Bump qs, express and watson-developer-cloud

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Bumps qs to 6.14.1 and updates ancestor dependencies qs, express and watson-developer-cloud. These dependencies need to be updated together.

Updates qs from 6.5.1 to 6.14.1

Changelog

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6.14.1

• [Fix] ensure arrayLength applies to [] notation as well
• [Fix] parse: when a custom decoder returns null for a key, ignore that key
• [Refactor] parse: extract key segment splitting helper
• [meta] add threat model
• [actions] add workflow permissions
• [Tests] stringify: increase coverage
• [Dev Deps] update eslint, @ljharb/eslint-config, npmignore, es-value-fixtures, for-each, object-inspect

6.14.0

• [New] parse: add throwOnParameterLimitExceeded option (#517)
• [Refactor] parse: use utils.combine more
• [patch] parse: add explicit throwOnLimitExceeded default
• [actions] use shared action; re-add finishers
• [meta] Fix changelog formatting bug
• [Deps] update side-channel
• [Dev Deps] update es-value-fixtures, has-bigints, has-proto, has-symbols
• [Tests] increase coverage

6.13.1

• [Fix] stringify: avoid a crash when a filter key is null
• [Fix] utils.merge: functions should not be stringified into keys
• [Fix] parse: avoid a crash with interpretNumericEntities: true, comma: true, and iso charset
• [Fix] stringify: ensure a non-string filter does not crash
• [Refactor] use __proto__ syntax instead of Object.create for null objects
• [Refactor] misc cleanup
• [Tests] utils.merge: add some coverage
• [Tests] fix a test case
• [actions] split out node 10-20, and 20+
• [Dev Deps] update es-value-fixtures, mock-property, object-inspect, tape

6.13.0

• [New] parse: add strictDepth option (#511)
• [Tests] use npm audit instead of aud

6.12.3

• [Fix] parse: properly account for strictNullHandling when allowEmptyArrays
• [meta] fix changelog indentation

6.12.2

• [Fix] parse: parse encoded square brackets (#506)
• [readme] add CII best practices badge

6.12.1

• [Fix] parse: Disable decodeDotInKeys by default to restore previous behavior (#501)
• [Performance] utils: Optimize performance under large data volumes, reduce memory usage, and speed up processing (#502)
• [Refactor] utils: use +=
• [Tests] increase coverage

6.12.0

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Commits

• 3fa11a5 v6.14.1
• a626704 [Dev Deps] update npmignore
• 3086902 [Fix] ensure arrayLength applies to [] notation as well
• fc7930e [Dev Deps] update eslint, @ljharb/eslint-config
• 0b06aac [Dev Deps] update @ljharb/eslint-config
• 64951f6 [Refactor] parse: extract key segment splitting helper
• e1bd259 [Dev Deps] update @ljharb/eslint-config
• f4b3d39 [eslint] add eslint 9 optional peer dep
• 6e94d95 [Dev Deps] update eslint, @ljharb/eslint-config, npmignore
• 973dc3c [actions] add workflow permissions
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Updates express from 4.16.3 to 4.22.1

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v4.22.1

What's Changed

[!IMPORTANT]
The prior release (4.22.0) included an erroneous breaking change related to the extended query parser. There is no actual security vulnerability associated with this behavior (CVE-2024-51999 has been rejected). The change has been fully reverted in this release.

• Release: 4.22.1 by @​UlisesGascon in expressjs/express#6934

Full Changelog: expressjs/express@4.22.0...v4.22.1

4.22.0

Important: Security

• Security fix for CVE-2024-51999 (GHSA-pj86-cfqh-vqx6)

What's Changed

• Refactor: improve readability by @​sazk07 in expressjs/express#6190
• ci: add support for Node.js@23.0 by @​UlisesGascon in expressjs/express#6080
• Method functions with no path should error by @​wesleytodd in expressjs/express#5957
• ci: updated github actions ci workflow by @​Phillip9587 in expressjs/express#6323
• ci: reorder npm i steps to fix ci for older node versions by @​Phillip9587 in expressjs/express#6336
• Backport: ci: add node.js 24 to test matrix by @​Phillip9587 in expressjs/express#6506
• chore(4.x): wider range for query test skip by @​jonchurch in expressjs/express#6513
• use tilde notation for certain dependencies by @​UlisesGascon in expressjs/express#6905
• deps: qs@6.14.0 by @​UlisesGascon in expressjs/express#6909
• deps: use tilde notation for qs by @​Phillip9587 in expressjs/express#6919
• Release: 4.22.0 by @​UlisesGascon in expressjs/express#6921

Full Changelog: expressjs/express@4.21.2...4.22.0

4.21.2

What's Changed

• Add funding field (v4) by @​bjohansebas in expressjs/express#6065
• deps: path-to-regexp@0.1.11 by @​blakeembrey in expressjs/express#5956
• deps: bump path-to-regexp@0.1.12 by @​jonchurch in expressjs/express#6209
• Release: 4.21.2 by @​UlisesGascon in expressjs/express#6094

Full Changelog: expressjs/express@4.21.1...4.21.2

4.21.1

What's Changed

• Backport a fix for CVE-2024-47764 to the 4.x branch by @​joshbuker in expressjs/express#6029
• Release: 4.21.1 by @​UlisesGascon in expressjs/express#6031

Full Changelog: expressjs/express@4.21.0...4.21.1

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Changelog

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4.22.1 / 2025-12-01

• Revert security fix for CVE-2024-51999 (GHSA-pj86-cfqh-vqx6)

4.22.0 / 2025-12-01

• Security fix for CVE-2024-51999 (GHSA-pj86-cfqh-vqx6)
• deps: use tilde notation for dependencies
• deps: qs@6.14.0

4.21.2 / 2024-11-06

• deps: path-to-regexp@0.1.12
  • Fix backtracking protection
• deps: path-to-regexp@0.1.11
  • Throws an error on invalid path values

4.21.1 / 2024-10-08

• Backported a fix for CVE-2024-47764

4.21.0 / 2024-09-11

• Deprecate res.location("back") and res.redirect("back") magic string
• deps: serve-static@1.16.2
  • includes send@0.19.0
• deps: finalhandler@1.3.1
• deps: qs@6.13.0

4.20.0 / 2024-09-10

• deps: serve-static@0.16.0
  • Remove link renderization in html while redirecting
• deps: send@0.19.0
  • Remove link renderization in html while redirecting
• deps: body-parser@0.6.0
  • add depth option to customize the depth level in the parser
  • IMPORTANT: The default depth level for parsing URL-encoded data is now 32 (previously was Infinity)
• Remove link renderization in html while using res.redirect
• deps: path-to-regexp@0.1.10
  • Adds support for named matching groups in the routes using a regex
  • Adds backtracking protection to parameters without regexes defined
• deps: encodeurl@~2.0.0
  • Removes encoding of \, |, and ^ to align better with URL spec
• Deprecate passing options.maxAge and options.expires to res.clearCookie

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Commits

• 12fae14 4.22.1
• 5ddf311 Revert "sec: security patch for CVE-2024-51999"
• 49744ab 4.22.0 (#6921)
• 6e97452 sec: security patch for CVE-2024-51999
• 6a23d34 deps: use tilde notation for qs (#6919)
• 8c12cdf deps: qs@6.14.0 (#6909)
• 7fea74f deps: use tilde notation for certain dependencies (#6905)
• dac7a04 chore: wider range for query test skip (#6513)
• 997919b ci: add node.js 24 to test matrix (#6506)
• 36fb59c fix(ci): reorder npm i steps to fix ci for older node versions (#6336)
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Maintainer changes

This version was pushed to npm by jonchurch, a new releaser for express since your current version.

Updates watson-developer-cloud from 3.4.5 to 4.0.1

Release notes

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v4.0.1

4.0.1 (2019-03-29)

Bug Fixes

• add compare comply keyword to package.json (to trigger release) (7905445)

v4.0.0

4.0.0 (2019-03-28)

Bug Fixes

• icp: disabling ssl verification now works for websocket connection (f8466c8)
• update ibm-cloud-sdk-core to 0.1.1 (29f87df)

Build System

• remove support for node 4 (1548413)

chore

• remove all code dealing with api_key in the base class (92d48e2)
• conversation: remove conversation service and all associated code (c810de2)
• dialog: remove dialog service and all associated (7d7408f)
• language-translator-v2: remove language translator v2 service and all associated code (83d9232)
• personality-insights: remove Personality Insights v2 (e5e5302)

Code Refactoring

• assistant-v1: change name of variable export to _export (91ed5a4)
• assistant-v2: parameter names changed for v4 (f6adbe9)
• compare-comply: parameter names changed for v4 (908d8e7)
• refactor core code to use axios instead of request for network requests (f656731)
• discovery: remove compatibility layer for discovery (8571a1f)
• discovery: rename model QueryResultResultMetadata to QueryResultMetadata (b1a124c)
• natural-language-classifier: remove compatibility layer for natural language classifier (0ac087c)
• natural-language-understanding: remove compatibility layer for natural language understanding (359cc79)
• personality-insights-v3: remove compatibility layer for personality insights v3 (1b27685)
• speech-to-text: remove compatibility layer for speech to text (310bdd0)
• text-to-speech: remove compatibility layer for text to speech (6994d3c)
• tone-analyzer: remove compatibility layer for tone analyzer (9f10898)
• visual_recognition: v4 changes (3957e2d)
• in query and federatedQuery, only accept string values for certain parameters. (06d7c65)
• in discovery, rename getSourceCredentials to getCredentials (6fac701)
• visual-recognition: remove compatibility layer for visual recognition (6377067)
• remove index.ts file as it was deprecated starting in v3 (4ea3c27)
• remove module for converting training_data to csv (dd534f6)
• require filenames for createStopwordList in discovery and convertToHTML in compare comply (8f7c62f)
• stop using cookies in requests (09e0e91)

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Changelog

Sourced from watson-developer-cloud's changelog.

4.0.1 (2019-03-29)

Bug Fixes

• add compare comply keyword to package.json (to trigger release) (7905445)

4.0.0 (2019-03-28)

Bug Fixes

• icp: disabling ssl verification now works for websocket connection (f8466c8)
• update ibm-cloud-sdk-core to 0.1.1 (29f87df)

Build System

• remove support for node 4 (1548413)

chore

• remove all code dealing with api_key in the base class (92d48e2)
• conversation: remove conversation service and all associated code (c810de2)
• dialog: remove dialog service and all associated (7d7408f)
• language-translator-v2: remove language translator v2 service and all associated code (83d9232)
• personality-insights: remove Personality Insights v2 (e5e5302)

Code Refactoring

• assistant-v1: change name of variable export to _export (91ed5a4)
• assistant-v2: parameter names changed for v4 (f6adbe9)
• compare-comply: parameter names changed for v4 (908d8e7)
• refactor core code to use axios instead of request for network requests (f656731)
• discovery: remove compatibility layer for discovery (8571a1f)
• discovery: rename model QueryResultResultMetadata to QueryResultMetadata (b1a124c)
• natural-language-classifier: remove compatibility layer for natural language classifier (0ac087c)
• natural-language-understanding: remove compatibility layer for natural language understanding (359cc79)
• personality-insights-v3: remove compatibility layer for personality insights v3 (1b27685)
• speech-to-text: remove compatibility layer for speech to text (310bdd0)
• text-to-speech: remove compatibility layer for text to speech (6994d3c)
• tone-analyzer: remove compatibility layer for tone analyzer (9f10898)
• visual_recognition: v4 changes (3957e2d)
• in query and federatedQuery, only accept string values for certain parameters. (06d7c65)
• in discovery, rename getSourceCredentials to getCredentials (6fac701)
• visual-recognition: remove compatibility layer for visual recognition (6377067)
• remove index.ts file as it was deprecated starting in v3 (4ea3c27)
• remove module for converting training_data to csv (dd534f6)

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Commits

• c09f01b chore(release): 4.0.1 [skip ci]
• 7905445 fix: add compare comply keyword to package.json (to trigger release)
• 283f0fc build: include sdk.ts in build
• 9ad2c25 chore(release): 4.0.0 [skip ci]
• 08e9784 Merge pull request #854 from watson-developer-cloud/v4.0.0-branch
• bd74547 Merge branch 'master' into v4.0.0-branch
• be3ef04 chore(release): 3.18.4 [skip ci]
• 29f87df fix: update ibm-cloud-sdk-core to 0.1.1
• 0ea8c5f build: rebuild package-lock file
• a3beeb9 Merge branch 'master' into v4.0.0-branch
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