Node JS foundation releases a latest version of v16. The Node JS foundation keeps maintaining a schedule release of its version with some update changes. There are also another release maintained as LTS (Long Term Support) . The current Node v16 will be LTS support by Oct 2021.

The version which node JS uses V8, the JavaScript engine for Node.js, this has been upgraded to version 9.0. Previously in Node JS version 15.x, they were using V8.

The upgradation part of this latest version of V8 includes new Regular Expression capabilities to handle for start and end indices of a captured string. This is also can be feasible when you use the /d flag and access the .indices property of an array.