The latest release (1.8.5) breaks for node 6.10 on [email protected]

[nishant-lbb]

Getting this : node_modules/gaxios/build/src/index.js:28
async function request(opts) {
^^^^^^^^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token function

[kubicle]

We get the same one.
Why was dropping node 6 released as a "patch" version, is this normal?

[AndrewSolonovich]

Have the same issue. Is there a possible workaround?
BTW our version of node is 6.17 (latest docker node 6)

[nishant-lbb]

I explicitly defined gaxios: 1.8.4 as a top level dependency. That seemed to work for us.

[ThamiduNaveen]

/user_code/node_modules/firebase-admin/node_modules/gaxios/build/src/index.js:28
async function request(opts) {
^^^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token function
fails the firebase-admin

[kechkibet]

Following, breaks my firebase functions when i try to use admin

[m4recek]

Cant deploy our Firebase projects on Node 6 because of this. Dropping Node version should be done as major release.

[kechkibet]

I had to change the engine on firebase functions to node 8 for it to work. as per this link:
https://firebase.google.com/docs/functions/manage-functions

"engines": {"node": "8"}

[m4recek]

@kechkibet there is a unfixed problem with Node 8 in Firebase firebase/firebase-functions#429

[JustinBeckwith]

Greetings folks! Apologies for the problems. This was supposed to be a semver major bump, and something went wrong in the automated release machinery. I un-published [email protected], and ensured the dist tag is set to [email protected]. We will be digging into what happened here today.

Can someone delete their package-lock.json, npm install, and verify this still works?

[m4recek]

It works. Thank you for quick resolution :)

[ThamiduNaveen]

@m4recek is that connection error on 8 appear frequently?. In which cases that appear?

[m4recek]

@ThamiduNaveen very frequently, we have scraped production update to Node 8 because of it. More is here firebase/firebase-functions#429