Three new security related Node releases

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npm 8.0 Released (But It’s Not a Huge Deal) — The npm CLI has been upgraded to version 8 (almost exactly a year after the meatier npm 7 release) but as Myles Borin notes it’s a ‘fairly innocuous’ release primarily to drop Node.js v10 support: “Please feel free to use this as an example when folks argue about not bumping a major, npm has a lot of adoption”.

GitHub Blog

Retiring the Node.js Community Committee — The Node.js Community Committee’s initiatives are being moved to the Node.js Technical Steering Committee (TSC) due, primarily, to an overall decline in the number of folks involved.

Tierney Cyren

Benny 3.7.0: A Simple Benchmarking Framework — Benny builds on top of the benchmark package with an improved API for benchmarking both synchronous and async code, setup and selection of cases, saving results in various formats, and more.

Maciej Cąderek