---
date: '2018-12-26T16:29:25.982Z'
category: release
title: Node.js 6.16.0 (LTS)
layout: blog-post
author: Myles Borins
---

The 6.15.0 security release introduced some unexpected breakages on the 6.x release line.
This is a special release to fix a regression in the HTTP binary upgrade response body and add
a missing CLI flag to adjust the max header size of the http parser.

### Notable Changes

- **cli**:
  - add --max-http-header-size flag (cjihrig) [#24811](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/24811)
- **http**:
  - add maxHeaderSize property (cjihrig) [#24860](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/24860)

### Commits

- \[[`f233b160c9`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f233b160c9)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **cli**: add --max-http-header-size flag (cjihrig) [#24811](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/24811)
- \[[`59f83d6896`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/59f83d6896)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **deps**: cherry-pick http_parser_set_max_header_size (cjihrig) [#24811](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/24811)
- \[[`c0c4de71f0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c0c4de71f0)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **http**: add maxHeaderSize property (cjihrig) [#24860](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/24860)
- \[[`8a3e0c0697`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8a3e0c0697)] - **http**: fix regression of binary upgrade response body (Matteo Collina) [#25036](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/25036)

Windows 32-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.16.0/node-v6.16.0-x86.msi \
Windows 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.16.0/node-v6.16.0-x64.msi \
Windows 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.16.0/win-x86/node.exe \
Windows 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.16.0/win-x64/node.exe \
macOS 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.16.0/node-v6.16.0.pkg \
macOS 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.16.0/node-v6.16.0-darwin-x64.tar.gz \
Linux 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.16.0/node-v6.16.0-linux-x86.tar.xz \
Linux 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.16.0/node-v6.16.0-linux-x64.tar.xz \
Linux PPC LE 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.16.0/node-v6.16.0-linux-ppc64le.tar.xz \
Linux PPC BE 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.16.0/node-v6.16.0-linux-ppc64.tar.xz \
Linux s390x 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.16.0/node-v6.16.0-linux-s390x.tar.xz \
AIX 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.16.0/node-v6.16.0-aix-ppc64.tar.gz \
SmartOS 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.16.0/node-v6.16.0-sunos-x86.tar.xz \
SmartOS 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.16.0/node-v6.16.0-sunos-x64.tar.xz \
ARMv6 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.16.0/node-v6.16.0-linux-armv6l.tar.xz \
ARMv7 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.16.0/node-v6.16.0-linux-armv7l.tar.xz \
ARMv8 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.16.0/node-v6.16.0-linux-arm64.tar.xz \
Source Code: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.16.0/node-v6.16.0.tar.gz \
Other release files: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.16.0/ \
Documentation: https://nodejs.org/docs/v6.16.0/api/

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