Node 11 & 12 Support

The agent does not yet officially support Node versions 11 & 12.

We will be opening up the engines restriction, in a release to follow soon, to allow those who would like to take advantage of agent features on newer versions of node. Using the agent in these situations will come with some additional risk. While the agent should work well for most standard cases, there may be some subtly broken features.

This issue will serve as a place to add any discovered issues/incompatibilities with Node 11 & 12. It should help inform if there are any risks too large to take on in your own project and will also help inform our official support as we tackle that.

[michaelgoin]

We shipped official Node 12 parity support yesterday!

Here’s the release notes for more information on release 6.0.0.

There’s one final potential issue with native metrics you can follow here: https://github.com/newrelic/node-native-metrics/issues/62. For the most part, issues we’ve seen with native metrics modules have been around needing to upgrade dependencies to build against the Node 12 API but we do have fall-back binaries for install now.

Closing this issue out in the main agent repo.

[daveisfera]

I understand that, but python isn’t installed in the node 10 images and the above command completes without any issues:

> docker run --rm -it node:10.16.3-alpine yarn add newrelic
yarn add v1.17.3
info No lockfile found.
[1/4] Resolving packages...
[2/4] Fetching packages...
[3/4] Linking dependencies...
[4/4] Building fresh packages...
success Saved lockfile.
success Saved 23 new dependencies.
info Direct dependencies
└─ newrelic@5.11.0
info All dependencies
├─ @newrelic/koa@1.0.8
├─ @newrelic/native-metrics@4.1.0
├─ @newrelic/superagent@1.0.3
├─ @tyriar/fibonacci-heap@2.0.9
├─ agent-base@4.3.0
├─ async@2.6.3
├─ buffer-from@1.1.1
├─ concat-stream@2.0.0
├─ debug@3.2.6
├─ es6-promise@4.2.8
├─ es6-promisify@5.0.0
├─ https-proxy-agent@2.2.2
├─ json-stringify-safe@5.0.1
├─ lodash@4.17.15
├─ ms@2.1.2
├─ nan@2.14.0
├─ newrelic@5.11.0
├─ readable-stream@3.4.0
├─ safe-buffer@5.2.0
├─ semver@5.7.1
├─ string_decoder@1.3.0
├─ typedarray@0.0.6
└─ util-deprecate@1.0.2
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