Starting with the 8.0.23 release,
Connector/Node.js will be deprecating support
for End-of-life Node.js engine versions. Support for these
versions will eventually be removed on subsequent releases which
will focus on compatibility with the available LTS versions at
the date of each release.
Why now?
Up until now, the minimum Node.js engine version compatible with
Connector/Node.js was version
4.2.0. This is a fairly old release that has reached
End-of-life status in 2018 and, of course, hasn’t been maintained
since then. This is also the case for the next two major Node.js
versions – v6 and v8 – and will
soon (April 30, 2021) be the case for Node.js
v10. So, as of today, the oldest LTS version
available is effectively Node.js v12, and the …