3.3.5

3.3.5 is a bug-fix follow-up to 3.3.4. It fixes a startup crash on fresh installs when pnpm 12 (now pnpm’s default release) is installed, and makes the built-in updater work on Windows.

Notable fixes

• Fresh installs no longer crash at startup under pnpm 12 (#8232). On first boot (no var/installed_plugins.json), Etherpad runs pnpm ls to migrate plugins found in node_modules, passing --no-production. pnpm 12 renamed that flag to --no-prod and rejects the old name, so the server exited with Error occurred while starting Etherpad before it bound a port. The call now uses --no-prod, which pnpm 10 and 11 also accept. Existing installs were not affected. The repository, release tooling, Docker image and snap also move to pnpm 12.
• Updater — spawn pnpm through cross-spawn so updates work on Windows (#8218). On Windows pnpm is a .cmd shim that plain child_process.spawn can’t run, so the built-in update actions failed there. Thanks to Kaan Çelebi.