# Upstream origin and triage

- Original package: `async@3.2.6`
- Repository: https://github.com/caolan/async
- Source commit: https://github.com/caolan/async/commit/85fb18f3d319d14d893ec24648929ff0eb908768
- Source directory: `.`
- npm tarball: https://registry.npmjs.org/async/-/async-3.2.6.tgz
- SHA512 integrity: `sha512-htCUDlxyyCLMgaM3xXg0C0LW2xqfuQ6p05pCEIsXuyQ+a1koYKTuBMzRNwmybfLgvJDMd0r1LTn4+E0Ti6C2AA==`
- npm last-release age selects maintenance scope; it does not imply no ongoing source development.

## Reviewed issues

Primary-source snapshot: `2026-09-29T00:21:48.034168+00:00`. Most recently updated 100 open and 30 closed issue/PR entries; PRs removed. This is triage evidence, not a claim of exhaustive review.

Maintenance adoption with preserved runtime payload. No runtime defect correction is claimed. Reports remain visible for subsequent targeted reproduction.

- [2055: Performance optimization opportunities for async flow control](https://github.com/caolan/async/issues/2055)
- [2037: async 3.2.6 ERR_INTERNAL_ASSERTION Unexpected module status 3 with node 22 / 24](https://github.com/caolan/async/issues/2037)
- [1831: Add Type Definitions](https://github.com/caolan/async/issues/1831)
- [2010: Webcomponent imports fail](https://github.com/caolan/async/issues/2010)
- [1992: Upgrade to newer version of babel](https://github.com/caolan/async/issues/1992)
- [1879: async package should distribute both cjs and esm](https://github.com/caolan/async/issues/1879)
- [1609: Documentation needs better examples](https://github.com/caolan/async/issues/1609)

The structured snapshot in `.stackline/issue-triage.json` also records recently closed reports. Issues for unrelated packages in shared monorepositories were qualified as outside this fork’s runtime scope. No maintainer was contacted.