build: move the CI toolchain to node 24 - #91
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Node 20 reached end of life on 2026-04-30 and node 22 (Jod) has been in
maintenance-only since 2025-10-21. Node 24 (Krypton) is the active LTS until
2026-10-20 and is supported to 2028-04-30, and the release and publish jobs
already pinned 24.19.0 for the npm version it bundles -- so the rest of the
repo was building and testing on a line the release never used.
Everything that resolves a node now resolves 24:
- release.yml build, pr-checks.yml build / test / dist-size / browser-smoke:
'22' -> '24'
- release.yml release + publish: 24.19.0 -> 24.20.0
- bench.yml codspeed-bench, pr-checks.yml codspeed-walltime:
22.23.1 -> 24.20.0
- root package.json engines.node: >=22.13 -> >=24
- tools/docker/Dockerfile: nodesource setup_22.x -> setup_24.x
24.20.0 (2026-08-26) is the current LTS patch, and one exact version now covers
every exact pin in the repo. It bundles npm 11.19.0, still past the 11.5.1 that
OIDC trusted publishing needs, so the publish job's no-`npm install --global`
property is preserved -- tools/release/README.md updated for the new numbers.
THE CODSPEED PINS ARE A BASELINE RE-SEED. 22.23.1 -> 24.20.0 crosses a V8
major, and docs/ci/self-hosted-runner.md is explicit that a node change shifts
instruction counts the way a CPU or glibc change does. Expect the first main
run after this to report large deltas on every bench, and read none of them as
regressions. Noted in that doc alongside the existing pin-exactly rule.
Corepack is still bundled in node 24 (verified: deps/corepack is present in the
v24.20.0 tree), so `corepack enable pnpm` on the nashua box is unaffected. The
existing "node 25 unbundles corepack" caveat stays where it is -- it is about a
bump this commit does not make.
Published packages keep `"node": ">=0.14"`. That constrains consumers of the
wasm codecs, not this repo's build toolchain, and nothing here needs it raised.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe repository now requires Node.js 24. Development images, CI jobs, release jobs, cache keys, and runner documentation use Node.js 24 or the pinned version 24.20.0. ChangesNode.js 24 migration
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Merging this PR will regress 3 benchmarks
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| Mode | Benchmark | BASE |
HEAD |
Efficiency | |
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| ❌ | Simulation | instantiate+destroy JpegXLDecoder x50 |
6.4 ms | 7.1 ms | -9.29% |
| ❌ | Simulation | encode CT1.RAW (HTJ2K lossless) — warm |
19.4 ms | 20.5 ms | -5.45% |
| ❌ | Simulation | instantiate+destroy JPEGDecoder x50 |
377.4 µs | 398.6 µs | -5.32% |
| ⚡ | Simulation | JPEG-LS Lossless (.80) |
554.6 ms | 71.7 ms | ×7.7 |
| ⚡ | Simulation | 16-bit signed + swap, 512x512 |
77.5 ms | 10.5 ms | ×7.4 |
| ⚡ | Simulation | transcode JPEG-LS -> J2K (.80 -> .90) |
3,411.7 ms | 600.3 ms | ×5.7 |
| ⚡ | Simulation | encode to JPEG 2000 Lossless (.90) |
2,544.7 ms | 460.9 ms | ×5.5 |
| ⚡ | Simulation | JPEG Baseline 8-bit (.50) |
346.1 ms | 64.9 ms | ×5.3 |
| ⚡ | Simulation | JPEG Lossless P14 (.57) |
918.4 ms | 175.7 ms | ×5.2 |
| ⚡ | Simulation | JPEG 2000 Lossless (.90) |
1,693.7 ms | 330.8 ms | ×5.1 |
| ⚡ | Simulation | JPEG 2000 Lossy (.91) |
1,454.5 ms | 292.1 ms | ×5 |
| ⚡ | Simulation | JPEG-LS Near-Lossless (.81) |
650.8 ms | 138.7 ms | ×4.7 |
| ⚡ | Simulation | JPEG Lossless P14 SV1 (.70) |
735.9 ms | 157 ms | ×4.7 |
| ⚡ | Simulation | encode to JPEG-LS Lossless (.80) |
699.2 ms | 157.8 ms | ×4.4 |
| ⚡ | Simulation | 16-bit signed, 512x512 x100 |
129.4 µs | 55.6 µs | ×2.3 |
| ⚡ | Simulation | 32-bit float, 512x512 x100 |
135.6 µs | 58.5 µs | ×2.3 |
| ⚡ | Simulation | 16-bit unsigned, 512x512 x100 |
120 µs | 61.7 µs | +94.53% |
| ⚡ | Simulation | encode to JPEG XL Lossless (.110) |
1,436.8 ms | 796.2 ms | +80.46% |
| ⚡ | Simulation | RLE Lossless (.5) |
66.8 ms | 37.9 ms | +75.97% |
| ⚡ | Simulation | HTJ2K Lossless (.201) |
25.3 ms | 14.5 ms | +74.14% |
| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
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| # invokes the node pinned in its own .emscripten config, not this one. | ||
| && curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_22.x | bash - \ | ||
| && curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_24.x | bash - \ |
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Line 42 in .devcontainer\Dockerfile still installs node 22. Deliberate, since this image intentionally tracks an older emsdk (3.1.53) and isn't the CI environment?
If so, worth a line in "Deliberately unchanged" alongside the consumer engines note.
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Good catch — half deliberate, and the half that wasn't was worse than a missing doc line.
The emsdk pin in .devcontainer/Dockerfile is deliberate, and that's now written up under "Deliberately unchanged". The node there wasn't: it only ever followed CI, and the comment above it said so in as many words — "node 22 to match CI: pnpm 11 requires >=22.13". This PR falsified both clauses in the same commit, and since engines.node moved to >=24, pnpm had started warning Unsupported engine on every install in that container. So I bumped it to setup_24.x (1f5fc52) rather than documenting it as intentional, and rewrote the comment to separate what's shared with CI (the node major) from what deliberately isn't (the emsdk pin), so it can't go stale the same way again.
Chasing that turned up two more things still on 22, both in the same commit:
The node_modules cache keys all carried a literal node22 discriminator. In pr-checks.yml that was cosmetic — those keys hash package.json, which the engines bump edits. But bench.yml's key hashes only pnpm-lock.yaml and pnpm-workspace.yaml, neither of which a node-only bump touches. It would have hit the entry main's node-22 runs populated, and Install dependencies is gated on cache-hit != 'true' — so pnpm install would never have run on node 24, and the re-seed this PR is warning about would have been measured against a dependency tree installed by the previous V8 major. The bench run on be9a920 is exactly that, so it's worth discounting; 1f5fc52 is the first honest measurement. The reason for the discriminator is now recorded next to the build job's key so the next bump carries it.
dist-size had no setup-node step at all, contrary to what my table claimed — the gate ran on whichever node the runner image shipped. Harmless in practice (check.js is fs/path/zlib only) but unpinned, and possibly under the new floor. Pinned '24' like everything else, and the table now says what that row actually was.
Also fixed two setup-node comments that justified the step with "fails pnpm 11's engine check (>=22.13)" — that floor is this repo's engines.node, not pnpm's, and it's now >=24.
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Follow-up on review of #91. The bump left three things behind on 22: - .devcontainer/Dockerfile still ran setup_22.x under a comment reading "node 22 to match CI", which stopped being true in the same commit -- and engines.node became >=24, so pnpm now warns "Unsupported engine" on every install in that container. Bumped to setup_24.x. The comment now says what is actually shared with CI (the node major) and what deliberately is not (the older emsdk pin), so it does not go stale the same way again. - The node_modules cache keys in the test, browser-smoke and codspeed-walltime jobs, plus codspeed-bench in bench.yml, all carried a literal node22 discriminator. bench.yml's key hashes only pnpm-lock.yaml and pnpm-workspace.yaml, so nothing in a node-only bump invalidates it: the bench would have restored a node-22 node_modules tree, skipped the install step (gated on cache-hit), and measured the "clean node 24 re-seed" against dependencies installed by the previous V8 major. Now node24, with the reason for the discriminator written down next to the build job's key so the next bump moves it too. - dist-size had no setup-node at all, contrary to what the PR description claimed, so the size gate ran on whatever node the runner image shipped. check.js only needs fs/path/zlib, so this was harmless rather than broken, but it was unpinned and could sit below the new engines floor. Pinned '24' like every other job. Also corrected two setup-node comments that justified the step with "fails pnpm 11's engine check (>=22.13)" -- that floor is this repo's engines.node and is now >=24. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@jbocce - I updated the PR as requested. That found another issue that we weren't actually running quite the new setup for everything and had some older test results. I've fixed that now, and see that the codspeed has 3 failing tests, nothing concerning. Everything else is generally improved. |
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Why
PATHin the first place.The
releaseandpublishjobs already pinned 24.19.0 (for the npm it bundles), so the repo was building and testing on one line and releasing on another. This puts everything on 24.What changes
release.ymlbuild;pr-checks.ymlbuild / test / browser-smoke'22''24'release.ymlrelease + publish24.19.024.20.0bench.ymlcodspeed-bench;pr-checks.ymlcodspeed-walltime22.23.124.20.0pr-checks.ymldist-sizesetup-nodeat all'24'node_modulescache keys —pr-checks.ymltest / browser-smoke / codspeed-walltime,bench.ymlcodspeed-benchpnpm-modules-node22-…pnpm-modules-node24-…package.jsonengines.node>=22.13>=24tools/docker/Dockerfilesetup_22.xsetup_24.x.devcontainer/Dockerfilesetup_22.xsetup_24.x24.20.0 (2026-08-26) is the current LTS patch, and one exact version now covers every exact pin in the repo.
The cache keys were load-bearing
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node_modulescache keys carried a literalnode22discriminator. For the three inpr-checks.ymlthat was cosmetic — theirhashFiles(...)includespackage.json, which theenginesbump below edits, so they invalidate anyway. Butbench.yml's key hashes onlypnpm-lock.yamlandpnpm-workspace.yaml, neither of which a node-only bump touches. That key would have hit the entrymain's node-22 runs populated, and sinceInstall dependenciesis gated oncache-hit != 'true',pnpm installwould never have run on node 24 — so the re-seed below would have been measured against a dependency tree installed by the previous V8 major.Now
node24, with the reason for the discriminator recorded next to the build job's key so the next bump carries it. (The build job's own key is prefixedbuildrather thannode<major>because it installs inside the emsdk container, not undersetup-node.)dist-sizehad nosetup-nodestep at all, so the size gate ran on whichever node the runner image happened to ship.tools/dist-size/check.jsneeds onlyfs/path/zlib, so this was unpinned rather than broken — but it could sit below the newenginesfloor, and it is now pinned like every other job.22.23.1→24.20.0crosses a V8 major.docs/ci/self-hosted-runner.mdis explicit that a node change moves instruction counts the way a CPU or glibc change does, so expect the firstmainrun after this to report large deltas on every bench, and read none of them as regressions. Same shape as the re-seed #89 called out for the serialisation change. Noted in that doc next to the existing pin-exactly rule.This is also why the bench pins move at all rather than being left on 22: the two codspeed instruments have to stay on the same node as each other, and a bench measuring a node the build jobs no longer use is measuring the wrong thing.
The report on this PR is itself an instance of that: it flags one 5% regression on
instantiate+destroy JPEGDecoder x50, compared against 9548a57 because no successful run was found onmain— a cross-environment comparison across the V8 major, not a finding.Verification
npm install --globalproperty.tools/release/README.mdupdated for the new numbers.deps/corepackis present in the v24.20.0 tree, socorepack enable pnpmon the nashua box is unaffected. The existing "node 25 unbundles corepack" caveat stays put; it's about a bump this PR doesn't make.enginesbump —pnpm install --frozen-lockfile --lockfile-onlypasses and leavespnpm-lock.yamlbyte-identical.assert.CallTracker,util.is*,createCipher,process.binding, legacy OpenSSL algorithms,new Buffer— none present, and nothing here passes node flags viaNODE_OPTIONS.pnpm release:planruns clean on node 24 locally (v24.2.0), reporting "Nothing to release" against current tags.Deliberately unchanged
packages/*/package.jsonkeep"node": ">=0.14". That constrains consumers of the wasm codecs, not this repo's build toolchain — raising it would break downstreams for no benefit here..devcontainer/Dockerfilekeeps its older emsdk pin (3.1.53); only the node major moved. That image is for editing and running the JS tooling, not for reproducing a CI dist —tools/docker/Dockerfileis the one that mirrors the build job. Its node comment previously read "node 22 to match CI", which this PR would have falsified, so it now states which half is shared with CI and which deliberately isn't.Note on ordering
Touches the same three workflow files as #90, but at different lines (job-level
ifthere, step-levelnode-versionhere). Whichever merges second may want a trivial rebase; there's no logical dependency either way.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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