node v22 has a punycode depre

[cmwylie19]

node v22 has a punycode depre

[schaeferka]

It looks like there isn't much that we can do besides keeping our dependency versions up to date and wait for them to be updated to remove punycode.

There are a lot of issues on Github that have been raised around this deprecation warning, and it basically comes down to Node v22 deprecating punycode and module authors needing to update to a userland alternative.

We aren't using punycode directly, our dependencies are using it. So our options appear to be:

• Stay with Node v20. The issue is not in v20.
• Keep our dependencies up to date and when they are updated to remove punycode the warning will go away and we will be able to use v22 with no warnings.
• Trace our dependency chain to find which modules are using punycode (or using dependencies that use punycode) and then change to alternative dependencies. It looks like the tr46 module is the main offender in our dependency chain.

The first two options appear to be the best way to go.

[cmwylie19]

Thanks @schaeferka . Closing this for now