v6.1.1: Release 6.1.1

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• Handle absolute Vitest test roots (#​1650) (898a412) - thanks @​filipw01!
• Fix reference types regex to allow extra attributes (resolve #​1649) (1d5f943)
• Update docs (close #​1614, close #​1615) (f1ac529)
• Release knip@​6.1.1 (fcfdabe)

v6.1.0: Release 6.1.0

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• Add knip.nodeRuntimePath setting (resolve #​1643) (65e943c)
• Swap Astro sharp detection to match default behavior (#​1559) (84968bb)
• feat: stencil plugin (#​1644) (d5d20e5) - thanks @​johnjenkins!
• Enable metro plugin when expo is installed (#​1600) (14bc9d7) - thanks @​DaniFoldi!
• Resolve jsPlugins dependencies in oxlint plugin (#​1576) (e11c962) - thanks @​nikolailehbrink!
• Wrap up oxlint jsPlugins support (209a9f7)
• Update dependencies (close #​1646) (869020f)
• Fix config hint filePath edge case (e79c302)
• Rename oxlint config file in fixtures (5630204)

v6.0.6: Release 6.0.6

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• Suppress issues initially to not overwhelm agent in mcp server (7793962)
• Auto-format (346247a)
• Fix false positive unused deps when run from workspace dir (resolve #​1642) (95f4431)
• Move from convertPathsToAlias → compilePathMappings (resolve #​1641) (ccc62d6)

v6.0.5: Release 6.0.5

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• Fix up ecosystem pipeline, add sanity (a338b21)
• Fix broken links in Writing a Plugin docs (#​1640) (963f206) - thanks @​skoeva!
• Minor alignment edits to MCP texts.js (714089f)
• Merge JSDoc tags across function overload signatures (resolve #​1639) (6269ec3)
• Housekeep tag matching (b15bc7e)
• Housekeep reference type matching (d9c8731)
• fix(nx): fall back to workspace cwd when run-commands target has no cwd (#​1638) (cf2dc7d) - thanks @​liorp!
• Release knip@​6.0.5 (289bd9a)

v6.0.4: Release 6.0.4

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• Defer ns member ref resolution to post-walk batch pass (resolve #​1633) (304504f)
• Show namespace member statuses in trace output (47ddf43)
• Add shadow detection for function params, arrow params, and catch bindings (70ebb76)
• Strip trailing slashes from tsconfig outDir and rootDir (resolve #​1635) (1dcdb02)

v6.0.3: Release 6.0.3

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• Handle symlinks → real paths from tsconfig files (#​1630) (529810a)
• Filter empty strings from Qwik routesDir values (resolve #​1632) (beb8ae3)

v6.0.2: Release 6.0.2

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• Add scope-aware shadow detection to fix false negatives from name-based matching (9ec38b3)
• Fix false negatives from overly broad collectRefsInType (261bd06)
• Add doc re. exports (f82d3ad)
• Bump get-tsconfig to 4.13.7, remove patch (resolve #​1630) (09bbce5)
• Pass on rootDirs to work around oxc-resolver feature gap (resolve #​1628) (4dc16cc)
• Update patches (836c2cf)

v6.0.1: Release 6.0.1

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• Update sponsors (0659240)
• Handle computed access in local refs visitor (b998bab)

v6.0.0: Release 6.0.0

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Blog post: Announcing Knip v6

See the pre-releases for details:

• https://github.com/webpro-nl/knip/releases/tag/knip%406.0.0-0
• https://github.com/webpro-nl/knip/releases/tag/knip%406.0.0-1
• https://github.com/webpro-nl/knip/releases/tag/knip%406.0.0-2
• https://github.com/webpro-nl/knip/releases/tag/knip%406.0.0-3

Breaking changes:

• Dropped support for Node.js v18 → Knip v6 requires Node.js v20.19.0 or newer
• Dropped issue type classMembers
• Dropped --include-libs → this is now the default and only behavior
• Dropped --isolate-workspaces → this is now the default and only behavior
• Dropped --experimental-tags → use --tags
• In reporter functions, issues.files is consistent with other issue shapes. Removed issues._files.
• In the JSON reporter, issues are consistently arrays for any issue type. Removed root files.

v5.88.1: Release 5.88.1

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• Bump GitHub actions to their latest versions (#​1624) (bf2ffca) - thanks @​deining!
• Prettier config for other formatters (e.g. unified-prettier) (e034cbd)
• Fix module/namespace regression (resolve #​1603) (394bcba)
• Fix counter type and --fix exit code (37b6f60)
• Restore all ecosystem tests (4d2cd9b)
• Release knip@​5.88.1 (8c25e4b)

v5.88.0: Release 5.88.0

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• Add Sanity plugin (#​1608) (f777834) - thanks @​jonahsnider!
• feat: detect duplicated package.json dependencies (#​1611) (dec15a7) - thanks @​Zamiell!
• fix: docusaurus faster (#​1616) (c7a0128) - thanks @​Zamiell!
• feat: raycast plugin (#​1619) (52c77ee) - thanks @​TkDodo!
• fix: docusaurus scripts and stylesheets (#​1618) (9fa485f) - thanks @​Zamiell!
• Improve getPackageNameFromModuleSpecifier performance (817180e)
• Mark Nuxt extends entries as dependencies (96f178f)
• Simplify devDependency duplicate detection logic (99a7c9b)
• Add patch for argos (cecab21)
• Fix conflict and iterate on docusaurus plugin (d3d8cae)
• Iterate on raycast plugin (4948bf8)
• Oxfmt now supports .ts config files (#​1621) (27a4813) - thanks @​DaniFoldi!
• Fix typos (#​1622) (386b477) - thanks @​deining!
• docs: bump astro to newly released version 6 (#​1623) (f941db9) - thanks @​deining!
• pnpm dedupe (d1a9089)
• Release knip@​5.88.0 (7aeb857)

v5.87.0

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v5.86.0: Release 5.86.0

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• Rewrite import specifiers to use .ts extensions, remove tsx (#​1548) (58674ad) - thanks @​wojtekmaj!
• Add .spec-d to vitest entry files (#​1556) (3123ab7) - thanks @​yamachi4416!
• Update docs for tsx → node (0418eba)
• Auto-format (7142fd7)
• Add Qwik plugin (#​1557) (fc668f4) - thanks @​azat-io!
• Fix Bun plugin to handle directory arguments in bun test (c112b6c)
• Update FAQ (b105a42)
• fix(plugin): swc with externalHelpers setting ignores @swc/helpers dependency (#​1560) (4bcb1f5) - thanks @​bobaaaaa!
• chore: git ignore artifacts (#​1563) (4878724) - thanks @​unional!
• Fix Vite plugin to respect root option for index.html entries (#​1561) (67a5647) - thanks @​azat-io!
• Fix Astro sharpImageService() false positive for unused sharp (#​1559) (c36247c) - thanks @​azat-io!
• Fix up gitignore test (b2c3d08)
• fix: normalize Windows backslash paths in fs.watch listener to fix --watch on Windows (#​1558) (b86b421) - thanks @​Aiudadadadf!
• Fix wrangler plugin not enabled by jsonc config (#​1564) (00bb1be) - thanks @​DaniFoldi!
• Edit AGENTS.md (a2aaf2f)
• Fix tsconfig presets marked as unlisted in strict mode (resolve #​1568) (463d67d)
• oxcellent (8a602c7)
• Refactor format test and use prettier for consistent results (b6afc01)
• Sort package.json (d3a521b)
• Add .git to GLOBAL_IGNORE_PATTERNS (resolve #​1571) (4e95ffb)
• Detect Yarn plugins that are listed by their path alone (#​1574) (de4c7d8) - thanks @​robintown!
• Start using unbash (a5de2c4)
• Bump unbash & simplify bash parser further (57896d3)
• Fix refs in workspaces fixture (#​1578) (fbee342)
• Include a few more entry patterns with pageExtensions (resolve #​1581) (c6a6d9e)
• Clean exit if --fix fixes all issues (resolve #​1577) (c182c29)
• Document JSDoc tag hints (0e7b6ae)
• Update AGENTS.md (f845462)
• Add openapi-ts plugin (#​1579) (42d1b3f) - thanks @​jonahsnider!
• Migrate from js-yaml → yaml (fb042ae)
• pnpm dedupe (2586254)
• Fix plugin list order (#​1587) (519ae3a) - thanks @​ikeyan!
• Fix confusing test fixtures for openapi-ts plugin (#​1591) (f0083ca) - thanks @​jonahsnider!
• Off-by-1 (7d7dec6)
• Don't fix compiled files (pos off) (a9fdc77)
• Add aliases from any tsconfig file in typescript plugin (resolve #​1347) (ced77c7)
• Support auto-imports in Nuxt plugin (#​1517) (4ce27b2)
• Fix + lint .ts extension in import specifiers (d349de3)
• Safe ts.isInTopLevelContext → isInTopLevelScope (1819c20)
• Wrap session.handleFileChanges in try/catch (185afb8)
• Improve MDX compiler (9205e2a)
• fix(playwright): Add missing built-in null reporter (#​1596) (0f1ce7d) - thanks @​shrink!
• Add package.json#imports as entry points (1fbe286)
• Update some dependencies + dedupe (381241e)
• Add support for extends in nuxt plugin (9fcbdf5)
• Update release script (f446b4f)

v5.85.0: Release 5.85.0

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• Fix require.context regex matching for path-aware patterns (#​1547) (c33d93a) - thanks @​jstaab!
• Make knip compatible with erasableSyntaxOnly (#​1541) (f63089b) - thanks @​wojtekmaj!
• feat: add Payload CMS plugin (#​1546) (58d99de) - thanks @​Robot-Inventor!
• Look everywhere for manifest/robots file in next plugin (9da6205)
• Merge some next glob patterns (8c5f35f)
• Add SAP & Google Gemini to projects using Knip (c8ab895)
• Bump remark-preset-webpro & dedupe (b9372cd)
• Document CLI usage for LS (97fe1cf)
• fix: tsdown entry compatibility issues #​1550 (#​1554) (95051eb) - thanks @​huijiewei!
• Fix incorrect coverage provider being reported (#​1552) (2d0b5cd) - thanks @​rexxars!
• Temp disable npmx in ecosystem run (a5cd986)
• Fix OOM in gitignore walk for large monorepos (f192a6b)
• Release knip@​5.85.0 (e28a3e7)

v5.84.1: Release 5.84.1

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• Fix false positives for arrow-wrapped dynamic imports assigned to variables (#​1544) (75a42c3) - thanks @​jantimon!
• Improve pnpm arg handling (df8c353)
• Ignore module.register if 2nd arg is not import.meta.url (#​1535) (970fdb1)

v5.84.0: Release 5.84.0

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• Post-release shenanigans (e7965cb)
• Move most compilers to plugins & register from there (61beafe)
• Minor refactor (e20a682)
• Fix lint issues (d2bbc13)
• Add missing catalog property to rules in JSON schema (#​1518) (5d49dea) - thanks @​Mohmdev!
• feat(plugins): add @​typescript/native-preview (tsgo) support (#​1513) (babfb10) - thanks @​jgoux!
• Fix up quoting for spaced args (resolve #​1515) (2b735cb)
• Switch to tsconfig-aware module resolver in input handler (634d0f6)
• Use bun test positionals as entry points (resolve #​1521) (da94725)
• Edit docs (327726f)
• Minor refactor while at it (dc87e8e)
• Add config hints for unused ignore and ignoreFiles items (a4989ee)
• Accept known bins only behind double-dash (resolve #​1524) (b9214e3)
• feat(plugins): add support for bun test preloaded files (#​1525) (14ee32a) - thanks @​jgoux!
• Add date to IGNORED_GLOBAL_BINARIES (#​1476) (f08f92b) - thanks @​duci9y!
• Fix edge case for binaries in scripts (82331ee)
• Report ignore/files config hints only if sure & relevant (4c3bd08)
• Add consistent repository fields (781a0fd)
• Add language-server bin (13d7845)
• Use --stdio if no transport provided (bedb21a)
• Refactor from "enabled" to "deferSession" (resolve #​1499) (15e3360)
• Use initializationOptions.config or default fallback config obj (resolve #​1503) (0abe568)
• Also publish ls + mcp with pkg-pr-new (7806526)
• Auto-format (51b7dc1)
• Remove chdir shenanigans (close #​1516) (0cbee8f)
• Bind console.* to distinguish internal↔ external logs (3eac278)
• Add early bail-outs for changed files we can ignore (36c2dd5)
• Avoid unnecessary module graph updates for unmodified files (f94c41f)
• Fix typo in pkg-pr-new-pkg-dir (7e7a8b0)
• Add .DS_Store to .gitignore (#​1530) (40fe5cc) - thanks @​wojtekmaj!
• Ignore RNC CLI and metro internals in react-native projects (#​1528) (0f892ae) - thanks @​wojtekmaj!
• Support nested _generated dirs in Convex plugin (#​1531) (bd75e9f) - thanks @​kvnwolf!
• Housekeep cli help output (c24e746)
• Fix up gitignore test (6bc640c)
• Introduce isFilterTransitiveDependencies flag (close #​1507, close #​1101) (8678df2)
• Housekeep webpack plugin (2cc1306)
• Move up plugin.setup & tear down plugin.teardown (4dbf23d)
• Skip config file loading if only external re-exports (ab775b1)
• Improve & optimize ignore pattern handling (c3d3912)
• Housekeep compiler registration (2aaf9fc)
• Edit docs re. config file location (79bfb35)
• Register visitors from plugins (9b059f8)
• importMetaGlobCall visitor for Vite plugin (1874b19)
• Extend registerVisitors with script visitor support (728c814)
• Move execa script visitor to execa plugin (71c739a)
• Move zx script visitor to zx plugin (5ac24c7)
• Add require.context visitor to webpack plugin (100f174)
• Add module.register() visitor for Node.js loader API (resolve #​1535) (742407c)
• Add .DS_Store in fixtures to .gitignore (#​1534) (90fa677) - thanks @​wojtekmaj!
• Mention that depcheck recommends knip (#​1536) (75d00ff) - thanks @​ArtskydJ!
• Remove @source matcher from tailwind plugin (resolve #​1537) (b7149b6)
• Fix -w → -W flag for Yarn (f305250)
• Update AGENTS.md (ec83887)
• Extract and extend react-native plugin (#​1538) (9fd04a8)
• Add pm2 plugin (#​1540) (3bb4203) - thanks @​wojtekmaj!
• Fix Yarn (Berry) plugins and binaries reported as unused (#​1523) (4f0a307) - thanks @​wojtekmaj!
• Update docs (ed23dd2)
• Minor refactor while at it (4115b97)
• Add @​knip/create-config to release script (1135b82)

v5.83.1: Release 5.83.1

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• Fix package.json import (f8c14c8)
• Organize imports (5d716ba)
• Update a bunch of dependencies (78bf644)
• Add minimal test suite to vscode-knip (b639508)
• Add support for monorepo when installing dependency (close #​1501) (5782b07)
• Fix unused file output in table (0f3dbb4)
• Restore slonik in ecosystem tests (35d9185)
• Fix type in exported value case (resolve #​1508) (d6dda74)
• Organize imports (fcdd33b)
• Remove unused export (c777bae)
• Don't flag exports (including used as type) in protected or consumed exports (a01bec1)
• Add npmx.dev to ecosystem tests (8f82052)
• fix: fix vitest setupFiles resolution (#​1511) (273b940) - thanks @​tmair!
• Improve & extend vitest args handling (6c49e5c)
• Detect Bun differently to avoid TS complaint (c1499d3)
• A temporary workaround until they catch up 🤫 (028b972)
• feat(vite): detect module entry from index.html (#​1487) (a76ab85) - thanks @​WooWan!
• Auto-format (69150bf)
• Add double-dash handling and add tests (close #​1404) (4c1de75)
• Revert most of previous commit 4c1de75 (0cd91ae)
• Auto-format (cf3d8ff)

v5.83.0: Release 5.83.0

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• fix: skip empty string entries in package.json exports (#​1477) (6b64ac5) - thanks @​SBoudrias!
• add LS version to serverInfo (#​1468) (2c28cb8) - thanks @​niklas-wortmann!
• Avoid highlighting path-like specifiers (#​1488) (c8fec09) - thanks @​azat-io!
• Update avatar URLs (#​1489) (d612ac2) - thanks @​azat-io!
• Copy fix-fixtures to tmp dir (bd1519c)
• Don't add excluded issue types (resolve #​1486) (4eeeec6)
• Minor refactor (767b2c5)
• Edit docs (78111c9)
• feat: add plugin for expressive-code (#​1493) (fbf958a) - thanks @​cylewaitforit!
• Truncate file path left-side (resolves #​1494) (235949c)
• Revert fix-fixture format test (fails in outside cwd) (8e96125)
• Skip empty manifest entries (resolve #​1497) (d314ce4)
• Filter out empty issue objects in compact reporter (resolve #​1482) (7df0b4d)
• Lint/group import statements (61e7a24)
• Update AGENTS.md & docs (7537f8a)
• Optimize relative path helper (ac8a454)
• Move postinstall script to non-production (360110b)
• Ignore simple-git-hooks in production (like husky etc) (bbab35b)
• Move & add testimonials (5ab1813)
• Update sponsors page (4534a55)
• Edit docs, add config hints page (1a73a05)
• Rename reporter to match project style (58f8c4e)
• Auto-format (854124f)
• Refactor fs helper to match project style (f22e7e9)

v5.82.1: Release 5.82.1

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• Add vsce + ovsx verify PATs (6bec128)
• Improve coverage for isReferencedInExport types (570eafe)

v5.82.0: Release 5.82.0

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• Release @​knip/create-config@​1.2.0 (31eaaf5)
• Update docs (0384673)
• Add config load error hint + example env var fixes (close #​1470) (844beb0)
• Improve mdx "compiler" (resolve #​1471) (cd145e2)
• Add and use deputy.addIgnoredUnresolved (4f6d9e5)
• Unescape regex in config hint output (b517726)
• Create new sveltekit plugin (split from svelte) (714af2e)
• Use bun@​1.2.22 (cf5bae2)
• Detect and install none installed packages (#​1473) (abefd09) - thanks @​AlexanderKaran!
• Auto-format (4430175)

v5.81.0: Release 5.81.0

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• Update CLI documentation to match current implementation (#​1458) (937dd83) - thanks @​sebacardello!
• Replace glob with fs helpers (#​1454) (880f718) - thanks @​gameroman!
• Expand workspace filter (#​1455) (b3edb80) - thanks @​fightZy!
• Sync up cli-arguments ↔ md docs further (47559d2)
• Minor refactor for lints & consistency (c5e66db)
• Fix manual enabled compilers (#​1457) (57df2e1) - thanks @​digitsum!
• add push notification once module graph is built (#​1461) (57825f4) - thanks @​niklas-wortmann!
• fix(prisma): Avoid crash if Prisma schema path is not specified (#​1464) (1e0ffc7) - thanks @​stephenwade!
• Add Nitro plugin (#​1415) (ecf5e34) - thanks @​lynnntropy!
• Add a few impl guidelines to AGENTS.md (5923a20)
• Optimize workspaces storage & usage inside ConfigurationChief (602603f)
• Exclude optional peer deps from the production deps check in strict mode (resolve #​1145) (605fb85)
• Consider all members of keyof typeof MyEnum used (7d5b9d6)
• Add entry files to sveltekit (resolve #​1162, resolve #​1465) (c0ed40a)
• Consistent config options (dc11214)
• Warn for faux monorepo in init script (b94dcfa)
• Document new --workspace behavior (#​1455) (9cbbbc2)
• Auto-format (4c3e45f)
• Add npm login to release script (968d339)

v5.80.2: Release 5.80.2

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• Add astro-og-canvas plugin (#​1445) (bb93a2b) - thanks @​JoshuaKGoldberg!
• Small performance optimization on bun commands (#​1453) (af0d736) - thanks @​ClementValot!
• Accept cwdOrPath in isDirectory and isFile (2d0bb0c)
• Improve hasRefsInFile (86bde97)
• Rename find-internal-references.ts → has-refs-in-file.ts ([307c37b](https://redirect.