Title: Kickoff to V8 Exploit: Every Step of the Way Dates: August 4–5, 2025 Location: Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas (as part of Black Hat USA 2025 Training – August 2–5) Duration: 2 days ...

For its part, the V8 team has released version 5.4, a new branch of the engine. “V8 5.4 delivers a number of key improvements in memory footprint and startup speed,” the team said in a bulletin.

The Node.js team has recently released Node.js 21. This release introduces changes such as updates to the V8 JavaScript engine, stable fetch and WebStreams modules, an experimental flag for altering m ...

This shim implements the most essential V8 APIs so that the underlying JavaScript engine change is transparent to Node.js and other native add-on modules written for V8,” Seth said.