--- title: "Node.js 22 reaches end of life on 2027-04-30 | Harbyn" description: "Node.js 22 reaches end of life on 2027-04-30; replacement: node24." canonical: "https://harbyn.com/changes/nodejs/2026-10-09-nodejs-22-end-of-life" last-updated: 2026-10-09 --- # Node.js 22 reaches end of life on 2027-04-30 Markdown version of . Deprecation - Node.js. medium severity. Announced. Upcoming. Node.js 22 ("Jod") stops receiving security fixes on 2027-04-30, per the official release schedule. Code keeps running, but hosts retire end-of-life runtimes and vulnerabilities stay unpatched; move to a supported version before then. 187 days left: the deadline is Apr 30, 2027. ## Facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Vendor | [Node.js](https://harbyn.com/vendors/nodejs.md) | | Product | api | | Kind | Deprecation | | Severity | medium | | Status | Announced | | Announced | Oct 9, 2026 (undated by the vendor; already published when we first read the page) | | Effective | Apr 30, 2027 | | Added to Harbyn | Oct 9, 2026 | | Lead time | 203 days of warning | | Symbols | `node22` | | Replacement | `node24`. Node.js 24 (LTS, supported until 2028-04-30) | | Review | Reviewed by a person, extracted by a deterministic parser | ## Find it in your code ```sh npx harbyn scan ``` This change names no identifier the scanner can match line by line, so the scan tells you whether your repository uses Node.js, from its packages and API hosts. Nothing leaves your machine. ## Sources Where this event comes from: the page we read, when we read it, and the hash of that snapshot. - (deprecations, fetched 2026-10-09 06:16 UTC, sha256 `1cf0432ceb9dfde7f1fd4cce43206519942cfdfad5a26039c2f4bb20fde8549c`) ## Related changes ### More from Node.js - [Node.js 24 reaches end of life on 2028-04-30](https://harbyn.com/changes/nodejs/2026-10-09-nodejs-24-end-of-life.md) (Deprecation, effective Apr 30, 2028) ### Changes at other vendors - [AWS Lambda: Python 3.10 runtime deprecation](https://harbyn.com/changes/aws-lambda/2026-10-08-python-3-10-runtime-deprecation.md) (effective Oct 31, 2026) - [Jira / Atlassian Cloud: Atlassian Analytics dashboard subscriptions being removed](https://harbyn.com/changes/atlassian-jira/2026-08-10-atlassian-analytics-dashboard-subscriptions-being-removed.md) (effective Nov 2, 2026) - [Google Cloud Run and Functions: .NET 8 runtime deprecation](https://harbyn.com/changes/google-cloud/2026-10-08-net-8-runtime-deprecation.md) (effective Nov 10, 2026) - [GitHub: X-GitHub-Stateless-S2S-Token header ignored from 2026-11-30](https://harbyn.com/changes/github/2026-10-02-x-github-stateless-s2s-token-header-ignored-from-2026-11-30.md) (effective Nov 30, 2026) [All upcoming deadlines](https://harbyn.com/deadlines.md)