diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 740b39de..08cc3dd8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ jobs:
           go-version: 1.27.3
       - uses: actions/setup-node@v7
         with:
-          node-version: '24'
+          node-version: '26'
       - run: go version && node --version
       # ./... and not just ./cmd/wasm: #682 was in internal/vm, a package the
       # playground reaches only transitively, and the breakage was three names in
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ jobs:
           go-version: 1.27.3
       - uses: actions/setup-node@v7
         with:
-          node-version: '24'
+          node-version: '26'
       - run: go version && node --version
       - name: Vet the core build (native and js/wasm)
         run: |
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ jobs:
           go-version: 1.27.3
       - uses: actions/setup-node@v7
         with:
-          node-version: '24'
+          node-version: '26'
       - run: go version && node --version
       - name: go test ./cmd/rbgo with the integration tests enabled
         env: