Update Node and NPM requirements for DSpace 11

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
48/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Domain
build-system

Research direction

Start by reviewing the Node and NPM version requirements in the project documentation and build configuration, then investigate compatibility with Node 24 or 26 and the corresponding NPM versions. Related issue #6165 discusses a warning when building for Node 24. Done means determining the upgrade work required and updating the supported requirements accordingly.

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Description

affects: main bug dependencies help wanted needs analysis

Describe the bug

Current documentation requires Node v20, v22 or v24. By the time DSpace 11 ships, v22 and v24 will be EOL and v26 will be Current LTS. We should consider raising the requirement to at least v24, preferably v24 or v26. This also affects NPM: the current requirement ties it down at v10. We should investigate the work which may be required by these proposed upgrades.

Related work

#6165 discusses a warning that arises when building for Node v24.

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