---
date: '2023-10-10T16:52:25.133Z'
category: release
title: Node.js 18.18.1 (LTS)
layout: blog-post
author: Richard Lau
---

### Notable Changes

This release addresses some regressions that appeared in Node.js 18.18.0:

- (Windows) FS can not handle certain characters in file name [#48673](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/48673)
- 18 and 20 node images give error - Text file busy (after re-build images) [nodejs/docker-node#1968](https://github.com/nodejs/docker-node/issues/1968)
- libuv update in 18.18.0 breaks webpack's thread-loader [#49911](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/49911)

The libuv 1.45.0 and 1.46.0 updates that were released in Node.js 18.18.0 have been temporarily reverted.

### Commits

- \[[`3e3a75cc46`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3e3a75cc46)] - _**Revert**_ "**build**: sync libuv header change" (Richard Lau) [#50036](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/50036)
- \[[`14ece2c479`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/14ece2c479)] - _**Revert**_ "**deps**: upgrade to libuv 1.45.0" (Richard Lau) [#50036](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/50036)
- \[[`022352acbe`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/022352acbe)] - _**Revert**_ "**deps**: upgrade to libuv 1.46.0" (Richard Lau) [#50036](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/50036)
- \[[`d9f138189c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d9f138189c)] - _**Revert**_ "**deps**: add missing thread-common.c in uv.gyp" (Richard Lau) [#50036](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/50036)
- \[[`7a3e1ffbb8`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7a3e1ffbb8)] - **fs**: make sure to write entire buffer (Robert Nagy) [#49211](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/49211)
- \[[`04cba95a67`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/04cba95a67)] - **test**: add `tmpdir.resolve()` (Livia Medeiros) [#49079](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/49079)

Windows 32-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.18.1/node-v18.18.1-x86.msi \
Windows 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.18.1/node-v18.18.1-x64.msi \
Windows 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.18.1/win-x86/node.exe \
Windows 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.18.1/win-x64/node.exe \
macOS 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.18.1/node-v18.18.1.pkg \
macOS Apple Silicon 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.18.1/node-v18.18.1-darwin-arm64.tar.gz \
macOS Intel 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.18.1/node-v18.18.1-darwin-x64.tar.gz \
Linux 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.18.1/node-v18.18.1-linux-x64.tar.xz \
Linux PPC LE 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.18.1/node-v18.18.1-linux-ppc64le.tar.xz \
Linux s390x 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.18.1/node-v18.18.1-linux-s390x.tar.xz \
AIX 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.18.1/node-v18.18.1-aix-ppc64.tar.gz \
ARMv7 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.18.1/node-v18.18.1-linux-armv7l.tar.xz \
ARMv8 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.18.1/node-v18.18.1-linux-arm64.tar.xz \
Source Code: https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.18.1/node-v18.18.1.tar.gz \
Other release files: https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.18.1/ \
Documentation: https://nodejs.org/docs/v18.18.1/api/

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