22.6 landed hours after we sent the last issue, but remains the latest Current release. It introduced the new type annotation stripping feature (via --experimental-strip-types) as well as experimental support for network inspection.

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IN BRIEF:

  • The Bun folks have been working on node:cluster support with impressive throughput results.

  • Talking of Bun, Bun v1.1.23 has landed, with yet more Node.js compatibility improvements, support for the TextEncoderStream and TextDecoderStream Web APIs, Float16Array, and perf improvements.

  • Security company Phylum has written about the ‘Great npm Garbage Patch’ noting that around 70% of npm packages published recently are ‘spam’ designed to game a decentralized protocol that rewards open source contributions.

🛠 Code & Tools

Protobuf-ES 2.0 Now Generally Available — A fully compliant Protobuf implementation for JavaScript/TypeScript. Protobuf / protocol buffers is a Google-created language and platform neutral way to serialize structured data.

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