Node.js 22 reaches end of life

Announced

24 Apr 2024

Effective

30 Apr 2027 · in 173 days

Source

the vendor’s own page · last checked 18 Sept 2026

What breaks

The runtime stops receiving security patches on that date. Hosts and CI images drop the line in the months around it, so a deploy or a base image is usually what fails first, not the running process.

What to do

Move to Node.js 24, the active LTS line, or Node.js 26 once it enters LTS on 28 October 2026. Change the version where it is pinned: .nvmrc, the engines field, a Dockerfile base image, a CI workflow, the runtime setting on your host.

What the vendor said

Node.js 22 (Jod) shipped on 2024-04-24 with its support schedule published alongside it: maintenance from 2025-10-21, end of life on 2027-04-30. After that date the line receives no security patches, and hosting platforms drop the runtime.