V8 Planned Changes

[bmish]

Starting a list of breaking changes, feedback welcome. We can perform this release once we have compiled enough changes.

Planned:

• Enable additional recommended rules:
  • feat!: add unique-test-case-names to recommended #563
  • TODO
• Change default rule options
  • (TODO: decide on this) feat!: capitalize default pattern of require-meta-docs-description rule #495
  • (TODO: decide on this) feat!: add name to test-case-property-ordering default options #475
• Supported Node.js versions
  • 2026-04-30: Node 20 end-of-life (schedule)
  • TODO
• Supported ESLint versions
  • TODO
• Migrations
  • TODO

For reference, V7 was released 2025-08-04 (release changelog, discussion in #505).

[michaelfaith]

I'd like to propose this rule for recommended in the next major: #561 (unique-test-case-names)

[michaelfaith]

For consideration #644 (adding meta.languages to all rules)