Pre-installed Modbus node is not compatible and leads to crash of Node-Red

[bergmanu]

Pre-installed node-red-contrib-modbus v5.13.3 is not compatible to NodeJS 8 and Node-Red V1.x (see here).
A contributer in the forum came across this and solved the issue by unstalling the node and re-install V3.6.1, which is compatible to NodeJS 8 and Node-Red V1.x (see here).

[bergmanu]

can this be solved with the (maybe) upcoming image version?

[jan-kiszka]

Is 3.6.1 the last supported version for NodeJS 8? Yes, we should be able to resolve that.

[bergmanu]

Yes, according to this list and the available releases on github, 3.6.1 is the latest release working with nodeJS 8.
Using this version 3.6.1, node-red version 0.x is required. Not sure which version is planned to be integrated in the next image.

[jan-kiszka]

That plan is to move as much up with Node RED as its support for Node JS 8 permits.