{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/nodejs/node/issues/5731","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/nodejs/node","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/nodejs/node/issues/5731/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/nodejs/node/issues/5731/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/nodejs/node/issues/5731/events","html_url":"https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/5731","id":141128135,"number":5731,"title":"Drop OS X 10.5 and 10.6 support in 6.0","user":{"login":"ofrobots","id":79017,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/79017?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/ofrobots","html_url":"https://github.com/ofrobots","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ofrobots/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ofrobots/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ofrobots/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ofrobots/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ofrobots/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ofrobots/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ofrobots/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ofrobots/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ofrobots/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/nodejs/node/labels/discuss","name":"discuss","color":"02d7e1"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/nodejs/node/labels/os%20x","name":"os x","color":"9944dd"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":9,"created_at":"2016-03-15T23:34:33Z","updated_at":"2016-03-18T13:48:04Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Similar to #3804 proposing dropping support for Windows XP and Vista in 6.0. This would be a good time to also consider dropping support for Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6. \r\n\r\n* OS X 10.5 (Leopard) has been unsupported as of June 23, 2011 and OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) has been unsupported as of Feb 2014.\r\n* I couldn't find any existing documentation on the minimum version of OS X we support for Node – are these even supported today?\r\n* Chrome dropped support for OS X 10.5 a long time ago and in November 2015 [announced](https://chrome.googleblog.com/2015/11/updates-to-chrome-platform-support.html) end of support for 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8.\r\n* I anticipate that V8 will start depending on C++11 library features going forward. On a Mac, this requires linking against libc++ which is only available from 10.7 onwards.\r\n* Do we have some status (e.g. from npm) if there is a non-trivial number of users affected by this? Unlike Windows, I don't expect a significant number of users stuck on old versions. If the usage numbers are low for 10.7 and 10.8, we should consider if we should still continue supporting those in 6.0.\r\n\r\n/cc @nodejs/ctc\r\n\r\nEDIT: typos."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/nodejs/node/issues/comments/198368370","html_url":"https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/5731#issuecomment-198368370","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/nodejs/node/issues/5731","id":198368370,"user":{"login":"mhdawson","id":9373002,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9373002?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/mhdawson","html_url":"https://github.com/mhdawson","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mhdawson/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mhdawson/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mhdawson/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mhdawson/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mhdawson/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mhdawson/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mhdawson/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mhdawson/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mhdawson/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-03-18T13:48:04Z","updated_at":"2016-03-18T13:48:04Z","body":"FYI - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/v8-users/Io_bXZ2bGG4\r\n\r\nv8 is raising minimum to 10.7 for 5.1.  \r\n\r\nI think that's a good rational for moving to 10.7 as well. "}}