Support Node 6 and up

[sushantdhiman]

https://github.com/nodejs/Release#release-schedule

Node 4 Maintenance LTS is ending soon (on 2018-04-30) and all cloud function providers AWS, Google, Azure and IBM supports Node v6

[sushantdhiman]

Included in v5 branch

[SimonSchick]

Would it be possible to skip right to v8, seeing that v8 and v10 are both LTS?

[sushantdhiman]

No

[SimonSchick]

No.

Is there any particular reason why?

[dijonkitchen]

Probably because version 6.x is supported as an LTS until 2019.

[sushantdhiman]

Main reason is already stated

all cloud function providers AWS, Google, Azure and IBM supports Node v6

[SimonSchick]

@sushantdhiman all cloud providers you named now fully support v8.
v6 LTS ends in ~4 months, I think it would be sensible to release v5 targeting v8 instead.

[sushantdhiman]

I agree @SimonSchick , I planned v5 to be a quick iteration but release has been stretched further. Now it make sense to bump directly to Node 8 at least.

cls is a blocker atm, will have to look into implementing https://github.com/Jeff-Lewis/cls-hooked

[SimonSchick]

Can you elaborate what it is blocking exactly?