doc: update minimum glibc requirements for Linux #42659

richardlau · 2022-04-08T17:03:41Z

Starting with Node.js 18 we have moved building the release binaries
from being built on CentOS 7/RHEL 7 to being built on RHEL 8 as the
End-of-Life date of CentOS 7/RHEL 7 is before the End-of-Life date
of Node.js 18 and we do not want to have to make a disruptive change
towards the end of Node.js 18's life cycle.

Moving to RHEL 8 has raised the glibc version being linked against
(2.28). The official Node.js Linux release binaries will only run on
Linux distributions with a matching or higher version of glibc.

Refs: nodejs/build#2815
Refs: nodejs/build#2741

FYI @nodejs/version-management @nodejs/build @nodejs/releasers

This does mean that the official binaries for Node.js 18 will not run on older versions of Linux distributions, e.g. CentOS 7/RHEL 7 and Ubuntu 18.04, but should run on the most recent ones, e.g. RHEL 8 and Ubuntu 20.04. Building from source on those versions may still work but given we've already seen one V8 change that broke the build on CentOS 7 I don't think we can make any guarantees for the lifetime of Node.js 18 w.r.t compiling on versions of glibc earlier than 2.28.

richardlau · 2022-04-08T17:05:23Z

BUILDING.md

+| Operating System | Architectures    | Versions                          | Support Type                                    | Notes                                     |
+| ---------------- | ---------------- | --------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------- |
+| GNU/Linux        | x64              | kernel >= 4.18[^1], glibc >= 2.28 | Tier 1                                          | e.g. Ubuntu 20.04, Debian 10, RHEL 8      |
+| GNU/Linux        | x64              | kernel >= 3.10, musl >= 1.1.19    | Experimental                                    | e.g. Alpine 3.8                           |


I've left this alone as I want this PR to focus on the glibc requirement. We have not made any changes for Alpine in the Node.js CI but I suspect this line is out of date.

richardlau · 2022-04-08T17:06:57Z

BUILDING.md

+| ---------------- | ---------------- | --------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------- |
+| GNU/Linux        | x64              | kernel >= 4.18[^1], glibc >= 2.28 | Tier 1                                          | e.g. Ubuntu 20.04, Debian 10, RHEL 8      |
+| GNU/Linux        | x64              | kernel >= 3.10, musl >= 1.1.19    | Experimental                                    | e.g. Alpine 3.8                           |
+| GNU/Linux        | x86              | kernel >= 3.10, glibc >= 2.17     | Experimental                                    | Downgraded as of Node.js 10               |


Left untouched for now. Linux x86 builds are not tested in Jenkins and are part of the unofficial-builds project, https://unofficial-builds.nodejs.org/.

mhdawson · 2022-04-08T17:17:09Z

BUILDING.md

+| GNU/Linux        | x86              | kernel >= 3.10, glibc >= 2.17     | Experimental                                    | Downgraded as of Node.js 10               |
+| GNU/Linux        | arm64            | kernel >= 4.18[^1], glibc >= 2.28 | Tier 1                                          | e.g. Ubuntu 20.04, Debian 10, RHEL 8      |
+| GNU/Linux        | armv7            | kernel >= 4.18[^1], glibc >= 2.28 | Tier 1                                          | e.g. Ubuntu 20.04, Debian 10              |
+| GNU/Linux        | armv6            | kernel >= 4.14, glibc >= 2.24     | Experimental                                    | Downgraded as of Node.js 12               |


I do wonder about this one as well, but I think it falls into the same category of being part of unofficial-builds. It does seems strange though.

Yeah, this one's also under unofficial-builds.

mhdawson

LGTM

sxa

LGTM, although I'd note that it might be better in footnote 4 to clarify "Running Node.js on x86 Windows" as 'x86 (32-bit) Windows' (although I appreciate that the comment was not added in this PR so don't consider that a rejection)

Starting with Node.js 18 we have moved building the release binaries from being built on CentOS 7/RHEL 7 to being built on RHEL 8 as the End-of-Life date of CentOS 7/RHEL 7 is before the End-of-Life date of Node.js 18 and we do not want to have to make a disruptive change towards the end of Node.js 18's life cycle. Moving to RHEL 8 has raised the glibc version being linked against (2.28). The official Node.js Linux release binaries will only run on Linux distributions with a matching or higher version of glibc.

richardlau · 2022-04-12T17:12:53Z

Rebased to fix the merge conflict.

For reviewers, it's easier to see what has changed by hiding the whitespace changes
(e.g. https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/42659/files?diff=split&w=1).

nodejs-github-bot · 2022-04-13T06:36:10Z

Landed in 3671cc0

Starting with Node.js 18 we have moved building the release binaries from being built on CentOS 7/RHEL 7 to being built on RHEL 8 as the End-of-Life date of CentOS 7/RHEL 7 is before the End-of-Life date of Node.js 18 and we do not want to have to make a disruptive change towards the end of Node.js 18's life cycle. Moving to RHEL 8 has raised the glibc version being linked against (2.28). The official Node.js Linux release binaries will only run on Linux distributions with a matching or higher version of glibc. PR-URL: nodejs#42659 Refs: nodejs/build#2815 Refs: nodejs/build#2741 Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <midawson@redhat.com> Reviewed-By: Stewart X Addison <sxa@redhat.com> Reviewed-By: Beth Griggs <bgriggs@redhat.com> Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>

Notable Changes: Deprecations and Removals: - (SEMVER-MAJOR) fs: runtime deprecate string coercion in `fs.write`, `fs.writeFileSync` (Livia Medeiros) (#42607) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) dns: remove `dns.lookup` and `dnsPromises.lookup` options type coercion (Antoine du Hamel) (#41431) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) process: runtime deprecate multipleResolves (Benjamin Gruenbaum) (#41896) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) stream: remove thenable support (Robert Nagy) (#40773) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) tls: move tls.parseCertString to end-of-life (Tobias Nießen) (#41479) fetch (experimental): An experimental fetch API is available on the global scope by default. The implementation is based upon https://undici.nodejs.org/#/, an HTTP/1.1 client written for Node.js by contributors to the project. Through this addition, the following globals are made available: `fetch` , `FormData`, `Headers`, `Request`, `Response`. Disable this API with the `--no-experimental-fetch` command-line flag. Contributed by Michaël Zasso in #41811. HTTP Timeouts: `server.headersTimeout`, which limits the amount of time the parser will wait to receive the complete HTTP headers, is now set to `60000` (60 seconds) by default. `server.requestTimeout`, which sets the timeout value in milliseconds for receiving the entire request from the client, is now set to `300000` (5 minutes) by default. If these timeouts expire, the server responds with status 408 without forwarding the request to the request listener and then closes the connection. Both timeouts must be set to a non-zero value to protect against potential Denial-of-Service attacks in case the server is deployed without a reverse proxy in front. Contributed by Paolo Insogna in #41263. Test Runner module (experimental): The `node:test` module facilitates the creation of JavaScript tests that report results in TAP format. This module is only available under the `node:` scheme. Contributed by Colin Ihrig in #42325. Toolchain and Compiler Upgrades: - Prebuilt binaries for Linux are now built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 and are compatible with Linux distributions based on glibc 2.28 or later, for example, Debian 10, RHEL 8, Ubuntu 20.04. - Prebuilt binaries for macOS now require macOS 10.15 or later. - For AIX the minimum supported architecture has been raised from Power 7 to Power 8. Prebuilt binaries for 32-bit Windows will initially not be available due to issues building the V8 dependency in Node.js. We hope to restore 32-bit Windows binaries for Node.js 18 with a future V8 update. Node.js does not support running on operating systems that are no longer supported by their vendor. For operating systems where their vendor has planned to end support earlier than April 2025, such as Windows 8.1 (January 2023) and Windows Server 2012 R2 (October 2023), support for Node.js 18 will end at the earlier date. Full details about the supported toolchains and compilers are documented in the Node.js `BUILDING.md` file. Contributed by Richard Lau in #42292, #42604 and #42659 , and Michaël Zasso in #42105 and #42666. V8 10.1: The V8 engine is updated to version 10.1, which is part of Chromium 101. Compared to the version included in Node.js 17.9.0, the following new features are included: - The `findLast` and `findLastIndex` array methods. - Improvements to the `Intl.Locale` API. - The `Intl.supportedValuesOf` function. - Improved performance of class fields and private class methods (the initialization of them is now as fast as ordinary property stores). The data format returned by the serialization API (`v8.serialize(value)`) has changed, and cannot be deserialized by earlier versions of Node.js. On the other hand, it is still possible to deserialize the previous format, as the API is backwards-compatible. Contributed by Michaël Zasso in #42657. Web Streams API (experimental): Node.js now exposes the experimental implementation of the Web Streams API on the global scope. This means the following APIs are now globally available: - `ReadableStream`, `ReadableStreamDefaultReader`, `ReadableStreamBYOBReader`, `ReadableStreamBYOBRequest`, `ReadableByteStreamController`, `ReadableStreamDefaultController`, `TransformStream`, `TransformStreamDefaultController`, `WritableStream`, `WritableStreamDefaultWriter`, `WritableStreamDefaultController`, `ByteLengthQueuingStrategy`, `CountQueuingStrategy`, `TextEncoderStream`, `TextDecoderStream`, `CompressionStream`, `DecompressionStream`. Contributed James Snell in #39062, and Antoine du Hamel in #42225. Other Notable Changes: - (SEMVER-MAJOR) buffer: expose Blob as a global (James M Snell) (#41270) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) child\_process: improve argument validation (Rich Trott) (#41305) - doc: add RafaelGSS to collaborators (RafaelGSS) (#42718) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) http: make TCP noDelay enabled by default (Paolo Insogna) (#42163) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) net: make `server.address()` return an integer for `family` (Antoine du Hamel) (#41431) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) worker: expose BroadcastChannel as a global (James M Snell) (#41271) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) worker: graduate BroadcastChannel to supported (James M Snell) (#41271) Semver-Major Commits: - (SEMVER-MAJOR) assert,util: compare RegExp.lastIndex while using deep equal checks (Ruben Bridgewater) (#41020) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) buffer: refactor `byteLength` to remove outdated optimizations (Rongjian Zhang) (#38545) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) buffer: expose Blob as a global (James M Snell) (#41270) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) buffer: graduate Blob from experimental (James M Snell) (#41270) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) build: make x86 Windows support temporarily experimental (Michaël Zasso) (#42666) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) build: bump macOS deployment target to 10.15 (Richard Lau) (#42292) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) build: downgrade Windows 8.1 and server 2012 R2 to experimental (Michaël Zasso) (#42105) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) child\_process: improve argument validation (Rich Trott) (#41305) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) cluster: make `kill` to be just `process.kill` (Bar Admoni) (#34312) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) crypto: cleanup validation (Mohammed Keyvanzadeh) (#39841) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) crypto: prettify othername in PrintGeneralName (Tobias Nießen) (#42123) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) crypto: fix X509Certificate toLegacyObject (Tobias Nießen) (#42124) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) crypto: use RFC2253 format in PrintGeneralName (Tobias Nießen) (#42002) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) crypto: change default check(Host|Email) behavior (Tobias Nießen) (#41600) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) deps: V8: cherry-pick semver-major commits from 10.2 (Michaël Zasso) (#42657) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) deps: update V8 to 10.1.124.6 (Michaël Zasso) (#42657) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) deps: update V8 to 9.8.177.9 (Michaël Zasso) (#41610) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) deps: update V8 to 9.7.106.18 (Michaël Zasso) (#40907) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) dns: remove `dns.lookup` and `dnsPromises.lookup` options type coercion (Antoine du Hamel) (#41431) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) doc: update minimum glibc requirements for Linux (Richard Lau) (#42659) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) doc: update AIX minimum supported arch (Richard Lau) (#42604) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) fs: runtime deprecate string coercion in `fs.write`, `fs.writeFileSync` (Livia Medeiros) (#42607) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) http: refactor headersTimeout and requestTimeout logic (Paolo Insogna) (#41263) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) http: make TCP noDelay enabled by default (Paolo Insogna) (#42163) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) lib: enable fetch by default (Michaël Zasso) (#41811) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) lib: replace validator and error (Mohammed Keyvanzadeh) (#41678) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) module,repl: support 'node:'-only core modules (Colin Ihrig) (#42325) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) net: make `server.address()` return an integer for `family` (Antoine du Hamel) (#41431) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) process: disallow some uses of Object.defineProperty() on process.env (Himself65) (#28006) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) process: runtime deprecate multipleResolves (Benjamin Gruenbaum) (#41896) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) readline: fix question still called after closed (Xuguang Mei) (#42464) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) stream: remove thenable support (Robert Nagy) (#40773) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) stream: expose web streams globals, remove runtime experimental warning (Antoine du Hamel) (#42225) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) stream: need to cleanup event listeners if last stream is readable (Xuguang Mei) (#41954) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) stream: revert revert `map` spec compliance (Benjamin Gruenbaum) (#41933) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) stream: throw invalid arg type from End Of Stream (Jithil P Ponnan) (#41766) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) stream: don't emit finish after destroy (Robert Nagy) (#40852) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) stream: add errored and closed props (Robert Nagy) (#40696) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) test: add initial test module (Colin Ihrig) (#42325) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) timers: refactor internal classes to ES2015 syntax (Rabbit) (#37408) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) tls: represent registeredID numerically always (Tobias Nießen) (#41561) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) tls: move tls.parseCertString to end-of-life (Tobias Nießen) (#41479) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) url: throw on NULL in IPv6 hostname (Rich Trott) (#42313) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) v8: make v8.writeHeapSnapshot() error codes consistent (Darshan Sen) (#42577) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) v8: make writeHeapSnapshot throw if fopen fails (Antonio Román) (#41373) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) worker: expose BroadcastChannel as a global (James M Snell) (#41271) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) worker: graduate BroadcastChannel to supported (James M Snell) (#41271) PR-URL: #42262

Starting with Node.js 18 we have moved building the release binaries from being built on CentOS 7/RHEL 7 to being built on RHEL 8 as the End-of-Life date of CentOS 7/RHEL 7 is before the End-of-Life date of Node.js 18 and we do not want to have to make a disruptive change towards the end of Node.js 18's life cycle. Moving to RHEL 8 has raised the glibc version being linked against (2.28). The official Node.js Linux release binaries will only run on Linux distributions with a matching or higher version of glibc. PR-URL: nodejs#42659 Refs: nodejs/build#2815 Refs: nodejs/build#2741 Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <midawson@redhat.com> Reviewed-By: Stewart X Addison <sxa@redhat.com> Reviewed-By: Beth Griggs <bgriggs@redhat.com> Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>

Notable Changes: Deprecations and Removals: - (SEMVER-MAJOR) fs: runtime deprecate string coercion in `fs.write`, `fs.writeFileSync` (Livia Medeiros) (nodejs#42607) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) dns: remove `dns.lookup` and `dnsPromises.lookup` options type coercion (Antoine du Hamel) (nodejs#41431) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) process: runtime deprecate multipleResolves (Benjamin Gruenbaum) (nodejs#41896) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) stream: remove thenable support (Robert Nagy) (nodejs#40773) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) tls: move tls.parseCertString to end-of-life (Tobias Nießen) (nodejs#41479) fetch (experimental): An experimental fetch API is available on the global scope by default. The implementation is based upon https://undici.nodejs.org/#/, an HTTP/1.1 client written for Node.js by contributors to the project. Through this addition, the following globals are made available: `fetch` , `FormData`, `Headers`, `Request`, `Response`. Disable this API with the `--no-experimental-fetch` command-line flag. Contributed by Michaël Zasso in nodejs#41811. HTTP Timeouts: `server.headersTimeout`, which limits the amount of time the parser will wait to receive the complete HTTP headers, is now set to `60000` (60 seconds) by default. `server.requestTimeout`, which sets the timeout value in milliseconds for receiving the entire request from the client, is now set to `300000` (5 minutes) by default. If these timeouts expire, the server responds with status 408 without forwarding the request to the request listener and then closes the connection. Both timeouts must be set to a non-zero value to protect against potential Denial-of-Service attacks in case the server is deployed without a reverse proxy in front. Contributed by Paolo Insogna in nodejs#41263. Test Runner module (experimental): The `node:test` module facilitates the creation of JavaScript tests that report results in TAP format. This module is only available under the `node:` scheme. Contributed by Colin Ihrig in nodejs#42325. Toolchain and Compiler Upgrades: - Prebuilt binaries for Linux are now built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 and are compatible with Linux distributions based on glibc 2.28 or later, for example, Debian 10, RHEL 8, Ubuntu 20.04. - Prebuilt binaries for macOS now require macOS 10.15 or later. - For AIX the minimum supported architecture has been raised from Power 7 to Power 8. Prebuilt binaries for 32-bit Windows will initially not be available due to issues building the V8 dependency in Node.js. We hope to restore 32-bit Windows binaries for Node.js 18 with a future V8 update. Node.js does not support running on operating systems that are no longer supported by their vendor. For operating systems where their vendor has planned to end support earlier than April 2025, such as Windows 8.1 (January 2023) and Windows Server 2012 R2 (October 2023), support for Node.js 18 will end at the earlier date. Full details about the supported toolchains and compilers are documented in the Node.js `BUILDING.md` file. Contributed by Richard Lau in nodejs#42292, nodejs#42604 and nodejs#42659 , and Michaël Zasso in nodejs#42105 and nodejs#42666. V8 10.1: The V8 engine is updated to version 10.1, which is part of Chromium 101. Compared to the version included in Node.js 17.9.0, the following new features are included: - The `findLast` and `findLastIndex` array methods. - Improvements to the `Intl.Locale` API. - The `Intl.supportedValuesOf` function. - Improved performance of class fields and private class methods (the initialization of them is now as fast as ordinary property stores). The data format returned by the serialization API (`v8.serialize(value)`) has changed, and cannot be deserialized by earlier versions of Node.js. On the other hand, it is still possible to deserialize the previous format, as the API is backwards-compatible. Contributed by Michaël Zasso in nodejs#42657. Web Streams API (experimental): Node.js now exposes the experimental implementation of the Web Streams API on the global scope. This means the following APIs are now globally available: - `ReadableStream`, `ReadableStreamDefaultReader`, `ReadableStreamBYOBReader`, `ReadableStreamBYOBRequest`, `ReadableByteStreamController`, `ReadableStreamDefaultController`, `TransformStream`, `TransformStreamDefaultController`, `WritableStream`, `WritableStreamDefaultWriter`, `WritableStreamDefaultController`, `ByteLengthQueuingStrategy`, `CountQueuingStrategy`, `TextEncoderStream`, `TextDecoderStream`, `CompressionStream`, `DecompressionStream`. Contributed James Snell in nodejs#39062, and Antoine du Hamel in nodejs#42225. Other Notable Changes: - (SEMVER-MAJOR) buffer: expose Blob as a global (James M Snell) (nodejs#41270) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) child\_process: improve argument validation (Rich Trott) (nodejs#41305) - doc: add RafaelGSS to collaborators (RafaelGSS) (nodejs#42718) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) http: make TCP noDelay enabled by default (Paolo Insogna) (nodejs#42163) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) net: make `server.address()` return an integer for `family` (Antoine du Hamel) (nodejs#41431) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) worker: expose BroadcastChannel as a global (James M Snell) (nodejs#41271) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) worker: graduate BroadcastChannel to supported (James M Snell) (nodejs#41271) Semver-Major Commits: - (SEMVER-MAJOR) assert,util: compare RegExp.lastIndex while using deep equal checks (Ruben Bridgewater) (nodejs#41020) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) buffer: refactor `byteLength` to remove outdated optimizations (Rongjian Zhang) (nodejs#38545) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) buffer: expose Blob as a global (James M Snell) (nodejs#41270) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) buffer: graduate Blob from experimental (James M Snell) (nodejs#41270) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) build: make x86 Windows support temporarily experimental (Michaël Zasso) (nodejs#42666) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) build: bump macOS deployment target to 10.15 (Richard Lau) (nodejs#42292) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) build: downgrade Windows 8.1 and server 2012 R2 to experimental (Michaël Zasso) (nodejs#42105) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) child\_process: improve argument validation (Rich Trott) (nodejs#41305) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) cluster: make `kill` to be just `process.kill` (Bar Admoni) (nodejs#34312) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) crypto: cleanup validation (Mohammed Keyvanzadeh) (nodejs#39841) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) crypto: prettify othername in PrintGeneralName (Tobias Nießen) (nodejs#42123) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) crypto: fix X509Certificate toLegacyObject (Tobias Nießen) (nodejs#42124) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) crypto: use RFC2253 format in PrintGeneralName (Tobias Nießen) (nodejs#42002) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) crypto: change default check(Host|Email) behavior (Tobias Nießen) (nodejs#41600) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) deps: V8: cherry-pick semver-major commits from 10.2 (Michaël Zasso) (nodejs#42657) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) deps: update V8 to 10.1.124.6 (Michaël Zasso) (nodejs#42657) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) deps: update V8 to 9.8.177.9 (Michaël Zasso) (nodejs#41610) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) deps: update V8 to 9.7.106.18 (Michaël Zasso) (nodejs#40907) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) dns: remove `dns.lookup` and `dnsPromises.lookup` options type coercion (Antoine du Hamel) (nodejs#41431) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) doc: update minimum glibc requirements for Linux (Richard Lau) (nodejs#42659) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) doc: update AIX minimum supported arch (Richard Lau) (nodejs#42604) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) fs: runtime deprecate string coercion in `fs.write`, `fs.writeFileSync` (Livia Medeiros) (nodejs#42607) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) http: refactor headersTimeout and requestTimeout logic (Paolo Insogna) (nodejs#41263) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) http: make TCP noDelay enabled by default (Paolo Insogna) (nodejs#42163) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) lib: enable fetch by default (Michaël Zasso) (nodejs#41811) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) lib: replace validator and error (Mohammed Keyvanzadeh) (nodejs#41678) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) module,repl: support 'node:'-only core modules (Colin Ihrig) (nodejs#42325) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) net: make `server.address()` return an integer for `family` (Antoine du Hamel) (nodejs#41431) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) process: disallow some uses of Object.defineProperty() on process.env (Himself65) (nodejs#28006) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) process: runtime deprecate multipleResolves (Benjamin Gruenbaum) (nodejs#41896) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) readline: fix question still called after closed (Xuguang Mei) (nodejs#42464) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) stream: remove thenable support (Robert Nagy) (nodejs#40773) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) stream: expose web streams globals, remove runtime experimental warning (Antoine du Hamel) (nodejs#42225) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) stream: need to cleanup event listeners if last stream is readable (Xuguang Mei) (nodejs#41954) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) stream: revert revert `map` spec compliance (Benjamin Gruenbaum) (nodejs#41933) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) stream: throw invalid arg type from End Of Stream (Jithil P Ponnan) (nodejs#41766) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) stream: don't emit finish after destroy (Robert Nagy) (nodejs#40852) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) stream: add errored and closed props (Robert Nagy) (nodejs#40696) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) test: add initial test module (Colin Ihrig) (nodejs#42325) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) timers: refactor internal classes to ES2015 syntax (Rabbit) (nodejs#37408) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) tls: represent registeredID numerically always (Tobias Nießen) (nodejs#41561) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) tls: move tls.parseCertString to end-of-life (Tobias Nießen) (nodejs#41479) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) url: throw on NULL in IPv6 hostname (Rich Trott) (nodejs#42313) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) v8: make v8.writeHeapSnapshot() error codes consistent (Darshan Sen) (nodejs#42577) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) v8: make writeHeapSnapshot throw if fopen fails (Antonio Román) (nodejs#41373) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) worker: expose BroadcastChannel as a global (James M Snell) (nodejs#41271) - (SEMVER-MAJOR) worker: graduate BroadcastChannel to supported (James M Snell) (nodejs#41271) PR-URL: nodejs#42262

`nvm --lts` appears to be installing Node v18. Node 18 has switched the version of `glibc`, and the version it wants does not seem to be present on the AMI. Given Node 18 enters a formal LTS in Oct 2022, and builds should be individually managing their node version, this change removes any system wide install of node. See: nodejs/node#42659

* Revert "install latest nvm from an up to date source" This reverts commit de105e1. * fix: Don't install a system version of Node `nvm --lts` appears to be installing Node v18. Node 18 has switched the version of `glibc`, and the version it wants does not seem to be present on the AMI. Given Node 18 enters a formal LTS in Oct 2022, and builds should be individually managing their node version, this change removes any system wide install of node. See: nodejs/node#42659 * Explicitly install latest Node 16 via NVM * Specify default alias We were getting errors when attempting to start TeamCity: N/A: version "N/A -> N/A" is not yet installed. teamcityagent.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=3 You need to run "nvm install N/A" to install it before using it. It looks like the default version is not wired up correctly: nvm ls v16.15.0 default -> lts/Gallium (-> N/A) Co-authored-by: Jacob Winch <jacob.winch@guardian.co.uk>

cobalt2727 · 2022-05-28T16:32:57Z

Starting with Node.js 18 we have moved building the release binaries from being built on CentOS 7/RHEL 7 to being built on RHEL 8 as the End-of-Life date of CentOS 7/RHEL 7 is before the End-of-Life date of Node.js 18 and we do not want to have to make a disruptive change towards the end of Node.js 18's life cycle.

That's all well and good, but Ubuntu 18.04's end of standard support date isn't until 2023, and the end of life isn't until 2028 - could release binaries be built for this use case?

theofficialgman · 2022-05-29T03:38:48Z

@richardlau I feel like the change to RHEL 8 is unnecessary. Nodejs should have the resources to pay for a year of Extended Life-cycle Support for RHEL 7 which is always offered for releases for up to 2 years after the standard end of life date (that's beyond the end of life of nodejs 18)

The change to RHEL 8 artificially limits the capabilities of other LTS Linux releases by multiple years.

Dropping support on your builds of 18 LTS for 18.04 is going to cause issues for many developers that want to target that platform. As you have mentioned before, canonicals paid extended support is also an option if you build on it. Keep in mind that users get this extended support(an additional 5 years) for free

mscdex · 2022-05-30T02:44:57Z

Rather than relying on the underlying OS, wouldn't it be better to just use a custom toolchain to build the binaries? Something like crosstools-ng. That would allow you to choose the compiler, libc, architecture, etc.

sxa · 2022-05-31T15:15:13Z

It's certainly an option. At the Adoptium project I self-build the GCC compilers that we use which makes it fairly easy to stick them on your distribution of choice (Coincidentally with this discussion coming up I've been building GCC11 this week)

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