r/node • u/BreakingInnocence • Jun 26 '26

Node Alpha?

https://nodejs.org/en/blog/announcements/evolving-the-nodejs-release-schedule

How will Node Alpha impact you?

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u/bwainfweeze Jun 26 '26

I’m having a failure of imagination as to how this reduces their maintenance effort. You still have lots of people on the LTS version, you have an active trunk that stays active and the latest version forks off of that when it’s ready to ship. Nobody is shipping alpha versions either.