For those unfamiliar with GitHub issues, you can just scroll up to see what preceded the event in this link - note that this issue was closed[0] by the maintainer 2 days ago, along with a comment from the maintainer saying &quot;I am closing down Express 5.0&quot;. The reopening of this issue is great news for the Express community, and Node in general (as Express is #2 on the list of &quot;packages people &#x27;npm install&#x27; a lot&quot;[1]).<p>For more context, you can look at some comments about this event on reddit[2].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11185009" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11185009</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npmjs.com&#x2F;#explicit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npmjs.com&#x2F;#explicit</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;javascript&#x2F;comments&#x2F;47s9o8&#x2F;im_closing_down_express_50&#x2F;d0fdm5m" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;javascript&#x2F;comments&#x2F;47s9o8&#x2F;im_closi...</a>