chore(main): release 12.0.0-rc.6

Author: github-actions[bot]

.github/release-please/manifest.json

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CHANGELOG.md

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 # Changelog
 
+## [12.0.0-rc.6](https://github.com/mochajs/mocha/compare/v12.0.0-rc.5...v12.0.0-rc.6) (2026-07-24)
+
+
+### 📚 Documentation
+
+* **blog:** add community contributions post ([#6172](https://github.com/mochajs/mocha/issues/6172)) ([5fcc0fe](https://github.com/mochajs/mocha/commit/5fcc0fe4e2bf7a260cd1cc7f312132e26abd1a05))
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+
+### 🧹 Chores
+
+* extract stripLeadingDashes helper + cover CLI arg-parsing edge cases ([#6171](https://github.com/mochajs/mocha/issues/6171)) ([867e175](https://github.com/mochajs/mocha/commit/867e17566beb8f7077e969e9c58e9383bcf6d657))
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 ## [12.0.0-rc.5](https://github.com/mochajs/mocha/compare/v12.0.0-rc.4...v12.0.0-rc.5) (2026-07-23)
 
 

README.md

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package-lock.json

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   "description": "Classic, reliable, trusted test framework for Node.js and the browser",
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