No native build was found error on MacOS with M1 processor

[ag-import]

level version: 6.0.1
node version: v14.21.3
Error:
No native build was found for platform=darwin arch=arm64 runtime=node abi=83 uv=1 armv=8 libc=glibc

[vweevers]

You have an old version of level. Newer versions do support M1.

[ag-import]

Are they backward compatible?

[vweevers]

No, but you could choose to upgrade to v7 first (which supports M1 if I'm not mistaken) because it has less breaking changes than v8. See https://github.com/Level/level/blob/master/UPGRADING.md.