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Supported Platforms Node Versions

Bindu Wavell edited this page Mar 25, 2017 · 8 revisions

The Yeoman generator for Alfresco (generator-alfresco) requires Node 4.0 or above. The Yeoman tooling dropped support for Node 0.10 with the release of 1.0 generator stuff. We were attempting to support this version of Node because this is provided with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS which is on the supported platforms list for both Alfresco 5.0 and 5.1.

Given that Suse 12.0 includes Node 4.x in their default repo we are now moving to requiring Node 4.0 or above as no other supported platform has a lower version that we can use. Generally speaking a modern version of Node should be used. This is for both security and performance reasons.

Following is a summary of Node support provided by operating systems on Alfresco's Supported Platforms lists for each version of Alfresco the generator supports:

Alfresco 5.0

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 - Must install
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 - Must install
  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Node JS 0.10.25
  • Suse 12.0 - Node JS 4
  • Oracle Solaris 11.2 - Must install

Alfresco 5.1

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 - Must install
  • CentOS 7 - Must install
  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Node JS 0.10.25
  • Suse 12.0 - Node JS 4
  • Oracle Solaris 11.2 - Must install

If you currently have a version of Node that is less than 4.0, you will need to install a newer version. If you have to install anyway, why not go with the latest and greatest?

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