IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js 18.0 is based on the Node.js version 18 community release.

Improved application performance with reduced module resident set size.

Improved Node.js memory management to reduce memory allocation below the bar.

Provided capability to trace memory usage that can assist with memory leak diagnosis.

cp1047, which represents the EBCDIC 1047 encoding, is a new encoding that has been added to the Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js runtime.

Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js supports native Node.js modules that are add-on libraries written in C/C++. You can now leverage this capability to perform interlanguage calls to PL/I via Node.js by providing a C/C++ binding interface to PL/I. 

Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js is built with the full set of ICU data, enabling the support for all locales.