infoq.com/news/2026/11/vite-5-release Vitest 5: Prioritises Performance with a Shared Vite Server, Trace View, and Stricter Test Defaults
Vitest 5.0, a Vite-native testing framework from VoidZero, reports roughly 8–25% speed gains across most benchmark setups, with VM pools up to 53% faster. The release adds a Trace View and stricter defaults, requires Vite 6.4 and Node.js 22.12, and changes CI artifact paths to one .vitest/ directory.
