v12.0.0-beta-2

12.0.0-beta-2 (2025-11-25)

🧹 Chores

• bump glob to version 13 (#5546) (f4d4ad2)

v12.0.0-beta-1

12.0.0-beta-1 (2025-11-25)

Maintainer notes: This is a beta release. It will be followed by 0 or more betas adding features and bugfixes, then 0 or more release candidates once we finish the v12 feature set, then a full release. For details, see #5551. Thanks for using Mocha, and happy testing!

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• cleanup references of --compilers (#5403)
• cleanup references of --opts (#5402)
• change the default of --forbid-only to check for process.env.CI (#5496)
• bump minimum Node.js version from 18.18.0 to 20.19.0 (#5477)

🌟 Features

• allow FIFOs as test files (#5512) (ca4af43)
• bump minimum Node.js version from 18.18.0 to 20.19.0 (#5477) (1c34eef)
• change the default of --forbid-only to check for process.env.CI (#5496) (3d94dde)
• cleanup references of --compilers (#5403) (f75d150)
• cleanup references of --opts (#5402)

🩹 Fixes

• correct assertion import syntax in getting-started guide (#5526) (fb0215b)
• handle empty null-prototyped objects (#5506) (2a0bce0)

📚 Documentation

• add maintainer expectations to MAINTAINERS.md (#5514) (76f95a1)
• migrate how-to wiki pages to main documentation (#5463) (b85aec6)
• migrate programmatic usage to docs, development content to DEVELOPMENT.md (#5464) (cb47925)
• test/integration/README: remove ref to non-existent dir (#5516) (d2c2d40)
• update TSC Members' hourly rate to $75 (#5488)

🧹 Chores

• applied formatting to all files (#5493) (76d7194)
• fix broken link in .github/CONTRIBUTING.md (681e843)
• remove Node.js 18 from test-smoke in CI too (d643105)
• switch from Coveralls to Codecov (#5447) (f4e7e54)
• unpin node-version in release-please (#5550) (62c90cd)
• use ps-list instead of pidtree to remove wmic (#5479) (b2985b3)

🤖 Automation

• deps: bump actions/checkout in the github-actions group (#5547) (561eb03)
• deps: bump actions/setup-node in the github-actions group (#5503) (9a70533)

v11.7.5

11.7.5 (2025-11-04)

🩹 Fixes

• swallow more require errors from *ts files (#5498) (d89dbaf)

🧹 Chores

• run tests on PRs for and pushes to v11.x (#5525) (8b21b38)
• setup release-please for v11 (#5522) (663fff4)

v11.7.4

11.7.4 (2025-10-01)

🩹 Fixes

• watch mode using chokidar v4 (#5379) (c2667c3)

📚 Documentation

• migrate remaining legacy wiki pages to main documentation (#5465) (bff9166)

🧹 Chores

• remove trailing spaces (#5475) (7f68e5c)

v11.7.3

11.7.3 (2025-09-30)

🩹 Fixes

• use original require() error for TS files if ERR_UNKNOWN_FILE_EXTENSION (#5408) (ebdbc48)

📚 Documentation

• add security escalation policy (#5466) (4122c7d)
• fix duplicate global leak documentation (#5461) (1164b9d)
• migrate third party UIs wiki page to docs (#5434) (6654704)
• update maintainer release notes for release-please (#5453) (185ae1e)

🤖 Automation

• deps: bump actions/setup-node in the github-actions group (#5459) (48c6f40)

v11.7.2

11.7.2 (2025-09-01)

🩹 Fixes

• fail with an informative error message on a file with a broken default import (#5413) (b0e6135)
• load mjs files correctly (#5429) (a947b9b)

📚 Documentation

• add banner from old site to new site, link from new to old (#5414) (dedef11)
• add info on spies to legacy docs (#5421) (21f5544)
• explain node import swallowing error (#5401) (09f5b2c)
• fix links in new site (#5416) (b2bc769)
• migrate assertion libraries wiki link to main docs (#5442) (95f3ca8)
• migrate count assertions wiki page to docs (#5438) (02a306c)
• migrate shared behaviours to docs-next (#5432) (1dc4aa9)
• migrate Spies wiki page to explainers (#5420) (cbcf007)
• Migrate tagging wiki page to docs (#5435) (876247a)
• migrate third party reporters wiki page to docs (#5433) (f70764c)
• migrate to global leak wiki page to docs (#5437) (8a6fdca)
• update /next bug report link to be docs issue template (#5424) (668cb66)

🧹 Chores

• add issue form for ⚡️ Performance (#5406) (a908b3b)
• add test for -R import-only-loader (#5391) (6ee5b48)
• also test Node.js 24 in CI (#5405) (15f5980)
• bump CI to use 20.19.4, 22.18.0, 24.6.0 (#5430) (ace5eb4)
• bump Knip to 5.61.2 (#5394) (f3d7430)
• cleanup references of --opts (#5402) (1096b37)
• enabled ESLint's no-unused-vars (#5399) (d4168ae)
• move callback and object typedefs to a new types.d.ts (#5351) (3300d21)
• rewrite base path instead of copy-pasting (#5431) (c6c6740)
• unify caught errors as err (#5439) (d4912e7)
• Update experimental module detection test and pin exact Node versions (#5417) (2489090)

🤖 Automation

• deps: bump actions/checkout in the github-actions group (#5419) (03ac2d0)

v11.7.1

11.7.1 (2025-06-24)

🩹 Fixes

• always fallback to import() if require() fails (#5384) (295c168)

🧹 Chores

• add esm loader test (#5383) (f58e49f)

v11.7.0

11.7.0 (2025-06-18)

🌟 Features

• use require to load esm (#5366) (41e24a2)

v11.6.0

11.6.0 (2025-06-09)

🌟 Features

• bump workerpool from ^6.5.1 to ^9.2.0 (#5350) (581a3c5)

v11.5.0

11.5.0 (2025-05-22)

🌟 Features

• bump mimimatch from ^5.1.6 to ^9.0.5 (#5349) (a3dea85)