use fresher node and debian version

This moves to node 22 and debian bookworm, since the versions we've
been building and testing with are getting old.

There is some old material kept around for (speaks very quietly)
Python 2 (looks around hoping no-one heard) which we continue to
support for some long-time users but really really should drop
soon.

.github/workflows/docker_latest.yml

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         python-version: [3.11]
-        node-version: [18.x]
+        node-version: [22.x]
         image:
           # We build two images, `grist-oss` and `grist`.
           # See https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core?tab=readme-ov-file#available-docker-images

.github/workflows/main.yml

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         python-version: [3.11]
-        node-version: [18.x]
+        node-version: [22.x]
         tests:
           - ':lint:python:client:common:smoke:stubs:'
           - ':server-1-of-2:'
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ jobs:
           - ':nbrowser-^[^A-S]:'
         include:
           - tests: ':lint:python:client:common:smoke:'
-            node-version: 18.x
+            node-version: 22.x
             python-version: '3.10'
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3

Dockerfile

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ FROM scratch AS ext
 ## Javascript build stage
 ################################################################################
 
-FROM node:18-buster AS builder
+FROM node:22-bookworm AS builder
 
 # Install all node dependencies.
 WORKDIR /grist
@@ -45,19 +45,29 @@ RUN \
 ## Python collection stage
 ################################################################################
 
-# Fetch python3.11 and python2.7
-FROM python:3.11-slim-buster AS collector
-
-# Install all python dependencies.
-ADD sandbox/requirements.txt requirements.txt
+# Fetch python3.11
+FROM python:3.11-slim-bookworm AS collector-py3
 ADD sandbox/requirements3.txt requirements3.txt
+RUN \
+  pip3 install -r requirements3.txt
+
+# Fetch <shame>python2.7</shame>
+# This is to support users with old documents.
+# If you have documents with python2.7 formulas, try switching
+# to python3 in the document settings. It'll probably work fine!
+# And we'll be forced to turn off python2 support eventually,
+# the workarounds needed to keep it are getting silly.
+# It doesn't exist in recent Debian, so we need to reach back
+# to buster.
+FROM python:2.7-slim-buster AS collector-py2
+ADD sandbox/requirements.txt requirements.txt
 RUN \
   apt update && \
   apt install -y --no-install-recommends python2 python-pip python-setuptools \
   build-essential libxml2-dev libxslt-dev python-dev zlib1g-dev && \
   pip2 install wheel && \
   pip2 install -r requirements.txt && \
-  pip3 install -r requirements3.txt
+  pip2 install six
 
 ################################################################################
 ## Sandbox collection stage
@@ -66,6 +76,8 @@ RUN \
 # Fetch gvisor-based sandbox. Note, to enable it to run within default
 # unprivileged docker, layers of protection that require privilege have
 # been stripped away, see https://github.com/google/gvisor/issues/4371
+# The sandbox binary is built on buster, but remains compatible with recent
+# Debian.
 FROM docker.io/gristlabs/gvisor-unprivileged:buster AS sandbox
 
 ################################################################################
@@ -73,7 +85,7 @@ FROM docker.io/gristlabs/gvisor-unprivileged:buster AS sandbox
 ################################################################################
 
 # Now, start preparing final image.
-FROM node:18-buster-slim
+FROM node:22-bookworm-slim
 
 # Install libexpat1, libsqlite3-0 for python3 library binary dependencies.
 # Install pgrep for managing gvisor processes.
@@ -91,13 +103,21 @@ COPY --from=builder /grist/node_modules /grist/node_modules
 COPY --from=builder /grist/_build /grist/_build
 COPY --from=builder /grist/static /grist/static-built
 
-# Copy python files.
-COPY --from=collector /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/python2.7
-COPY --from=collector /usr/lib/python2.7 /usr/lib/python2.7
-COPY --from=collector /usr/local/lib/python2.7 /usr/local/lib/python2.7
-COPY --from=collector /usr/local/bin/python3.11 /usr/bin/python3.11
-COPY --from=collector /usr/local/lib/python3.11 /usr/local/lib/python3.11
-COPY --from=collector /usr/local/lib/libpython3.11.* /usr/local/lib/
+# Copy python2 files.
+COPY --from=collector-py2 /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/python2.7
+COPY --from=collector-py2 /usr/lib/python2.7 /usr/lib/python2.7
+COPY --from=collector-py2 /usr/local/lib/python2.7 /usr/local/lib/python2.7
+# Make a small python2 tweak so that material in /usr/local/lib is found.
+RUN \
+  mkdir /etc/python2.7 && \
+  echo "import sys\nsys.path.append('/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages')" > /etc/python2.7/sitecustomize.py
+# Copy across an older libffi needed by python2
+COPY --from=collector-py2 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6* /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
+
+# Copy python3 files.
+COPY --from=collector-py3 /usr/local/bin/python3.11 /usr/bin/python3.11
+COPY --from=collector-py3 /usr/local/lib/python3.11 /usr/local/lib/python3.11
+COPY --from=collector-py3 /usr/local/lib/libpython3.11.* /usr/local/lib/
 # Set default to python3
 RUN \
   ln -s /usr/bin/python3.11 /usr/bin/python && \