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-# Supported Platforms
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+# Electron Support
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+## Supported Versions
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+The Electron maintainers support the latest three release branches.
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+For example, if the latest release is 2.0.x, then the 2-0-x series
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+is supported, as are the two previous release series 1-7-x and 1-8-x.
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+When a release branch reaches the end of its support cycle,
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+the series will be deprecated in NPM and a final end-of-support release
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+will be made. This release will add a console warning to inform that
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+an unsupported version of Electron is in use.
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+These steps are to help app developers learn when a branch they're using
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+becomes unsupported, and to avoid being intrusive to end users.
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+If an application has exceptional circumstances and needs to stay
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+on an unsupported series of Electron, developers can silence the
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+end-of-support warning by omitting the final release from the app's
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+`package.json` `devDependencies`. For example, since the 1-6-x series
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+ended with an end-of-support 1.6.18 release, developers could choose
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+to stay in the 1-6-x series without warnings with `devDependency of
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+`"electron": 1.6.0 - 1.6.17`.
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+## Supported Platforms
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Following platforms are supported by Electron:
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@@ -30,7 +55,7 @@ distribution includes the libraries that Electron is linked to on the building
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platform, so only Ubuntu 12.04 is guaranteed to work, but following platforms
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are also verified to be able to run the prebuilt binaries of Electron:
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-* Ubuntu 12.04 and later
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+* Ubuntu 12.04 and newer
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* Fedora 21
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* Debian 8
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Charles Kerr