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Pa11y 8 makes the latest version of Puppeteer (22) available to Pa11y and updates several other dependencies.

Changes

• Major dependency changes
  • Upgrade puppeteer to 22 from 20
    • This may affect Pa11y's operating system support and the behaviour of Pa11y's browser automation.
  • Upgrade commander to 12 from 11
  • Remove dependency p-timeout
    • This will only affect users who had depended on p-timeout's presence as a side effect of installing Pa11y.
• Minor dependency changes:
  • Upgrade semver to 7.6 from 7.5

Many thanks to @aarongoldenthal for contributing these dependency upgrades to Pa11y.

Full diff

• 7.0.0...8.0.0

Changes

• Breaking: Upgrade Node.js support: Pa11y 7 requires a stable (even-numbered) Node.js version of 18 or above
• Breaking: Upgrade dependency puppeteer to 20 from 9: this may affect Pa11y's operating system support and the behaviour of Pa11y's browser automation
• Breaking: Upgrade dependency commander to 11 from 8
• Breaking: Upgrade dependency bfj to 8 from 7
• Upgrade axe-core to ~4.8.2 from ~4.2.1
• Support versions of Ubuntu above 20.04 without further configuration (thanks @aarongoldenthal)
• Increase confidence in macOS and Windows support (thanks @aarongoldenthal)
• Fix mistakes in documentation about runners (thanks @aarongoldenthal)
• Update stale links in documentation (thanks @gavinr)
• Update support policy

New contributors

• @gavinr made their first contribution
• @danyalaytekin made their first contribution

Full diff

• 6.2.3...7.0.0