Node-mssql: Question: When is 7.x coming?

[andrewmcgivery]

Hi Folks,

Curious when version 7 is coming down the pipe. The last release I see is from June for alpha 3 and the milestone seems to be marked as all tasks completed.

Asking because this repo is currently using a pretty out of date tedious version which is resulting in downstream security issues that cannot be resolved until version 7 is released.

Anything that the community can do to help?

[andrewmcgivery]

cc @dhensby

[dhensby]

At the moment the outstanding issues to get 7.x out are to get #1078 merged but that is proving difficult due to lack of time and getting the tests passing with msnodesqlv8.

I also need to ensure msnodesqlv8 v2 support in v7 of this repo.

[andrewmcgivery]

@dhensby Thank you for the update! I don't suppose it is possible to create a patch version of 6.x that upgrades tedious to the latest version? I suspect that would involve breaking changes, hence the 7.x major version?

[dhensby]

That's right, I'm afraid, it would be a breaking change so I won't release it under the 6.x line.

The 7.x line hasn't really had any major work beyond upgrading the tedious engine and is "stable" in all ways except the alpha name. I'm just holding off giving it an official stable release so that I can add these changes I want without then having to release an arbitrary 8.0.

If you pin to the current alpha, then you'll be safe to use this in prod (I am).

[dhensby]

I'm going to close this simply because it's not really an issue. I recommend people use the v7 alpha if they are in need of tedious v9 support.