Resources for developers building with and expanding the Netlify platformhttps://www.netlify.com/https://answers.netlify.com/t/build-plugins-end-of-support-for-node-js-14-node-js-16/136405https://answers.netlify.com/t/build-plugins-end-of-support-for-node-js-14-node-js-16/136405The following versions of Node.js have reached their official end of life. Node.js v14 on February 16, 2023 Node.js v16 on August 9, 2023 It is also worth noting that the following version is also about to reach its end of life date. Node.js v18 on... Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:38:28 GMThttps://answers.netlify.com/t/deploy-retention-period-is-changing-for-free-starter-plans/142395https://answers.netlify.com/t/deploy-retention-period-is-changing-for-free-starter-plans/142395Starting on April 2, 2025, the default deploy retention period will change from 90 to 30 days for Free and Starter accounts. Teams on paid plans are not affected: Pro teams have 90 day retention, and Enterprise teams up to 365 days. Note that the... Wed, 19 Mar 2025 08:25:38 GMThttps://answers.netlify.com/t/builds-functions-plugins-default-node-js-version-upgrade-to-22/135981https://answers.netlify.com/t/builds-functions-plugins-default-node-js-version-upgrade-to-22/135981The default system Node.js version will be updated from version v18 → v22 on January 27, 2025. IMPORTANT UPDATE - This release been delayed to February 24, 2025 Why are we doing this? Node.js v22 is the current LTS (Long Term Supported) version, and... Fri, 03 Jan 2025 19:27:17 GMThttps://answers.netlify.com/t/new-ubuntu-24-04-noble-numbat-build-image/130497https://answers.netlify.com/t/new-ubuntu-24-04-noble-numbat-build-image/130497We’re excited to announce the release of a new build image based on Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat! What’s new in the Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat build image? Upgrades The new build image includes several updates to the default versions of popular tools... Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:21:42 GMThttps://answers.netlify.com/t/deprecating-automatic-com-redirects/115442https://answers.netlify.com/t/deprecating-automatic-com-redirects/115442Back in 2020 we moved all sites from being served under *.netlify.com to being under *.netlify.app. This was to isolate customer sites from ones run by Netlify, trying to minimize the confusion. In doing this, we built in an automatic redirect for... Thu, 28 Mar 2024 21:43:16 GMThttps://answers.netlify.com/t/netlify-create-stackbit-login-update/111002https://answers.netlify.com/t/netlify-create-stackbit-login-update/111002Ever since Stackbit joined Netlify in August last year, we’ve been focused on providing a more seamless and feature-rich experience for our customers. Today, we’re excited to announce a major step in this direction: simplifying your access. You’ll no... Tue, 23 Jan 2024 21:33:28 GMThttps://answers.netlify.com/t/build-plugin-update-system-node-js-version-upgrade-to-20/108633https://answers.netlify.com/t/build-plugin-update-system-node-js-version-upgrade-to-20/108633The system Node.js version will be updated from version 18 to 20 on January 30, 2024. In addition, any build plugins installed through the Integrations tab of the Netlify UI will use Node.js 20 as well. Why are we doing this? As Node.js 20 is the... Tue, 19 Dec 2023 08:06:39 GMThttps://answers.netlify.com/t/support-for-prismic-in-netlify-connect/106091https://answers.netlify.com/t/support-for-prismic-in-netlify-connect/106091Today, we’re launching a new built-in data source connector for Connect: Prismic. With the new connector, sourcing content from Prismic into Connect’s GraphQL API can be done in no time. You can learn more about connecting Prismic as a data source in... Mon, 06 Nov 2023 23:06:09 GMThttps://answers.netlify.com/t/new-feature-browse-files-in-your-deploy-with-the-deploy-file-browser/105196https://answers.netlify.com/t/new-feature-browse-files-in-your-deploy-with-the-deploy-file-browser/105196For a long time, you’ve been able to download a .zip file of your deploy in order to inspect the files outputted by your build on Netlify. However, this process was not always ideal, because you would need to download the contents of the entire... Tue, 24 Oct 2023 20:48:47 GMThttps://answers.netlify.com/t/changes-to-the-way-executables-from-installed-node-modules-are-exposed-at-build-time/104788https://answers.netlify.com/t/changes-to-the-way-executables-from-installed-node-modules-are-exposed-at-build-time/104788As part of Netlify Build experience, when a customer installs node modules that expose some sort of executable, we expose said executables in the build command environment so that you can call them at build time. We want to keep supporting said... Fri, 20 Oct 2023 10:54:21 GMThttps://answers.netlify.com/t/new-slack-notification-type-team-metered-usage-events/104202https://answers.netlify.com/t/new-slack-notification-type-team-metered-usage-events/104202A couple weeks ago we shared that the Netlify app for Slack is available in beta. Today we’ve introduced a new event type: team metered usage events! You can subscribe to this new event type to receive an early heads up in Slack, if your team is... Wed, 11 Oct 2023 19:36:52 GMThttps://answers.netlify.com/t/new-tree-views-and-configurable-content-views-in-stackbit-s-content-editor/104045https://answers.netlify.com/t/new-tree-views-and-configurable-content-views-in-stackbit-s-content-editor/104045Stackbit offers an on-the-glass visual editor that simplifies website editing. In addition to this, we have recently made significant updates to our content editor based on valuable feedback from our customers. These updates aim to enhance the... Mon, 09 Oct 2023 15:47:42 GMThttps://answers.netlify.com/t/netlify-dev-with-support-for-custom-live-urls/101261https://answers.netlify.com/t/netlify-dev-with-support-for-custom-live-urls/101261The Netlify CLI is a great development tool for your Netlify site, bringing the full suite of platform primitives right into your computer. When you run netlify dev, we’ll start a local development server with access to redirects, Forms, Netlify... Wed, 06 Sep 2023 15:03:33 GMThttps://answers.netlify.com/t/edge-functions-types-now-available-as-an-npm-module/101230https://answers.netlify.com/t/edge-functions-types-now-available-as-an-npm-module/101230You can now import the TypeScript types for the Edge Functions API from the @netlify/edge-functions specifier, which is available both in Deno and in Node.js. import { Config, Context } from "@netlify/edge-functions" export default async (req:... Wed, 06 Sep 2023 11:51:01 GMT