Feature Request Checklist

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Overview

Mocha currently depends an older major version of minimatch:

Suggested Solution

minimatch@10.0.1 is the latest. It'd be nice to bump to that, so users aren't stuck on a dep that's many major versions behind.

Alternatives

This isn't critical and I don't think we need to do it. But it's nice ecosystem cleanup in general.

I don't know of popular alternatives to minimatch and haven't looked for them.

Additional Info

minimatch@10 requires Node.js 20 || >=22. So we're blocked on upgrading to 10 until Mocha drops support for Node.js 18 and 21.

Note: minimatch@9 still supports "node": ">=16 || 14 >=14.17". We could bump to 9 in the current major, then file a followup for 10 that lands later on? I'm in favor of that. But putting this one issue up in triage for discussion.