Chapter 4. Fixed issues


This release incorporates all of the fixed issues in the community release of Node.js 20 LTS.

4.1. Enhanced memory management in VM module APIs

Red Hat build of Node.js 20 resolves some long-standing memory leaks and use-after-free issues in the following Virtual Machine (VM) module APIs that support the importModuleDynamically option:

  • vm.Script
  • vm.compileFunction
  • vm.SyntheticModule
  • vm.SourceTextModule

This enhancement can enable affected users to upgrade from earlier versions of Red Hat build of Node.js.

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