* Roll Node.js floor back to >= 24 (Active LTS)
Closes#7779.
#7779 originally proposed bumping past the Node 25 stop-gap to Node 26.
After re-checking the release schedule, the cleaner LTS target is
actually Node 24:
- Node 24 (Krypton) is currently in Active LTS, supported until ~May 2028.
- Node 25 hit end-of-life on April 10 2026 — the floor merged in
#7752 / #7749 / #7754 a day ago ships an already-EOL major.
- Node 26 was released May 5 2026 and does not enter Active LTS until
October 2026.
So this PR reverts the Node 25 ratchet from those three PRs and lands
on Node 24 — Etherpad's runtime floor stays on a supported LTS for the
next ~2 years.
Runtime / infra
- `package.json` + `src/package.json`: `engines.node` `>=25.0.0` -> `>=24.0.0`
- `bin/functions.sh`, `bin/installer.sh`, `bin/installer.ps1`:
`REQUIRED_NODE_MAJOR` 25 -> 24
- `Dockerfile`: `node:25-alpine` -> `node:24-alpine` (both stages).
Corepack-via-npm workaround is intentionally kept: it works on
Node 24 (which still ships corepack) and on Node 25+ (which doesn't),
so the same recipe survives the next LTS bump without churn. Comments
reworded accordingly.
- `snap/snapcraft.yaml`: pinned `NODE_VERSION` 25.9.0 -> 24.15.0; design
notes + corepack comment adjusted
- `packaging/nfpm.yaml`: `nodejs (>= 25)` -> `nodejs (>= 24)` in
top-level depends + deb/rpm overrides
- `packaging/bin/etherpad`: comment matches the new pin
- `packaging/README.md`: build prereqs + apt install snippet point at
`node_24.x`; the long-stale "engines.node floor is 20" line is fixed
while we're here
- `.github/workflows/*.yml`: setup-node `node-version` 25 -> 24 across
every workflow; backend / frontend-admin / upgrade matrices
`[25]` -> `[24]`
- `.github/workflows/deb-package.yml`: `NODE_MAJOR=25` + `node_25.x`
smoke-test installer -> 24
- `bin/plugins/lib/npmpublish.yml`: 25 -> 24 (template propagates to
the ~80 ether/* plugins via update-plugins workflow)
Docs
- `README.md`: install one-liner + Requirements -> Node.js >= 24
- `doc/npm-trusted-publishing.md`: runner requirement -> Node 24
- `doc/plugins.md` / `doc/plugins.adoc`: plugin metadata example
`engines.node` -> `">=24.0.0"`
@types/node is left at ^25.8.0 — newer type definitions cover Node 24
runtime fine and avoid an unnecessary lockfile churn.
Companion homepage one-liner change to follow on ether/ether.github.com.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs(plugins): example engines.node = ">=22.0.0", not core's floor
Plugin code is overwhelmingly ace-hook glue and rarely uses Node-version-
specific APIs, so plugin engines.node should reflect the plugin's own
requirements, not track core. Showing core's 24-floor in the example
encouraged plugin authors to blindly copy a tighter pin than necessary
and locked plugins out of being installable on older Etherpad/Node
deployments. Use the most-recent Node LTS that has actually reached EOL
(20 -> EOL April 2026) as the example floor, i.e. >=22.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bumps the workflow Node version (PR matrix → [25], full push matrix
stays at [22, 24, 25]) and the pinned pnpm to 11.1.2 with a matching
`engines.pnpm` minimum. End-users install pnpm the same way they
always have (`npm install -g pnpm` works on Node 25 — only Corepack
was dropped from the official Node 25 distribution).
Also includes two workflow fixes that were entangled with the
Node-version edits in the same files:
- `upgrade-from-latest-release.yml` now actually checks out the
latest release tag instead of `ref: develop #FIXME`, so the job
finally exercises what its name implies.
- `installer-test.yml` resolves `ETHERPAD_REPO` / `ETHERPAD_BRANCH`
from the PR head when running on a fork, so the smoke test exercises
the PR branch rather than the base.
Verified end-to-end against `node:25-bookworm-slim` (no corepack):
`npm install -g pnpm` → `pnpm i` → `pnpm run build:etherpad` →
`pnpm run prod` boots and listens on 9001.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore(docker): clear most CVEs in published image — npm/pnpm/uuid + drop curl
Cuts published-image vulnerabilities from 18 (4H/13M/1L) across 8 packages
to 12 (2H/9M/1L) across 3 packages. The remaining three (curl/libcurl,
git, busybox) are all upstream Alpine 3.23 packages with "not fixed"
status — libcurl is pulled in transitively by git and cannot be
removed independently.
Changes:
- Provision pnpm via corepack instead of `npm install -g pnpm`, then
remove the bundled npm. The base image's npm@10.9.7 ships old
transitives (picomatch 4.0.3 → CVE-2026-33671/33672, brace-expansion
2.0.2 → CVE-2026-33750) that we don't otherwise need at runtime;
corepack handles pnpm directly without npm. Fixes 1H + 1M.
- Bump PnpmVersion 10.28.2 → 10.33.2 to align with the rest of the
workflow and pull in pnpm's patched bundled brace-expansion (5.0.5
vs 5.0.4). Fixes 1M.
- Add `uuid@<14.0.0` → `>=14.0.0` to pnpm.overrides
(GHSA-w5hq-g745-h8pq). Fixes 1M.
- Drop `curl` from the runtime apk add list and switch HEALTHCHECK to
wget (busybox built-in). curl was only invoked by the healthcheck and
by dev/CI scripts that don't run in the container. Removes the curl
CLI binary; libcurl remains as a git transitive dep, so the
`apk/alpine/curl` advisories scout reports against libcurl persist
but aren't reachable from any code we ship. As a side-effect this
also clears nghttp2 (CVE-2026-27135) which was a curl-CLI dep.
- Switch HEALTHCHECK URL from `localhost` to `127.0.0.1` — alpine/musl
resolves localhost to ::1 first and Etherpad only binds IPv4.
Verified locally: docker build → docker run → healthy → docker scout
cves shows 12 CVEs / 3 packages.
* fix(docker): refresh corepack before preparing pnpm (Qodo)
Node 22's bundled corepack ships a stale signing-key list and can reject
newer pnpm releases (nodejs/corepack#612), which would fail the image
build at `corepack prepare`. Mirror the snap/snapcraft.yaml workaround:
`npm install -g corepack@latest` before activating pnpm, in both
adminbuild and build stages. npm is still removed afterwards.
* docs(changelog): note docker image dropping curl/npm/npx (Qodo)
Address Qodo's "backwards-incompatible change without mitigation" rule
violations by documenting the removal in the 2.7.3 breaking-changes
section. Operators who exec into the container can apk add curl on
demand or use the busybox wget / pnpm already present.
* chore: pnpm
* chore: pnpm
* chore: pnpm
* chore: pnpm
* chore: pnpm
* chore: pnpm
* chore: pnpm
* chore: pnpm
* chore: pnpm
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* chore: use gnpm
* chore: fixed pnpm
* chore: fixed gnpm
* chore: fixed jq
* chore: use 0.0.7
* chore: use flag for building
* chore: fixed all backend tests
* chore: continue with porting things
* chore: fixed path
* chore: fixed backend tests
* chore: upgraded all to gnpm
* chore: updated to gnpm 0.0.9
* chore: echo current env with debug logs
* chore: install with frozen lockfile
* chore: use 0.0.10
* chore: use 0.0.11
* chore: use 0.0.12 globally
* chore: reworked handleRelease workflow to be up to date and depend on other workflows
