v6.0.0-next.0 (2026-02-13)

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Changelog

Features

• ESM-only conversion (#2368)
• cli!: use Base64 urlsafe alphabet for ID (#2438)
• vue-extractor: add reactivity transform support for props destructuring (#2414)

Deprecations

• conf!: remove deprecated format as string and formatOptions (#2419)
• cli!: remove deprecated typescript extractor (#2417)
• core: deprecate Intl wrapper helpers and document removal (#2386)
• chore: remove deprecated @lingui/macro package (#2422)
• chore: remove CRA, write tests for vite-babel example, correct macro exports (#2432)
• chore: set the minimum required Node.js version to 22.19 (#2435)

Fixes

• macro: ignore JSX comments when generating message IDs (#2434)
• cli: fix inline sourcemap parsing (#2439)
• core: improve event handling and listener management in eventEmitter (#2277)

Refactoring

• cli!: strictNullChecks for CLI lib packages (#2412)
• conf!: replace cosmiconfig with lilconfig in configuration handling (#2286)
• format-po-gettext: modernize format-po-gettext catalog format (#2428)
• core: proper macro browser shim (#2433)
• deps: use workspace protocol, reconsider peerDependencies (#2426)
• chore: explicit type field in package.json and alignment for exports (#2430)
• chore: use vitest@4, prettier@3 (#2413)
• deps: various dependency updates in #2415, #2416, #2420, #2421, #2429, #2437, #2440, #2441, #2450.

Discussion

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