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Copy-edit for clarity and brevity. PR-URL: #23966 Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com> Reviewed-By: Trivikram Kamat <trivikr.dev@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Franziska Hinkelmann <franziska.hinkelmann@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Matheus Marchini <mat@mmarchini.me> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Vse Mozhet Byt <vsemozhetbyt@gmail.com>
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## Supported platforms
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This list of supported platforms is current as of the branch/release to
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### Input
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Node.js relies on V8 and libuv. We adopt a subset of their supported platforms.
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### Strategy
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Support is divided into three tiers:
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There are three support tiers:
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* **Tier 1**: Full test coverage and maintenance by the Node.js core team and
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the broader community.
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* **Tier 2**: Full test coverage but more limited maintenance,
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often provided by the vendor of the platform.
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* **Experimental**: May not compile reliably or test suite may not pass.
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These are often working to be promoted to Tier 2 but are not quite ready.
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There is at least one individual actively providing maintenance and the team
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is striving to broaden quality and reliability of support.
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* **Tier 2**: Full test coverage. Limited maintenance, often provided by the
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vendor of the platform.
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* **Experimental**: May not compile or test suite may not pass.
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These are often approaching Tier 2 support but are not quite ready.
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There is at least one individual providing maintenance.
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### Supported platforms
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The community does not build or test against end-of-life distributions (EoL).
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Thus, we do not recommend that you use Node on end-of-life or unsupported
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Thus, we do not recommend that you use Node.js on end-of-life or unsupported
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platforms in production.
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