# 🎉 Node-RED 4.1.3 released

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-4-1-3-released/100113>\
**Category:** News\
**Tags:** docker\
**Created:** [7 January 2026 17:00 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-4-1-3-released/100113 "2026-01-07T17:00:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![knolleary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/knolleary/32/3_2.png) [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)\
**Post date:** [7 January 2026 17:00 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-4-1-3-released/100113/1 "2026-01-07T17:00:51Z")

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Node-RED 4.1.3 is now available.

This is a regular maintenance release, but with a bumper selection of fixes from the community.

We have 3 first-time contributors in this release, plus @kazuhitoyokoi clearly had some free time over the holiday period to provide so many fixes! Coming back from my own time off to such a large collection of pull-requests to review was a very welcoming sight to start the year.

Thank you to everyone who contributed!

The full list of changes is available in the [changelog](https://github.com/node-red/node-red/blob/1019d52f785788314ce04ce491f005ef523d6264/CHANGELOG.md).

The docker images are building as I type.

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**Author:** ![gerrybartley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/gerrybartley/32/67495_2.png) [@gerrybartley](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/gerrybartley)\
**Post date:** [7 January 2026 18:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-4-1-3-released/100113/2 "2026-01-07T18:59:40Z")

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Am I misunderstanding something? I thought the next release would be 5.x seen as I have downloaded 5.0 beta

Are all those changes in 5.0 as well or are they completely separate releases

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**Author:** ![knolleary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/knolleary/32/3_2.png) [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)\
**Post date:** [7 January 2026 19:20 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-4-1-3-released/100113/3 "2026-01-07T19:20:33Z")

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Node-RED 4.x is the current _stable_ release. It gets bug fixes and security fixes, but no new features.

Node-RED 5.x is currently in beta and will be the next major release once development completes.

All of the fixes going into 4.x will also be in the next 5.x beta release.

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**Author:** ![gerrybartley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/gerrybartley/32/67495_2.png) [@gerrybartley](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/gerrybartley)\
**Post date:** [7 January 2026 19:22 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-4-1-3-released/100113/4 "2026-01-07T19:22:24Z")

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Ok, thanks for the clarification and for all your and the contributors hard work

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**Author:** ![omrid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@omrid](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/omrid)\
**Post date:** [7 January 2026 21:40 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-4-1-3-released/100113/5 "2026-01-07T21:40:33Z")

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The documentation indicates to install via `npm install -g --unsafe-perm node-red`  
But `--unsafe-perm` is deprecated by NPM. Can I just drop it?

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**Author:** ![Colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/colin/32/17040_2.png) [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [7 January 2026 21:58 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-4-1-3-released/100113/6 "2026-01-07T21:58:09Z")

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Yes, if you are using a version of npm in which it is deprecated. I believe that it needs to be in the docs for the moment as node-red still supports node 18.

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**Author:** ![omrid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@omrid](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/omrid)\
**Post date:** [8 January 2026 00:25 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-4-1-3-released/100113/7 "2026-01-08T00:25:54Z")

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Thanks Colin

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [9 March 2026 00:26 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-4-1-3-released/100113/8 "2026-03-09T00:26:05Z")

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