Remove support for glibc < 2.28

[MikeMcC399]

What would you like?

For the next major version of Cypress, support for Linux systems with the glibc library < 2.28 should be removed. This includes:

OS version	GLIBC version	EOL
CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core)	ldd (GNU libc) 2.17	June 30, 2024
Amazon Linux release 2 (Karoo)	ldd (GNU libc) 2.26	June 30, 2025
Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS	ldd (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1.6) 2.27	May 31, 2023
RHEL 7	2.17	June 30, 2024

Why is this needed?

• The minimum supported version of Node.js is 18.x (Node.js 16.x reached end-of-life on Sep 11, 2023).
• Node.js 18 specifies glibc >= 2.28 for both x64 and arm64 architectures.

Other

The Cypress 13.0.0 changelog has already deprecated Node.js 16

Node 14 support has been removed and Node 16 support has been deprecated. Node 16 may continue to work with Cypress v13, but will not be supported moving forward to closer coincide with Node 16's end-of-life schedule. It is recommended that users update to at least Node 18.

Installing Cypress > Operating System contains the text:

We recommend that users update to at least Node.js 18.x. For related reasons, Cypress deprecates the use of Linux operating systems with library glibc versions 2.17 - 2.27. The Linux CLI command ldd --version displays your glibc version.

• Relates to Remove support for Node.js 16 and 21 #29601
• Relates to Cypress 14: Breaking changes #29925

[jennifer-shehane]

This will be released in Cypress 14.