ava fails on Node.js >=24

@sindresorhus

Situation

Running citgm ava passes only on Node.js 22 with macos & ubuntu and fails everything else.

Item	Status
npm package	https://www.npmjs.com/package/ava
npm status	active
last published	8.1.0 Oct 18, 2026
weekly downloads	550,332
repo location	https://github.com/avajs/ava
repo last update to default branch	Oct 18, 2026
repo status	active
repo CI status	runs in current Node.js versions
lookup - skip	`"ppc", "win32", "x86", "rhel", "aix", "ia32"`
lookup maintainer 1	sindresorhus
lookup maintainer 2	novemberborn

Cloning the repo and running local tests using Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS and running under Node.js 22, 24 & 26 confirm the compatibility issues for Node.js 24 & 26.

Steps to reproduce

Run https://github.com/nodejs/citgm/actions/workflows/test-module.yml

Module to test: ava
CITGM repository to checkout: nodejs/citgm
CITGM GitHub ref to checkout: main

Result

Fails most current variants:

Node.js	npm	macos	ubuntu	windows
22.23.3	10.9.9	PASS	PASS	FAIL
24.21.0	11.19.0	FAIL	FAIL	FAIL
26.10.0	11.19.1	FAIL	FAIL	FAIL

References

citgm/lib/lookup.json

Lines 51 to 56 in 4d3d256

    
           "ava": { 
        
             "prefix": "v", 
        
             "skip": ["ppc", "win32", "x86", "rhel", "aix", "ia32"], 
        
             "maintainers": ["sindresorhus", "novemberborn"], 
        
             "timeout": 600000 
        
           },

cc: @sindresorhus @novemberborn

Suggestion

Fix the Node.js 24 & 26 compatibility issues in https://github.com/avajs/ava OR
Add a skip >=24 to citgm lookup to block testing on incompatible Node.js release lines (retain current skips)

CI workflow is https://github.com/avajs/ava/blob/main/.github/workflows/ci.yml

https://github.com/avajs/ava/actions/runs/26000541390 last tested on May 17, 2026.
Logs are no longer available.
Current Node.js 26.x at that time was Node.js 26.1.0

Node.js	`citgm ava` result
26.1.0	pass
26.4.0	pass
26.5.0	fail
26.11.1	fail

A test regression appears with Node.js 26.5.0, released 2026-07-08.

nodejs/node#64329 (comment) noted multiple regressions in CITGM with the Node.js 26.5.0 release, including ava-v8.0.0.

@sindresorhus

This appears to be an issue with the snapshots saved in the test-tap/reporters/tap.edgecases.v*.log of https://github.com/avajs/ava which refer to line numbers that have changed within the Node.js release line updates, for instance between Node.js 26.4.0 and Node.js 26.5.0.

This could be fixed by just re-recording the snapshots so they correspond to the latest Node.js releases for each supported release line. That would however make the test fail on earlier releases of the same release line.

cc: @sindresorhus @novemberborn

That's now fixed in main but there's an unrelated CI failure which stops me from releasing.

8.0.2 is now out.

@novemberborn

@novemberborn

The repo change in 8.0.2 is causing issues:

$ npm view ava@8.0.1 repository
{ url: 'git+https://github.com/avajs/ava.git', type: 'git' }

$ npm view ava@8.0.2 repository
{ url: 'github:avajs/ava', type: 'git' }

$ citgm ava
info: starting            | ava
info: lookup              | ava
info: lookup-found        | ava
info: ava lookup-replace  | github:avajs/ava/archive/v8.0.2.tar.gz
info: ava npm:            | Downloading project: github:avajs/ava/archive/v8.0.2.tar.gz
error: failure             | Failure getting project from npm
error:                     | npm error code 128
error:                     | npm error An unknown git error occurred
error:                     | npm error command git --no-replace-objects ls-remote ssh://git@github.com/avajs/ava/archive/v8.0.2.tar.gz.git
error:                     | npm error Warning: Permanently added 'github.com' (ED25519) to the list of known hosts.
error:                     | npm error git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey).
error:                     | npm error fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
error:                     | npm error
error:                     | npm error Please make sure you have the correct access rights
error:                     | npm error and the repository exists.
error:                     | npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: C:\Users\mikem\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2026-10-15T19_19_40_730Z-debug-0.log
error: failing module(s)   |
error: module name:        | ava
error: version:            | 8.0.2
error: error:              | Failure getting project from npm
error:                     | npm error code 128
error:                     | npm error An unknown git error occurred
error:                     | npm error command git --no-replace-objects ls-remote ssh://git@github.com/avajs/ava/archive/v8.0.2.tar.gz.git
error:                     | npm error Warning: Permanently added 'github.com' (ED25519) to the list of known hosts.
error:                     | npm error git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey).
error:                     | npm error fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
error:                     | npm error
error:                     | npm error Please make sure you have the correct access rights
error:                     | npm error and the repository exists.
error:                     | npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: C:\Users\mikem\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2026-10-15T19_19_40_730Z-debug-0.log
error: error:              | undefined
error: done                | The smoke test has failed.
info: duration            | test duration: 3416ms

It looks like you've switched from npm to pnpm as package manager. I didn't notice that at first, since it's not specifically listed in https://github.com/avajs/ava/releases/tag/v8.0.2 unless you drill down into avajs/ava#3496

Correct. It's not listed since it doesn't affect end users but makes sense that CITGM has to clone the repo.

#1195 covers the download failure due to the use of a short-cut repository definition.

I've published 8.1.1 with pnpm@12.15.

ava@8.1.2 has fixed the download issue by normalizing the repository key in package.json

The remaining issue is for citgm to migrate ava testing to pnpm, for which I will shortly submit a PR.

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	"ava": {
	"prefix": "v",
	"skip": ["ppc", "win32", "x86", "rhel", "aix", "ia32"],
	"maintainers": ["sindresorhus", "novemberborn"],
	"timeout": 600000
	},

ava fails on Node.js >=24 #1169

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