Next version will be Etherpad 1.8. As planned in #3424, we are going to require
NodeJS >=8.9.0 and npm >= 6.4.
This commit implements that change and updates documentation and scripts.
Subsequent changes will get rid of old idioms, dating back to node < 0.7, that
still survive in the code.
Once migrated to NodeJS 8, we will be able to start working on migrating the
code base from callbacks to async/await, greatly simplifying legibility (see
#3540).
Closes#3557
This is just a dev dependency, so no real risks, but it's better not to scare
users.
Reported vulnerability before this change:
$ npm audit
=== npm audit security report ===
# Run npm update cryptiles --depth 4 to resolve 1 vulnerability
┌───────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ High │ Insufficient Entropy │
├───────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Package │ cryptiles │
├───────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Dependency of │ wd [dev] │
├───────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Path │ wd > request > hawk > cryptiles │
├───────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ More info │ https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/720 │
└───────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
This is just a function (with an ugly side effect for caching purposes) that
heuristically tries to compute the Etherpad installation path when running under
Unix and win32 (they have different file system layouts).
This path can be used by Etherpad as a base for all the relative paths, in order
to be deterministic and not depending on cwd.
Version 2.x is not backwards compatible with 1.x.
However, according to [0], [1] and [2], it seems that the biggest concern is
when mixing different server and client versions, and this is not Etherpad's
case.
Smoke tested (successfully) on Firefox 61, Chromium 68.
npm audit before this change:
found 12 vulnerabilities (9 low, 3 high) in 8205 scanned packages
11 vulnerabilities require semver-major dependency updates.
1 vulnerability requires manual review. See the full report for details.
npm audit after this change:
found 1 low severity vulnerability in 8196 scanned packages
1 vulnerability requires manual review. See the full report for details.
Fixes#3462
[0] https://socket.io/blog/socket-io-2-0-0/
[1] https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/issues/3007#issuecomment-336791836
[2] a0d7a794de
Written the changelog and updated package.json.
From now on, releases will be cut from develop, and merged directly into master.
Each release will be a tag on the master branch (e.g. 1.7.0).
A "release/1.7.0" branch will eventually be created only if/when a hotfix will
be needed.
Minimum supported Node version is 6.9.0, but Object.values() was introduced in
Node < 7. Let's use a polyfill if needed.
This will be removed when minimum supported Node version is raised to 8.9.0.
Fixes#3459
When installing dependencies, npm informed us that measured had been deprecated,
and renamed to measured-core. Let's follow the advice, and get rid of the
warning.
npm WARN deprecated measured@1.1.0: This package has been renamed to
measured-core, all versions of measured have been re-released under
measured-core, please update your package and consider updating to the newest
version. See https://github.com/yaorg/node-measured for latest updates.
This package is used to expose a single endpoint ("/stats"), whose output does
not change after this commit.
Fixes#3458
Etherpad 1.6.6 does not run on node <= 5 already.
Node 6.9 is the first LTS release in the 6 series, and comes with npm 3.10.8.
Declarations in package.json are advisory unless the user has set
`engine-strict` config flag.
Updated the docs accordingly.
These are the remaining non-whitespace changes needed to normalize package.json
formatting, bringing it in line with the npm 6.1.0 default format.
Future edits to this file should follow this default format, in order to
minimize churn.
Only cosmetic changes to make it easier to understand what changes in the other
commits.
This command:
git diff this-commit-hash^! --ignore-all-space
should give an empty output on this commit.
When npm saves packages.json, it sorts the dependencies alphabetically. This
change reorders them.
Its aim, togheter with the next ones, is to have a diff that is inspectable.
Moreover, the mutation of package.json by installDeps.sh will be disabled with
a future change.
