In another hand, see also Gulp documentation: https://gulpjs.com/docs/en/getting-started/javascript-and-gulpfiles/

Note we can only fix in upsection repository issues at our repository level.

Some dependencies are loaded through ESM, like supports-color library directly for Node:

This goal is currently achieved.

As Node 22 supports require for ESM too, at least experimentally, we can also require Node 22+ instead.

The portsearch database seems to work despite that issue, so decreasing the priority.

If the goal is to avoid any security issue, gulp-imagemin last version still has a DoS regexp issue with trim-newline dependency.