[Engineering] Parsoid: node 0.1x deprecated now; node 0.1x support will end March 31st, 2017

[Subramanya Sastry]

To followup on the earlier announcement from November 2016, Parsoid no 
longer supports node v0.1x.

The master branch of Parsoid now requires node v4 or higher. It has been 
tested with node v4 and node v6.

Last week, we release a new debian and npm version of Parsoid, v0.7.1 
[1]. This version requires node v4 or higher.

If you are running an older version of Parsoid or node, we encourage you 
to upgrade since node v0.1x versions have reached end of life [2]

Subbu.

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Releases
[2] https://github.com/nodejs/LTS

On 11/15/2016 06:10 PM, Subramanya Sastry wrote:
> The Parsing team at the Wikimedia Foundation that develops the Parsoid 
> service is deprecating support for node 0.1x. Parsoid is the service 
> that powers VisualEditor, Content Translation, and Flow. If you don't 
> run a MediaWiki install that uses VisualEditor, then this announcement 
> does not affect you.
>
> Node 0.10 has reached end of life on October 31st, 2016 [1] and node 
> 0.12 is scheduled to reach end of life December 31st, 2016 [1].
>
> Yesterday, we released a 0.6.1 debian package [2] and a 0.6.1 npm 
> version of Parsoid [3]. This will be the last release that will have 
> node 0.1x support. We'll continue to provide any necessary critical 
> bug fixes and security fixes for the 0.6.1 release till March 31st 
> 2017 and will be completely dropping support for all node versions 
> before node v4.x starting April 2017.
>
> If you are running a Parsoid service on your wiki and are still using 
> node 0.1x, please upgrade your node version by April 2017. The 
> Wikimedia cluster runs node v4.6 right now and will soon be upgraded 
> to node v6.x [4]. Parsoid has been tested with node 0.1x, node v4.x 
> and node v6.x and works with all these versions. However, we are 
> dropping support for node 0.1x right away from the master branch of 
> Parsoid. Going forward, the Parsoid codebase will adopt ES6 features 
> available in node v4.x and higher which aren't supported in node 0.1x 
> and will constitute a breaking change.
>
> Subramanya Sastry (Subbu),
> Technical Lead and Manager,
> Parsing Team,
> Wikimedia Foundation.
>
> [1] Node.js Long Term Support schedule @ https://github.com/nodejs/LTS
> [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Releases
> [3] https://www.npmjs.com/package/parsoid
> [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149331