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LTS release maintenance

The practice of shipping bug fixes, security updates and dependency bumps to long-term-support software lines, where compatibility promises limit what may change.

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Node 24.21.0 swaps the bundled root certificates for NSS 3.126

The LTS patch also carries OpenSSL 3.5.8, six semver-minor additions including a faster net.BlockList, and three FIPS entries filed under one pull request, so the regression run costs more than a version bump usually does.

Publishers:nodejs.org

Reality

Evidence86
Adoption20
Hype gap−10
Incentives30
Confidence68