Ten years ago (July 2014) the Express v5 release pull request was opened, and now at long last it’s been merged and published! We want to recognize

Introducing Express v5: A New Era for Node.js Framework

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Ten years ago (July 2014) the Express v5 release pull request was opened, and now at long last it’s been merged and published!

We want to recognize the work of all our contributors, especially Doug Wilson, who spent the last ten years ensuring Express was the most stable project around. Without his contributions and those of many others, this release could not have happened.

Eight months ago we went public with a plan to move Express forward. This plan included re-committing to the governance outlined years ago and adding more contributors to help kickstart progress. Many people may not realize that robust project governance is critical to the health of a large open-source project. We want to thank the OpenJS Foundation Cross Project Council and its members for helping us put together this plan.

This release is designed to be boring! That may sound odd, but we’ve intentionally kept it simple to unblock the ecosystem and enable more impactful changes in future releases. This is also about signaling to the Node.js ecosystem that Express is moving again. The focus of this release is on dropping old Node.js version support, addressing security concerns, and simplifying maintenance.