As this Change is already implemented in rawhide, this announcement is done mostly for "record only" purpose to increase awareness about the changes it implements. = Proposed Self Contained Change: Node.js 6.x = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NodeJS6x Change owner(s): * Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh AT redhat DOT com> Fedora 25 will be updated to Node.js 6.x, the latest LTS release of the platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. == Detailed Description == Node.js has seen many changes between v4.x and v6.x. [There is a listing of changes documented on the wiki for [5.x and 6.x Note that this release includes API updates that may require dependency updates. Upstream maintains an exhaustive list of interesting changes here. These are just some of the changes you can find in this release of v5.x, and it's thanks to the hard work of the community and the members of team curating Node.js. Node.js 6.x will be under active development until October 2016, at which time it will enter its long-term stable release, which will be maintained actively through April 2018 (after the expected release of Fedora 27) and for security issues for another year after that. == Scope == * Proposal owners: - Update nodejs - Rebuild all binary modules, apply patches as necessary * Other developers: - Other Node.js packagers' attention may be required if the update causes issues for their packages. * Release engineering: N/A * Policies and guidelines: - No expected changes * Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change) -- Jan Kuřík Platform & Fedora Program Manager Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
