DeprecationWarning: Buffer() is deprecated due to security and usability issues when i move my script to another server

Question

Getting error when script move to other server.

(node:15707) [DEP0005] DeprecationWarning: Buffer() is deprecated due to security and usability issue

Answer 1

var userPasswordString = new Buffer(baseAuth, 'base64').toString('ascii');

Change this line from your code to this -

var userPasswordString = Buffer.from(baseAuth, 'base64').toString('ascii');

or in my case, I gave the encoding in reverse order

var userPasswordString = Buffer.from(baseAuth, 'utf-8').toString('base64');

Answer 2

new Buffer(number)            // Old
Buffer.alloc(number)          // New

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new Buffer(string)            // Old
Buffer.from(string)           // New

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new Buffer(string, encoding)  // Old
Buffer.from(string, encoding) // New

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new Buffer(...arguments)      // Old
Buffer.from(...arguments)     // New

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Note that Buffer.alloc() is also faster on the current Node.js versions than new Buffer(size).fill(0), which is what you would otherwise need to ensure zero-filling.

Answer 3

The use of the deprecated new Buffer() constructor (i.E. as used by Yarn) can cause deprecation warnings. Therefore one should NOT use the deprecated/unsafe Buffer constructor.

According to the deprecation warning new Buffer() should be replaced with one of:

• Buffer.alloc()
• Buffer.allocUnsafe() or
• Buffer.from()

Another option in order to avoid this issue would be using the safe-buffer package instead.

You can also try (when using yarn..):

yarn global add yarn

as mentioned here: Link

Another suggestion from the comments (thx to gkiely): self-update

Note: self-update is not available. See policies for enforcing versions within a project

In order to update your version of Yarn, run

curl --compressed -o- -L https://yarnpkg.com/install.sh | bash