feat: Node.js 26.0.0 (expected May 5, 2026)

[nschonni]

Description

Creating a draft PR for the release that was originally expected on the Apr 22nd, but now appears pushed to the 28th. postponed to May 5, 2026.

Fixes #2435

Motivation and Context

• @sxa had some suggestions on dropping x390, so those are includedd
• Changed the default
• No longer has Yarn v1 include. Verifed by running the update script after copying the folder
• Missing the Unofficial Builds Alpine SHA. This will require an update after the actual release

Testing Details

Example Output(if appropriate)

Types of changes

• Documentation
• Version change (Update, remove or add more Node.js versions)
• Variant change (Update, remove or add more variants, or versions of variants)
• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
• Other (none of the above)

Checklist

• My code follows the code style of this project.
• My change requires a change to the documentation.
• I have updated the documentation accordingly.
• I have read the CONTRIBUTING.md document.
• All new and existing tests passed.

[sxa]

Thanks for putting this together @nschonni!
And based on:

@sxa had some suggestions on dropping x390, so those are includedd

since they're captured in here I'm happy not to have my PR merged for 25 and stick with it changing from v26 :-)

[nschonni]

Thanks, I've updated the title to reflect the new date, but haven't updated the JSON till it gets cleared up

[nschonni]

Land and rebase locally when the Alpine builds are available on that date

Suggested change

	"start": "2026-04-28",
	"start": "2026-05-05",

[MikeMcC399]

Probably now 2026-05-05 if there are no new holdups.

[Wartijn]

The release v26.0.0 has been postponed once again, this time to May 4, 2026 (see nodejs/node#62526 (comment))

The May 4 date was a typo/mistake, the correct date is May 5, 2026. The linked comment has been updated to reflect that.

[sxa]

The May 4 date was a typo/mistake, the correct date is May 5, 2026. The linked comment has been updated to reflect that.

Fixed in the comment section too :-)

We've also developed a fix for the underlying issue (specific to the macos universal binaries included in the .pkg file) so I would expect we will be able to get it out next Tuesday without additional problems 🤞🏻

[MikeMcC399]

Hi @nschonni!

Please check:

docker-node/.github/workflows/build-test.yml

Lines 96 to 97 in 6f8bcd7

	- name: Test for yarn
	run: docker run --rm node:${{ matrix.version }}-${{ matrix.variant }} yarn --version

This will fail if there is no yarn installed

node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1478
  throw err;
  ^

Error: Cannot find module '/yarn'

[MikeMcC399]

https://github.com/nodejs/node/releases/tag/v26.0.0 is now released and should be showing up soon.

[MikeMcC399]

And to make it more interesting, https://www.githubstatus.com/ shows GitHub Actions is once again having issues!

[nschonni]

https://unofficial-builds.nodejs.org/logs/202605051424-v26.0.0/ is running

[nschonni]

Not sure why one of the .0 is being dropped on the Debian images, but I'll manually fix it once the SHASUM is ready

[nschonni]

Hi @nschonni!

Please check:

docker-node/.github/workflows/build-test.yml

Lines 96 to 97 in 6f8bcd7

	- name: Test for yarn
	run: docker run --rm node:${{ matrix.version }}-${{ matrix.variant }} yarn --version

This will fail if there is no yarn installed

node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1478
  throw err;
  ^

Error: Cannot find module '/yarn'

I'll try adding this to the job step if: matrix.version < 26

[MikeMcC399]

Not sure why one of the .0 is being dropped on the Debian images, but I'll manually fix it once the SHASUM is ready

I saw that also running ./update.sh -s locally

[MikeMcC399]

There is currently still content missing on https://nodejs.org/download/release/

https://nodejs.org/download/release/latest-v26.x/ is empty for instance

[MikeMcC399]

I've posted to Slack about the missing release bits and the releasers / website experts are sorting that out.
Unfortunately it seems that the GitHub Actions problems caused the releaser to do some things manually which caused the order of releasing links etc. to be incorrect.

[MikeMcC399]

And whilst all that's been happening https://unofficial-builds.nodejs.org/download/release/v26.0.0 is showing the musl builds.

That however is not recognized currently by update.sh, since it is looking for 26.0 instead of 26.0.0

[nschonni]

I'm marking this as ready, but I'm taking a look

docker-node/update.sh

Line 118 in 83fecd5

fullVersion="$(curl -sSL --compressed "${baseuri}" | grep '<a href="v'"${version}." | sed -E 's!.*<a href="v([^"/]+)/?".*!\1!' | cut -d'.' -f2,3 | sort -V | tail -1)"

to see if swithing to the TAB/JSON file instead would avoid this issue. Don't think I'll get back to it for a few hours though.

[MikeMcC399]

The build test changes to exclude Yarn tests look good!

A couple of the Dockerfiles had the 26.0 version instead of 26.0.0 in them. I've added change suggestions for these two.

[MikeMcC399]

All tests are now passing, so from my point of view the PR should be good to go 👍🏻

[MikeMcC399]

I have to take that back.

There are still Yarn install scripts in there

[MikeMcC399]

This shouldn't be in here!

[MikeMcC399]

Or here