v16.9.0

✨ features

• a00d3a0 feat: adds skipAnalysisNotInRules option (#979) thanks @JavaScriptBach for the suggestion and the validation!

Recommended: add this new option to your dependency-cruiser configuration (.dependency-cruiser.js or .dependency-cruiser.json) as it might speed up dependency-cruiser runs by quite a bit if you don't use all of its available features, especially on larger code bases:

  // ...
  options {
    // ...
    skipAnalysisNotInRules: true,
    // ...
  }
 // ...

👷 maintenance

• eb7bf8a perf(enrich/reachable): do even less when there's no reachable rules
• 6862b2a build(npm): updates external dependencies
• d9d9ff1 refactor: uses native private fields in classes in stead of fake ones

🧹 chores

• d2550e4 chore: 2025

v16.9.0-beta-1

✨ features

• 5567905 feat: adds skipAnalysisNotInRules option

👷 maintenance

• 6862b2a build(npm): updates external dependencies

🧹 chores

• d2550e4 chore: 2025

v16.8.0

✨ features

• dd81580 feat: enables matching transitive dependencies in 'required' rules (#975) - thanks to @ThiagoMaia1 for suggesting and testing the feature

🐛 fixes

• 7bcabe7 refactor: simplifies a few boolean expressions
• the dependency bump below (20a7a2f) also bumped watskeburt to latest, which makes both the --affected cli option and the cache work better on ms-windows and other ms-dos based operating systems.

👷 maintenance

• 20a7a2f build(npm): updates external dependencies

🧹 chores

• fdbb72a chore(configs): makes 'unlimited' config inherit individual options from the base config
• 8595b73 chore(tools): adds a script that prints a readable AST from any tsc-readable file
• 476c956 chore(npm): updates external devDependencies

v16.8.0-beta-1

✨ features

• enables checking against indirect ('transitive') dependencies in required rules:
  • 26df92c feat(schema): adds 'reachable' attribute to the ones possible in 'required' rules
  • 64957b9 feat(enrich): adds reachable/ reaches detection based on 'required' rules
  • e984d85 feat(validate): adds validation of required rules with 'reachable' attributes (for transitive dependencies)
  • fb99edc doc(types|rules-reference): adds the reachable attribute to the types, adds an example to the rules reference
  • fcba072 fix(validate): in required rules also take the module itself as a dependency

🐛 fixes

• 7bcabe7 refactor: simplifies a few boolean expressions

👷 maintenance

• 20a7a2f build(npm): updates external dependencies

🧹 chores

• fdbb72a chore(configs): makes 'unlimited' config inherit individual options from the base config
• 8595b73 chore(tools): adds a script that prints a readable AST from any tsc-readable file

v16.7.0

✨ feature: recognize type imports in jsdoc

Dependency-cruiser now has the ability to recognize imports in jsdoc - both the new ones introduced in TS5.5 (e.g. /** @import { something } from "blah"; */), as well as the older ones (e.g. /** @type {import('blah').something} */). It's behind an option so it will only detect them if you want it to.

Thanks to @louwers for raising the associated issue and testing a very early version of PR #965

• See detectJSDocImports: detect dependencies in JSDoc comments in the options references for more information and some of the caveats (a.o. really needs the TypeScript compiler)
• The PR's also grew the dependencyTypes jsdoc, jsdoc-bracket-import and jsdoc-import-tag for use in your rules.

commits:

• 09e9e41 feat(extract): adds recognition of jsdoc @import type imports (#965)
• 0d49477 feat(extract): adds recognition of the 'classic' jsdoc 'bracket' imports (#969)
• fedead6 feat(init): adds question to enable detection of jsdoc imports (#970)

🐛 fixes

• 09ae707 fix(npm): shortens the message in the (only) distributed script

👷 maintenance

• aae6edd/ b5bfe76 refactor: addresses small linting issues
• 2d2b0e5 refactor(resolve): uses Maps for the context maps
• 79e1aa1 build(npm): updates external dependencies
• 09ae707 fix(npm): shortens the message in the (only) distributed script

🧹 chores

• 8a288dd chore: migrates to eslint 9 & flat config (#968)
• 69b59b6 chore: makes ci use node 23 instead of 22
• 78960d3 build(npm): adds svgo to devDependencies

v16.7.0-beta-2

✨ features

• 09e9e41 feat(extract): adds recognition of jsdoc @import type imports (#965) (same as in v16.7.0-beta-1)
• c01204f feat(extract): adds recognition of jsdoc 'bracket' imports (#969) (✨ new a.c.t. v16.7.0-beta-1)

👷 maintenance

• aae6edd/ b5bfe76 refactor: addresses small linting issues
• 6948da5 build(npm): updates external dependencies
• 09ae707 fix(npm): shortens the message in the (only) distributed script

🧹 chores

• 8a288dd chore: migrates to eslint 9 & flat config (#968)
• 69b59b6 chore: makes ci use node 23 instead of 22
• 78960d3 build(npm): adds svgo to devDependencies

v16.7.0-beta-1

✨ features

• 09e9e41 feat(extract): adds recognition of jsdoc @import type imports (#965) - thanks @louwers for raising the associated issue and testing a very early version of this feature!

This feature will be released in v16.7.0 (or later?) when the 'bracket style' jsdoc imports also work, so we don't create a breaking change when it's separately introduced.

👷 maintenance

• 69b59b6 chore: makes ci use node 23 instead of 22
• b5bfe76 refactor(graph-utl): renames a private function
• 78960d3 build(npm): adds svgo to devDependencies

v16.6.0

✨ features

• b473be5 feat: adds support for svelte 5 (#963)

👷 maintenance

• 7683e90 fix(extract): removes extraneous capturing group from a regular expression
• 65f2748 build(npm): updates external dependencies

v16.6.0-beta-1

✨ features

• d362be9 feat: adds support for svelte 5

👷 maintenance

• 7683e90 fix(extract): removes extraneous capturing group from a regular expression

v16.5.0

✨ features

• 802ff6f feat(cli): expands the info displayed in --info (#959)

📖 documentation

• 1ca77ec doc(FAQ): corrects a typo
• 8269857 doc(cli): clarify when using --max-depth is a good idea (never, that's when 😄)

👷 maintenance

• 9453f20 build(npm): updates external dependencies