Deprecate Node.js 16.x (#624)

Author: nhulston

Diff for: .github/workflows/build.yml

@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
 
-      - name: Set up Node 16.14
+      - name: Set up Node 18.12
         uses: actions/setup-node@v3
         with:
-          node-version: 16.14
+          node-version: 18.12
 
       - name: Get yarn cache directory path
         id: yarn-cache-dir-path
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       max-parallel: 4
       matrix:
-        node-version: [16.14, 18.12, 20.9, 22.11]
+        node-version: [18.12, 20.9, 22.11]
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v3

Diff for: .github/workflows/update-deps.yml

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
         with:
-          node-version: "16.x"
+          node-version: "18.x"
 
       - name: Update Dependencies
         run: |

Diff for: .gitlab/datasources/runtimes.yaml

@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
 runtimes:
-  - name: "node16"
-    node_version: "16.14"
-    node_major_version: "16"
   - name: "node18"
     node_version: "18.12"
     node_major_version: "18"

Diff for: .gitlab/scripts/publish_layers.sh

@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@
 set -e
 
 # Available runtimes: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/lambda-runtimes.html
-AWS_CLI_NODE_VERSIONS=("nodejs16.x" "nodejs18.x" "nodejs20.x" "nodejs22.x")
-LAYER_PATHS=(".layers/datadog_lambda_node16.14.zip" ".layers/datadog_lambda_node18.12.zip" ".layers/datadog_lambda_node20.9.zip" ".layers/datadog_lambda_node22.11.zip")
-LAYERS=("Datadog-Node16-x" "Datadog-Node18-x" "Datadog-Node20-x" "Datadog-Node22-x")
-NODE_VERSIONS=("16.14" "18.12" "20.9" "22.11")
+AWS_CLI_NODE_VERSIONS=("nodejs18.x" "nodejs20.x" "nodejs22.x")
+LAYER_PATHS=(".layers/datadog_lambda_node18.12.zip" ".layers/datadog_lambda_node20.9.zip" ".layers/datadog_lambda_node22.11.zip")
+LAYERS=("Datadog-Node18-x" "Datadog-Node20-x" "Datadog-Node22-x")
+NODE_VERSIONS=("18.12" "20.9" "22.11")
 STAGES=('prod', 'sandbox', 'staging')
 
 printf "Starting script...\n\n"

Diff for: README.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 [![Slack](https://chat.datadoghq.com/badge.svg?bg=632CA6)](https://chat.datadoghq.com/)
 [![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache--2.0-blue)](https://github.com/DataDog/datadog-lambda-js/blob/main/LICENSE)
 
-Datadog Lambda Library for Node.js (16.x, 18.x, and 20.x) enables enhanced Lambda metrics, distributed tracing, and custom metric submission from AWS Lambda functions.
+Datadog Lambda Library for Node.js (18.x, 20.x, and 22.x) enables enhanced Lambda metrics, distributed tracing, and custom metric submission from AWS Lambda functions.
 
 ## Installation
 
@@ -52,6 +52,10 @@ The 6.x.x release introduces support for the node 16 runtime and esm modules.
 
 The 7.x.x release drops support for Node12, and upgrades dd-trace-js to version 3.x
 
+### 8.x.x
+
+The 8.x.x release drops support for Node14, and upgrades dd-trace-js to version 4.x
+
 ### 9.x.x
 The 9.x.x release changed how Lambda's traceID is hashed if the incoming payload contains Step Functions context object. This change only affects those who uses inject Step Functions context object into Lambda payload.