New version of dotenv (16.6.1) broke the build

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We've tested your project with an updated dependency and the build failed.

This version is either within the version range you specified or you haven't specified a version/range. To be able to test your project with the new version, we've taken the liberty of pinning the version for this branch and pull request.

name	version specification	new version
dotenv	^16.0.3	16.6.1

Unfortunately, we encountered failing tests after pinning. This means that this new version is not compatible with your project and the test failure will potentially also happen on fresh installs.

If you have correctly specified a semantic versioning version range, you should probably also file an issue with the upstream project as they might have released an update that's breaking SemVer rules, which is not cool. (But then again, not all projects explicitly follow SemVer)

We've left the pull request open for you to investigate this issue. Please don't merge it as is, because, again, we've pinned the version of dotenv for this test run.

What changed?

✳️ dotenv (^16.0.3 → 16.6.1) · Repo · Changelog

Release Notes

16.6.1 (from changelog)

Changed

• Default quiet to true – hiding the runtime log message (#874)
• NOTICE: 17.0.0 will be released with quiet defaulting to false. Use config({ quiet: true }) to suppress.
• And check out the new dotenvx. As coding workflows evolve and agents increasingly handle secrets, encrypted .env files offer a much safer way to deploy both agents and code together with secure secrets. Simply switch require('dotenv').config() for require('@dotenvx/dotenvx').config().

Does any of this look wrong? Please let us know.

Commits

See the full diff on Github. The new version differs by 12 commits:

• 16.6.1
• changelog 🪵
• Merge pull request #874 from motdotla/default-quiet-to-true
• changelog 🪵
• force failure of path.relative in test
• add tests
• add to test coverage
• send coverage to text as well
• add test
• test quiet: false
• changelog 🪵
• default `quiet` to true

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