NodeJS 17 has been released. This is a development branch, with NodeJS 16 moving to long-term-support “next week,” and new updates of NodeJS 17 are expected every two weeks or so.

Some of the new changes:

• Additional promisified APIs (such as readline)
• Stack traces with Node.js version (the version is appended at the end of the stack trace by default, and can be removed with a command-line option)
• OpenSSL 3.0 support
• V8 JavaScript Engine is updated to 9.5 (It’s still the V8 engine, but the version of the V8 engine is 9.5 now)

To download, go to https://nodejs.org/en/download/current/.