LTS

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Long Term Support

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Fastify's Long Term Support (LTS) is provided according to the schedule laid out in this document:

1. Major releases, "X" release of semantic versioning X.Y.Z release versions, are supported for a minimum period of six months from their release date. The release date of any specific version can be found at https://github.com/fastify/fastify/releases.
2. Major releases will receive security updates for an additional six months from the release of the next major release. After this period, Fastify maintainers will still review and release security fixes as long as they are provided by the community and they do not violate other constraints, e.g., minimum supported Node.js version.
3. Major releases will be tested and verified against all Node.js release lines that are supported by the Node.js LTS policy within the LTS period of that given Fastify release line. This implies that only the latest Node.js release of a given line is supported.
4. In addition to Node.js runtime, major releases of Fastify will also be tested and verified against alternative runtimes that are compatible with Node.js. The maintenance teams of these alternative runtimes are responsible for ensuring and guaranteeing these tests work properly.
   1. N|Solid tests and verifies each Fastify major release against current N|Solid LTS versions. NodeSource ensures Fastify compatibility with N|Solid, aligning with the support scope of N|Solid LTS versions at the time of the Fastify release. This guarantees N|Solid users can confidently use Fastify.

A "month" is defined as 30 consecutive days.

Security Releases and Semver

As a consequence of providing long-term support for major releases, there are occasions when breaking changes must be released as a minor version release. Such changes will always be documented in the release notes.

To avoid automatically receiving breaking security updates, it is possible to use the tilde (~) range qualifier. For example, to get patches for the 3.15 release, and avoid automatically updating to the 3.16 release, specify the dependency as "fastify": "~3.15.x". This will leave your application vulnerable. Use this approach with caution.

Security Support Beyond LTS

Fastify's partner, HeroDevs, provides commercial security support through the OpenJS Ecosystem Sustainability Program for versions of Fastify that are EOL. For more information, see the Never Ending Support service offered.

Schedule

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Version	Release Date	End Of LTS Date	Node.js	Nsolid(Node)
1.0.0	2018-03-06	2019-09-01	6, 8, 9, 10, 11
2.0.0	2019-02-25	2021-01-31	6, 8, 10, 12, 14
3.0.0	2020-07-07	2023-06-30	10, 12, 14, 16, 18	v5(18)
4.0.0	2022-06-08	2025-06-30	14, 16, 18, 20, 22	v5(18), v5(20)
5.0.0	2024-09-17	TBD	20, 22	v5(20)

CI Tested Operating Systems

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Fastify uses GitHub Actions for CI testing, please refer to GitHub's documentation regarding workflow runners for further details on what the latest virtual environment is in relation to the YAML workflow labels below:

OS	YAML Workflow Label	Package Manager	Node.js	Nsolid(Node)
Linux	ubuntu-latest	npm	20	v5(20)
Linux	ubuntu-latest	yarn,pnpm	20	v5(20)
Windows	windows-latest	npm	20	v5(20)
MacOS	macos-latest	npm	20	v5(20)

When using yarn, the --ignore-engines flag may be required.