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This PR contains the following updates:

Package Change Age Confidence
express (source) ^4.18.1 -> ^5.0.0 age confidence

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expressjs/express (express)

v5.1.0

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  • Add support for Uint8Array in res.send()
  • Add support for ETag option in res.sendFile()
  • Add support for multiple links with the same rel in res.links()
  • Add funding field to package.json
  • perf: use loop for acceptParams
  • refactor: prefix built-in node module imports
  • deps: remove setprototypeof
  • deps: remove safe-buffer
  • deps: remove utils-merge
  • deps: remove methods
  • deps: remove depd
  • deps: debug@^4.4.0
  • deps: body-parser@^2.2.0
  • deps: router@^2.2.0
  • deps: content-type@^1.0.5
  • deps: finalhandler@^2.1.0
  • deps: qs@^6.14.0
  • deps: server-static@2.2.0
  • deps: type-is@2.0.1

v5.0.1

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v5.0.0

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  • remove:
    • path-is-absolute dependency - use path.isAbsolute instead
  • breaking:
    • res.status() accepts only integers, and input must be greater than 99 and less than 1000
      • will throw a RangeError: Invalid status code: ${code}. Status code must be greater than 99 and less than 1000. for inputs outside this range
      • will throw a TypeError: Invalid status code: ${code}. Status code must be an integer. for non integer inputs
    • deps: send@​1.0.0
    • res.redirect('back') and res.location('back') is no longer a supported magic string, explicitly use req.get('Referrer') || '/'.
  • change:
    • res.clearCookie will ignore user provided maxAge and expires options
  • deps: cookie-signature@^1.2.1
  • deps: debug@​4.3.6
  • deps: merge-descriptors@^2.0.0
  • deps: serve-static@^2.1.0
  • deps: qs@​6.13.0
  • deps: accepts@^2.0.0
  • deps: mime-types@^3.0.0
    • application/javascript => text/javascript
  • deps: type-is@^2.0.0
  • deps: content-disposition@^1.0.0
  • deps: finalhandler@^2.0.0
  • deps: fresh@^2.0.0
  • deps: body-parser@^2.0.1
  • deps: send@^1.1.0

v4.21.2

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v4.21.1

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v4.21.0

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v4.20.0

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  • deps: serve-static@​0.16.0
    • Remove link renderization in html while redirecting
  • deps: send@​0.19.0
    • Remove link renderization in html while redirecting
  • deps: body-parser@​0.6.0
    • add depth option to customize the depth level in the parser
    • IMPORTANT: The default depth level for parsing URL-encoded data is now 32 (previously was Infinity)
  • Remove link renderization in html while using res.redirect
  • deps: path-to-regexp@​0.1.10
    • Adds support for named matching groups in the routes using a regex
    • Adds backtracking protection to parameters without regexes defined
  • deps: encodeurl@~2.0.0
    • Removes encoding of \, |, and ^ to align better with URL spec
  • Deprecate passing options.maxAge and options.expires to res.clearCookie
    • Will be ignored in v5, clearCookie will set a cookie with an expires in the past to instruct clients to delete the cookie

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@renovate renovate bot added the dependencies Pull requests that update a dependency file label Oct 20, 2025
@renovate renovate bot force-pushed the renovate/express-5.x branch from 2e295db to cb7a6ff Compare October 21, 2025 11:41
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After reviewing the release notes of the changes and it seeming that none of the changes will have any large kind of impact on this repo, and with all tests passing I'll go ahead and merge

@confused-Techie confused-Techie merged commit c4cf47d into main Nov 6, 2025
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@confused-Techie confused-Techie deleted the renovate/express-5.x branch November 6, 2025 02:08
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