diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index cba2f6c3bb..c3c1746b7b 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -42,14 +42,15 @@ function initialize() {
   logger.warn(BETA_MESSAGE)
 
   try {
-    logger.debug("Process was running %s seconds before agent was loaded.",
-                 process.uptime())
-    // Technically we run on 0.6, until we verify there are 0 users on 0.6, we
-    // should leave this code doing a check against 0.6, but then advise that
-    // people upgrade to one of our officially supported version (0.8 and higher)
-    if (semver.satisfies(process.version, '<0.6.0')) {
+    logger.debug(
+      'Process was running %s seconds before agent was loaded.',
+      process.uptime()
+    )
+
+    // TODO: Update this check when Node v0.10 is deprecated.
+    if (semver.satisfies(process.version, '<0.10.0')) {
       message = "New Relic for Node.js requires a version of Node equal to or\n" +
-                "greater than 0.8.0. Not starting!"
+                "greater than 0.10.0. Not starting!"
 
       logger.error(message)
       throw new Error(message)
diff --git a/lib/environment.js b/lib/environment.js
index 5dbb1fddf9..8399f6ab6f 100644
--- a/lib/environment.js
+++ b/lib/environment.js
@@ -313,28 +313,11 @@ function findPackages() {
   addSetting('Dependencies', flattenVersions(dependencies))
 }
 
-function badOS() {
-  var badVersion = false
-
-  if (!process.versions) {
-    badVersion = true
-  } else {
-    var version = process.versions.node.split('.')
-    if (version[1] <= 8 && version[2] <= 5) badVersion = true
-  }
-
-  return badVersion &&
-         os.arch() === 'x64' &&
-         os.type() === 'SunOS'
-}
-
 /**
  * Settings actually get scraped below.
  */
 function gatherEnv() {
-  // in 64-bit SmartOS zones, node <= 0.8.5 pukes on os.cpus()
-  if (!badOS()) addSetting('Processors', os.cpus().length)
-
+  addSetting('Processors', os.cpus().length)
   addSetting('OS', os.type())
   addSetting('OS version', os.release())
   addSetting('Node.js version', process.version)
diff --git a/lib/instrumentation/core/globals.js b/lib/instrumentation/core/globals.js
index 903880f133..8806689a07 100644
--- a/lib/instrumentation/core/globals.js
+++ b/lib/instrumentation/core/globals.js
@@ -25,39 +25,21 @@ var NATIVE_PROMISE_SPEC = {
 }
 
 function initialize(agent) {
-  // Add handler for uncaught/fatal exceptions to record them.
-  // _fatalException is an undocumented feature of domains, introduced in
-  // Node.js v0.8. We use _fatalException when possible because wrapping it will
-  // not potentially change the behavior of the server.
-  if (process._fatalException) {
-    wrap(process, 'process', '_fatalException', function wrapper(original) {
-      return function wrappedFatalException(error) {
-        // Only record the error if we are not currently within an instrumented
-        // domain.
-        if (!process.domain) {
-          agent.errors.add(null, error)
-          agent.tracer.segment = null
-        }
-        return original.apply(this, arguments)
+  // `_fatalException` is an undocumented feature of domains, introduced in
+  // Node.js v0.8. We use `_fatalException` because wrapping it will not
+  // potentially change the behavior of the server unlike listening for
+  // `uncaughtException`.
+  wrap(process, 'process', '_fatalException', function wrapper(original) {
+    return function wrappedFatalException(error) {
+      // Only record the error if we are not currently within an instrumented
+      // domain.
+      if (!process.domain) {
+        agent.errors.add(null, error)
+        agent.tracer.segment = null
       }
-    })
-  } else {
-    wrap(
-      process,
-      'process',
-      'emit',
-      function wrapEmit(original) {
-        return function wrappedEmit(ev, error) {
-          if (ev === 'uncaughtException' && error && !process.domain) {
-            agent.errors.add(null, error)
-            agent.tracer.segment = null
-          }
-
-          return original.apply(this, arguments)
-        }
-      }
-    )
-  }
+      return original.apply(this, arguments)
+    }
+  })
 
   // Add a handler for unhandled promise rejections.
   process.on('unhandledRejection', function __NR_unhandledRejectionHandler(err, promise) {
diff --git a/lib/timer.js b/lib/timer.js
index fc2fccde8c..3a0c13c090 100644
--- a/lib/timer.js
+++ b/lib/timer.js
@@ -28,9 +28,9 @@ function hrToMillis(hr) {
 function Timer() {
   this.state = PENDING
   this.touched = false
-  this.duration = null
   this.hrDuration = null
   this.hrstart = null
+  this.start = null
   this.durationInMillis = null
 }
 
@@ -43,8 +43,7 @@ Timer.prototype.begin = function begin() {
   if (this.state > PENDING) return
 
   this.start = Date.now()
-  // need to put a guard on this for compatibility with Node < 0.8
-  if (process.hrtime) this.hrstart = process.hrtime()
+  this.hrstart = process.hrtime()
   this.state = RUNNING
 }
 
@@ -54,9 +53,8 @@ Timer.prototype.begin = function begin() {
 Timer.prototype.end = function end() {
   if (this.state > RUNNING) return
   if (this.state === PENDING) this.begin()
-  if (process.hrtime) this.hrDuration = process.hrtime(this.hrstart)
+  this.hrDuration = process.hrtime(this.hrstart)
   this.touched = true
-  this.duration = Date.now() - this.start
   this.state = STOPPED
 }
 
@@ -68,8 +66,7 @@ Timer.prototype.touch = function touch() {
   if (this.state > RUNNING) return
   if (this.state === PENDING) this.begin()
 
-  if (process.hrtime) this.hrDuration = process.hrtime(this.hrstart)
-  this.duration = Date.now() - this.start
+  this.hrDuration = process.hrtime(this.hrstart)
 }
 
 /**
@@ -83,9 +80,8 @@ Timer.prototype.softEnd = function softEnd() {
   this.state = STOPPED
 
   if (this.touched) return false
-  if (process.hrtime) this.hrDuration = process.hrtime(this.hrstart)
+  this.hrDuration = process.hrtime(this.hrstart)
   this.touched = true
-  this.duration = Date.now() - this.start
   return true
 }
 
@@ -162,15 +158,7 @@ Timer.prototype.getDurationInMillis = function getDurationInMillis() {
     return hrToMillis(this.hrDuration)
   }
 
-  if (this.duration) {
-    return this.duration
-  }
-
-  if (process.hrtime) {
-    return hrToMillis(process.hrtime(this.hrstart))
-  }
-
-  return Date.now() - this.start
+  return hrToMillis(process.hrtime(this.hrstart))
 }
 
 /**
@@ -192,7 +180,7 @@ Timer.prototype.toRange = function toRange() {
  * @return {number} The offset in (floating-point) milliseconds.
  */
 Timer.prototype.startedRelativeTo = function startedRelativeTo(other) {
-  if (this.hrstart && other.hrstart && process.hrtime) {
+  if (this.hrstart && other.hrstart) {
     var s = this.hrstart[0] - other.hrstart[0]
     var ns = this.hrstart[1] - other.hrstart[1]
 
diff --git a/lib/transaction/tracer/instrumentation/outbound.js b/lib/transaction/tracer/instrumentation/outbound.js
index c12a46bec6..3655e053b2 100644
--- a/lib/transaction/tracer/instrumentation/outbound.js
+++ b/lib/transaction/tracer/instrumentation/outbound.js
@@ -42,9 +42,7 @@ module.exports = function instrumentOutbound(agent, hostname, port, makeRequest)
       return function wrappedRequestEmit(evnt, arg) {
         if (evnt === 'error') {
           segment.end()
-          if (handleError(request, arg)) {
-            return // FIXME In v2 we should always call emit.
-          }
+          handleError(request, arg)
         } else if (evnt === 'response') {
           handleResponse(segment, request, arg)
         }