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Indexed issues: 623
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Merged PRs (30d): 283

Dominant language: JavaScript
License: No license data
Last GitHub push: Sep 19, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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623 open issues indexed

`net.Socket({ fd })` can abort the Node.js process when iterating invalid file descriptors Open

stale

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

nodejs/node#63308 · 2 comments · Opened May 14, 2026
quic: Bug in flow control for bidistreams and sessions? Open

never-stale quic

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nodejs/node#63304 · 2 comments · Opened May 14, 2026
crypto.X509Certificate.toLegacyObject doesn't propagate internal OpenSSL errors Open

stale

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

nodejs/node#63265 · 2 comments · Opened May 12, 2026
spkac exportPublicKey cannot distinguish between internal failure vs invalid input Open

stale

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

nodejs/node#63264 · 2 comments · Opened May 12, 2026
--use-system-ca fails to start with bad OPENSSL_CONF set Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

nodejs/node#63256 · 3 comments · Opened May 11, 2026
`sequential/test-debugger-pid` is flaky on Windows Open

flaky-test never-stale

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nodejs/node#63212 · 3 comments · Opened May 9, 2026
Cannot create quic http/3 connection using URL Open

never-stale quic

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

nodejs/node#63202 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 8, 2026
vm: `SourceTextModule` memory leak - instances retained via async context frames after `evaluate()` Open

loaders vm

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

nodejs/node#63186 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 8, 2026
26.0.0 fails to build on NetBSD: missing include Open

arm build v8 engine

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 85/100

nodejs/node#63146 · 5 comments · Opened May 6, 2026
Add http.serve() API based on Fetch (Request -> Response) Open

feature request http

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

nodejs/node#63096 · 8 comments · 38 reactions · Opened May 3, 2026
Loader stalls MessagePort since v24 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

nodejs/node#63085 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 2, 2026
Node.js 24 LTS HTTPS default Agent keep-alive behavior can cause long-running requests through AWS Global Accelerator to fail with read ETIMEDOUT Open

stale

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

nodejs/node#63043 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 30, 2026
process.loadEnvFile() does not override existing environment variables Open

dotenv feature request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

nodejs/node#63027 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 29, 2026
Node.js MSI install fails on Windows 11 due to Smart App Control blocking custom action DLL (Error 1723) Open

stale

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

nodejs/node#63005 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 28, 2026
setFips() / setEngine do not evict ciphers cache Open

crypto

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

nodejs/node#62982 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 27, 2026
util.inspect: incorrect numericSeparator formatting for numbers in scientific notation (e.g. 1e-7) Open

never-stale

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 66/100

nodejs/node#62981 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 27, 2026
Increased CPU utilization after upgrading from Node.js v20.20.0 to v22.x Open

stale

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

nodejs/node#62939 · 8 comments · Opened Apr 24, 2026
Add passive signal observers Open

feature request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

nodejs/node#62909 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 23, 2026
Setting the mode from a file creation method will unset the 0x10 (public write) bit Open

stale

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

nodejs/node#62896 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 22, 2026
Provide a `process.setTitle()` function Open

feature request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

nodejs/node#62797 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 18, 2026
Worse-than-linear assert performance for trivial mismatch Open

assert performance

nodejs/node#62792 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 17, 2026
SEA + cluster.fork on Windows prepends executable path into worker process.argv (breaks argv parsing) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

nodejs/node#62776 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 16, 2026
in transform stream transform method, `callback(null, null)` doesn't end stream but `this.push(null); callback()` does Open

stale

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

nodejs/node#62769 · 7 comments · Opened Apr 16, 2026
Promote Alpine Linux out of experimental to be a tier 2 platform Open

alpine feature request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

nodejs/node#62764 · 23 comments · 33 reactions · Opened Apr 15, 2026
SEA: embedder main cannot dynamically import non-builtin modules on Node 25.5+ Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

nodejs/node#62726 · 6 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 14, 2026
Proposal: new `vm` module primitives & loader API for ESM customization Open

loaders

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nodejs/node#62720 · 20 comments · 33 reactions · Opened Apr 13, 2026
Temporal does not compile with shared ICU or no ICU Open

i18n-api icu never-stale v8 engine

nodejs/node#62676 · 20 comments · 6 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 10, 2026
clock_time_get rejects valid WASI pointer arguments >= 0x80000000(2G) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

nodejs/node#62671 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 10, 2026
proposal: bytecode-only script execution via vm module (sourceless mode) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

nodejs/node#62670 · 4 comments · 22 reactions · Opened Apr 10, 2026
`wpt/test-wasm-jsapi` sometimes crashes on AIX Open

aix flaky-test

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

nodejs/node#62647 · 12 comments · Opened Apr 9, 2026
Node 22.22.2 does not build without -DV8_SHARED_RO_HEAP anymore Open

v8 engine

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

nodejs/node#62631 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 8, 2026
JSON Schema validation in Node.js core Open

feature request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nodejs/node#62598 · 26 comments · 61 reactions · Opened Apr 5, 2026
Severe performance regression with spawn/spawnSync PATH resolution (Mac) Open

child_process

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

nodejs/node#62554 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 2, 2026
Sporadic SIGSEGV: native addon .got.plt reset to unrelocated file offsets Open

node-api

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

nodejs/node#62515 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 30, 2026
Use of deprecated C++ API in src Open

c++ lib / src

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 58/100

nodejs/node#62506 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 30, 2026
dns.lookup: pending promises grow unboundedly under sustained EAI_AGAIN load Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

nodejs/node#62503 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 30, 2026
OOM Error When Creating Many ShadowRealms with Heap Snapshots in Node.js Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nodejs/node#62433 · Opened Mar 25, 2026
`openAsBlob` fails synchronously Open

fs

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

nodejs/node#62418 · 8 comments · Opened Mar 24, 2026
Crash in V8 GC on v24.x and earlier Open

v24.x v8 engine

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

nodejs/node#62393 · 6 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 22, 2026
Add `partialDeepEqual()` in strict assertion mode Open

feature request never-stale

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

nodejs/node#62327 · 5 comments · Opened Mar 18, 2026
dns.resolveSrv returns ECONNREFUSED on Windows since v24.13.0 (still broken in v25.x and v26.x) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nodejs/node#62326 · 12 comments · 19 reactions · Opened Mar 18, 2026
V8 Maglev JIT causes STATUS_STACK_BUFFER_OVERRUN (0xC0000409) on Windows 11 Insider build 26200 Open

v8 engine

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

nodejs/node#62260 · 8 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 15, 2026
Permission Inheritance (`--allow-worker` inherits parent permissions) Open

feature request permission

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

nodejs/node#62222 · 5 comments · Opened Mar 12, 2026
Error [ERR_INTERNAL_ASSERTION]: Unexpected module status 0. Cannot require() ES Module ... because it is not yet fully loaded. Open

esm

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nodejs/node#62130 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 6, 2026
node:test and async register hooks broken after 24.12.0 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nodejs/node#62104 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 4, 2026
EBADF fstat error with 25.7.0 but not 25.6.1 Open

loaders

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nodejs/node#62012 · 25 comments · 14 reactions · Opened Feb 26, 2026
os.cpus().length performance on modern AMD CPUs inside containers Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nodejs/node#61998 · 6 comments · Opened Feb 26, 2026
ESM re-exports from CJS module not included in exports Open

loaders

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

nodejs/node#61989 · 6 comments · Opened Feb 25, 2026
Performance degradation of Buffer allocation in NodeJS v24 Open

buffer performance

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

nodejs/node#61967 · 16 comments · Opened Feb 24, 2026
Enable PGO for Windows builds (x64 and Arm64) Open

build feature request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nodejs/node#61964 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 24, 2026

nodejs/node

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