diff --git a/.eslintrc.yml b/.eslintrc.yml
index add6f409..e47c7551 100644
--- a/.eslintrc.yml
+++ b/.eslintrc.yml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ rules:
     - 1tbs
     - allowSingleLine: true
   indent:
-    - off # temporary... a lot of stuff needs to be reformatted
+    - off # temporary... a lot of stuff needs to be reformatted | 2020-08-21: I guess it's not so temporary...
     - 4
     - SwitchCase: 1
   linebreak-style:
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ rules:
     - unix
   no-control-regex:
     - off
+  no-prototype-builtins:
+    - off # should consider cleaning up the code and turning this back on at some point
   no-trailing-spaces:
     - error
   no-unused-vars:
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 86e64265..11e820b9 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2020-08-21
+==========
+
+Some of CyTube's dependencies depends on features in newer versions of node.js.
+Accordingly, node 10 is no longer supported.  Administrators are recommended to
+use node 12 (the active LTS), or node 14 (the current version).
+
 2020-06-22
 ==========
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 84188c09..42db1c07 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   "author": "Calvin Montgomery",
   "name": "CyTube",
   "description": "Online media synchronizer and chat",
-  "version": "3.71.1",
+  "version": "3.72.0",
   "repository": {
     "url": "http://github.com/calzoneman/sync"
   },
@@ -56,15 +56,15 @@
     "integration-test": "mocha --recursive --exit integration_test"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
-    "@babel/cli": "^7.4.4",
-    "@babel/core": "^7.4.4",
-    "@babel/preset-env": "^7.4.4",
-    "babel-eslint": "^10.0.1",
+    "@babel/cli": "^7.10.5",
+    "@babel/core": "^7.11.4",
+    "@babel/preset-env": "^7.11.0",
+    "babel-eslint": "^10.1.0",
     "babel-plugin-add-module-exports": "^1.0.2",
     "coffeescript": "^1.9.2",
-    "eslint": "^5.16.0",
-    "mocha": "^6.1.4",
-    "sinon": "^7.3.2"
+    "eslint": "^7.7.0",
+    "mocha": "^8.1.1",
+    "sinon": "^9.0.3"
   },
   "babel": {
     "presets": [
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
         "@babel/env",
         {
           "targets": {
-            "node": "10"
+            "node": "12"
           }
         }
       ]