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blog: announce shortening of Node.js 16 lifecycle #4629

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Refs: nodejs/TSC#1222

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I picked some arbitrary date (a week from now) to give some time for reviews. In my opinion the publish date is flexible as long as it is within the next few weeks.

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# Bringing forward the End-of-Life Date for Node.js 16 to September 11th, 2023

**tl;dr:** we're planning to bring forward the End-of-Life date of Node.js 16 by seven months to coincide with the end of support of OpenSSL 1.1.1 on September 11th, 2023.
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**tl;dr:** we're planning to bring forward the End-of-Life date of Node.js 16 by seven months to coincide with the end of support of OpenSSL 1.1.1 on September 11th, 2023.
We are moving the End-of-Life date of Node.js 16 by seven months to coincide with the end of support of OpenSSL 1.1.1 on September 11th, 2023.

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I've put a "Summary" heading on this sentence (and dropped the "tl;dr".


When we put together Node.js 16 the hope was that we would be able to include OpenSSL 3. Unfortunately the timing of the releases did not allow that to be possible, and we released Node.js 16 with OpenSSL 1.1.1. OpenSSL 1.1.1 is [scheduled to be supported up until September 11th, 2023](https://www.openssl.org/policies/releasestrat.html), which is seven months before the planned End-of-Life date of Node.js 16 (April 2024).

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@SEWeiTung SEWeiTung merged commit 8930990 into nodejs:main Jun 11, 2022
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https://nodejs.org/en/about/releases/, https://github.com/nodejs/nodejs.org/blob/main/source/schedule.json, and https://github.com/nodejs/Release probably need to be updated as well.

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Trott pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Jun 12, 2022
Refs: #4629

Co-authored-by: Maledong <maledong_github@outlook.com>
richardlau added a commit to richardlau/Release that referenced this pull request Jun 13, 2022
Update schedule, README table and chart to reflect the change to
Node.js 16's End-of-Life date to September 11, 2023.

Move Node.js 17 to End-of-Life table.

Refs: nodejs/TSC#1222
Refs: nodejs/nodejs.org#4629
@richardlau richardlau deleted the 16-eol branch June 13, 2022 16:44
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richardlau added a commit to nodejs/Release that referenced this pull request Jun 15, 2022
Update schedule, README table and chart to reflect the change to
Node.js 16's End-of-Life date to September 11, 2023.

Move Node.js 17 to End-of-Life table.

Refs: nodejs/TSC#1222
Refs: nodejs/nodejs.org#4629
Soufiane88216 added a commit to Soufiane88216/Release that referenced this pull request Jan 30, 2025
Update schedule, README table and chart to reflect the change to
Node.js 16's End-of-Life date to September 11, 2023.

Move Node.js 17 to End-of-Life table.

Refs: nodejs/TSC#1222
Refs: nodejs/nodejs.org#4629
Miguel57216 added a commit to Miguel57216/Release that referenced this pull request Jan 30, 2025
Update schedule, README table and chart to reflect the change to
Node.js 16's End-of-Life date to September 11, 2023.

Move Node.js 17 to End-of-Life table.

Refs: nodejs/TSC#1222
Refs: nodejs/nodejs.org#4629
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