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v5.3.0 (2017-07-12):
As mentioned before, we're continuing to do relatively rapid, smaller releases
as we keep working on stomping out npm@5
issues! We've made a lot of progress
since 5.0 already, and this release is no exception.
FEATURES
1e3a46944
#17616 Add--link
filter option tonpm ls
. (@richardsimko)33df0aaa
libnpx@9.2.0
:- 4 new languages - Czech, Italian, Turkish, and Chinese (Traditional)! This means npx is available in 14 different languages!
- New --node-arg option lets you pass CLI arguments directly to node when the target binary is found to be a Node.js script. (@zkat)
BUGFIXES
33df0aaa
libnpx@9.2.0
:- npx should now work on (most) Windows installs. A couple of issues remain.
- Prevent auto-fallback from going into an infinite loop when npx disappears.
npx npx npx npx npx npx npx npx
works again.update-notifier
will no longer run for the npx bundled with npm.npx <cmd>
in a subdirectory of your project should be able to find yournode_modules/.bin
now. Oops (@zkat)
8e979bf80
Revert change where npm stopped flattening modules that required peerDeps. This caused problems because folks were using peer deps to indicate that the target of the peer dep needed to be able to require the dependency and had been relying on the fact that peer deps didn't change the shape of the tree (as of npm@3). The fix that will actually work for people is for a peer dep to insist on never being installed deeper than the the thing it relies on. At the moment this is tricky because the thing the peer dep relies on may not yet have been added to the tree, so we don't know where it is. (@iarna)7f28a77f3
#17733 Split remove and unbuild actions into two to get uninstall lifecycles and the removal of transitive symlinks during uninstallation to run in the right order. (@iarna)637f2548f
#17748 When rolling back use symlink project-relative path, fixing some issues withfs-vacuum
getting confused while removing symlinked things. (@iarna)f153b5b22
#17706 Use semver to compare node versions in npm doctor instead of plain>
comparison. (@leo-shopify)542f7561
#17742 Fix issue wherenpm version
would sometimes not commit package-locks. (@markpeterfejes)51a9e63d
#17777 Fix bug exposed by other bugfixes where the wrong package would be removed. (@iarna)
DOCUMENTATION
Have we mentioned we really like documentation patches? Keep sending them in! Small patches are just fine, and they're a great way to get started contributing to npm!
fb42d55a9
#17728 Document semver git urls in package.json docs. (@sankethkatta)f398c700f
#17684 Tweak heading hierarchy in package.json docs. (@sonicdoe)d5ad65e50
#17691 Explicitly document--no-save
flag for uninstall. (@timneedham)
v5.2.0 (2017-07-05):
It's only been a couple of days but we've got some bug fixes we wanted to
get out to you all. We also believe that
npx
is ready to be bundled
with npm, which we're really excited about!
npx!!!
npx is a tool intended to help round out the experience of using packages from the npm registry — the same way npm makes it super easy to install and manage dependencies hosted on the registry, npx is meant to make it easy to use CLI tools and other executables hosted on the registry. It greatly simplifies a number of things that, until now, required a bit of ceremony to do with plain npm.
@zkat has a great introduction post to npx that I highly recommend you give a read
BUG FIXES
9fe905c39
#17652 Fix max callstack exceeded loops with trees with circular links. (@iarna)c0a289b1b
#17606 Make sure that when write package.json and package-lock.json we always use unix path separators. (@Standard8)1658b79ca
#17654 Makenpm outdated
show results for globals again. Previously it never thought they were out of date. (@iarna)06c154fd6
#17678 Stop flattening modules that have peer dependencies. We're making this change to support scenarios where the module requiring a peer dependency is flattened but the peer dependency itself is not, due to conflicts. In those cases the module requiring the peer dep can't be flattened past the location its peer dep was placed in. This initial fix is naive, never flattening peer deps, and we can look into doing something more sophisticated later on. (@iarna)88aafee8b
#17677 There was an issue where updating a flattened dependency would sometimes unflatten it. This only happened when the dependency had dependencies that in turn required the original dependency. (@iarna)b58ec8eab
#17626 Integrators who were building their own copies of npm ran into issues becausemake install
and https://npmjs.com/install.sh weren't aware thatnpm install
creates links now when given a directory to work on. This does not impact folks installing npm withnpm install -g npm
. (@iarna)
DOC FIXES
10bef735e
#17645 Fix some github issue links in the 5.1.0 changelog (@schmod)85fa9dcb2
#17634 Fix typo in package-lock docs. (@sonicdoe)688699bef
#17628 Recommend that folks looking for support join us on https://package.community/ or message @npm_support on Twitter. (@strugee)
v5.1.0 (2017-07-05):
Hey y'all~
We've got some goodies for you here, including npm@5
's first semver-minor
release! This version includes a huge number of fixes, particularly for some of
the critical bugs users were running into after upgrading npm. You should
overall see a much more stable experience, and we're going to continue hacking
on fixes for the time being. Semver-major releases, specially for tools like
npm, are bound to cause some instability, and getting npm@5
stable is the CLI
team's top priority for now!
Not that bugfixes are the only things that landed, either: between improvements
that fell out of the bugfixes, and some really cool work by community members
like @mikesherov, npm@5.1.0
is twice as
fast as npm@5.0.0
in some benchmarks. We're not stopping there, either: you
can expect a steady stream of speed improvements over the course of the year.
It's not top priority, but we'll keep doing what we can to make sure npm saves
its users as much time as possible.
Hang on to your seats. At 100 commits, this release is a bit of a doozy. 😎
FEATURES
Semver-minor releases, of course, mean that there's a new feature somewhere, right? Here's what's bumping that number for us this time:
a09c1a69d
#16687 Allow customizing the shell used to executerun-script
s. (@mmkal)4f45ba222
a48958598
901bef0e1
#17508 Add a newrequires
field topackage-lock.json
with information about the logical dependency tree. This includes references to the specific version each package is intended to see, and can be used for many things, such as convertingpackage-lock.json
to other lockfile formats, various optimizations, and verifying correctness of a package tree. (@iarna)47e8fc8eb
#17508 Makenpm ls
take package locks (and shrinkwraps) into account. This meansnpm ls
can now be used to see which dependencies are missing, so long as a package lock has been previously generated with it in. (@iarna)f0075e7ca
#17508 Takepackage.json
changes into account when running installs -- if you remove or add a dependency topackage.json
manually, npm will now pick that up and update your tree and package lock accordingly. (@iarna)83a5455aa
#17205 Addnpm udpate
as an alias fornpm update
, for symmetry withinstall
/isntall
. (@gdassori)57225d394
#17120 npm will no longer warn aboutpreferGlobal
, and the option is now deprecated. (@zkat)82df7bb16
#17351 As some of you may already knownpm build
doesn't do what a lot of people expect: It's mainly an npm plumbing command, and is part of the more familiarnpm rebuild
command. That said, a lot of users assume that this is the way to run an npmrun-script
namedbuild
, which is an incredibly common script name to use. To clarify things for users, and encourage them to usenpm run build
instead, npm will now warn ifnpm build
is run without any arguments. (@lennym)
PERFORMANCE
59f86ef90
43be9d222
e906cdd98
#16633 npm now parallelizes tarball extraction across multiple child process workers. This can significantly speed up installations, specially when installing from cache, and will improve with number of processors. (@zkat)e0849878d
#17441 Avoid building environment for empty lifecycle scripts. This change alone accounted for as much as a 15% speed boost for npm installations by outright skipping entire steps of the installer when not needed. (@mikesherov)265c2544c
npm/hosted-git-info#24hosted-git-info@2.5.0
: Add caching tofromURL
, which gets called many, many times by the installer. This improved installation performance by around 10% on realistic application repositories. (@mikesherov)901d26cb
npm/read-package-json#20read-package-json@2.0.9
: Speed up installs by as much as 20% by reintroducing a previously-removed cache and making it actually be correct this time around. (@mikesherov)44e37045d
EliminateBluebird.promisifyAll
from our codebase. (@iarna)3b4681b53
#17508 Stop callingaddBundle
on locked deps, speeding up thepackage-lock.json
-based fast path. (@iarna)
BUGFIXES
- #17508
This is a big PR that fixes a variety of issues when installing from package
locks. If you were previously having issues with missing dependencies or
unwanted removals, this might have fixed it:
- It introduces a new
package-lock.json
field, calledrequires
, which tracks which modules a given module requires. - It fixes #16839 which was caused by not having this information available, particularly when git dependencies were involved.
- It fixes #16866, allowing the
package.json
to trump thepackage-lock.json
. npm ls
now loads the shrinkwrap, which opens the door to showing a full tree of dependencies even when nothing is yet installed. (It doesn't do that yet though.) (@iarna)
- It introduces a new
656544c31
d21ab57c3
#16637 Fix some cases wherenpm prune
was leaving some dependencies unpruned if to-be-pruned dependencies depended on them. (@exogen)394436b09
#17552 Makerefresh-package-json
re-verify the package platform. This fixes an issue most notably experienced by Windows users usingcreate-react-app
wherefsevents
would not short-circuit and cause a crash during its otherwise-skipped native build phase. (@zkat)9e5a94354
#17590 Fix an issue wherenpm@5
would crash when trying to remove packages installed withnpm@<5
. (@iarna)c3b586aaf
#17141 Don't update the package.json when modifying packages that don't go there. This was previously causingpackage.json
to get a"false": {}
field added. (@iarna)d04a23de2
4a5b360d5
d9e53db48
pacote@2.7.38
:- zkat/pacote#102 Fix issue with tar extraction and special characters.
- Enable loose semver parsing in some missing corner cases. (@colinrotherham, @zkat, @mcibique)
e2f815f87
#17104 Write an empty str and wait for flush to exit to reduce issues with npm exiting before all output is complete when it's a child process. (@zkat)835fcec60
#17060 Make git repos with prepare scripts always install with both dev and prod flags. (@intellix)f1dc8a175
#16879 Fix support foralways-auth
and_auth
. They are now both available in both unscoped and registry-scoped configurations. (@jozemlakar)ddd8a1ca2
Serialize package specs to prevent[object Object]
showing up in logs during extraction. (@zkat)99ef3b52c
#17505 Stop trying to commit updatednpm-shrinkwrap.json
andpackage-lock.json
if they're.gitignore
d. (@zkat)58be2ec59
Make sure uid and gid are getting correctly set even when they're0
. This should fix some Docker-related issues with bad permissions/broken ownership. (@rgrove) (@zkat)9d1e3b6fa
#17506 Skip writing package.json and locks if on-disk version is identical to the new one. (@zkat)3fc6477a8
#17592 Fix an issue wherenpm install -g .
on a package with noname
field would cause the entire globalnode_modules
directory to be replaced with a symlink to$CWD
. lol. (@iarna)06ba0a14a
#17591 Fix spurious removal reporting: if you tried to remove something that didn't actually exist, npm would tell you it removed 1 package even though there was nothing to do. (@iarna)20ff05f8
#17629 When removing a link, keep dependencies installed inside of it instead of removing them, if the link is outside the scope of the current project. This fixes an issue where removing globally-linked packages would remove all their dependencies in the source directory, as well as some ergonomic issues when using links in other situations. (@iarna)
DOCS
fd5fab595
#16441 Add spec fornpm-shrinkwrap.json
andpackage-lock.json
from RFC. (@iarna)9589c1ccb
#17451 Fix typo in changelog. (@watilde)f8e76d856
#17370 Correct the default prefix config path for Windows operating systems in the documentation for npm folders. (@kierendixon)d0f3b5a12
#17369 Fixnpm-config
reference touserconfig
&globalconfig
environment variables. (@racztiborzoltan)87629880a
#17336 Remove note in docs aboutprepublish
being entirely removed. (@Hirse)a1058afd9
#17169 Document--no-package-lock
flag. (@leggsimon)32fc6e41a
#17250 Fix a typo in the shrinkwrap docs. (@Zarel)f19bd3c8c
#17249 Fix a package-lock.json cross-reference link. (@not-an-aardvark)153245edc
#17075 Fix a typo innpm-config
docs. (@KennethKinLum)c9b534a14
#17074 Clarify config documention with multiple boolean flags. (@KennethKinLum)e111b0a40
#16768 Document the-l
option tonpm config list
. (@happylynx)5a803ebad
#16548 Fix permissions for documentation files. Some of them had+x
set. (???) (@metux)d57d4f48c
#17319 Document that the--silent
option fornpm run-script
can be used to suppressnpm ERR!
output on errors. (@styfle)
MISC
Not all contributions need to be visible features, docs, or bugfixes! It's super helpful when community members go over our code and help clean it up, too!
9e5b76140
#17411 Convert all callback-stylemove
usage to use Promises. (@vramana)0711c08f7
#17394 Remove unused argument indeepSortObject
. (@vramana)7d650048c
#17563 Refactor some code to useObject.assign
. (@vramana)993f673f0
#17600 Remove an old comment. (@vramana)
v5.0.4 (2017-06-13):
Hey y'all. This is another minor patch release with a variety of little fixes we've been accumulating~
f0a37ace9
Fixnpm doctor
when hitting registries withoutping
. (@zkat)64f0105e8
Fix invalid format error when setting cache-related headers. (@zkat)d2969c80e
Fix spuriousEINTEGRITY
issue. (@zkat)800cb2b4e
#17076 Use legacyfrom
field to improve upgrade experience from legacy shrinkwraps and installs. (@zkat)4100d47ea
#17007 Restore loose semver parsing to match older npm behavior when running into invalid semver ranges in dependencies. (@zkat)35316cce2
#17005 Emulate npm@4's behavior of simply marking the peerDep as invalid, instead of crashing. (@zkat)e7e8ee5c5
#16937 Workaround for separate bug whererequested
was somehow null. (@forivall)2d9629bb2
Better logging output for git errors. (@zkat)2235aea73
More scp-url fixes: parsing only worked correctly when a committish was present. (@zkat)80c33cf5e
Standardize package permissions on tarball extraction, instead of using perms from the tarball. This matches previous npm behavior and fixes a number of incompatibilities in the wild. (@zkat)2b1e40efb
Limit shallow cloning to hosts which are known to support it. (@zkat)
v5.0.3 (2017-06-05)
Happy Monday, y'all! We've got another npm release for you with the fruits of
our ongoing bugsquashing efforts. You can expect at least one more this week,
but probably more -- and as we announced last week, we'll be merging fixes more
rapidly into the npmc
canary so you can get everything as soon as possible!
Hope y'all are enjoying npm5 in the meantime, and don't hesitate to file issues for anything you find! The goal is to get this release rock-solid as soon as we can. 💚
6e12a5cc0
Bump several dependencies to get improvements and bugfixes:cacache
: content files (the tarballs) are now read-only.pacote
: fix failing clones with bad heads, send extra TLS-related opts to proxy, enable global auth configurations and_auth
-based auth.ssri
: stop crashing withcan't call method find of undefined
when running into a weirdopts.integrity
/opts.algorithms
conflict during verification. (@zkat)
89cc8e3e1
#16917 Sendca
,cert
andkey
config through to network layer. (@colinrotherham)6a9b51c67
#16929 Sendnpm-session
header value with registry requests again. (@zarenner)662a15ab7
Fixnpm doctor
so it stop complaining about read-only content files in the cache. (@zkat)191d10a66
#16918 Clarify prepublish deprecation message. (@Hirse)
v5.0.2 (2017-06-02)
Here's another patch release, soon after the other!
This particular release includes a slew of fixes to npm's git support, which was causing some issues for a chunk of people, specially those who were using self-hosted/Enterprise repos. All of those should be back in working condition now.
There's another shiny thing you might wanna know about: npm has a Canary release
now! The npm5
experiment we did during our beta proved to be incredibly
successful: users were able to have a tight feedback loop between reports and
getting the bugfixes they needed, and the CLI team was able to roll out
experimental patches and have the community try them out right away. So we want
to keep doing that.
From now on, you'll be able to install the 'npm canary' with npm i -g npmc
.
This release will be a separate binary (npmc
. Because canary. Get it?), which
will update independently of the main CLI. Most of the time, this will track
release-next
or something close to it. We might occasionally toss experimental
branches in there to see if our more adventurous users run into anything
interesting with it. For example, the current canary (npmc@5.0.1-canary.6
)
includes an experimental multiproc
branch that parallelizes tarball
extraction across multiple processes.
If you find any issues while running the canary version, please report them and
let us know it came from npmc
! It would be tremendously helpful, and finding
things early is a huge reason to have it there. Happy hacking!
A NOTE ABOUT THE ISSUE TRACKER
Just a heads up: We're preparing to do a massive cleanup of the issue tracker. It's been a long time since it was something we could really keep up with, and we didn't have a process for dealing with it that could actually be sustainable.
We're still sussing the details out, and we'll talk about it more when we're about to do it, but the plan is essentially to close old, abandoned issues and start over. We will also add some automation around issue management so that things that we can't keep up with don't just stay around forever.
Stay tuned!
GIT YOLO
1f26e9567
pacote@2.7.27
: Fixes installing committishes that look like semver, even though they're not using the required#semver:
syntax. (@zkat)85ea1e0b9
npm-package-arg@5.1.1
: This includes the npa git-parsing patch to make it so non-hosted SCP-style identifiers are correctly handled. Previously, npa would mangle them (even though hosted-git-info is doing the right thing for them). (@zkat)
COOL NEW OUTPUT
The new summary output has been really well received! One downside that reared
its head as more people used it, though, is that it doesn't really tell you
anything about the toplevel versions it installed. So, if you did npm i -g foo
, it would just say "added 1 package". This patch by
@rmg keeps things concise while still telling you
what you got! So now, you'll see something like this:
$ npm i -g foo bar
+ foo@1.2.3
+ bar@3.2.1
added 234 packages in .005ms
362f9fd5b
#16899 For every package that is given as an argument to install, print the name and version that was actually installed. (@rmg)
OTHER BUGFIXES
a47593a98
#16835 Fix a crash while installing with--no-shrinkwrap
. (@jacknagel)
DOC UPATES
89e0cb816
#16818 Fixes a spelling error in the docs. Because the CLI team has trouble spelling "package", I guess. (@ankon)c01fbc46e
#16895 Remove--save
fromnpm init
instructions, since it's now the default. (@jhwohlgemuth)80c42d218
Guard against cycles when inflating bundles, as symlinks are bundles now. (@iarna)7fe7f8665
#16674 Write the builtin config fornpmc
, not justnpm
. This is hardcoded for npm self-installations and is needed for Canary to work right. (@zkat)
DEP UPDATES
63df4fcdd
#16894node-gyp@3.6.2
: Fixes an issue parsing SDK versions on Windows, among other things. (@refack)5bb15c3c4
read-package-tree@5.1.6
: Fixes some racyness while reading the tree. (@iarna)a6f7a52e7
aproba@1.1.2
: Remove nested function declaration for speed up (@mikesherov)
v5.0.1 (2017-05-31):
Hey y'all! Hope you're enjoying the new npm!
As you all know, fresh software that's gone through major overhauls tends to
miss a lot of spots the old one used to handle well enough, and npm@5
is no
exception. The CLI team will be doing faster release cycles that go directly to
the latest
tag for a couple of weeks while 5 stabilizes a bit and we're
confident the common low-hanging fruit people are running into are all taken
care of.
With that said: this is our first patch release! The biggest focus is fixing up a number of git-related issues that folks ran into right out the door. It also fixes other things, like some proxy/auth-related issues, and even has a neat speed boost! (You can expect more speed bumps in the coming releases as pending work starts landing, too!)
Thanks everyone who's been reporting issues and submitting patches!
BUGFIXES
e61e68dac
#16762 Makenpm publish
obey the--tag
flag again. (@zkat)923fd58d3
#16749 Speed up installations by nearly 20% by... removing one line of code. (hah) (@mikesherov)9aac984cb
Guard against a particular failure mode for a bug still being hunted down. (@iarna)80ab521f1
Pull in dependency updates for various core deps:- New
pacote
fixes several git-related bugs. ssri
update fixes crash on early node@4 versions.make-fetch-happen
update fixes proxy authentication issue.npm-user-validate
adds regex for blocking usernames with illegal chars. (@zkat)
- New
7e5ce87b8
pacote@2.7.26
: Fixes various other git issues related to commit hashes. (@zkat)acbe85bfc
#16791npm view
was callingcb
prematurely and giving partial output when called in a child process. (@zkat)ebafe48af
#16750 Hamilpatch the Musical: Talk less, complete more. (@aredridel)
DOCUMENTATION
dc2823a6c
#16799 Document thatpackage-lock.json
is never allowed in tarballs. (@sonicdoe)f3cb84b44
#16771 Fixnpm -l
usage information for thetest
command. (@grawlinson)
OTHER CHANGES
661262309
#16756 remove unused argument (@Aladdin-ADD)c3e0b4287
#16296 preserve same name convention for command (@desfero)9f814831d
#16757 remove unused argument (@Aladdin-ADD)3cb843239
minor linter fix (@zkat)
v5.0.0 (2017-05-25)
Wowowowowow npm@5!
This release marks months of hard work for the young, scrappy, and hungry CLI team, and includes some changes we've been hoping to do for literally years. npm@5 takes npm a pretty big step forward, significantly improving its performance in almost all common situations, fixing a bunch of old errors due to the architecture, and just generally making it more robust and fault-tolerant. It comes with changes to make life easier for people doing monorepos, for users who want consistency/security guarantees, and brings semver support to git dependencies. See below for all the deets!
Breaking Changes
-
Existing npm caches will no longer be used: you will have to redownload any cached packages. There is no tool or intention to reuse old caches. (#15666)
-
npm install ./packages/subdir
will now create a symlink instead of a regular installation.file://path/to/tarball.tgz
will not change -- only directories are symlinked. (#15900) -
npm will now scold you if you capitalize its name. seriously it will fight you.
-
npm will
--save
by default now. Additionally,package-lock.json
will be automatically created unless annpm-shrinkwrap.json
exists. (#15666) -
Git dependencies support semver through
user/repo#semver:^1.2.3
(#15308) (#15666) (@sankethkatta) -
Git dependencies with
prepare
scripts will have theirdevDependencies
installed, andnpm install
run in their directory before being packed. -
npm cache
commands have been rewritten and don't really work anything like they did before. (#15666) -
--cache-min
and--cache-max
have been deprecated. (#15666) -
Running npm while offline will no longer insist on retrying network requests. npm will now immediately fall back to cache if possible, or fail. (#15666)
-
package locks no longer exclude
optionalDependencies
that failed to build. This means package-lock.json and npm-shrinkwrap.json should now be cross-platform. (#15900) -
If you generated your package lock against registry A, and you switch to registry B, npm will now try to install the packages from registry B, instead of A. If you want to use different registries for different packages, use scope-specific registries (
npm config set @myscope:registry=https://myownregist.ry/packages/
). Different registries for different unscoped packages are not supported anymore. -
Shrinkwrap and package-lock no longer warn and exit without saving the lockfile.
-
Local tarballs can now only be installed if they have a file extensions
.tar
,.tar.gz
, or.tgz
. -
A new loglevel,
notice
, has been added and set as default. -
One binary to rule them all:
./cli.js
has been removed in favor of./bin/npm-cli.js
. In case you were doing something with./cli.js
itself. (#12096) (@watilde) -
The "extremely legacy"
_token
couchToken has been removed. (#12986)
Feature Summary
Installer changes
-
A new, standardised lockfile feature meant for cross-package-manager compatibility (
package-lock.json
), and a new format and semantics for shrinkwrap. (#16441) -
--save
is no longer necessary. All installs will be saved by default. You can prevent saving with--no-save
. Installing optional and dev deps is unchanged: use-D/--save-dev
and-O/--save-optional
if you want them saved into those fields instead. Note that since npm@3, npm will automatically update npm-shrinkwrap.json when you save: this will also be true forpackage-lock.json
. (#15666) -
Installing a package directory now ends up creating a symlink and does the Right Thing™ as far as saving to and installing from the package lock goes. If you have a monorepo, this might make things much easier to work with, and probably a lot faster too. 😁 (#15900)
-
Project-level (toplevel)
preinstall
scripts now run before anything else, and can modifynode_modules
before the CLI reads it. -
Two new scripts have been added,
prepack
andpostpack
, which will run on bothnpm pack
andnpm publish
, but NOT onnpm install
(without arguments). Combined with the fact thatprepublishOnly
is run before the tarball is generated, this should round out the general story as far as putzing around with your code before publication. -
Git dependencies with
prepare
scripts will now have their devDependencies installed, and their prepare script executed as if undernpm pack
. -
Git dependencies now support semver-based matching:
npm install git://github.com/npm/npm#semver:^5
(#15308, #15666) -
node-gyp
now supportsnode-gyp.cmd
on Windows (#14568) -
npm no longer blasts your screen with the whole installed tree. Instead, you'll see a summary report of the install that is much kinder on your shell real-estate. Specially for large projects. (#15914):
$ npm install
npm added 125, removed 32, updated 148 and moved 5 packages in 5.032s.
$
-
--parseable
and--json
now work more consistently across various commands, particularlyinstall
andls
. -
Indentation is now detected and preserved for
package.json
,package-lock.json
, andnpm-shrinkwrap.json
. If the package lock is missing, it will default topackage.json
's current indentation.
Publishing
- New publishes will now include both
sha512
andsha1
checksums. Versions of npm from 5 onwards will use the strongest algorithm available to verify downloads. npm/npm-registry-client#157
Cache Rewrite!
We've been talking about rewriting the cache for a loooong time. So here it is. Lots of exciting stuff ahead. The rewrite will also enable some exciting future features, but we'll talk about those when they're actually in the works. #15666 is the main PR for all these changes. Additional PRs/commits are linked inline.
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Package metadata, package download, and caching infrastructure replaced.
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It's a bit faster. Hopefully it will be noticeable. 🤔
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With the shrinkwrap and package-lock changes, tarballs will be looked up in the cache by content address (and verified with it).
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Corrupted cache entries will automatically be removed and re-fetched on integrity check failure.
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npm CLI now supports tarball hashes with any hash function supported by Node.js. That is, it will use
sha512
for tarballs from registries that send asha512
checksum as the tarball hash. Publishing withsha512
is added by npm/npm-registry-client#157 and may be backfilled by the registry for older entries. -
Remote tarball requests are now cached. This means that even if you're missing the
integrity
field in your shrinkwrap or package-lock, npm will be able to install from the cache. -
Downloads for large packages are streamed in and out of disk. npm is now able to install packages of """any""" size without running out of memory. Support for publishing them is pending (due to registry limitations).
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Automatic fallback-to-offline mode. npm will seamlessly use your cache if you are offline, or if you lose access to a particular registry (for example, if you can no longer access a private npm repo, or if your git host is unavailable).
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A new
--prefer-offline
option will make npm skip any conditional requests (304 checks) for stale cache data, and only hit the network if something is missing from the cache. -
A new
--prefer-online
option that will force npm to revalidate cached data (with 304 checks), ignoring any staleness checks, and refreshing the cache with revalidated, fresh data. -
A new
--offline
option will force npm to use the cache or exit. It will error with anENOTCACHED
code if anything it tries to install isn't already in the cache. -
A new
npm cache verify
command that will garbage collect your cache, reducing disk usage for things you don't need (-handwave-), and will do full integrity verification on both the index and the content. This is also hooked intonpm doctor
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The new cache is very fault tolerant and supports concurrent access.
- Multiple npm processes will not corrupt a shared cache.
- Corrupted data will not be installed. Data is checked on both insertion and extraction, and treated as if it were missing if found to be corrupted. I will literally bake you a cookie if you manage to corrupt the cache in such a way that you end up with the wrong data in your installation (installer bugs notwithstanding).
npm cache clear
is no longer useful for anything except clearing up disk space.
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Package metadata is cached separately per registry and package type: you can't have package name conflicts between locally-installed packages, private repo packages, and public repo packages. Identical tarball data will still be shared/deduplicated as long as their hashes match.
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HTTP cache-related headers and features are "fully" (lol) supported for both metadata and tarball requests -- if you have your own registry, you can define your own cache settings the CLI will obey!
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prepublishOnly
now runs before the tarball to publish is created, afterprepare
has run.