Use Case

As a... Node.js driver developer
I want... to remove testing for Node versions < 16.latest
So that... we reduce unnecessary overhead of maintaining unsupported Node.js versions

User Impact

• Users adopting the latest driver will have to upgrade to a supported Node.js runtime version

Dependencies

• Shell

Unknowns

• How do we want to capture this in the official compat tables?

Acceptance Criteria

Implementation Requirements

• Remove Node versions < 16.latest (16.20 as of the writing of this ticket) from our testing matrix for the upcoming major version releases of:
  • node driver main
  • legacy driver
  • js-bson
  • mongo client encryption
• TS target = ES 2021

Testing Requirements

• If any CI tasks are using a hardcoded version 16, these tasks should be upgraded to Node 18+; the tests in these tasks should continue to pass
• Node 16 should be removed from the matrix versions and be tested as a stand-alone configuration with rapid server version replica-set (and possibly lowest supported server version), with fle and auth enabled
  • smoke test strategy - we won't to do that in this ticket, as long as the CI doesn't break - we'll do it as part of NODE-5302

Documentation Requirements

• Add a note to the migration guides and/or readme of each affected repo
• DOCSP ticket to document the compat for the upcoming release

Follow Up Requirements

• N/A