Meteor 1.9 is out

rjdavid · January 9, 2020, 5:13am

Great news to start the year: Release release/METEOR@1.9 · meteor/meteor · GitHub

This comes with Node 12 as the core feature

Cordova 9 is also coming to Meteor (and a lot of package updates):

A good start for year 2020 for Meteor. Thanks to everyone involved with these new versions

rjdavid · January 9, 2020, 5:20am

History.md

github.com

meteor/meteor/blob/release/METEOR@1.9/History.md

## v1.9

### Breaking changes

* Because Node.js 12 no longer supports 32-bit Linux, Meteor 1.9 has also
  dropped support for 32-bit Linux. In other words, Meteor 1.9 supports
  64-bit Mac, Windows, and Linux, as well as 32-bit Windows.

### Migration Steps
N/A

### Changes

* Node.js has been updated to version
  [12.14.0](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v12.14.0/), which includes
  several major Node.js versions since 8.17.0 (used by Meteor 1.8.3):
  * [12.0.0](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v12.0.0/)
  * [11.0.0](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v10.0.0/)
  * [10.0.0](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v10.0.0/)
  * [9.0.0](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v9.0.0/)

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orloff · January 9, 2020, 7:43am

I like the speed with which the new meteor flies!

jorgeer · January 9, 2020, 9:02am

Nice, I hope the fibers garbage collection makes a difference. Looking forward to trying it out.

jkuester · January 9, 2020, 9:16am

Wohooo

martineboh · January 9, 2020, 12:36pm

This is great news! Time to try this baby.

red-meadow · January 9, 2020, 1:18pm

The feature that restarts the application up to two times if it crashes on startup has been removed.

I’m gonna get drunk.

stolinski · January 9, 2020, 3:58pm

Yay! Congrats. Love all the news and updates coming down the pipeline.

dalvarez · January 12, 2020, 12:35am

This is great!

guidouil · January 13, 2020, 1:48pm

So when will it be out ?
my meteor update still tells me This project is already at Meteor 1.8.3, the latest release.
Also this page still mention the 1.8.2 version as current

illustreets · January 13, 2020, 2:13pm

That is because it does not have yet the “recommended” status. Run meteor update --release 1.9 and it should work just fine.

permb · January 13, 2020, 2:56pm

Great work - many thanks to all contributors!
It seemed to work with hiccups for me so I put it out on production yesterday.

filipenevola · January 13, 2020, 7:44pm

Meteor 1.9 is now recommended

mikeacre · January 14, 2020, 1:30pm

If I update to 1.9 but I am running node 8 on my EC2 server do I need to update my node on my EC2 to 12 first??

janmp · January 14, 2020, 2:56pm

Yes. The bundle won’t run properly if the the Node version doesn’t mach.

davideonmeteor · January 14, 2020, 3:05pm

Now i’m on 1.8.1, do you know if update to 1.9 we have to follow all “Migration Steps” ? (to 1.8.2 and 1.8.3 ? 1.9 have nothing to do)

illustreets · January 14, 2020, 10:12pm

You don’t need to upgrade incrementally, however, make sure you read about major changes / breaking changes between versions.

vikr00001 · January 14, 2020, 11:31pm

IIRC node 12 is 64-bit only so 64-bit hardware is now required. Otherwise, because of Meteor’s emphasis on backward compatibility, there are usually no breaking changes.

beltzaser · January 15, 2020, 3:22am

Bcrypt doesn’t build with 1.9 I had to revert back to 1.8.x until I can find a solution.

theosp · January 15, 2020, 3:35am

What is the process that a version goes through to become recommended ?