Deprecated features are features that iotagent-json stills support but that are not maintained or evolved any longer. In particular:
- Bugs or issues related with deprecated features and not affecting any other feature are not addressed (they are closed in github.com as soon as they are spotted).
- Documentation on deprecated features is removed from the repository documentation. Documentation is still available in the documentation set associated to older versions (in the repository release branches).
- Deprecated functionality is eventually removed from iotagent-json. Thus you are strongly encouraged to change your implementations using iotagent-json in order not rely on deprecated functionality.
A list of deprecated features and the version in which they were deprecated follows:
- Support to NGSI v1 (finally removed in 1.18.0)
- Support to Node.js v4 in iotagent-json 1.9.0 (finally removed in 1.10.0)
- Support to Node.js v6 in iotagent-json 1.10.0 (finally removed in 1.11.0)
- Support to Node.js v8 in iotagent-json 1.14.0 (finally removed in 1.15.0)
- Support to Node.js v10 in iotagent-json 1.17.0. (finally removed in 1.18.0)
- Support to NGSI-LD v1.3 in iotagent-json 1.26.0
The use of Node.js v14 is highly recommended.
Although you are encouraged to use always the newest iotagent-json version, take into account the following information in the case you want to use old versions:
- Code corresponding to old releases is available at the
iotagent-json GitHub repository. Each release number (e.g. 1.8.0 )
has associated the following: - A tag, e.g.
1.8.0. It points to the base version. - A release branch,release/1.8.0. The HEAD of this branch usually matches the aforementioned tag. However, if some hotfixes were developed on the base version, this branch contains such hotfixes. - Documentation corresponding to old versions can be found at readthedocs.io. Use the panel in the right bottom corner to navigate to the right version.
- Docker images corresponding to iotagent-json can be found at Dockerhub.
The following table provides information about the last iotagent-json version supporting currently removed features:
| Removed feature | Last iotagent-json version supporting feature | That version release date |
|---|---|---|
| NGSIv1 API | 1.17.0 | February 18th, 2021 |
| Support to Node.js v4 | 1.9.0 | December 19th, 2018 |
| Support to Node.js v6 | 1.10.0 | May 22nd, 2019 |
| Support to Node.js v8 | 1.14.0 | April 7th, 2020 |
| Support to Node.js v10 | 1.17.0 | February 18th, 2021 |