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 ***NOTE!*** *OrbitDB is **alpha-stage** software. It means OrbitDB hasn't been security audited and programming APIs and data formats can still change. We encourage you to [reach out to the maintainers](https://gitter.im/orbitdb/Lobby) if you plan to use OrbitDB in mission critical systems.*
 
-This is the Javascript implementation and it works both in **Browsers** and **Node.js** with support for Linux and OS X (Windows is not supported yet). The minimum required version of Node.js is now 8.0.0. To use with older versions of Node.js, we provide an ES5-compatible build through the npm package, located in `dist/es5/` when installed through npm.
+This is the Javascript implementation and it works both in **Browsers** and **Node.js** with support for Linux and OS X (Windows is not supported yet). The minimum required version of Node.js is now 8.6.0 due to the usage of `...` spread syntax. LTS versions (even numbered versions 8, 10, etc) are preferred.
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+To use with older versions of Node.js, we provide an ES5-compatible build through the npm package, located in `dist/es5/` when installed through npm.
 
 #### Community Calls
 We also have **regular community calls**, which we announce in the issues in [the @orbitdb welcome repository](https://github.com/orbitdb/welcome/issues). Join us!