Node.js 8.0.0 Tracking Issue

[jasnell]

It's still very early in the process, but this will be the issue that I use to track the issues and todo's around the Node.js 8.0.0 release that will land in April 2017. The current plan is to cut the v8.x branch off master in the first couple of weeks in March 2017 (just about 3 months from now). This issue will be updated periodically with the relevant todo's.

[targos]

We could also try to use a Github project?

[jasnell]

Perhaps. I'm not sure how that would be any different than the milestone, however.

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[Trott]

Probably need to add an issue for deprecating the current CLI debugger.

[jasnell]

Ooh... Yeah, good idea. We will need the new stuff to come out of experimental at the same time the old debugger deprecates.

[targos]

Yeah this is very important because we will probably have V8 5.8 or 5.9 by the time of the release and the old debugging protocol is removed as of 5.7! See: #9789

[Fishrock123]

and the old debugging protocol is removed as of 5.7!

It would be nice if they could have, you know, given us a heads up specifically about that. Thanks V8 team. 😠

Guess we need to issue another semver-minor deprecation in node 7 and maybe 6 that everyone will hate.

[Trott]

It would be nice if they could have, you know, given us a heads up specifically about that. Thanks V8 team. 😠

The protocol has been deprecated in V8 for at least one year, and I think longer than that.

@ofrobots opened an issue in June to discuss getting off the deprecated protocol. I'm pretty sure he surfaced the issue before that too, but certainly at least since then.

[Trott]

By the way, the debugger thing is on the CTC agenda this week, at least indirectly, as nodejs/CTC#40.

[klimashkin]

@targos Is there a date when 8.0.0 is going to be released?
V5 5.7 will be around the beginning of March, 5.8 - middle of April

[chicoxyzzy]

Node.js 8.0.0 release that will land in April 2017

[klimashkin]

So there is hope that nodejs release will wait for V8 5.8, as 7.0.0 did with 5.4

[Fishrock123]

Only if V8 5.8 comes out in April.