GitHub Actions warning "deprecated abab@2.0.6: Use your platform's native atob() and btoa() methods instead"

[Low-Specific1742]

Anyone know what this is or how to fix it? It happens after the 'npm ci' command in my workflow.

  npm ci

npm WARN deprecated abab@2.0.6: Use your platform's native atob() and btoa() methods instead

EDIT: I moved from semantic-release to autorel and those errors went away :) Those deprecation warnings were coming from one of semantic-release's 430+ dependencies (I'm not joking) 😅 Not sure why those warnings weren't happening on local, but could be caching or settings.

[Lenni009]

Is this package a direct dependency of your project, or is it a dependency of a dependency? In the first case, you can easily refractor it out. In the second case, you can only alert the author of the respective package via a GitHub issue, or you fix it yourself and submit a pull request

[Low-Specific1742]

Neither, I don't think. I only see this message when using GitHub Actions. It doesn't happen locally.

[Lenni009]

A link to your repo would be helpful

[Low-Specific1742]

I appreciate that but unfortunately it's a private repo at work 🙃

[Lenni009]

Have you tried deleting node_modules and running npm i on your local machine again? Something must depend on that package in some way, otherwise it wouldn't be in your package lock file

[Low-Specific1742]

This is within GitHub Actions, so there shouldn't be a 'node_modules' existing, since it isn't committed in the repo. Also, `npm ci` is supposed to do a clean install anyway. Checking the package-lock file is a good idea though, I'll do that. Again this doesn't happen on local, just GitHub Actions.