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62 lines
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# Electron Support
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## Supported Versions
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The Electron maintainers support the latest three release branches.
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For example, if the latest release is 2.0.x, then the 2-0-x series
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is supported, as are the two previous release series 1-7-x and 1-8-x.
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When a release branch reaches the end of its support cycle,
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the series will be deprecated in NPM and a final end-of-support release
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will be made. This release will add a console warning to inform that
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an unsupported version of Electron is in use.
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These steps are to help app developers learn when a branch they're using
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becomes unsupported, and to avoid being intrusive to end users.
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If an application has exceptional circumstances and needs to stay
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on an unsupported series of Electron, developers can silence the
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end-of-support warning by omitting the final release from the app's
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`package.json` `devDependencies`. For example, since the 1-6-x series
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ended with an end-of-support 1.6.18 release, developers could choose
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to stay in the 1-6-x series without warnings with `devDependency of
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`"electron": 1.6.0 - 1.6.17`.
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## Supported Platforms
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Following platforms are supported by Electron:
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### macOS
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Only 64bit binaries are provided for macOS, and the minimum macOS version
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supported is macOS 10.9.
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### Windows
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Windows 7 and later are supported, older operating systems are not supported
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(and do not work).
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Both `ia32` (`x86`) and `x64` (`amd64`) binaries are provided for Windows.
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Please note, the `ARM` version of Windows is not supported for now.
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### Linux
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The prebuilt `ia32` (`i686`) and `x64` (`amd64`) binaries of Electron are built on
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Ubuntu 12.04, the `armv7l` binary is built against ARM v7 with hard-float ABI and
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NEON for Debian Wheezy.
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[Until the release of Electron 2.0][arm-breaking-change], Electron will also
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continue to release the `armv7l` binary with a simple `arm` suffix. Both binaries
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are identical.
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Whether the prebuilt binary can run on a distribution depends on whether the
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distribution includes the libraries that Electron is linked to on the building
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platform, so only Ubuntu 12.04 is guaranteed to work, but following platforms
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are also verified to be able to run the prebuilt binaries of Electron:
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* Ubuntu 12.04 and newer
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* Fedora 21
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* Debian 8
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[arm-breaking-change]: https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/master/docs/tutorial/planned-breaking-changes.md#duplicate-arm-assets
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