v8.0.1

What's Changed

This release officially adds Node.js 26 support, with thanks to @novemberborn in #3450.

Per our policy, support for Node.js 25 has been removed.

Full Changelog: v8.0.0...v8.0.1

v8.0.0

Breaking Changes

AVA now expects Node.js 22.20, 24.12 or newer.

Internally AVA is now fully ESM. This is possible now that Node.js supports loading ES modules using require() calls and simplifies AVA's types and internals.

If you use AVA from a CommonJS project you'll have to update your imports:

-const test = require('ava');
+const {default: test} = require('ava');

We expect an increasing number of projects to be ESM only. As per the above, CommonJS is still supported, but we don't expect cjs extensions to be used. The default file extensions are now js and mjs. Specify extensions: ['cjs', 'js', 'mjs'] for AVA to run test files with the cjs extension.

All test files (and those loaded through AVA's require config) are now loaded via import(). Use customization hooks for transpilation. The object form of the extensions configuration is no longer supported.

If you use AVA with @ava/typescript you must upgrade that package to v7.

New Features

There's two new test modifiers courtesy of @sindresorhus: test.skipIf() to skip a test based on a runtime condition. test.runIf() is the inverse: the test only runs when the condition is true.

test.skipIf(process.platform === 'win32')('not on Windows', t => {
	t.pass();
});

test.runIf(process.platform === 'linux')('Linux only', t => {
	t.pass();
});

These work with other modifiers like .serial and .failing:

test.serial.skipIf(process.platform === 'win32')('serial, not on Windows', t => {
	t.pass();
});

test.failing.skipIf(process.platform === 'win32')('expected failure, not on Windows', t => {
	t.fail();
});

Other Changes

• Watch mode now ignores changes to *.tsbuildinfo files
• TAP reporter is more defensive when restoring the original error name, thanks to @ninper00 in #3415
• Reported errors when throwsAsync/notThrowsAsync are not awaited have been improved by @sindresorhus in #3436

New Contributors

• @ninper00 made their first contribution in #3415

Full Changelog: v7.0.0...v8.0.0

v7.0.0

What's Changed

• Replace strip-ansi with node:util.stripVTControlCharacters by @fisker in #3403
• Remove support for Node.js 18 and 23; require 20.19 or newer, 22.20 or newer or 24,12 or newer; update dependencies including transitive glob by @novemberborn in #3416

Full Changelog: v6.4.1...v7.0.0

v6.4.1

What's Changed

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

New Contributors

• @matz3 made their first contribution in #3391

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

v6.4.0

What's Changed

• AVA is now tested with Node.js 24 (but no longer v23) #3379
• We're now publishing to npm with provenance attestations #3385

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

• @mmulet made their first contribution in #3372
• @kebbell made their first contribution in #3348

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

v6.3.0

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

• @mdouglass made their first contribution in #3374

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

v6.2.0

What's Changed

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

New Contributors

• @thoughtsunificator made their first contribution in #3345

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

v6.1.3

What's Changed

• Include Node.js 22 in supported engines and test matrix by @lenovouser in #3328
• Add VS Code debugging instructions for Yarn PnP projects by @bitjson in #3317
• Document serial configuration option by @turadg in #3321

New Contributors

• @bitjson made their first contribution in #3317
• @turadg made their first contribution in #3321
• @lenovouser made their first contribution in #3328

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

v6.1.2

What's Changed

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

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

v6.1.1

What's Changed

• Fix 'previous failures' in watch mode always incrementing by @novemberborn in #3297

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