Update dependency mocha to v11

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
mocha (source)	^10.2.0 → ^11.0.0

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Release Notes

mochajs/mocha (mocha)

v11.8.0

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🌟 Features

• add --fail-hook-affected-tests option to report skipped tests as failed (#​5519) (#​6052) (7830309)

🧹 Chores

• add modern Netlify to v11.x branch (#​6082) (26deb23), closes #​5696
• change site title to Mocha 11, update index note (#​6086) (1f44d5f)
• CI: bump Node from 22 to 24 in publish action (#​6206) (05aec43)

v11.7.6

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🩹 Fixes

• make describe().timeout() work (aafe6fd)
• test: replace wmic usage with native Windows API (#​5694) (73ebdfa)

🧹 Chores

• format all code (#​5629) (0696784)
• remove Netlify (#​5630) (8d01d33)

v11.7.5

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🩹 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

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🩹 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

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🩹 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

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🩹 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

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🩹 Fixes

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

🧹 Chores

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

v11.7.0

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🌟 Features

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

v11.6.0

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🌟 Features

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

v11.5.0

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🌟 Features

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

v11.4.0

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🌟 Features

• bump diff from ^5.2.0 to ^7.0.0 (#​5348) (554d6bb)

📚 Documentation

• added CHANGELOG.md note around 11.1 yargs-parser update (#​5362) (618415d)

v11.3.0

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🌟 Features

• add option to use posix exit code upon fatal signal (#​4989) (91bbf85)

📚 Documentation

• Deploy new site alongside old one (#​5360) (6c96545)
• mention explicit browser support range (#​5354) (c514c0b)
• update Node.js version requirements for 11.x (#​5329) (abf3dd9)

🧹 Chores

• remove prerelease setting in release-please config (#​5363) (8878f22)

v11.2.2

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🩹 Fixes

• deps: update chokidar to v4 (#​5256) (8af0f1a)

📚 Documentation

• add ClientRedirects.astro (#​5324) (b88d441)
• add example/tests.html to docs-next (#​5325) (6ec5762)

v11.2.1

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🩹 Fixes

• switch from ansi-colors to picocolors (#​5323) (7c08d09)

📚 Documentation

• fix new website typos, improve readability (#​5312) (fbceb19)

🧹 Chores

• "force" Netlify to use npm to build new site (#​5319) (3a46855)
• Fix tests (#​5320) (18699a0)

v11.2.0

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🌟 Features

• enable reporters to show relative paths of tests (#​5292) (81ea666)

📚 Documentation

• add instructions for API docs (#​5287) (b720ec1)
• add new website using Astro Starlight (#​5246) (b1f1cb7)
• improve third-party reporter docs (#​5285) (c5a0ef5)

🧹 Chores

• enabled eslint-plugin-n (#​5280) (945d6e3)
• pin node-lts tests to 22.11.0 (#​5279) (664e1f4)
• replace fs-extra with newer fs built-ins (#​5284) (75dcf8c)

v11.1.0

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🌟 Features

• bump yargs to 17 (#​5165) (8f1c8d8)
  • Note that this also included a version bump of yargs-parser from ^20.2.9 to ^21.1., which fixed a bug that caused extra quotes in file paths to be removed.
    See #​5341 for more information.
• replace strip-ansi with util.stripVTControlCharacters (#​5267) (3c191c0), closes #​5265

v11.0.2

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🩹 Fixes

• catch exceptions setting Error.stackTraceLimit (#​5254) (259f8f8)
• error handling for unexpected numeric arguments passed to cli (#​5263) (210d658)

📚 Documentation

• correct outdated status: accepting prs link (#​5268) (f729cd0)
• replace "New in" with "Since" in version annotations (#​5262) (6f10d12)

v11.0.1

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🌟 Features

• bumped glob dependency from 8 to 10 (#​5250) (43c3157)

📚 Documentation

• fix examples for linkPartialObjects methods (#​5255) (34e0e52)

v11.0.0

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⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• adapt new engine range for Mocha 11 (#​5216)

🌟 Features

• allow calling hook methods (#​5231) (e3da641)

🩹 Fixes

• adapt new engine range for Mocha 11 (#​5216) (80da25a)

📚 Documentation

• downgrade example/tests chai to 4.5.0 (#​5245) (eac87e1)

v10.8.2

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🩹 Fixes

• support errors with circular dependencies in object values with --parallel (#​5212) (ba0fefe)
• test link in html reporter (#​5224) (f054acc)

📚 Documentation

• indicate 'exports' interface does not work in browsers (#​5181) (14e640e)

🧹 Chores

• fix docs builds by re-adding eleventy and ignoring gitignore again (#​5240) (881e3b0)

🤖 Automation

• deps: bump the github-actions group with 1 update (#​5132) (e536ab2)

v10.8.1

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🩹 Fixes

• handle case of invalid package.json with no explicit config (#​5198) (f72bc17)
• Typos on mochajs.org (#​5237) (d8ca270)
• use accurate test links in HTML reporter (#​5228) (68803b6)

v10.8.0

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🩹 Fixes

• deps: update dependency starlight-blog to ^0.28.0 (#​6153) (6b79044)
• docs: restore homepage logo (#​6183) (06e81a8)
• docs: restore spacing around footer links (#​6185) (163d751)
• use main instead of exports for the package entry point (#​6193) (c32a696)

📚 Documentation

• blog: add community contributions post (#​6172) (5fcc0fe)
• blog: update community-contributions to 2026-community-sponsorships (5462d84)
• fix blog/2026-community-sponsorships description (#​6177) (98c4746)
• sync CLI docs with v12 options and defaults (#​6140) (579fd15)

🧹 Chores

• deps: update dependency @​playwright/test to v1.62.1 (#​6197) (dcc539a)
• deps: update dependency eslint to v10.8.0 (#​6196) (deeeec6)
• deps: update dependency globals to v17.9.0 (#​6201) (c2c6d63)
• deps: update dependency knip to v6.31.0 (#​6166) (b7cd1bd)
• deps: update dependency sinon to v22.1.0 (#​6188) (284f0c2)
• deps: update dependency webpack to v5.109.2 (#​6194) (badf733)
• extract stripLeadingDashes helper + cover CLI arg-parsing edge cases (#​6171) (867e175)
• fix esm-utils tests when run without coverage (#​6160) (c54539f)
• keep stderr out of the JSON parsed by the FIFO test (#​6187) (ea6489e)
• limit token perms in protect-manifest workflow (#​6175) (8cf0030)
• repo: change stale threshold from 2+2 to 1+1 (#​6179) (7cb2678)

🤖 Automation

• deps: bump actions/stale from 10 to 11 in the github-actions group (#​6207) (ce13809)

v10.7.3

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🩹 Fixes

• make release-please build work (#​5194) (afd66ef)

v10.7.0

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⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• replace he dependency with manual HTML encoding

🌟 Features

• add --clear-screen option for watch mode (#​6133) (3301ed7)
• add built-in github-actions reporter (#​6088) (a99b8ba)

🩹 Fixes

• deps: update dependency js-yaml to v5 (#​6117) (2fb44ff)
• replace he dependency with manual HTML encoding (9f85d71)
• strip ANSI sequences from xunit output (bf76999)

📚 Documentation

• move legacy site link to bottom of homepage (#​6093) (f3e7d37)

🧹 Chores

• add "Protect Release Please Manifest" workflow (#​6099) (2d7bc22)
• add v12 RC 1 release notes (#​5848) (275ce51)
• deps: bump unexpected to 13 and remove unused plugins (#​6135) (b587012)
• deps: update actions/checkout action to v7 (#​6114) (857945d)
• deps: update actions/github-script action to v9 (#​6091) (a017f08)
• deps: update dependency eslint to v10.7.0 (#​6134) (26d73d3)
• deps: update dependency eslint-plugin-n to v18.2.2 (#​6137) (9d925f0)
• deps: update dependency globals to v17.7.0 (#​6126) (864fb80)
• deps: update dependency js-yaml to v4.3.0 (#​6141) (bd4fcf4)
• deps: update dependency knip to v6.24.0 (#​6110) (bab1d4e)
• deps: update dependency knip to v6.26.0 (#​6145) (c7cfbe9)
• deps: update dependency prettier to v3.9.5 (#​6142) (55df0d1)
• deps: update dependency webpack to v5.108.4 (#​6150) (4e072d1)
• deps: update dependency webpack-cli to v7.2.1 (#​6151) (19978d7)
• deps: update playwright monorepo to v1.61.0 (#​6108) (7ad398e)
• fix RC 1 blog publish time, rename to ...-rc-1 (#​6106) (00d59bc)
• raise timeout for node-unit Mocha spec to fix flaky hook (#​6118) (31ee8c5)
• require exact fixture references in integration tests (#​6096) (d602cc7)
• retry touch in dir-add watch test to reduce flakiness (#​6119) (061cb52)
• upgrade Astro to 7.1.1 (#​6149) (a5f1caa)

🤖 Automation

• deps: bump actions/setup-node from 6 to 7 in the github-actions group across 1 directory (#​6146) (a73e34c)

v10.6.1

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🐛 Fixes

• #​3825 fix: do not exit when only unref'd timer is present in test code (@​boneskull)
• #​5040 fix: support canonical module (@​JacobLey)

v10.6.0

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🎉 Enhancements

• #​5150 feat: allow ^ versions for character encoding packages (@​JoshuaKGoldberg)
• #​5151 feat: allow ^ versions for file matching packages (@​JoshuaKGoldberg)
• #​5152 feat: allow ^ versions for yargs packages (@​JoshuaKGoldberg)
• #​5153 feat: allow ^ versions for data serialization packages (@​JoshuaKGoldberg)
• #​5154 feat: allow ^ versions for miscellaneous packages (@​JoshuaKGoldberg)

v10.5.2

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🐛 Fixes

• #​5032 fix: better tracking of seen objects in error serialization (@​sam-super)

v10.5.1

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🐛 Fixes

• #​5086 fix: Add error handling for nonexistent file case with --file option (@​khoaHyh)

v10.5.0

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⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• change root package.json type to module (#​6078)

🌟 Features

• change root package.json type to module (#​6078) (da015de)

📚 Documentation

• add blog (#​6095) (c0280ba)
• switch util.inherits to class extends (#​5677) (f6e8d9a)

🧹 Chores

• configure Release Please for RC (#​6083) (8f3a61c)
• deps: update dependency @​types/node to v24.13.0 (#​6066) (fb1998a)
• deps: update dependency eslint-plugin-n to v18.1.0 (#​6072) (6f56135)
• deps: update dependency knip to v6.16.1 (#​6067) (b204395)
• deps: update dependency rollup to v4.61.0 (#​6050) (87696d5)
• deps: update dependency rollup to v4.62.0 (#​6103) (69e04bf)
• deps: update eslint monorepo to v10.5.0 (#​6100) (ac372e0)
• explain "trivial changes", update PR template (#​6075) (6cbe3d5)
• fix "remove 'waiting for author' " workflow (#​6090) (b80d44b)
• fix formatting on new remove-waiting-label file (#​6062) (bfcb02a)
• fix Release Please manifest (#​6097) (cfd9cf7)
• remove "status: waiting for author" label on review request (#​5983) (fa3488d)
• replace Karma with Playwright for browser tests (#​6031) (7c9b004)
• restore cursor in watch failure diagnostics (#​6102) (d640269)
• synchronize watch integration tests on observed runs instead of sleeps (#​6058) (84af186)
• upgrade Astro and its deps (#​6089) (66cdd8f)
• use 1st-party script for blocked-pr.yml (#​6085) (54aee06)

🤖 Automation

• deps: bump codecov/codecov-action from 6 to 7 in the github-actions group (#​6051) (00db758)

v10.4.0

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⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• remove bin/_mocha and convert bin/ and entry points to ESM (#​6017)

🌟 Features

• remove bin/_mocha and convert bin/ and entry points to ESM (#​6017) (930972a)

🩹 Fixes

• lookupFiles() now returns string[] for direct file paths (#​5941) (4718476), closes #​5940
• prevent diff hang on large/complex objects (#​5898) (6695fba)

🧹 Chores

• convert lib/nodejs/ utility files to ESM (#​6011) (a8ffaa9)
• convert lib/reporters/base to ESM (#​6012) (d12dd90)
• deps: update dependency eslint to v10.4.0 (#​5996) (f2dd26b)
• deps: update dependency knip to v6.14.2 (#​5982) (b40e85b)
• deps: update dependency npm-run-all2 to v9 (#​6019) (70bea83)
• deps: update dependency webpack to v5.107.2 (#​6022) (5eca67d)

🤖 Automation

• deps: bump joelwmale/webhook-action in the github-actions group (#​6032) (75c618d)

v10.3.0

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⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• remove unused legacy errors.js functions (#​5835)

🩹 Fixes

• deps: update dependency @​astrojs/starlight to ^0.39.0 (#​5952) (eed10ac)

📚 Documentation

• add TypeScript setup guide (#​5863) (af63dcf)
• fix correctness issues in error codes, CLI defaults, and config docs (#​5860) (bd54205)
• modernize DEVELOPMENT.md for new contributors (#​5865) (5122ad7)

🧹 Chores

• convert lib/cli/cli.mjs to ESM (#​5909) (6e91a89)
• convert dot, min, and list reporters to esm (#​5907) (b19b696)
• convert run-option-metadata and exports interface to ESM (#​5910) (27b0814)
• deps: update dependency @​types/node to v24 (#​5958) (ef113d7)
• deps: update dependency eslint to v10.3.0 (#​5945) (18cf178)
• deps: update dependency eslint-plugin-n to v18 (#​5948) (99f0e4a)
• deps: update dependency globals to v17.6.0 (#​5946) (412070c)
• deps: update dependency knip to v6.12.1 (#​5942) (e29003d)
• deps: update dependency knip to v6.6.1 (#​5927) (7c48496)
• deps: update dependency knip to v6.7.0 (#​5933) (441c32a)
• deps: update dependency nyc to v18 (#​5846) (1fea247)
• deps: update dependency semver to v7.8.0 (#​5957) (0cbb43c)
• deps: update dependency sinon to v22 (#​5949) (54dcfda)
• deps: update dependency webpack-cli to v7 (#​5871) (9d367e1)
• deps: update googleapis/release-please-action action to v5 (#​5929) (f32085f)
• dev-deps: upgrade webpack from v6 to v7 + remove obsolete fail-on-errors-webpack-plugin (#​5908) (103ad41)
• document CJS and MJS config file priority (#​5923) (09a1106)
• fix Knip issues (#​5919) (1b3d604)
• migrate core interfaces and utilities to ESM (#​5930) (1ad23ab)
• migrate reporters to ESM (#​5928) (f6a62ca)
• remove unused legacy errors.js functions (#​5835) (4116368)
• tag alpha releases as alpha, not next (#​5951) (8e29413), closes #​5947

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