chore(deps): update dependency @pact-foundation/pact to v16

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
@pact-foundation/pact (source)	^15.0.0 → ^16.0.0

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Release Notes

pact-foundation/pact-js (@​pact-foundation/pact)

v16.0.4

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Fixes and Improvements

• ability to validate both message and HTTP (#​1634) (187684c), closes #​1633

v16.0.3

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Fixes and Improvements

• replace deprecated macos 13 build with macos-15-intel (#​1628) (4a96350)

v16.0.2

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Fixes and Improvements

• gracefully handle state handler errors (#​1585) (a323814), closes #​631

v16.0.1

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Fixes and Improvements

• deps: update dependency ramda to ^0.32.0 (#​1578) (efb267f)
• Pact-JS Verifier Proxy Cannot Handle Root Path (#​1582) (983f5b3), closes #​1581
• use /{*splat} for express proxy routes to match root and wildcard subpaths (cf95657)

v16.0.0

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⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• Rename Matchers to MatchersV2 to to avoid type overlap. remove AnyTemplate from V3 types
• deps: min node >=20
• export PactV4 / MatchersV3 as Pact / Matchers. Pact / Matchers renamaed to PactV2 / MatchersV2
• deps: min node >=20, update express wildcard 5.x splat

Features

• add GraphQL support to PactV4 (4fe838c)
• export PactV4 / MatchersV3 as Pact / Matchers. Pact / Matchers renamaed to PactV2 / MatchersV2 (f1ce98e)
• initial scaffolding for async messages (041fa19)
• support GraphQL for PactV3 (6d077f4), closes #​1093

Fixes and Improvements

• deps: explictly add router package, removed in express 5.x (f99e01b)
• deps: min node >=20 (228d197)
• deps: min node >=20, update express wildcard 5.x splat (ef6d3d2)
• deps: update dependency axios to v1.12.0 [security] (#​1561) (75fad7c)
• deps: update dependency body-parser to v2 (#​1433) (357095a)
• deps: update dependency ramda to ^0.31.0 (#​1507) (61c33c0)
• examples/e2e/package.json & examples/e2e/package-lock.json to reduce vulnerabilities (#​1472) (1732a0f)
• mock backend to return the example value provided in date and time v3 matchers (#​1405) (5f47e5d)
• Rename Matchers to MatchersV2 to to avoid type overlap. remove AnyTemplate from V3 types (c2fe8f5)

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npm warn Unknown env config "store". This will stop working in the next major version of npm. See `npm help npmrc` for supported config options.
npm error code ERESOLVE
npm error ERESOLVE could not resolve
npm error
npm error While resolving: [email protected]
npm error Found: @pact-foundation/[email protected]
npm error node_modules/@pact-foundation/pact
npm error   dev @pact-foundation/pact@"^16.0.0" from the root project
npm error
npm error Could not resolve dependency:
npm error peer @pact-foundation/pact@"^v10.0.0-beta.61 || ^10.0.2 || ^11.0.2 || ^12.0.0 || ^13.0.0 || ^14.0.0 || ^15.0.0" from [email protected]
npm error node_modules/jest-pact
npm error   dev jest-pact@"^0.11.0" from the root project
npm error
npm error Conflicting peer dependency: @pact-foundation/[email protected]
npm error node_modules/@pact-foundation/pact
npm error   peer @pact-foundation/pact@"^v10.0.0-beta.61 || ^10.0.2 || ^11.0.2 || ^12.0.0 || ^13.0.0 || ^14.0.0 || ^15.0.0" from [email protected]
npm error   node_modules/jest-pact
npm error     dev jest-pact@"^0.11.0" from the root project
npm error
npm error Fix the upstream dependency conflict, or retry
npm error this command with --force or --legacy-peer-deps
npm error to accept an incorrect (and potentially broken) dependency resolution.
npm error
npm error
npm error For a full report see:
npm error /runner/cache/others/npm/_logs/2026-03-09T17_05_28_552Z-eresolve-report.txt
npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: /runner/cache/others/npm/_logs/2026-03-09T17_05_28_552Z-debug-0.log