Update/Audit NPM Dependencies for 6.1

[desrosj]

Previously:

• #54727 (6.0)
• #53361 (5.9)
• #52624 (5.8)
• #51801 (5.7)
• #50769 (5.6)
• #49768 (5.5)
• #49547 (5.4)
• #48203 (5.3)
• #46039 (5.1)
• #45064 (5.0)
• #38199 (4.7)
• #36520 (4.6)
• #35104 (4.5)
• #34177 (4.4)
• #31700 (4.3)
• #31489 (4.2)
• #30141 (4.1)
• #27340 (4.0)
• #26073 (3.9)

[desrosj]

[53580] was attached to #55652 instead of this ticket, which follows the practice followed for past releases.

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/56641

[desrosj]

In 54294:

Build/Test Tools: Update NPM dependencies in default themes.

This updates NPM dependencies for all default themes that have them.

See #56641.

[desrosj]

In 54295:

Build/Test Tools: Update NPM dependencies in default themes, part 2.

Follow up to [54294].

See #56641.

[desrosj]

In 54296:

Build/Test Tools: Update NPM dependencies to their latest versions.

The following dependencies are being updated:

• copy-webpack-plugin from 10.2.4 to 11.0.0.
• dotenv from 16.0.1 to 16.0.2.
• dotenv-expand from 8.0.3 to 9.0.0.
• sass from 1.53.0 to 1.55.0.
• sinon-test from 3.1.3 to 3.1.4.
• source-map-loader from 3.0.1 to 4.0.0.
• terser-webpack-plugin from 5.3.1 to 5.3.6.
• uglify-js from 3.16.1 to 3.17.1.
• uuid from 8.3.2 to 9.0.0.
• webpack from 5.72.0 to 5.74.0.

This also contains changes after running npm audit fix.

Fixes #56641.

[desrosj]

@milana_cap I think these can be omitted from the field guide. These are just development dependencies. If there are scenarios where updating these dependencies is noteworthy, there would likely be a separate ticket with more discussion and related changes (#56615/#56616 come to mind).

Happy to include them if you feel differently, but there's a lot of other more important and impactful changes we want the developer community to be aware of before these.

[milana_cap]

Yes, I agree it's not a change users would be interested in. It just occurred to me that we never do documentation for contributors. We do end user and dev docs but those are users.

We never consider contributors, especially if they are not active in this particular release.

Anyway, it was just a thought and perhaps a topic for bigger discussion in future releases.

[desrosj]

In 54400:

Build/Test Tools: Update npm dependencies to their latest versions.

This updates the following devDependencies:

• chalk from 5.0.1 to 5.1.0
• dotenv from 16.0.2 to 16.0.3
• sinon from 14.0.0 to 14.0.1
• uglify-js from 3.17.1 to 3.17.3

This is the final dependency bump for 6.1.

See #56641.