For those wondering where the new updates are and why it was very quite throughout the last 1 1/2 years – I've been working on a new implementation of Etherpad from scratch in Go. It's called Etherpad-Go and you can find it here: https://github.com/ether/etherpad-go and a short FAQ about it here: https://github.com/ether/etherpad-go/wiki/FAQ . I'd love to hear your feedback about it either on Discord or issue tracker. There is a README.md that explains how to get started and try it out and also the FAQ can be quite fruitful. Latest release can be found here: https://github.com/ether/etherpad-go/releases/tag/v0.0.4

• Minor fixes and improvements to the session transfer feature introduced in 2.6.0
• Dependencies upgrades

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bin@2.6.0 generateChangelog /home/runner/work/etherpad-lite/etherpad-lite/bin node --import tsx generateReleaseNotes.ts refs/tags/v2.6.0

• 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!

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

• 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.

• 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

bin@2.5.0 generateChangelog D:\a\etherpad-lite\etherpad-lite\bin node --import tsx generateReleaseNotes.ts "refs/tags/v2.5.0"

• 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

bin@2.4.2 generateChangelog D:\a\etherpad-lite\etherpad-lite\bin node --import tsx generateReleaseNotes.ts "refs/tags/v2.4.2"

• Fixed a german translation in the english translation file.

bin@2.4.1 generateChangelog D:\a\etherpad-lite\etherpad-lite\bin node --import tsx generateReleaseNotes.ts "refs/tags/v2.4.1"

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

bin@2.3.2 generateChangelog D:\a\etherpad-lite\etherpad-lite\bin node --import tsx generateReleaseNotes.ts "refs/tags/v2.3.2"

• Fixed admin ui displaying incorrect text

bin@2.3.1 generateChangelog D:\a\etherpad-lite\etherpad-lite\bin node --import tsx generateReleaseNotes.ts "refs/tags/v2.3.1"

• Dependency updates