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On October 21, 2026, Node.js released security patches for ten vulnerabilities affecting its supported versions, four of them rated high, including a remote code execution issue. Unsupported versions, such as Node.js 20 and 25, won't be updated.
Getting Node.js 24 running on Ubuntu 24 should be a straightforward process. While Ubuntu comes with a version of Node.js in its default repositories, you might want to use Node.js 24, which became LTS on October 28, 2025 and is supported until April 2028. For a new setup, install Node.js 26 on Ubuntu 26.04 instead. This guide offers two simple methods to get you set up quickly.