v6.14.1: Release 6.14.1

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• Detect dynamic imports in Svelte compiler (#​1747) (e1c1b17) - thanks @​jinhyuk9714!
• Detect dynamic import attributes; share import matcher with Astro-MDX (9dae641)
• Work the docs (close #​1746) (919cba2)

v6.14.0: Release 6.14.0

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• Resolve imports satisfied via transitive peerDeps (d654ec7)
• Don't flag undeclared sibling workspace imports as unlisted (#​1742) (e7122a1)
• Update github-actions reporter snapshots (2308b5a)
• Cache syncGlob() results like defaultGlob() does (6c34287)
• Trim redundant statSync calls in FileEntryCache (eee3b89)
• Cache parsed .gitignore patterns across --cache runs (7ffdc2f)
• Tighten cache module callsites (64e5072)
• Extract shared disk-cache helper used by glob and gitignore caches (0987421)
• Simplify CacheConsultant: replace trampoline with default arrow methods (bebe750)
• Pin pnpm minimumReleaseAge and trustPolicy (77efb32)
• Eliminate rescanFrontier polling in walkAndAnalyze (38d91b6)
• Reduce findWorkspaceByFilePath per-call overhead (9149437)
• Memoize DependencyDeputy.getDependencies (a661a21)
• Tighten module-graph map helpers (drop double-lookup + optional chains) (c11d62f)
• Add --duration flag for zero-overhead duration measurement (d4b59d8)
• Cover analysis pipeline with --performance timerify (694dbf4)
• Align --help text (6f12997)
• Add cli arg shorthands: -p, -s, -w, -D, -f, -F, -u (f21a587)
• Format (8db5346)
• This one's okay (662ceaf)

v6.13.1: Release 6.13.1

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• Add jest.config.{cts,mts} (#​1743) (44738d6) - thanks @​joshkel!
• Update ecosystem tests (74420a6)
• Fix export * as re-exported namespace case (5923af4)
• Add .mts and .cts config files to some plugins (69d1e83)
• Docusaurus: ignore @generated/*, handle local plugin paths (ce5f767)
• Nx: expand {projectRoot} / {workspaceRoot} token variables (8715312)

v6.13.0: Release 6.13.0

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• Add mercurial (hg) to command constants (#​1737) (abb08b0) - thanks @​unrevised6419!
• Expand wildcards in Jest projects (#​1710) (7cb2d37) - thanks @​joshkel!
• Add knex visitor to scan source files for config (resolve #​1736) (4c96fd2)
• Refactor to a better split of ast helpers (6e726a2)
• Handle package.json exports for outDir="." (resolve #​1738) (42497c2)
• Fix star re-exported namespace case (resolve #​1739) (e566c4b)
• Strip comments in scripts in compilers (resolve #​1740) (a123d5c)
• Update rolldown snapshot (edfee2b)
• Source-map subpath imports + collect pairs from referenced tsconfigs (7c5acc4)
• Tighten source-mapping utilities (0b68b81)
• Update dependencies (8788c1a)
• Remove obsolete internal jsdoc tag (0fed975)
• Add @​serhalp and @​stevennevins to sponsors (thank you!) (999a5e3)
• Fix astro config after bump (f63537a)

v6.12.2: Release 6.12.2

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• Fix symbol reporter file paths with --directory (#​1733) (d54074d) - thanks @​cyphercodes!
• fix(webpack): reference TS loaders for .ts/.cts config (close #​1732) (f37c5da)
• fix(serverless-framework): skip functions without handler (close #​1735) (616739d)
• ci(integration): disable minimumReleaseAge for test installs (081dfc8)
• ci(snapshots): query — add CreateQueriesOptions to unused types (5dd0b8a)

v6.12.1: Release 6.12.1

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• fix: type-only imports in monorepos (#​1715) (de33a2c) - thanks @​lishaduck!
• Bump jiti to ^2.7.0 (#​1729) (0fe8dc3) - thanks @​re-taro!
• Fix Vercel config detection (#​1726) (370236d) - thanks @​jakeleventhal!
• Fix inferred declaration export references (#​1728) (4dcd756) - thanks @​jakeleventhal!
• Remove stale root watch script (#​1731) (2d555a1) - thanks @​jeffrey-takuma!
• Update sponsorships script/numbers (c3dcc8f)
• Add orgs using knip (78fd581)
• Yolo (7e689bf)

v6.12.0: Release 6.12.0

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• Use venz light/dark responsive svg img (2354194)
• Fix types/path references (4afc873)
• Move on to pnpm 11 (b106065)
• Fix up ecosystem tests (c226a72)
• Add shell binaries to global ignore list (#​1716) (ddcf7de) - thanks @​jakeleventhal!
• Fix declaration export regression and document (resolve #​1722) (3a2c22b)
• Update snapshot after 3a2c22b (8300078)
• Detect babel.plugins/presets in @​vitejs/plugin-react via function-form defineConfig (resolve #​1723) (d56ee51)
• Lift defineConfig-arg unwrapper to ast-helpers, route findCallArg through it (7195b0a)
• Fix PostCSS detection for @​tailwindcss/postcss (#​1719) (60f8482) - thanks @​jakeleventhal!
• Allow > inside SFC <script> attribute values (resolve #​1714) (9e5501f)
• Resolve Cypress reporter set per testing type (resolve #​1724) (7cc4fc1)
• Add Vercel config plugin (#​1720) (10f97c1) - thanks @​jakeleventhal!
• Direct config hint title to stderr (53236b5)
• Some light housekeeping (727f842)
• Fix up ecosystem tests (0db3300)
• Fix --no-exit-code condition for isTreatConfigHintsAsErrors (f27c3f4)
• A friendlier message (aab1e83)
• Mark plugin-name fallback binaries as optional in knownBinsOnly mode (c709a5a)

v6.11.0: Release 6.11.0

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• Ignore & remove uninteresting lines in snapshots (767ebaf)
• Flag stale @internal tags in production mode (resolve #​1658) (dd1caed)
• Add compiler-extensions in tsc-files mode (resolve #​1708) (ea867ad)

v6.10.0: Release 6.10.0

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• Ecosystem patches → snapshots (1803f9f)
• Fix unlisted pkg when only @​types/pkg listed (resolve #​1707) (62082b6)
• Don't report imports matching engines.X as unlisted (23582e0)
• Treat imports in .d.ts files as type-only (84caac5)
• Treat tsconfig compilerOptions.types as type-only (ce18854)
• Resolve hoisted deps from monorepo root in single-package mode (resolve #​1711) (23b756f)

v6.9.0: Release 6.9.0

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• Expose types for JSON reporter (961b734)

v6.8.0: Release 6.8.0

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• feat: add WXT plugin (#​1703) (9167557) - thanks @​sebastianbreguel!
• Add support for pnpm@​11 new commands (#​1706) (c937697) - thanks @​PatrykWalach!
• Fix case of spread export → other exports used (resolve #​1705) (0f94d2d)
• Add more pnpm commands + tests (f2819b3)
• Bump oxc-parser (5c21d27)

v6.7.0: Release 6.7.0

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• Fix markdown reporter column width (resolve #​1700) (4713108)
• Handle Vitest agent and minimal reporters (#​1701) (a71ead1) - thanks @​dskwrite!
• Add e2e tests w/ tsgo defs + lib consumption (98113e6)
• Fix pkg name inconsistencies (544c3e6)
• Add export {} to maintain module shape (27d8a02)
• Strip leading UTF-8 BOM before parsing package.json (47e4029)
• Skip workspace with invalid JSON manifest (bfb4867)
• Preserve out-of-bound writes to stdout/err (95faad8)
• Consistent prefix in logError/logWarning (2c6d8a0)
• Don't exit on config file load error (0914bd3)
• Fix tsgo resolution in e2e tests (a689501)

v6.6.3: Release 6.6.3

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• Use venz chart svg directly from CDN (ba7e907)
• Bump that plugin counter (abae75b)
• Fix plugin title (f2b8fcf)
• Work Table util class: fix bugs, tighten API, water-fill widths (2eb4045)
• Questionable.. (970a0db)
• Fmt (14538ec)
• Ensure output is flushed on exit (#​1699) (9533365) - thanks @​joshkel!
• Use currentColor to support light/dark themes (7ea055a)
• Tighten type-chain alignment + gate via ignoreExportsUsedInFile (resolve #​1698) (0910b33)
• Eating our own dog food ↻ (d5aa1f6)

v6.6.2: Release 6.6.2

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• Don't track typeof value refs at top of exported type alias (resolve #​1697) (1a99048)
• Treat Props as used when Astro.props is referenced (resolve #​1629) (46cb338)
• Update dependencies (dcf5315)

v6.6.1: Release 6.6.1

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• Fix website papercuts (#​1696) (c6d9c43) - thanks @​skoeva!
• fix(rslib): resolve entry points from rslib config (#​1695) (af83d68) - thanks @​rpereira-anchor!
• Update react-email plugin for react-email@​6 (#​1694) (200db55) - thanks @​krystofspiller!
• Introduce Manifest wrapper with scriptNames + getMajor helpers (6fded2f)

v6.6.0: Release 6.6.0

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• picocolors → styleText (e7abd6b)
• @​nodelib/fs.walk → fdir (6f781b8)
• Improve performance, but only slightly (c2c0323)
• Fix package-entry hint for bare specifier in main (resolve #​1693) (2e8cf47)
• Extract vite.resolve.alias from Astro config AST (resolve #​1692) (fab5871)
• Add plugin-contributed source-map rules (e11c2b1)
• Add @sveltejs/package plugin (resolve #​1690) (8b2d402)
• Windows ❤️ (91964e4)

v6.5.0: Release 6.5.0

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• Drop project-extension-redundant config hint (resolve #​1683) (f860929)
• Add instructions to .agents/PLUGINS.md (e2943ed)
• Add a plugin for react-email (#​1684) (d8ae4d3) - thanks @​xaqrox!
• Replace fast-glob with tinyglobby (#​1462) (9f6b4c8) - thanks @​gameroman!
• Added plugin for Serverless framework (#​1478) (f885f1d) - thanks @​BenCrinion-IW!
• Add args to Prettier plugin to resolve --config CLI flag (#​1685) (f4658c8) - thanks @​xaqrox!
• fix(util): tolerate JSONC and array extends in findRootDirsBase (#​1681) (f7e5464) - thanks @​Hoffs!
• Format (15bd7e7)
• Inherit outDir/rootDir from tsconfig project references (resolve #​1680) (b89b4f7)
• tsc → tsgo (a6e09ca)
• Update dependencies (4cb05c9)
• Housekeep (28c56cb)
• Test test test (7eb4ab3)
• Add pino plugin with transportCall visitor (resolve #​1480) (53a033e)
• Add signal to projects using knip (dbedd66)
• Tune logos (3148f4d)
• Tweak knip-run tool response (4294038)
• Add workspace option to knip-run tool (64c4aae)
• Remove old lingering experimentalTags (e503d10)
• Fix compiler type (resolve #​1689) (e7a69ad)

v6.4.1: Release 6.4.1

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• license (2d3d8d8)
• Handle file path arguments in Bun plugin (resolve #​1678) (cdbe298)

v6.4.0: Release 6.4.0

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• chore: change license file to have more conventional casing (#​1664) (ed97e6a) - thanks @​Zamiell!
• fix: whitelist spelling error (#​1666) (bcad120) - thanks @​Zamiell!
• Add Panda CSS plugin (#​1671) (7ab0d4d) - thanks @​Faithfinder!
• fix(rspack): detect plugins from swc-loader (#​1675) (1431ff3) - thanks @​TkDodo!
• docs: fix broken anchor link in DEVELOPMENT.md (#​1677) (e78c7f6) - thanks @​vincent067!
• Fix @jest-environment pragma resolution and limit pragma scope (3832364)
• Track Object enumeration to skip enum-member checks in nsTypes mode (a47aff5)
• Cache module resolution by directory + specifier (cefed38)
• Skip read+parse in walkAndAnalyze when the file cache will hit (25a7982)
• Collapse double statSync in FileEntryCache.reconcile (b63fbd9)
• Refactor walkAndAnalyze: dedupe cached/uncached paths (573df54)
• Cache glob results across --cache runs (6ab8de8)
• Mark namespace members used when enumerated via Object.* (dabf8ce)
• Add config hints for redundant/unregistered extensions (close #​1672, close #​1673) (0506895)
• Enable Tailwind CSS compiler for @​tailwindcss integrations (close #​1674) (f3ed14d)
• Resolve scss path aliases (resolve #​1676) (00ae83b)
• Re-gen plugins.md (35d8fab)
• Resolve path.join(__dirname, ...) in Worker/child_process calls (#​1660) (40a917e)
• license (608f0ed)

v6.3.1: Release 6.3.1

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• Fix peer dependency resolution (#​1645) (0a6e93d) - thanks @​controversial!
• Support absolute file paths in react-router routes (#​1659) (97bb283) - thanks @​mpalmer685!
• Track namespace imports used as object property values (resolve #​1669) (c4d6b28)
• Split plugins/util smoke globs to fit Windows cmd.exe limit (33ef87d)

v6.3.0: Release 6.3.0

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• Re-gen sponsorships chart (83ee489)
• Add testimonial (be16c54)
• Add deferred resolve entries as direct entry paths to avoid ws exclusion (91a1835)
• Add rolldown plugin (resolve #​1661) (44bfd62)
• Housekeep plugins a bit (dc69868)
• Improve module.register handling (b9e36ea)
• Housekeep release script (f81bd0f)

v6.2.0: Release 6.2.0

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• Support tilde-prefixed scoped package names (e.g. @​~private/pkg) (#​1656) (947893d) - thanks @​MatissJanis!
• fix(storybook): mark vitest coverage deps as optional when addon-vitest is used (#​1654) (06e88d4) - thanks @​brick-pixel!
• Deduplicate module graph queue to avoid redundant file processing (#​1657) (e34d3b0) - thanks @​MatissJanis!
• Export KnipConfiguration type for dynamic config use cases (resolve #​1634) (4a64e0e)
• Release knip@​6.2.0 (d8c0161)

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.