Etherpad 2.0.1: Depreciation error and git version warning

[elmatusov]

Etherpad lite 2.0.1, Node.js v21.7.1, npm v10.5.0, esbuild 0.20.2, Windows 2022 server

When I'm running the Etherpad (start.bat), I'm getting the following error and warning in the cmd windows:

[ERROR] settings - (node:16220) [DEP0040] DeprecationWarning: Thepunycode module is deprecated. Please use a userland alternative instead.

[WARN] settings - Can't get git version for server header ENOENT: no such file or directory, lstat 'C:\etherpalite\.git'

How can I fix the error and the warning? I'd appreciate your help! Thanks!

[SamTV12345]

You can't really fix the error. Something in the dependencies of Etherpad uses punycode which is now deprecated by Node. The other issue is probably because you don't have a git folder. The git folder is used for version control. When Etherpad starts it checks which version of Etherpad is running.

[elmatusov]

Thanks for your fast reply. I hope that the Etherpad development team will solve these problems in their future releases.

[SamTV12345]

Sure we're fixing this problem for the next release. Version 2 introduced a lot of features and improvements.

[elmatusov]

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