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Snyk has created this PR to upgrade ava from 5.3.1 to 6.4.1.

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Issues fixed by the recommended upgrade:

Issue Score Exploit Maturity
high severity Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
SNYK-JS-CROSSSPAWN-8303230
57 Proof of Concept
high severity Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
SNYK-JS-SEMVER-3247795
57 Proof of Concept
high severity Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
SNYK-JS-SEMVER-3247795
57 Proof of Concept
high severity Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
SNYK-JS-SEMVER-3247795
57 Proof of Concept
medium severity Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime
SNYK-JS-INFLIGHT-6095116
57 Proof of Concept
medium severity Prototype Pollution
SNYK-JS-JSYAML-13961110
57 No Known Exploit
low severity Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
SNYK-JS-BRACEEXPANSION-9789073
57 Proof of Concept
low severity Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
npm:debug:20170905
57 Proof of Concept
Release notes
Package name: ava
  • 6.4.1 - 2025-07-12

    What's Changed

    • Keep test worker alive until explicitly freed by @ matz3 in #3391

    New Contributors

    Full Changelog: v6.4.0...v6.4.1

  • 6.4.0 - 2025-06-07

    What's Changed

    Interactive watch mode filters

    @ mmulet did fantastic work to spearhead interactive watch mode filters. You can now filter test files by glob patterns, and tests by matching their titles. It's just like you already could from the CLI itself, but now without exiting AVA 🚀 #3372

    As part of this work we've removed the "sticky" .only() behavior #3381

    Examples

    We've been remiss in merging #3335 which updates the examples to use AVA 6. It's done now, examples are up to date and it's all due to @ tommy-mitchell 👏

    New Contributors

    Full Changelog: v6.3.0...v6.4.0

  • 6.3.0 - 2025-05-02

    What's Changed

    • Update dependencies, addressing npm audit warnings by @ novemberborn in #3377
    • Do not count writes to stdout/stderr as non-idling activity for timeouts by @ mdouglass in #3374

    New Contributors

    Full Changelog: v6.2.0...v6.3.0

  • 6.2.0 - 2024-10-27

    What's Changed

    • Add filterNodeArgumentsForWorkerThreads option in #3336
    • Add Node.js 23 to supported engines (and test matrix) in #3346

    New Contributors

    Full Changelog: v6.1.3...v6.2.0

  • 6.1.3 - 2024-05-05

    What's Changed

    New Contributors

    Full Changelog: v6.1.2...v6.1.3

  • 6.1.2 - 2024-02-28

    What's Changed

    • Fix throws assertions rejecting falsy values when any: true by @ gibson042 in #3313

    Full Changelog: v6.1.1...v6.1.2

  • 6.1.1 - 2024-01-29

    What's Changed

    Full Changelog: v6.1.0...v6.1.1

  • 6.1.0 - 2024-01-21

    What's Changed

    • Implement registerCompletionHandler() by @ novemberborn in #3283

      AVA 6 expects test code to clean up gracefully when the tests are complete, allowing the test environment (worker thread or child process) to exit. If this does not happen, AVA will report a timeout. You can use registerCompletionHandler() to perform any other clean up (or indeed exit the process) after AVA has completed the test execution. See the description here.

    • Fix potential bug with watch mode when no failed test files are written by @ novemberborn in #3287

    • Fix ava/internal ESM type module by @ codetheweb in #3292

    Full Changelog: v6.0.1...v6.1.0

  • 6.0.1 - 2023-12-06

    What's Changed

    Full Changelog: v6.0.0...v6.0.1

  • 6.0.0 - 2023-12-04

    Breaking Changes

    • AVA now requires Node.js versions 18.18, 20.8 or 21. Versions 14 and 16 are no longer supported. #3251 #3216

    • When tests finish, worker threads or child processes are no longer exited through proces.exit(). If your test file does not exit on its own, the test run will time out. #3260

    • Changes to watch mode #3218:

      • Watch mode can no longer be started via the ava.config.* or package.json configuration.
      • The ignoredByWatcher configuration has moved to the watchMode object, under the ignoreChanges key.
      • Watch mode now uses the built-in fs.watch() in recursive mode. This is supported on Linux in Node.js 20 or newer, and MacOS and Windows in Node.js 18 as well. There are caveats to keep in mind.
    • Failed assertions now throw, meaning that any subsequent code is not executed. This also impacts the type definitions. #3246

    • Only native errors are now considered errors by the t.throws() and t.throwsAsync() assertions. Object.create(Error.prototype) is not a native error. #3229

    • Changes to modules loaded through the require configuration #3184:

      • If such modules export a default function, this function is now invoked.
      • Local files are loaded through @ ava/typescript if necessary.

    Improvements

    Rewritten watcher

    The watcher has been rewritten. It’s now built on fs.watch() in recursive mode.

    @ vercel/nft is used to perform static dependency analysis, supporting ESM and CJS imports for JavaScript & TypeScript source files. This is a huge improvement over the previous runtime tracking of CJS imports, which did not support ESM.

    Integration with @ ava/typescript has been improved. The watcher can now detect a change to a TypeScript source file, then wait for the corresponding build output to change before re-running tests.

    The ignoredByWatcher configuration has moved to the watchMode object, under the ignoreChanges key.

    See #3218 and #3257.

    Failed assertions now throw

    Assertions now throw a TestFailure error when they fail. This error is not exported or documented and should not be used or thrown manually. You cannot catch this error in order to recover from a failure, use t.try() instead.

    All assertions except for t.throws() and t.throwsAsync() now return true when they pass. This is useful for some of the assertions in TypeScript where they can be used as a type guard.

    Committing a failed t.try() result now also throws.

    See #3246.

    t.throws() and t.throwsAsync() can now expect any error

    By default, the thrown error (or rejection reason) must be a native error. You can change the assertion to expect any kind of error by setting any: true in the expectation object:

    t.throws(() => { throw 'error' }, {any: true})

    See #3245 by @ adiSuper94.

    The require configuration is now more powerful

    It now loads ES modules.

    Local files are loaded through @ ava/typescript if necessary, so you can also write these in TypeScript.

    If there is a default export function, it is invoked after loading. The function is awaited so it can do asynchronous setup before further modules are loaded. Arguments from the configuration can be passed to the function (as a [structured clone](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/structuredClone)).

    See #3184 by @ sculpt0r.

    Other changes worth noting

    • Internal events can now be observed (experimentally). See #3247 by @ codetheweb. It’s experimental and undocumented.
    • You can now use t.timeout.clear() to restore a previous t.timeout(). #3221
    • Code coverage is flushed to disk at opportune moments. #3220

    New Contributors

    Full Changelog: v5.3.1...v6.0.0

  • 5.3.1 - 2023-06-16
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Summary of Changes

Hello @hashim21223445, I'm Gemini Code Assist1! I'm currently reviewing this pull request and will post my feedback shortly. In the meantime, here's a summary to help you and other reviewers quickly get up to speed!

This pull request, automatically generated by Snyk, updates the ava testing framework to its latest version (6.4.1) from 5.3.1. The primary motivation for this upgrade is to resolve several identified security vulnerabilities. Given that this is a major version upgrade, it's crucial to be aware of potential breaking changes and review the ava 6.x release notes to ensure compatibility and prevent regressions.

Highlights

  • Dependency Upgrade: Upgrades the ava testing framework from version 5.3.1 to 6.4.1. This is a significant major version bump, spanning 10 versions.
  • Security Fixes: Addresses multiple high, medium, and low severity security vulnerabilities, including several Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) issues, Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime, and Prototype Pollution.
  • Potential Breaking Changes: As a major version upgrade, this PR may introduce breaking changes. Review of the ava 6.0.0 release notes is recommended to understand potential impacts on existing tests.
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This pull request upgrades ava from version 5.3.1 to 6.4.1, which is a major version jump. While this upgrade addresses several security vulnerabilities, it also introduces significant breaking changes as detailed in the release notes for ava@6.0.0. The most critical change is the new requirement for Node.js version 18.18 or higher. The project's package.json currently specifies support for Node.js >=14, which is now incompatible with the testing framework. This will need to be addressed by updating the engines field, which constitutes a breaking change for consumers of this package.

"analytics": "^0.2.0",
"analytics-plugin-ga": "^0.2.0",
"ava": "^5.3.1",
"ava": "^6.4.1",

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Upgrading ava to version 6.x introduces a new minimum Node.js version requirement. According to the ava@6.0.0 release notes, it requires Node.js 18.18, 20.8, or 21.

Your package.json currently declares support for Node.js >=14 in the engines field. This mismatch will cause the tests to fail on older Node.js versions that are supposedly supported.

To resolve this, you must update the engines field in package.json to reflect the new requirement, for example:

"engines": {
  "node": ">=18.18"
}

Please be aware that this is a breaking change for the consumers of this package who might be using older Node.js versions.

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