Released: Upgrade to Node 6 and NPM 3
Brian Jacobel
Hi all,
We’ve just merged changes that upgrade the Node version in all of our environments to Node 6.9, the current LTS version. (We were previously using 0.10, which was EOLed earlier this year.)
There should be no changes necessary to your environments. All JS code and tools are currently and will continue to be backwards compatible with 0.10 for the foreseeable future. (When Ficus is released, many people will rebuild their environments — at that point we’ll evaluate whether we can begin working with tools that do not support Node 0.10, such as Webpack.)
If you do want to get Node 6 in your environment right now (again, this is not necessary for the vast majority of devstack users, or current OpenedX installations), I’ve created a doc to help you upgrade here.
Best,
