v2.6.0

2.6.0

Notable enhancements and fixes

• Added native option to transfer your Etherpad session between browsers. If you use multiple browsers or different PC for Etherpad they are different sessions. Meaning typing on one PC and then switching to another one in the same pad will result in different authorship colors. With this new feature you can now transfer your session to another browser or PC. To do so, open the home page and click on the wheel icon in the top right corner. After that click through the first dialog prompting you to copy a code to your clipboard. On your second browser open the same dialog and switch to "Receive Session" tab. There you can paste the code you copied before and click on "Receive Session". After that your session is transferred, and you can continue editing with the same authorship color as before. Just be aware that you can't have two active sessions at once in a pad.
• Updated to oidc provider v2.6.0 after resolving compatibility issues.

🎉 For all the people celebrating: Have a happy and awesome new year! 🎉 There is something big on the horizon for Etherpad in 2026. Stay tuned!

v2.5.3

Notable enhancements and fixes

• Fixed an issue with the release script that caused the release to not be created correctly.

v2.5.2

Notable enhancements and fixes

• Fixes the no skin theme having an overlapping
• Adds a new setting to disable recent pads to be shown. By setting showRecentPads to false in the settings.json file you can disable the recent pads feature on the home screen.
• Sets the oidc-provider version to 9.5.1 as 9.5.2 crashes Etherpad on startup.

v2.5.1

2.5.1

Notable enhancements and fixes

• Added endpoint for prometheus scraping. You can now scrape the metrics endpoint with prometheus. It is available at /stats/prometheus if you have enableMetrics set to true in your settings.json

• fixed exposeVersion causing the pad panel to not load correctly

• fixed admin manage pad url to also take the base path into account

v2.5.0

[email protected] generateChangelog D:\a\etherpad-lite\etherpad-lite\bin
node --import tsx generateReleaseNotes.ts "refs/tags/v2.5.0"

2.5.0

Notable enhancements and fixes

• Updated to express 5.0.0. This is a major update to express that brings a lot of improvements and fixes. Please update all your plugins to the latest version to ensure compatibility. A lot changed in the route matching, and thus old plugins will throw errors and crash Etherpad.
• Fixed an issue with the no-skin theme with cookie recentPadList feature
• Fixed layout issues with the no-skin theme

Breaking changes:

• The api of settings has been changed to use esm. So require is now changed to import. Everything works the same as before.

v2.4.2

[email protected] generateChangelog D:\a\etherpad-lite\etherpad-lite\bin
node --import tsx generateReleaseNotes.ts "refs/tags/v2.4.2"

2.4.2

Notable enhancements and fixes

• Fixed a german translation in the english translation file.

v2.4.1

[email protected] generateChangelog D:\a\etherpad-lite\etherpad-lite\bin
node --import tsx generateReleaseNotes.ts "refs/tags/v2.4.1"

2.4.1

Notable enhancements and fixes

• Added generating release through ci cd pipeline.
• Readded temporarily disabled workflows after release generation works again

v2.3.2

[email protected] generateChangelog D:\a\etherpad-lite\etherpad-lite\bin
node --import tsx generateReleaseNotes.ts "refs/tags/v2.3.2"

2.3.2

Notable enhancements and fixes

• Fixed admin ui displaying incorrect text

v2.3.1

[email protected] generateChangelog D:\a\etherpad-lite\etherpad-lite\bin
node --import tsx generateReleaseNotes.ts "refs/tags/v2.3.1"

2.3.1

Notable enhancements and fixes

• Dependency updates

v2.3.0

Notable enhancements and fixes

• Added possibility to cluster Etherpads behind reverse proxy. There is now a new reverse proxy designed for Etherpads that handles multiple Etherpads and the created pads in them. It will assign the pad assignement to an Etherpad at random but once the choice was made it will always reverse proxy the same backend. This allows to host multiple concurrent Etherpads and benefit from multi core systems even though one Etherpad is singlethreaded.
• Added reverse proxy configuration for replacing Nginx. In the past there were some issues with nginx and its configuration. This reverse proxy allows you to handle your configuration with ease.

If you want to find out more about the reverse proxy method check out the repository https://github.com/ether/etherpad-proxy . It also contains a sample docker-compose file with three Etherpads and one etherpad-proxy. Of course you need to adapt the settings.json.template to your liking and map it into the reverse proxy image before you are ready :).

• Added client authorization to work with Etherpad. Before it would get blocked because it doesn't have the required claim. As this is now fixed etherpad-proxy can also work with your new OAuth2 configuration and retrieve a token via client credentials flow.