Community support for Node 12 LTS in Azure App Service is retiring on April 30th 2022

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Community support for Node 12 LTS in Azure App Service is retiring on April 30th 2022

Deadline: Apr 30, 2022
Impacted Services:

• Azure App Service

More information:

• https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/node12/
• https://github.com/Azure/app-service-linux-docs/blob/master/Runtime_Support/node_support.md#how-to-update-your-app-to-target-a-different-version-of-node
• Community support for Node 14 LTS in Azure App Service is retiring on October 30th 2023 #228

Notice

Here's the official report from Microsoft:

On 30 April 2022, extended support for Node 12 LTS will end. After that date, your applications that are hosted on App Service will continue to run and your existing workloads will not be impacted. However, we'll no longer provide patches or customer service for Node 12 LTS.

Timeline

Phase	Date	Description
Announcement	Mar 16, 2022	Deprecation was announced
Deprecation	Apr 30, 2022	App Service apps will continue to run but no longer receive patches nor support

Impact

Community support for Node 12 LTS in Azure App Service is retiring on October 30th 2023 and upgrade to Node 14 or 16 LTS is required.

Required Action

While the recommendation is to upgrade to Node 14 LTS, do consider upgrading straight to Node 16 LTS given Node 14 LTS is deprecated and retiring in 2023 as well.

Here's the official report from Microsoft:

To minimize risk and potential security vulnerabilities, follow the steps to update your applications to Node 14 LTS before 30 April 2022.

Contact

You can get in touch through the following options:

• Get answers from Microsoft Q&A (link).
• Contact Azure support (link).

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