* 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.
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* docs: bump documented Node.js minimum to 25
Etherpad is moving its supported Node.js floor to >= 25 (CI matrix is
already pinned to 25 across all workflows on the node25-corepack-pnpm11
work). Sync the user-facing documentation so the install instructions,
requirements section, and plugin metadata example all reflect the new
minimum instead of Node 22 / 12.17.
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* chore: require Node.js >= 25 (engines, installers, Dockerfile, snap, CI)
#7747 added Node 25 *support* but left the floor at Node 22. This
commit completes the cutover so the runtime requirement matches the
documentation bumped in the previous commit.
- package.json: engines.node ">=22.13.0" → ">=25.0.0"
- bin/functions.sh, bin/installer.sh, bin/installer.ps1: REQUIRED_NODE
bumped to 25 (controls the error message users see when they invoke
the installer or pnpm scripts on an older Node)
- Dockerfile: base image node:22-alpine → node:25-alpine (×2). Corepack
comment updated: Node 25 no longer ships corepack at all, so we
install it from npm rather than refreshing a stale signing-key list
- snap/snapcraft.yaml: pinned NODE_VERSION 22.22.2 → 25.9.0 and the
surrounding design notes rewritten to reflect Node 25 instead of 22
- .github/workflows/*.yml: matrix dropped from [22, 24, 25] to just
[25] (anything older now fails engines anyway). Stale comments in
build-and-deploy-docs.yml referencing vite 8's 22.12 floor cleaned up
- bin/plugins/lib/npmpublish.yml: setup-node 22 → 25 so the plugin
template propagated to every ether/* plugin matches the new minimum
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(docker): install pnpm directly on Node 25 (no corepack)
node:25-alpine doesn't ship corepack but does pre-install yarn at
/usr/local/bin/yarn, so `npm install -g corepack@latest` fails with
EEXIST trying to register its yarn shim. Per #7747, end-users install
pnpm via plain `npm install -g pnpm` on Node 25 — use the same flow in
the Dockerfile (and remove the unused yarn binary so it doesn't sit on
PATH inside the image). Drops COREPACK_HOME and the related
issue-7687 cache-sharing tweak since there's no corepack shim to share.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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