--- title: Node Weekly Issue 618: April 2, 2026 | daily.dev description: Node Weekly Issue 618 covers several topics in the Node.js ecosystem: a guide to using 'minimum release age' cooldowns with npm, pnpm, Bun, and Yarn to... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/node-weekly-issue-618-april-2-2026-7bwxqpeg8 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Node Weekly Issue 618: April 2, 2026 | daily.dev og:description: Node Weekly Issue 618 covers several topics in the Node.js ecosystem: a guide to using 'minimum release age' cooldowns with npm, pnpm, Bun, and Yarn to... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/node-weekly-issue-618-april-2-2026-7bwxqpeg8 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/7BwXqPeg8.png og:image:alt: Node Weekly Issue 618: April 2, 2026 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Node Weekly Issue 618: April 2, 2026 **[Node Weekly](https://daily.dev/sources/ndwkly)** · 2 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Node Weekly Issue 618 covers several topics in the Node.js ecosystem: a guide to using 'minimum release age' cooldowns with npm, pnpm, Bun, and Yarn to mitigate supply chain attacks; an introduction to npm workspaces for managing multiple packages in a monorepo; Deno v2.7.11 release with Node.js compatibility improvements for crypto, child_process, workers, and TTY handling; QuickBEAM, a JavaScript runtime for Erlang's BEAM VM with Node.js API compatibility; WWWBasic 1.0.2 adding ESM support for running BASIC in Node apps; and wasm-git, a WASM-compiled Git usable from Node. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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