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Release Notes: v6.0.0

🚨 Breaking Changes

Node.js Version Requirements

  • Dropped support for Node.js 18
  • Now requires Node.js 20 or higher
  • This is a major version bump due to the minimum Node.js version change

Dependency Changes

  • Removed minimist - Replaced with native util.parseArgs()
  • Removed log-driver - Replaced with native logging wrapper
  • Removed several unused dependencies - Cleaner, lighter package

✨ New Features & Improvements

Code Quality

  • 🎯 100% test coverage - Complete code coverage across all modules
  • Modern async/await patterns - Replaced all callback-based code with async/await
  • Proper Error objects - Standardized error handling throughout
  • Functional programming - Refactored code to be more testable and maintainable

Git Integration

  • Improved branch detection - Fixed regex to support all valid characters in branch names
  • Better git metadata extraction - More reliable git command parsing
  • Support for commit_sha values - Enhanced commit identification
  • Fixed undefined branch handling - No more spaces or "undefined" in branch values

Testing

  • New bin/coveralls.js tests - Added comprehensive CLI tests
  • Enhanced test coverage - Added tests for edge cases across all modules
  • Updated test patterns - Modern testing practices throughout

Documentation

  • Added CONTRIBUTING.md - Complete contributor guide (317 lines)
  • Enhanced README - Updated documentation with better examples and clarity
  • Improved inline documentation - Better code comments and JSDoc

Developer Experience

  • Updated GitHub Actions - Modern CI configuration
  • Cleaner dependencies - Reduced package-lock.json complexity significantly
  • Security fixes - Updated dependencies to resolve vulnerabilities

📦 Package Changes

Major dependency reduction:

  • Production dependencies now minimal (just js-yaml and lcov-parse)
  • Updated all dev dependencies to latest versions
  • Cleaner, faster installs

Files changed: 22 files, 3,074 insertions, 4,480 deletions (net reduction of 1,406 lines)

🔄 Migration Guide

Updating from v5.0.0 to v6.0.0

  1. Update Node.js: Ensure you're running Node.js 20 or higher
    node --version # Should be >= 20.0.0
  2. Update the package:
    npm install coveralls-next@6.0.0
  3. No API changes: The CLI and programmatic API remain backward compatible

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed branch name regex to handle all valid git branch characters
  • Fixed handling of undefined/null branch values
  • Cleaned up date/time handling logic
  • Improved error propagation throughout the codebase
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