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Node 6 support

Agent tasks can be implemented in PowerShell or Node. The agent currently ships with three versions of Node that tasks can target: 6, 10 & 16.

Since Node 6 has long passed out of the upstream maintenance window, and all officially supported tasks are migrated from Node 6 to Node 10, Node 6 soon will be removed from the agent package. It's also highly recommended to third-party task maintainers migrate tasks to Node 10 or Node 16.

However, to support backward compatibility with the Node 6 tasks we provide self-service methods to install the designated Node runner manually.

Install Node 6 runner manually

To support the execution of Node 6 tasks agent should be provided with the latest Node 6 version - 6.17.1.0.

Despite that Node 6 is officially reached the End-of-Life, please, notice that it still can have maintenance updates, so it is required for the agent to get the latest binaries. You can check the currently existing Node versions here.

Please use the following steps to manually install the required runner:

  1. Download the latest available version of Node 6 binaries for your operating system from the official Node registry.

  2. Create a folder named node under the agent/externals directory, and extract downloaded Node binaries into that folder.

You can also use the following commands to install the Node 6 runner via the Powershell or Bash:

Windows:

    $agentFolder = ""   // Specify the Azure DevOps Agent folder, e.g. C:\agents\my_agent
    $osArch = ""        // Specify the OS architecture, e.g. x64 / x86

    New-Item -Type Directory -Path "${agentFolder}\externals\node"

    Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.17.1/win-${osArch}/node.exe" -OutFile "${agentFolder}\externals\node\node.exe"
    Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.17.1/win-${osArch}/node.lib" -OutFile "${agentFolder}\externals\node\node.lib"

Linux / macOS:

    agent_folder=""   // Specify the Azure DevOps Agent folder, e.g. /home/user/agents/my_agent
    os_platform=""    // Specify the OS platform, e.g. linux / darwin
    os_arch=""        // Specify the OS architecture, e.g. x64 / x86

    mkdir "${agent_folder}/externals/node"

    wget -O "/tmp/node-v6.17.1-${os_platform}-${os_arch}.tar.gz" "https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.17.1/node-v6.17.1-${os_platform}-${os_arch}.tar.gz"

    tar -xvf "/tmp/node-v6.17.1-${os_platform}-${os_arch}.tar.gz" -C "${agent_folder}/externals/node/"

Install Node runner via NodeTaskRunnerInstaller

You can also use the Azure DevOps task NodeTaskRunnerInstaller to install the required runner version via Azure DevOps CI.

Use the following pipeline task sample to install the latest version of Node 6 runner:

  - task: NodeTaskRunnerInstaller@0
    inputs:
      runnerVersion: 6

Please, check more details in NodeTaskRunnerInstaller task documentation.