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What changed in chalk 6, from its official release notes, upgrade guides and advisories. Sources checked 2026-10-18.

3 breaking1 new APIs and options1 performance1 behavior and defaults1 fixes and other

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chalk 67 changes

Breaking changes 3

  • At color level 1, ansi256() is downsampled to 16 colors.

    6.0.0release notes

  • At color level 1, bgAnsi256() is downsampled to 16 colors.

    6.0.0release notes

  • Chalk now requires Node.js 22.

    6.0.0release notes

New APIs and options 1

Performance 1

Behavior and default changes 1

  • A numeric FORCE_COLOR value is now treated as an exact color level.

    6.0.0release notes

Fixes and other changes 1