diff --git a/src/bin/release.js b/src/bin/release.js
index 55df435b6..03dcfc203 100644
--- a/src/bin/release.js
+++ b/src/bin/release.js
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ try {
   writeJson('./src/package.json', pkg);
 
   // run npm version `release` where release is patch, minor or major
-  run('npm install --package-lock-only', {cwd: 'src/'});
+  run('bun install --package-lock-only', {cwd: 'src/'});
   // run npm install --package-lock-only <-- required???
 
   // Many users will be using the latest LTS version of npm, and the latest LTS version of npm uses
diff --git a/src/bun.lockb b/src/bun.lockb
index 18e0fe611..76fca1e23 100755
Binary files a/src/bun.lockb and b/src/bun.lockb differ
diff --git a/src/package.json b/src/package.json
index 2062cb7b8..f08acd8b3 100644
--- a/src/package.json
+++ b/src/package.json
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
     "async": "^3.2.4",
     "axios": "^1.5.1",
     "clean-css": "^5.3.2",
+    "command-exists": "^1.2.9",
     "cookie-parser": "^1.4.6",
     "cross-spawn": "^7.0.3",
     "ejs": "^3.1.9",
diff --git a/src/static/js/pluginfw/installer.js b/src/static/js/pluginfw/installer.js
index 6c5784b00..d2f935e86 100644
--- a/src/static/js/pluginfw/installer.js
+++ b/src/static/js/pluginfw/installer.js
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ exports.uninstall = async (pluginName, cb = null) => {
     // The --no-save flag prevents npm from creating package.json or package-lock.json.
     // The --legacy-peer-deps flag is required to work around a bug in npm v7:
     // https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/2199
-    await runCmd(['npm', 'uninstall', '--no-save', '--legacy-peer-deps', pluginName]);
+    await runCmd(['bun', 'uninstall', '--no-save', '--legacy-peer-deps', pluginName]);
   } catch (err) {
     logger.error(`Failed to uninstall plugin ${pluginName}`);
     cb(err || new Error(err));
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ exports.install = async (pluginName, cb = null) => {
     // The --no-save flag prevents npm from creating package.json or package-lock.json.
     // The --legacy-peer-deps flag is required to work around a bug in npm v7:
     // https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/2199
-    await runCmd(['npm', 'install', '--no-save', '--legacy-peer-deps', pluginName]);
+    await runCmd(['bun', 'install', '--no-save', '--legacy-peer-deps', pluginName]);
   } catch (err) {
     logger.error(`Failed to install plugin ${pluginName}`);
     cb(err || new Error(err));
@@ -72,19 +72,19 @@ exports.getAvailablePlugins = (maxCacheAge) => {
   const nowTimestamp = Math.round(Date.now() / 1000);
 
   return new Promise(async (resolve, reject) => {
-      // check cache age before making any request
-      if (exports.availablePlugins && maxCacheAge && (nowTimestamp - cacheTimestamp) <= maxCacheAge) {
-          return resolve(exports.availablePlugins);
-      }
+    // check cache age before making any request
+    if (exports.availablePlugins && maxCacheAge && (nowTimestamp - cacheTimestamp) <= maxCacheAge) {
+      return resolve(exports.availablePlugins);
+    }
 
-      await axios.get('https://static.etherpad.org/plugins.json')
-          .then(pluginsLoaded => {
-              exports.availablePlugins = pluginsLoaded.data;
-              cacheTimestamp = nowTimestamp;
-              resolve(exports.availablePlugins);
-          })
-  })
-}
+    await axios.get('https://static.etherpad.org/plugins.json')
+        .then((pluginsLoaded) => {
+          exports.availablePlugins = pluginsLoaded.data;
+          cacheTimestamp = nowTimestamp;
+          resolve(exports.availablePlugins);
+        });
+  });
+};
 
 
 exports.search = (searchTerm, maxCacheAge) => exports.getAvailablePlugins(maxCacheAge).then(
diff --git a/src/static/js/pluginfw/plugins.js b/src/static/js/pluginfw/plugins.js
index e7ac500c3..73b72acf8 100644
--- a/src/static/js/pluginfw/plugins.js
+++ b/src/static/js/pluginfw/plugins.js
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ const runCmd = require('../../../node/utils/run_cmd');
 const tsort = require('./tsort');
 const pluginUtils = require('./shared');
 const defs = require('./plugin_defs');
+const {cwd} = require("os");
 
 const logger = log4js.getLogger('plugins');
 
@@ -111,16 +112,33 @@ exports.getPackages = async () => {
   //   * The `--no-production` flag is required (or the `NODE_ENV` environment variable must be
   //     unset or set to `development`) because otherwise `npm ls` will not mention any packages
   //     that are not included in `package.json` (which is expected to not exist).
-  const cmd = ['npm', 'ls', '--long', '--json', '--depth=0', '--no-production'];
-  const {dependencies = {}} = JSON.parse(await runCmd(cmd, {stdio: [null, 'string']}));
-  await Promise.all(Object.entries(dependencies).map(async ([pkg, info]) => {
-    if (!pkg.startsWith(exports.prefix)) {
-      delete dependencies[pkg];
-      return;
-    }
-    info.realPath = await fs.realpath(info.path);
-  }));
-  return dependencies;
+  const commandExists = require('command-exists').sync;
+  if (commandExists('bun')) {
+    const file = Bun.readFile('package.json');
+
+    const text = await file.text();
+    const parsedJSON = JSON.parse(text);
+    const dependencies = parsedJSON.dependencies;
+    await Promise.all(Object.entries(dependencies).map(async (pkg) => {
+      const info = Object();
+      if (!pkg.startsWith(exports.prefix)) {
+        delete dependencies[pkg];
+        return;
+      }
+      info.realPath = `${cwd}/node_modules/${pkg}`;
+    }));
+  } else {
+    const cmd = ['npm', 'ls', '--long', '--json', '--depth=0', '--no-production'];
+    const {dependencies = {}} = JSON.parse(await runCmd(cmd, {stdio: [null, 'string']}));
+    await Promise.all(Object.entries(dependencies).map(async ([pkg, info]) => {
+      if (!pkg.startsWith(exports.prefix)) {
+        delete dependencies[pkg];
+        return;
+      }
+      info.realPath = await fs.realpath(info.path);
+    }));
+    return dependencies;
+  }
 };
 
 const loadPlugin = async (packages, pluginName, plugins, parts) => {