As of September 8th, the versions of Node.js and npm required for WordPress development are now 24.x (minimum 24.18.0) and 11.x (minimum 11.16.0).
This applies to trunk in both repositories, the wp/7.1 branch in gutenberg, and the 7.1 branch in wordpress-develop. Older branches remain unchanged (requiring >=20.10.0 and >=10.2.3 of Node.js and npm, respectively). See “What’s next” below for details on the long-term plan.
Required action by contributors
Here is a list of steps that you may need to take to continue contributing to WordPress:
Update your local environment to a version of Node.js >=24.18.0. With nvm, run
