2026-05-07, Version 26.1.0 (Current)

Notable changes:

buffer:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add `end` parameter (Robert Nagy) #62390
crypto:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) accept key data in `crypto.diffieHellman()` and cleanup DH jobs (Filip Skokan) #62527
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) implement `randomUUIDv7()` (nabeel378) #62553
debugger:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add edit-free runtime expression probes to `node inspect` (Joyee Cheung) #62713
fs:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add `signal` option to `fs.stat()` (Mert Can Altin) #57775
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) expose frsize field in statfs (Jinho Jang) #62277
http:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) harden `ClientRequest` options merge (Matteo Collina) #63082
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add `req.signal` to `IncomingMessage` (Akshat) #62541
lib,src,test,doc:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add `node:ffi` module (Colin Ihrig) #62072
process:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) throw on `execve(2)` failure instead of aborting (Bryan English) #62878
src:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) allow empty `--experimental-config-file` (Marco Ippolito) #61610
stream:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) propagate destruction in `duplexPair` (Ahmed Elhor) #61098
test_runner:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) align mock timeout api (sangwook) #62820
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) add mock-timers support for `AbortSignal.timeout` (DeveloperViraj) #60751
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) support test order randomization (Pietro Marchini) #61747
util:
  * (SEMVER-MINOR) colorize text with hex colors (Guilherme Araújo) #61556

PR-URL: #63137

Author: aduh95

CHANGELOG.md

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doc/api/buffer.md

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doc/api/crypto.md

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