Release plan - v14.x Maintenance LTS

[BethGriggs]

Draft schedule - all dates subject to change

Release candidate	Release Date	Release	Releaser
-	2020-10-27	v14.15.0	@richardlau *LTS Transition Release
-	2020-11-16	v14.15.1 (Security)	@BethGriggs
2020-12-08	2020-12-15	v14.15.2	@BethGriggs
	2020-12-17	v14.15.3	@BethGriggs
2021-01-04	2021-01-04	v14.15.4 (security)	@BethGriggs
	2021-02-09	v14.15.5	@BethGriggs
-	2021-02-23	v14.16.0	@BethGriggs
-	2021-04-06	v14.16.1	@MylesBorins
2021-05-11	2021-05-11	v14.17.0	@danielleadams
2021-06-05	2021-06-15	v14.17.1	@targos
-	2021-07-01	v14.17.2 (Security)	@richardlau
-	2021-07-05	v14.17.3	@richardlau
2021-07-20	2021-07-29	v14.17.4 (Security)	@richardlau
2021-09-07	2021-09-28	v14.18.0	@targos
	2021-10-12	v14.18.1 (Security)	@danielleadams
	2021-11-30	v14.18.2	@richardlau
	2022-01-10	v14.18.3 (Security)	@richardlau
2022-01-25	2022-02-01	v14.19.0	@richardlau
-	2022-03-17	v14.19.1 (Security)	@richardlau
2022-04-X	2022-05-04	v14.19.2	@juanarbol
	2022-05-17	v14.19.3	@richardlau
	2022-07-07	v14.20.0 (Security)	@juanarbol (@danielleadams)
	2022-09-23	v14.20.1	@bengl
	2022-11-01	v14.21.0	@danielleadams
	2022-11-04	v14.21.1 (Security)	@BethGriggs
	2022-12-13	v14.21.2	@richardlau
	2023-02-16	v14.21.3	@richardlau (Security)
	2023-03-xx	v14.21.4	(Tentative last release before EOL)

Current

Release candidate	Release Date	Release	Releaser
-	2020-04-21	v14.0.0	@BethGriggs
-	2020-04-28	v14.1.0	@BethGriggs
-	2020-05-05	v14.2.0	@targos
-	2020-05-19	v14.3.0	@codebytere
-	2020-06-02	v14.4.0 (Security)	@targos
-	2020-06-04	Skipped	-
-	2020-06-30	v14.5.0	@codebytere
-	2020-07-21	v14.6.0	@MylesBorins
-	2020-07-29	v14.7.0	@ruyadorno / @MylesBorins
-	2020-08-11	v14.8.0	@codebytere
-	2020-08-25	v14.9.0	@danielleadams / @BethGriggs
-	2020-09-08	v14.10.0	@richardlau
-	2020-09-10	v14.10.1	@richardlau
-	2020-09-15	v14.11.0 (Security)	@richardlau
-	2020-09-22	v14.12.0	@ruyadorno
-	2020-10-06	v14.13.0	@danielleadams / @BethGriggs
-	2020-10-15	v14.14.0	@MylesBorins

[targos]

@BridgeAR since there's a security release today, I suggest to postpone the regular release by two days (or a week if that's more convenient for you)

[targos]

We missed the release last week. Do we want to do one tomorrow or wait for June 30?

[BethGriggs]

@targos I think doing one this week makes sense if someone has the availability to do so.

[codebytere]

Staging should be pretty updated, i audited most everything within the last few days - I’m ok with either but if we do one this week we might have next to nothing in the release on the 30th 🤔

[MylesBorins]

@ruyadorno and I are going to pair on the 7-28 release. 🎉

[MylesBorins]

As a heads up we had a number of issues with the 14.x release last week and are aiming to get it out on the 21st

[ruyadorno]

heads up, we're going to be pushing the 7-28 release a day, to Wednesday 29th instead 😊 /cc @MylesBorins

[codebytere]

Should we keep our original date of next tues for the next release? Given that the last one was only ~week ago it might make sense to push it out 🤔

[MylesBorins]

We usually have done 14.x every two weeks. I don't see a need to push it personally

[ruyadorno]

Signed up for the September 22nd release 😊

[MylesBorins]

There was a noticeable performance regression in 14.13.0 with the CJS exports change. Guy has landed a significant perf improvement over the weekend

nodejs/node#35574
nodejs/node#35583

Thinking we might want to push out another release this week. Thoughts?

[ruyadorno]

I've signed up for a v14 release at some point (TBD) in February so that we can include nodejs/node#45936 that should take care of nodejs/nodejs-dependency-vuln-assessments#88.

[Trott]

Is it likely that there will be one final release of 14.x or are we likely done barring a catastrophic security issue or something like that?

[targos]

I think it's unlikely at this point, but is there something you would like to see land on v14.x?

[Trott]

I think it's unlikely at this point, but is there something you would like to see land on v14.x?

Nope, I just wanted to make sure I was giving someone else accurate information. Thanks!

[richardlau]

There are currently 8 lts-watch-v14.x labelled PRs
https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues?q=is%3Aclosed+label%3Alts-watch-v14.x

I'm not sure anything there compels us to do a final 14.x release.
Other things that could go in a final 14.x release are a timezone update (2023c, needs manual PR targeting the version of ICU in v14.x-staging) and root certificate update (no PR yet, I have an automation PR open nodejs/node#47425 which would open a PR on main to update the root certificates). But those will be untested (the timezone update might go out in 19.9.0 but that's for a different version of ICU).