V4 Planned Changes

[bmish]

Starting a list of breaking changes to include in the next major release(s).

V4

• Drop support for Node 12 and Node 17 #495
• Drop support for Node 14 and Node 19 #607
• Consider optional dependencies #603
• Use object instead of string to represent package in Node API #609
• TODO

V4 when will it happen:

• Likely this release won't happen until 2023-04 or 2023-06 when we can drop Node 12/17/14/19 support, unless we meet the following criteria sooner
• I generally prefer to have good reason for a major release besides solely dropping old Node versions, including:
  • We have actual substantive breaking changes to release
  • The old Node versions are slowing down ongoing development
  • The old Node versions are preventing us from using newer dependencies we would like to use

For reference:

• V3 was released 2022-03.
• V2 was released 2022-02.

[bmish]

Completed: https://github.com/bmish/check-dependency-version-consistency/releases/tag/v4.0.0