Originally published on strongloop.com
LoopBack 3 is approaching its end-of-life at the end of the year for community support. For LoopBack 3 users, we hope the migration guide helps you migrate your applications to version 4.
Originally published on strongloop.com
Almost a year ago, we announced Extended Long Term Support for LoopBack 3, extending Active LTS to the end of November 2019. As the saying goes, all good things must come to an end, and so LoopBack version 3 has entered Maintenance LTS in December 2019.
Originally published on strongloop.com
It has been almost a year since LoopBack 4.0 GA was announced. Since then, we have been working hard on closing the feature gap between the new and the old versions and looking for ways to simplify migration of projects built on LoopBack 3.
In June, we announced a new feature that allows LoopBack 3 applications to be mounted in LoopBack 4 projects, allowing developers to start writing new features using LoopBack 4 while keeping existing APIs powered by LoopBack 3 (Read more about it in this blog post).
Today, we are happy to announce a preview version of a tool automating migration of models from LoopBack 3 to LoopBack 4:
lb4 import-lb3-models
Originally published on strongloop.com
Following the announcement of LoopBack 4 GA in October, LoopBack 3 entered Active Long Term Support (LTS). In March, we announced that LoopBack 3 will receive extended LTS until December 2019. We made this choice to provide LoopBack 3 users more time to move to LoopBack 4 and for us to improve the migration experience. In order to incrementally migrate from LoopBack 3 to LoopBack 4, we have since introduced a way to mount your LoopBack 3 applications in a LoopBack 4 project.
Originally published on strongloop.com
This past October, we announced LoopBack 4 GA is ready for production use and updated the Long Term Support (LTS) schedule in our LTS page. Due to popular requests, LoopBack 3 now receives an extended long term support with updated timeline as shown in the table below.
| Version | Status | Published | Active LTS Start | Maintenance LTS Start | End-of-life |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LoopBack 4 | Current | Oct 2018 | -- | -- | Apr 2021(minimum) |
| LoopBack 3 | Active LTS | Dec 2016 | Oct 2018 | Dec 2019 (revised) | Dec 2020 (revised) |
| LoopBack 2 | Maintenance LTS | Jul 2014 | Dec 2016 | Oct 2018 | Apr 2019 |