From 1c6fadea3135e5f95f3042cf06cd71de49a33e8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Jo=C3=A3o=20Reis?= Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 22:53:21 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] meta: clarify EoL platform support MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/25838 Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso Reviewed-By: Сковорода Никита Андреевич Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig Reviewed-By: Rich Trott Reviewed-By: Richard Lau --- BUILDING.md | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/BUILDING.md b/BUILDING.md index fbd435172aa3d8..03e25f56a97f17 100644 --- a/BUILDING.md +++ b/BUILDING.md @@ -69,9 +69,12 @@ There are three support tiers: ### Supported platforms -The community does not build or test against end-of-life distributions (EoL). For production applications, run Node.js on supported platforms only. +Node.js does not support a platform version if a vendor has expired support +for it. In other words, Node.js does not support running on End-of-life (EoL) +platforms. This is true regardless of entries in the table below. + | System | Support type | Version | Architectures | Notes | | ------------ | ------------ | ------------------------------- | ---------------- | ----------------------------- | | GNU/Linux | Tier 1 | kernel >= 2.6.32, glibc >= 2.12 | x64, arm | |