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Node.js 26 is now LTS: how to move your Docker image from Node 24
Node.js 26 becomes active LTS on 28 October 2026 and Node 24 enters maintenance on 20 October. Moving a Docker image takes swapping node:24-slim for node:26-slim, but check three things first: the removed internal _stream_* modules, the removed writeHeader() and native modules, which target ABI 147.