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+category: majorAnalysis
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+* JavaScript files with an average line length greater than 200 are now considered minified and will no longer be analyzed.
+  For use-cases where minified files should be analyzed, the orginal behaviour can be restored by setting the environment variable
+  `CODEQL_EXTRACTOR_JAVASCRIPT_ALLOW_MINIFIED_FILES=true`.