DeprecationWarning: punycode module due to tr46 in mongoose dependency chain

[elgwhoppo]

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Issue

I am encountering a DeprecationWarning for the punycode module in my Node.js application. This warning is traced back to the tr46 package, which is a sub-dependency of the latest release of mongoose, which at the time of writing is 8.0.1. The dependency chain is as follows.

└─┬ mongoose@8.0.1
└─┬ mongodb@6.2.0
└─┬ mongodb-connection-string-url@2.6.0
└─┬ whatwg-url@11.0.0
└─┬ tr46@3.0.0
└── punycode@2.3.1

The error message I received today was:
2023-11-21 09:55:05 (node:1) [DEP0040] DeprecationWarning: The punycode module is deprecated. Please use a userland alternative instead.

While this is not a bug, it is a warning that I would like to bring to the attention of the team.

[vkarpov15]

This was fixed upstream with https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/NODE-5709, we will bump mongodb driver to 6.3.0 for the fix.

[merlinstardust]

What is the ETA for 8.1 to be released?

[vkarpov15]

@merlinstardust next week