Vitest 4: poolOptions, maxThreads/maxForks, singleFork and coverage.all removed — use top-level maxWorkers/isolate

Fix

// before (Vitest 3)
export default defineConfig({ test: {
  poolOptions: { forks: { execArgv: ['--expose-gc'], isolate: false, singleFork: true } },
  coverage: { all: true, extensions: ['js', 'ts'] },
}})

// after (Vitest 4)
export default defineConfig({ test: {
  execArgv: ['--expose-gc'],
  isolate: false,
  maxWorkers: 1,
  coverage: { include: ['src/**/*.{ts,tsx}'] },
}})

// before
test('flaky', () => { /* ... */ }, { retry: 2 })
// after
test('flaky', { retry: 2 }, () => { /* ... */ })

If tests relied on module reset between files with singleFork, add a setup file that calls vi.resetModules() in beforeAll.

Symptom

A Vitest 3 config that uses poolOptions: { forks: { singleFork: true } }, maxThreads, minWorkers, coverage.all: true or coverage.extensions stops behaving as expected after upgrading to Vitest 4. Tests run in parallel again, uncovered files disappear from coverage, and the options do nothing. Tests passing options as the third argument (test(name, fn, { retry: 2 })) also break.

Cause

Vitest 4.0 (2025-10-22) removed Tinypool and rewrote pools:

poolOptions is removed. Its options are now top-level.
maxThreads / maxForks become maxWorkers. The env vars VITEST_MAX_THREADS / VITEST_MAX_FORKS become VITEST_MAX_WORKERS.
singleThread / singleFork become maxWorkers: 1, isolate: false.
minWorkers is removed.
vmThreads.memoryLimit becomes vmMemoryLimit.
coverage.all and coverage.extensions are removed. Coverage now reports only files loaded during the run unless coverage.include is set.
The test-options object is no longer accepted as the third argument. A numeric timeout is still accepted there. Vitest 4 requires Node >= 20 and Vite >= 6.

Verify

npx vitest run --coverage lists the uncovered src files with 0%, and a single worker runs when maxWorkers: 1 is set.

Sources

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Vitest 4: poolOptions, maxThreads/maxForks, singleFork and coverage.all removed — use top-level maxWorkers/isolate

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Cause

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