Node 26 is LTS today. Should you upgrade? Measure your own app instead of trusting a headline benchmark.
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Node 26 entered Active LTS today, 2026-10-28. If you run Node 20 or older, your runtime gets no more security fixes. If you run 22 or 24, you need a plan for the move. And if you are choosing between Node and Bun, what you have today is headline benchmarks: one author's app, on one machine, that is not yours. Nobody's tool answers, for your app on your machine: does it load on the target runtime, how fast is it there, and should you upgrade — with reasons, not a headline. So I built one: runver