LTS

Node.js 26.13.0 marks 26.x as LTS with updates through the end of April 2029 and no other changes from 26.12.1; the 27.0.0-alpha.0 pre-release lists V8 15.6.75.13 and breaking changes.

DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS, released October 21, adds triggers, the Quack CONNECT statement, a PEG parser and async I/O; versions before 2.0 cannot read files it creates.

Qt 6.12, released September 30 as a five-year Long-Term Support version, adds native QML hot reload, a production-ready CanvasPainter API and HarmonyOS as an LTS platform.

Canonical releases Ubuntu 26.04 LTS on April 23, shipping Rust-based coreutils and sudo as defaults, GNOME 50 without X11, and a 6 GB RAM floor that redefines the distribution's baseline for the next decade.

Node.js 26 ships April 22 as the final release under the project's long-running odd/even cadence, with the Temporal API on track and a new annual LTS-for-all model beginning with Node.js 27.