Features

• 5a6a053 feat: update to jiti v2 (#18954) (Arya Emami)
• 17a07fb feat: Hooks for test cases (RuleTester) (#18771) (Anna Bocharova)
• 2ff0e51 feat: Implement alternate config lookup (#18742) (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• 2d17453 feat: Implement modified cyclomatic complexity (#18896) (Dmitry Pashkevich)

Bug Fixes

• ea380ca fix: Upgrade retry to avoid EMFILE errors (#18986) (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• fdd6319 fix: Issues with type definitions (#18940) (Arya Emami)

Documentation

• ecbd522 docs: Mention code explorer (#18978) (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• 7ea4ecc docs: Clarifying the Use of Meta Objects (#18697) (Amaresh S M)
• d3e4b2e docs: Clarify how to exclude .js files (#18976) (Milos Djermanovic)
• 57232ff docs: Mention plugin-kit in language docs (#18973) (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• b80ed00 docs: Update README (GitHub Actions Bot)
• cb69ab3 docs: Update README (GitHub Actions Bot)
• 7fb0d95 docs: Update README (GitHub Actions Bot)
• 493348a docs: Update README (GitHub Actions Bot)
• 87a582c docs: fix typo in id-match rule (#18944) (Jay)

Chores

• 555aafd chore: upgrade to @eslint/js@9.12.0 (#18987) (Francesco Trotta)
• 873ae60 chore: package.json update for @eslint/js release (Jenkins)
• d0a5414 refactor: replace strip-ansi with native module (#18982) (Cristopher)
• b827029 chore: Enable JSON5 linting (#18979) (Milos Djermanovic)
• 8f55ca2 chore: Upgrade espree, eslint-visitor-keys, eslint-scope (#18962) (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• c1a2725 chore: update dependency mocha to ^10.7.3 (#18945) (Milos Djermanovic)