diff --git a/common.gypi b/common.gypi
index 5f629c49634b2c..3f708d89b1ef38 100644
--- a/common.gypi
+++ b/common.gypi
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 
     # Reset this number to 0 on major V8 upgrades.
     # Increment by one for each non-official patch applied to deps/v8.
-    'v8_embedder_string': '-node.11',
+    'v8_embedder_string': '-node.12',
 
     ##### V8 defaults for Node.js #####
 
diff --git a/deps/v8/include/v8-platform.h b/deps/v8/include/v8-platform.h
index 5d34372df50c2b..7b2c81d136401c 100644
--- a/deps/v8/include/v8-platform.h
+++ b/deps/v8/include/v8-platform.h
@@ -943,18 +943,6 @@ class Platform {
    */
   virtual void OnCriticalMemoryPressure() {}
 
-  /**
-   * Enables the embedder to respond in cases where V8 can't allocate large
-   * memory regions. The |length| parameter is the amount of memory needed.
-   * Returns true if memory is now available. Returns false if no memory could
-   * be made available. V8 will retry allocations until this method returns
-   * false.
-   *
-   * Embedder overrides of this function must NOT call back into V8.
-   */
-  V8_DEPRECATED("Use the method without informative parameter")
-  virtual bool OnCriticalMemoryPressure(size_t length) { return false; }
-
   /**
    * Gets the number of worker threads used by
    * Call(BlockingTask)OnWorkerThread(). This can be used to estimate the number