diff --git a/.all-contributorsrc b/.all-contributorsrc
index a2511741c..4bd7f412b 100644
--- a/.all-contributorsrc
+++ b/.all-contributorsrc
@@ -157,6 +157,17 @@
         "code",
         "test"
       ]
+    },
+    {
+      "login": "mikicho",
+      "name": "Michael Solomon",
+      "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/11459632?v=4",
+      "profile": "https://github.com/mikicho",
+      "contributions": [
+        "maintenance",
+        "code",
+        "doc"
+      ]
     }
   ],
   "contributorsPerLine": 7,
diff --git a/.github/workflows/continuous-integration.yaml b/.github/workflows/continuous-integration.yaml
index 45dcc8d08..c4c6fccfc 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/continuous-integration.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/continuous-integration.yaml
@@ -63,9 +63,27 @@ jobs:
       - name: Lint
         run: |
           npm run lint:ts
-  test:
-    name: Test
+
+  # verify against ranges defined as supported in engines.node
+  test_matrix:
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        node-version:
+          - 10
+          - 12
+          - 14
+          - 16
+          - 18
+          - 20
+        os:
+          - macos-latest
+          - ubuntu-latest
+          - windows-latest
+
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    timeout-minutes: 5
+
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -83,16 +101,18 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test jest
         run: npm run test:jest
         if: matrix.node-version >= 14
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        node-version:
-          - 10
-          - 12
-          - 14
-          - 16
-          - 18
-        os:
-          - macos-latest
-          - ubuntu-latest
-          - windows-latest
+
+  # separate job to set as required in branch protection,
+  # as the build names above change each time Node versions change
+  test:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    needs:
+      - test_matrix
+    if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
+    steps:
+      - name: All matrix versions passed
+        if: ${{ !(contains(needs.*.result, 'failure')) }}
+        run: exit 0
+      - name: Some matrix version failed
+        if: ${{ contains(needs.*.result, 'failure') }}
+        run: exit 1
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e26ecaf89..43f1eaaaf 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -9,8 +9,13 @@
 [npmjs]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/nock
 [build]: https://travis-ci.org/nock/nock
 
-> **Warning**  
-> nock is currently not compatible with Node's experimental native `fetch` implementation. See [#2397](https://github.com/nock/nock/issues/2397)
+> **Notice**
+>
+> We have introduced experimental support for fetch. Please share your feedback with us. You can install it by:
+>
+> ```
+> npm install --save-dev nock@beta
+> ```
 
 HTTP server mocking and expectations library for Node.js
 
@@ -1698,6 +1703,7 @@ Thanks goes to these wonderful people ([emoji key](https://github.com/all-contri
     </tr>
     <tr>
       <td align="center" valign="top" width="14.28%"><a href="https://github.com/rsaryev"><img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/70219513?v=4?s=100" width="100px;" alt="Saryev Rustam"/><br /><sub><b>Saryev Rustam</b></sub></a><br /><a href="https://github.com/nock/nock/commits?author=rsaryev" title="Code">💻</a> <a href="https://github.com/nock/nock/commits?author=rsaryev" title="Tests">⚠️</a></td>
+      <td align="center" valign="top" width="14.28%"><a href="https://github.com/mikicho"><img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/11459632?v=4?s=100" width="100px;" alt="Michael Solomon"/><br /><sub><b>Michael Solomon</b></sub></a><br /><a href="#maintenance-mikicho" title="Maintenance">🚧</a> <a href="https://github.com/nock/nock/commits?author=mikicho" title="Code">💻</a> <a href="https://github.com/nock/nock/commits?author=mikicho" title="Documentation">📖</a></td>
     </tr>
   </tbody>
 </table>
diff --git a/lib/intercept.js b/lib/intercept.js
index cf266d5a5..bcc1319ce 100644
--- a/lib/intercept.js
+++ b/lib/intercept.js
@@ -350,7 +350,8 @@ function interceptorScopes() {
   const nestedInterceptors = Object.values(allInterceptors).map(
     i => i.interceptors,
   )
-  return [].concat(...nestedInterceptors).map(i => i.scope)
+  const scopes = new Set([].concat(...nestedInterceptors).map(i => i.scope))
+  return [...scopes]
 }
 
 function isDone() {
diff --git a/lib/interceptor.js b/lib/interceptor.js
index 67ef8b946..aebbdad14 100644
--- a/lib/interceptor.js
+++ b/lib/interceptor.js
@@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ module.exports = class Interceptor {
       strFormattingFn = common.percentDecode
     }
 
-    if (queries instanceof URLSearchParams) {
+    if (queries instanceof URLSearchParams || typeof queries === 'string') {
       // Normalize the data into the shape that is matched against.
       // Duplicate keys are handled by combining the values into an array.
       queries = querystring.parse(queries.toString())
diff --git a/tests/got/test_nock_lifecycle.js b/tests/got/test_nock_lifecycle.js
index 92a07efe8..622f3076b 100644
--- a/tests/got/test_nock_lifecycle.js
+++ b/tests/got/test_nock_lifecycle.js
@@ -163,6 +163,22 @@ describe('Nock lifecycle functions', () => {
       await got('http://example.test/')
       expect(nock.activeMocks()).to.be.empty()
     })
+
+    it("activeMocks doesn't return duplicate mocks", () => {
+      nock('http://example.test')
+        .get('/')
+        .reply()
+        .get('/second')
+        .reply()
+        .get('/third')
+        .reply()
+
+      expect(nock.activeMocks()).to.deep.equal([
+        'GET http://example.test:80/',
+        'GET http://example.test:80/second',
+        'GET http://example.test:80/third',
+      ])
+    })
   })
 
   describe('resetting nock catastrophically while a request is in progress', () => {
diff --git a/tests/got/test_query.js b/tests/got/test_query.js
index 196b14783..336a8dbc9 100644
--- a/tests/got/test_query.js
+++ b/tests/got/test_query.js
@@ -19,6 +19,22 @@ describe('query params in path', () => {
 })
 
 describe('`query()`', () => {
+  describe('when called with a string', () => {
+    it('matches a url encoded query string of the same name=value', async () => {
+      const scope = nock('http://example.test')
+        .get('/')
+        .query('foo%5Bbar%5D%3Dhello%20world%21')
+        .reply()
+
+      const { statusCode } = await got(
+        'http://example.test/?foo%5Bbar%5D%3Dhello%20world%21',
+      )
+
+      expect(statusCode).to.equal(200)
+      scope.done()
+    })
+  })
+
   describe('when called with an object', () => {
     it('matches a query string of the same name=value', async () => {
       const scope = nock('http://example.test')
@@ -256,8 +272,8 @@ describe('`query()`', () => {
       const interceptor = nock('http://example.test').get('/')
 
       expect(() => {
-        interceptor.query('foo=bar')
-      }).to.throw(Error, 'Argument Error: foo=bar')
+        interceptor.query(1)
+      }).to.throw(Error, 'Argument Error: 1')
     })
   })