[Bug report] Rendering process crashes on all sites after updating to Publii 0.47.7 on Windows

[SMSdesign]

Operating system

Windows 11

Publii version

Publii 0.47.7

Issue type

Application

Bug description

Hi,

After updating Publii to version 0.47.7 (build 17468), the rendering process crashes and I am unable to preview/generate my sites.

The error dialog shows:

Rendering process crashed
[object Object]

On another site, the error dialog displays the untranslated localization keys:

core.rendering.renderingProcessCrashed
core.rendering.renderingProcessCrashedMsg

The issue is reproducible on multiple different Publii sites, so it does not appear to be related to a specific site, post, or theme.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Start Publii 0.47.7 (build 17468) on Windows.
2. Open an existing site.
3. Start Preview / site rendering.
4. The rendering process crashes.
5. Open another unrelated Publii site and repeat.
6. The rendering process crashes there as well.

I also deleted all existing log files before reproducing the problem.

After reproducing the crash, Publii creates only:

• rendering-deployment-errors.log — 0 KB
• rendering-deployment-process.log — 0 KB
• updates.json

The rendering-process.log file is not created at all.

This suggests that the rendering process crashes very early, before normal rendering logging is initialized.

Environment:

• Publii: 0.47.7
• Build: 17468
• OS: Windows 10
• Multiple sites affected
• Issue started after updating Publii

There are also Node.js deprecation warnings when Publii is started:

(node:...) [DEP0040] DeprecationWarning: The punycode module is deprecated.
(node:...) [DEP0047] DeprecationWarning: The util.isDate API is deprecated.

I don't know whether these warnings are related to the rendering crash, but I am including them for completeness.

Please let me know if there are any additional logs or diagnostic information I can provide.

Steps to reproduce

1. Start Publii 0.47.7 (build 17468) on Windows.
2. Open an existing site.
3. Start Preview / site rendering.
4. The rendering process crashes.
5. Open another unrelated Publii site and repeat.
6. The rendering process crashes there as well.

Relevant log output

Rendering process crashed [object Object] publii

[dziudek]

@SMSdesign - could you check your issue with this version: https://dziudek.pl/temp-file/Publii-0.47.8-prerelease.exe ? It should return more readable crash reason and then maybe we will be able to fix the reason of your problem

[dziudek]

@SMSdesign - We have officially released Publii v.0.47.8 - I do hope that this release will solve your issue or at least will allow us to find a reason of it due better debugging messages

[SMSdesign]

All Fixed, thanks