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date: '2016-12-21T14:51:36.880Z'
category: release
title: Node.js 0.12.18 (Maintenance)
layout: blog-post
author: Rod Vagg
---

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**Please be aware that this will likely be the final official release of the 0.12 release line. As per our [LTS schedule](https://github.com/nodejs/LTS/#lts-schedule), support for 0.12 ends on December 31st 2016. Please plan your migration to a newer, supported release line.**

### Notable changes

- **npm**: upgrade from v2.15.1 to v2.15.11, including accurate updated license (Jeremiah Senkpiel)
- **process**: `process.versions.ares` now outputs the c-ares version (Johan Bergström)

### Commits

- \[a47fd4549d] - build: add working lint-ci make target (Rod Vagg) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9151
- \[830584ca59] - deps: define missing operator delete functions (John Barboza) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10356
- \[c130b31cba] - deps: upgrade npm to 2.15.11 (Jeremiah Senkpiel) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9619
- \[bc6766d847] - doc: update npm license in main LICENSE file (Rod Vagg) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10352
- \[0cdf344c80] - (SEMVER-MINOR) process: reintroduce ares to versions (Johan Bergström) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9191
- \[d8e27ec30a] - test: mark dgram-multicast-multi-process as flaky (Rod Vagg) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9150
- \[c722335ead] - tls: fix minor jslint failure (Rod Vagg) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9107

Windows 32-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.12.18/node-v0.12.18-x86.msi \
Windows 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.12.18/x64/node-v0.12.18-x64.msi \
Windows 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.12.18/node.exe \
Windows 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.12.18/x64/node.exe \
macOS Universal Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.12.18/node-v0.12.18.pkg \
macOS 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.12.18/node-v0.12.18-darwin-x64.tar.gz \
macOS 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.12.18/node-v0.12.18-darwin-x86.tar.gz \
Linux 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.12.18/node-v0.12.18-linux-x86.tar.gz \
Linux 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.12.18/node-v0.12.18-linux-x64.tar.gz \
SmartOS 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.12.18/node-v0.12.18-sunos-x86.tar.gz \
Source Code: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.12.18/node-v0.12.18.tar.gz \
Other release files: https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.12.18/ \
Documentation: https://nodejs.org/docs/v0.12.18/api/

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