Version 7 [Draft]

[willfarrell]

aka The OTel Update (Hopefully)

Release: Nov (after nodejs active LTS starts)

Timeline based on AWS nodejs24.x release cycle

Release Notes: https://github.com/middyjs/middy/blob/release/7.0.0/website/docs/upgrade/6-7.md

Planned

• Drop Node v20, Add support fro Node v24

  • Update engines to "node": ">=22"
  • Update github workflows node-version
  • update "@types/node": "^22.0.0"
  • update @tsconfig/node22
  • update @tsconfig
  • update GitHub ruleset for main

• docs

  • Add docs/upgrade/6-7.md
  • update docs/intro/09-release cycle.md

• OTLP Support OpenTelemetry Protocol Support #1520

• LLRT Support LLRT Support #1181

Version 8

• Use new RegExp.escape function in routers (https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v24.0.0)
• Use new URLPattern function in routers (https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v24.0.0)
• Drop references to callback in core ([FEEDBACK REQUEST] Should AWS Lambda deprecate callback-style function handlers for Node.js 24 and later? aws/aws-lambda-nodejs-runtime-interface-client#137)
• Deprecate Report-To, default to Reporting-Endpoints (NEL still requires Report-To)

Maybe

• improve response streaming support (new middlewares?)
• plugins as packages?
• Move to JSDoc notation? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPOHY-cZ1wE
• Update abort signals if Lambda adds support