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How does nodejs sync with V8 releases? ECMA-version, V8-version, Node-version, Javascript-version, browser-version with different features support, it's quite a bit.

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Node.js Stable tries to follow the V8 version from latest stable Chrome quite closely (i.e. soon after the corresponding Chrome release), but occasionally a V8 version may be skipped, e.g. if it has problematic API changes.

Node.js LTS branches stay on a fixed V8 version.

we just managed to get plv8 tracking against the same v8 versions as node (4.4-4.10).

v8 moves very quickly, and even the redhat/debian package maintainers are still distributing 3.14.

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