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Node.js v24.11.1 (LTS) has been released, addressing a critical issue where Buffer.allocUnsafe was incorrectly zero-filling buffers instead of returning uninitialized memory as documented. The release includes numerous fixes and improvements across benchmarks, build system, dependencies (npm upgraded to 11.6.2, corepack to 0.34.2), documentation, HTTP/HTTP2, inspector, module system, testing framework, and tooling. Additional changes include root certificate updates to NSS 3.116, Visual Studio workload upgrade from 2019 to 2022, and various performance optimizations.

Node.js — Node.js v24.11.1 (LTS)