rubric v1.0.0 ยท scored 2026-08-30 18:00:03 UTC

voyagi/bumpwarden-demo-app / express

express 4.17.1 to 5.2.1

Scored 62 of 100, which is held. Every factor below is computed from a source you can open, and the sum decides the band. Nothing here is a judgement call.

Where this sits

The same axis as the queue, so this bump's place in the run is legible.

30
61
body-parser 50
node-fetch 58
express 62
chalk 71
glob 87

Machine explanation, not verdict

Express upgraded to 5.2.1 with no active breaking changes in this repository

The dependency express is upgraded from 4.17.1 to 5.2.1. This is a major version bump that introduces Express 5.0.0.

While Express 5.0.0 contains breaking changes (such as the removal of res.redirect('back') and changes to route matching), none of the usage sites in this repository are affected: - The match for 'back' on line 42 of server.js is a false positive inside a comment. - The call to res.clearCookie('last-note') on line 37 of server.js does not pass options and remains fully compatible. - The match for 'http' on line 53 of server.js is a false positive inside a console.log string.

The candidate release 5.2.1 also reverts an erroneous query parser breaking change introduced in 5.2.0.

  • Express 5.0.0 removes support for the res.redirect('back') signature.
  • Express 5.0.0 no longer automatically sets the path option to '/' in res.clearCookie() if other options are provided.
  • Express 5.0.0 introduces stricter route matching and query parsing behavior.

Migration

  1. No migration steps are required for this repository as all detected matches are false positives or unaffected.

Confidence high. Model gemini-3.5-flash. It named no call site in this repository. Some inputs were truncated to fit the token budget.

Provenance

Run
run-20260830T180003072Z-scheduled
First seen
2026-08-29 06:53:40 UTC
Last scored
2026-08-30 18:00:03 UTC
Rubric
v1.0.0
Bump key
voyagi/bumpwarden-demo-app#express@5.2.1

How 62 was reached

Semver distance, one major30
Your code touches a changed symbol, server.js:37, server.js:42, server.js:5320
Breaking marker in release evidence, github.com12
Advisories on the candidate, none on the candidate0
Deprecation, neither version is deprecated0
Engine range, candidate needs Node 18.0.0, you declare 18.0.00
Candidate release age, published 2025-12-01, 271 days ago0
Peer dependency range, peer range unchanged0
Release notes for the candidate, github.com0
Total62

What was done

Rule RED-HOLD-1 Open a hold issue with a migration plan, labelled bumpwarden:hold. Never open a pull request for a held bump.