If you&#x27;re concerned with stability, the best thing you can do is wait for the LTS release to come off the 4 branch.<p>A quick glance at outstanding issues will show a number of integration bugs are still outstanding, and the new v8 was landed only a few days previously - incompatibilities with new versions of v8 can take a while to surface in node.<p>It&#x27;s important to remember that semver makes <i>no promises about stability</i>. While we&#x27;re used to &quot;N.0&quot; meaning &quot;stable and ready for upgrade,&quot; that&#x27;s a non-semver idea that is explicitly disregarded in the semver release model. Node moving from 3.* to 4.0.0 only indicates that there are breaking changes(1).<p>If you have concerns about stability, you should take signals on that from the node LTS group, and pick LTS releases.<p>1 - whether or not this is good, bad, or merely a different permutation of the things that are turning your hair grey, I leave as an exercise to the reader.