Community support for Node 16 LTS for Azure App Service is retiring on September 11th, 2023

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Community support for Node 16 LTS for Azure App Service is retiring on September 11th, 2023

Deprecation ID: 6aef90ec-ab8a-43e7-a273-9965a2b16d75 Deadline: Sep 11, 2023 Impacted Services:

• Azure App Service
• Azure Web App

More information:

• Announcement
• Upgrade Guide

Notice

Here's the official report from Microsoft:

Node 16 LTS support is ending on 11 September 2023. Any applications hosted on Azure App Service that are still using it won't be supported after this. After 11 September 2023, your applications will continue to run unchanged but won't receive any patches.

Timeline

Phase	Date	Description
Announcement	Oct 21, 2022	Deprecation was announced
Deprecation	Sep 11, 2023	Applications will still run but not receive patches.

Impact

Community support for Node 16 LTS for Azure App Service is retiring on September 11th, 2023 and upgrade to Node 18 is required.

Required Action

An upgrade guide is provided here.

Here's the official report from Microsoft:

To minimize risk and potential security vulnerabilities, follow the steps to update your applications to Node 18 LTS before 11 September 2023.

Contact

You can get in touch through the following options:

• Contact Azure support (link).
• Get answers from Microsoft Q&A (link).

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