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-listinstead ofpidtreeto remove wmic (#5479) (b2985b3)