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v2.11.3 (2015-06-11):

This was a very quiet week. This release was done by @iarna, while the rest of the team hangs out at NodeConf Adventure!

TESTS IN 0.8 FAIL LESS

THE TREADMILL OF UPDATES NEVER CEASES

v2.11.2 (2015-06-04):

Another small release this week, brought to you by the latest addition to the CLI team, @zkat (Hi, all!)

Mostly small documentation tweaks and version updates. Oh! And npm outdated is actually sorted now. Rejoice!

It's gonna be a while before we get another palindromic version number. Enjoy it while it lasts. :3

QUALITY OF LIFE HAS NEVER BEEN BETTER

  • 31aada4 #8401 npm outdated output is just that much nicer to consume now, due to sorting by name. (@watilde)
  • 458a919 #8469 Explicitly set cwd for preversion, version, and postversion scripts. This makes the scripts findable relative to the root dir. (@alexkwolfe)
  • 55d6d71 Ensure package name and version are included in display during npm version lifecycle execution. Gets rid of those little undefineds in the console. (@othiym23)

WORDS HAVE NEVER BEEN QUITE THIS READABLE

  • 3901e49 #8462 English apparently requires correspondence between indefinite articles and attached nouns. (@Enet4)
  • 5a744e4 #8421 The effect of npm prune's --production flag and how to use it have been documented a bit better. (@foiseworth)
  • eada625 We've updated our .mailmap and AUTHORS files to make sure credit is given where credit is due. (@othiym23)

VERSION NUMBERS HAVE NEVER BEEN BIGGER

  • c929fd1 readable-stream@1.1.13: Manually deduped v1.1.13 (streams3) to make deduping more reliable on npm@<3. (@othiym23)
  • a9b4b78 request@2.57.0: Replace dependency on IncomingMessage's .client with .socket as the former was deprecated in io.js 2.2.0. (@othiym23)
  • 4b5e557 abbrev@1.0.7: Better testing, with coverage. (@othiym23)
  • 561affe semver@4.3.6: .npmignore added for less cruft, and better testing, with coverage. (@othiym23)
  • 60aef3c graceful-fs@3.0.8: io.js fixes. (@zkat)
  • f8bd453 config-chain@1.1.9: Added MIT license to package.json (@zkat)

v2.11.1 (2015-05-28):

This release brought to you from poolside at the Omni Amelia Island Resort and JSConf 2015, which is why it's so tiny.

CONFERENCE WIFI CAN'T STOP THESE BUG FIXES

  • cf109a6 #8381 Documented a subtle gotcha with .npmrc, which is that it needs to have its permissions set such that only the owner can read or write the file. (@colakong)
  • 180da67 #8365 Git 2.3 adds support for GIT_SSH_COMMAND, which allows you to pass an explicit git command (with, for example, a specific identity passed in on the command line). (@nmalaguti)

MY (VIRGIN) PINA COLADA IS GETTING LOW, BETTER UPGRADE THESE DEPENDENCIES

  • b72de41 node-gyp@2.0.0: Use a newer version of gyp, and generally improve support for Visual Studios and Windows. (@TooTallNate)
  • 8edbe21 node-gyp@2.0.1: Don't crash when Python's version doesn't parse as valid semver. (@TooTallNate)
  • ba0e0a8 glob@5.0.10: Add coverage to tests. (@isaacs)
  • 7333701 request@2.56.0: Bug fixes and dependency upgrades. (@simov)

v2.11.0 (2015-05-21):

For the first time in a very long time, we've added new events to the life cycle used by npm run-script. Since running npm version (major|minor|patch) is typically the last thing many developers do before publishing their updated packages, it makes sense to add life cycle hooks to run tests or otherwise preflight the package before doing a full publish. Thanks, as always, to the indefatigable @watilde for yet another great usability improvement for npm!

FEATURELETS

  • b07f7c7 #7906 Add new scripts to allow you to run scripts before and after the npm version command has run. This makes it easy to, for instance, require that your test suite passes before bumping the version by just adding "preversion": "npm test" to the scripts section of your package.json. (@watilde)
  • 8a46136 #8185 When we get a "not found" error from the registry, we'll now check to see if the package name you specified is invalid and if so, give you a better error message. (@thefourtheye)

BUG FIXES

  • 9bcf573 #8324 On Windows, when you've configured a custom node-gyp, run it with node itself instead of using the default open action (which is almost never what you want). (@bangbang93)
  • 1da9b04 #7195 #7260 npm-registry-client@6.4.0: (Re-)allow publication of existing mixed-case packages (part 1). (@smikes)
  • e926783 #7195 #7260 normalize-package-data@2.2.0: (Re-)allow publication of existing mixed-case packages (part 2). (@smikes)

DOCUMENTATION IMPROVEMENTS

DEPENDENCY UPDATES! ALWAYS AND FOREVER!

  • fc52160 #4700 #5044 init-package-json@1.6.0: Make entering an invalid version while running npm init give you an immediate error and prompt you to correct it. (@watilde)
  • 738853e #7763 fs-write-stream-atomic@1.0.3: Fix a bug where errors would not propagate, making error messages unhelpful. (@iarna)
  • 6d74a2d npm-package-arg@4.0.1: Fix tests on windows (@Bacra) and with more recent hosted-git-info. (@iarna)
  • 50f7178 hosted-git-info@2.1.4: Correct spelling in its documentation. (@iarna)
  • d7956ca glob@5.0.7: Fix a bug where unusual error conditions could make further use of the module fail. (@isaacs)
  • 44f7d74 tap@1.1.0: Update to the most recent tap to get a whole host of bug fixes and integration with coveralls. (@isaacs)
  • c21e8a8 nock@2.2.0 (@othiym23)

LICENSE FILES FOR THE LICENSE GOD

SPDX LICENSE UPDATES

v2.10.1 (2015-05-14):

BUG FIXES & DOCUMENTATION TWEAKS

  • dc77520 When getting back a 404 from a request to a private registry that uses a registry path that extends past the root (http://registry.enterprise.co/path/to/registry), display the name of the nonexistent package, rather than the first element in the registry API path. Sorry, Artifactory users! (@hayes)
  • f70dea9 Make clearer that --registry can be used on a per-publish basis to push a package to a non-default registry. (@mischkl)
  • a3e26f5 Did you know that GitHub shortcuts can have commit-ishes included (org/repo#branch)? They can! (@iarna)
  • 0e2c091 Some errors from readPackage were being swallowed, potentially leading to invalid package trees on disk. (@smikes)

DEPENDENCY UPDATES! STILL! MORE! AGAIN!

  • 0b901ad lru-cache@2.6.3: Removed some cruft from the published package. (@isaacs)
  • d713e0b mkdirp@0.5.1: Made compliant with standard, dropped support for Node 0.6, added (Travis) support for Node 0.12 and io.js. (@isaacs)
  • a2d6578 glob@1.0.3: Updated to use tap@1. (@isaacs)
  • 64cd1a5 fstream@ 1.0.6: Made compliant with standard (done by @othiym23, and then debugged and fixed by @iarna), and license changed to ISC. (@othiym23 / @iarna)
  • b527a7c which@1.1.1: Callers can pass in their own PATH instead of relying on process.env. (@isaacs)

v2.10.0 (2015-05-8):

THE IMPLICATIONS ARE MORE PROFOUND THAN THEY APPEAR

If you've done much development in The Enterprise®™, you know that keeping track of software licenses is far more important than one might expect / hope / fear. Tracking licenses is a hassle, and while many (if not most) of us have (reluctantly) gotten around to setting a license to use by default with all our new projects (even if it's just WTFPL), that's about as far as most of us think about it. In big enterprise shops, ensuring that projects don't inadvertently use software with unacceptably encumbered licenses is serious business, and developers spend a surprising (and appalling) amount of time ensuring that licensing is covered by writing automated checkers and other license auditing tools.

The Linux Foundation has been working on a machine-parseable syntax for license expressions in the form of SPDX, an appropriately enterprisey acronym. IP attorney and JavaScript culture hero Kyle Mitchell has put a considerable amount of effort into bringing SPDX to JavaScript and Node. He's written spdx.js, a JavaScript SPDX expression parser, and has integrated it into npm in a few different ways.

For you as a user of npm, this means:

  • npm now has proper support for dual licensing in package.json, due to SPDX's compound expression syntax. Run npm help package.json for details.
  • npm will warn you if the package.json for your project is either missing a "license" field, or if the value of that field isn't a valid SPDX expression (pro tip: "BSD" becomes "BSD-2-Clause" in SPDX (unless you really want one of its variants); "MIT" and "ISC" are fine as-is; the full list is its own package).
  • npm init now demands that you use a valid SPDX expression when using it interactively (pro tip: I mostly use npm init -y, having previously run npm config set init.license=MIT / npm config set init.author.email=foo / npm config set init.author.name=me).
  • The documentation for package.json has been updated to tell you how to use the "license" field properly with SPDX.

In general, this shouldn't be a big deal for anybody other than people trying to run their own automated license validators, but in the long run, if everybody switches to this format, many people's lives will be made much simpler. I think this is an important improvement for npm and am very thankful to Kyle for taking the lead on this. Also, even if you think all of this is completely stupid, just choose a license anyway. Future you will thank past you someday, unless you are djb, in which case you are djb, and more power to you.

  • 8669f7d #8179 Document how to use SPDX in license stanzas in package.json, including how to migrate from old busted license declaration arrays to fancy new compound-license clauses. (@kemitchell)
  • 98ad98c #8197 init-package-json@1.5.0 Ensure that packages bootstrapped with npm init use an SPDX-compliant license expression. (@kemitchell)
  • 2ad3905 #8197 normalize-package-data@2.1.0: Warn when a package is missing a license declaration, or using a license expression that isn't valid SPDX. (@kemitchell)
  • 127bb73 #8197 tar@2.1.1: Switch from BSD to ISC for license, where the latter is valid SPDX. (@othiym23)
  • e9a933a #8197 once@1.3.2: Switch from BSD to ISC for license, where the latter is valid SPDX. (@othiym23)
  • 412401f #8197 semver@4.3.4: Switch from BSD to ISC for license, where the latter is valid SPDX. (@othiym23)

As a corollary to the previous changes, I've put some work into making npm install spew out fewer pointless warnings about missing values in transitive dependencies. From now on, npm will only warn you about missing READMEs, license fields, and the like for top-level projects (including packages you directly install into your application, but we may relax that eventually).

Practically nobody liked having those warnings displayed for child dependencies, for the simple reason that there was very little that anybody could do about those warnings, unless they happened to be the maintainers of those dependencies themselves. Since many, many projects don't have SPDX-compliant licenses, the number of warnings reached a level where they ran the risk of turning into a block of visual noise that developers (read: me, and probably you) would ignore forever.

So I fixed it. If you still want to see the messages about child dependencies, they're still there, but have been pushed down a logging level to info. You can display them by running npm install -d or npm install --loglevel=info.

  • eb18245 Only warn on normalization errors for top-level dependencies. Transitive dependency validation warnings are logged at info level. (@othiym23)

BUG FIXES

  • e40e809 tap@1.0.1: TAP: The Next Generation. Fix up many tests to they work properly with the new major version of node-tap. Look at all the colors! (@isaacs)
  • f9314e9 nock@1.9.0: Minor tweaks and bug fixes. (@pgte)
  • 45c2b1a #8187 npm ls wasn't properly recognizing dependencies installed from GitHub repositories as git dependencies, and so wasn't displaying them as such. (@zornme)
  • 1ab57c3 In some cases, npm help was using something that looked like a regular expression where a glob pattern should be used, and vice versa. (@isaacs)

v2.9.1 (2015-04-30):

WOW! MORE GIT FIXES! YOU LOVE THOSE!

The first item below is actually a pretty big deal, as it fixes (with a one-word change and a much, much longer test case (thanks again, @iarna)) a regression that's been around for months now. If you're depending on multiple branches of a single git dependency in a single project, you probably want to check out npm@2.9.1 and verify that things (again?) work correctly in your project.

  • 178a6ad #7202 When caching git dependencies, do so by the whole URL, including the branch name, so that if a single application depends on multiple branches from the same repository (in practice, multiple version tags), every install is of the correct version, instead of reusing whichever branch the caching process happened to check out first. (@iarna)
  • 63b79cc #8084 Ensure that Bitbucket, GitHub, and Gitlab dependencies are installed the same way as non-hosted git dependencies, fixing npm install --link. (@laiso)

DOCUMENTATION FIXES AND TWEAKS

These changes may seem simple and small (except Lin's fix to the package name restrictions, which was more an egregious oversight on our part), but cleaner documentation makes npm significantly more pleasant to use. I really appreciate all the typo fixes, clarifications, and formatting tweaks people send us, and am delighted that we get so many of these pull requests. Thanks, everybody!

  • ca478dc #8137 Somehow, we had failed to clearly document the full restrictions on package names. @linclark has now fixed that, although we will take with us to our graves the reasons why the maximum package name length is 214 characters (well, OK, it was that that was the longest name in the registry when we decided to put a cap on the name length). (@linclark)
  • b574076 #8079 Make the npm shrinkwrap documentation use code formatting for examples consistently. It would be great to do this for more commands HINT HINT. (@RichardLitt)
  • 1ff636e #8105 Document that the global npmrc goes in $PREFIX/etc/npmrc, instead of $PREFIX/npmrc. (@anttti)
  • c3f2f7c #8127 Document how to use npm run build directly (hint: it's different from npm build!). (@mikemaccana)
  • 873e467 #8069 Take the old, dead npm mailing list address out of package.json. It seems that people don't have much trouble figuring out how to report errors to npm. (@robertkowalski)

ENROBUSTIFICATIONMENT

  • 5abfc9c #7973 npm run-script completion will only suggest run scripts, instead of including dependencies. If for some reason you still wanted it to suggest dependencies, let us know. (@mantoni)
  • 4b564f0 #8081 Use osenv to parse the environment's PATH in a platform-neutral way. (@watilde)
  • a4b6238 #8094 When we refactored the configuration code to split out checking for IPv4 local addresses, we inadvertently completely broke it by failing to return the values. In addition, just the call to os.getInterfaces() could throw on systems where querying the network configuration requires elevated privileges (e.g. Amazon Lambda). Add the return, and trap errors so they don't cause npm to explode. Thanks to @mhart for bringing this to our attention! (@othiym23)

DEPENDENCY UPDATES WAIT FOR NO SOPHONT

  • 000cd8b rimraf@2.3.3: More informative assertions on argument validation failure. (@isaacs)
  • 530a2e3 lru-cache@2.6.2: Revert to old key access-time behavior, as it was correct all along. (@isaacs)
  • d88958c minimatch@2.0.7: Feature detection and test improvements. (@isaacs)
  • 3fa39e4 nock@1.7.1 (@pgte)

v2.9.0 (2015-04-23):

This week was kind of a breather to concentrate on fixing up the tests on the multi-stage branch, and not mess with git issues for a little while. Unfortunately, There are now enough severe git issues that we'll probably have to spend another couple weeks tackling them. In the meantime, enjoy these two small features. They're just enough to qualify for a semver-minor bump:

NANOFEATURES

  • 2799322 #7426 Include local modules in npm outdated and npm update. (@ArnaudRinquin)
  • 2114862 #8014 The prefix used before the version on version tags is now configurable via tag-version-prefix. Be careful with this one and read the docs before using it. (@kkragenbrink)

OTHER MINOR TWEAKS

  • 18ce0ec #3032 npm unpublish will now use the registry set in package.json, just like npm publish. This only applies, for now, when unpublishing the entire package, as unpublishing a single version requires the name be included on the command line and therefore doesn't read from package.json. (@watilde)
  • 9ad2100 #8008 Once again, when considering what to install on npm install, include devDependencies. (@smikes)
  • 5466260 #8003 Clarify the documentation around scopes to make it easier to understand how they support private packages. (@smikes)

DEPENDENCIES WILL NOT STOP UNTIL YOU ARE VERY SLEEPY

  • faf65a7 init-package-json@1.4.2: If there are multiple validation errors and warnings, ensure they all get displayed (includes a rad new way of testing init-package-json contributed by @michaelnisi). (@MisumiRize)
  • 7f10f38 editor@1.0.0: 1.0.0 is literally more than 0.1.0 (no change aside from version number). (@substack)
  • 4979af3 #6805 npm-registry-client@6.3.3: Decode scoped package names sent by the registry so they look nicer. (@mmalecki)

v2.8.4 (2015-04-16):

This is the fourth release of npm this week, so it's mostly just landing a few small outstanding PRs on dependencies and some tiny documentation tweaks. npm@2.8.3 is where the real action is.

  • ee2bd77 #7983 tar@2.1.0: Better error reporting in corrupted tar files, and add support for the fromBase flag (rescued from the dustbin of history by @deanmarano). (@othiym23)
  • d8eee6c init-package-json@1.4.1: Add support for a default author, and only add scope to a package name once. (@othiym23)
  • 4fc5d98 lru-cache@2.6.1: Small tweaks to cache value aging and entry counting that are irrelevant to npm. (@isaacs)
  • 1fe5840 #7946 Make npm init text friendlier. (@sandfox)

v2.8.3 (2015-04-15):

TWO SMALL GIT TWEAKS

This is the last of a set of releases intended to ensure npm's git support is robust enough that we can stop working on it for a while. These fixes are small, but prevent a common crasher and clear up one of the more confusing error messages coming out of npm when working with repositories hosted on git.

  • 387f889 #7961 Ensure that hosted git SSH URLs always have a valid protocol when stored in resolved fields in npm-shrinkwrap.json. (@othiym23)
  • 394c2f5 Switch the order in which hosted Git providers are checked to git:, git+https:, then git+ssh: (from git:, git+ssh:, then git+https:) in an effort to go from most to least likely to succeed, to make for less confusing error message. (@othiym23)

v2.8.2 (2015-04-14):

PEACE IN OUR TIME

npm has been having an issue with CouchDB's web server since the release of io.js and Node.js 0.12.0 that has consumed a huge amount of my time to little visible effect. Sam Mikes picked up the thread from me, and after a lot of effort figured out that ultimately there are probably a couple problems with the new HTTP Agent keep-alive handling in new versions of Node. In addition, npm-registry-client was gratuitously sending a body along with a GET request which was triggering the bugs. Sam removed about 10 bytes from one file in npm-registry-client, and this problem, which has been bugging us for months, completely went away.

In conclusion, Sam Mikes is great, and anybody using a private registry hosted on CouchDB should thank him for his hard work. Also, thanks to the community at large for pitching in on this bug, which has been around for months now.

  • 431c3bf #7699 npm-registry-client@6.3.2: Don't send body with HTTP GET requests when logging in. (@smikes)

v2.8.1 (2015-04-12):

CORRECTION: NPM'S GIT INTEGRATION IS DOING OKAY

A helpful bug report led to another round of changes to hosted-git-info, some additional test-writing, and a bunch of hands-on testing against actual private repositories. While the complexity of npm's git dependency handling is nearly fractal (because npm is very complex, and git is even more complex), it's feeling way more solid than it has for a while. We think this is a substantial improvement over what we had before, so give npm@2.8.1 a shot if you have particularly complex git use cases and let us know how it goes.

(NOTE: These changes mostly affect cloning and saving references to packages hosted in git repositories, and don't address some known issues with things like lifecycle scripts not being run on npm dependencies. Work continues on other issues that affect parity between git and npm registry packages.)

  • 66377c6 #7872 hosted-git-info@2.1.2: Pass through credentials embedded in SSH and HTTPs git URLs. (@othiym23)
  • 15efe12 #7872 Use the new version of hosted-git-info to pass along credentials embedded in git URLs. Test it. Test it a lot. (@othiym23)

SCOPED DEPENDENCIES AND PEER DEPENDENCIES: NOT QUITE REESE'S

Big thanks to @ewie for identifying an issue with how npm was handling peerDependencies that were implicitly installed from the package.json files of scoped dependencies. This will be a moot point with the release of npm@3, but until then, it's important that peerDependency auto-installation work as expected.

  • b027319 #7920 Scoped packages with peerDependencies were installing the peerDependencies into the wrong directory. (@ewie)
  • 649e31a #7920 Test peerDependency installs involving scoped packages using npm-package-arg instead of simple path tests, for consistency. (@othiym23)

MAKING IT EASIER TO WRITE NPM TESTS, VERSION 0.0.1

@iarna and I (@othiym23) have been discussing a candidate plan for improving npm's test suite, with the goal of making it easier for new contributors to get involved with npm by reducing the learning curve necessary to be able to write good tests for proposed changes. This is the first substantial piece of that effort. Here's what the commit message for ed7e249 had to say about this work:

It's too difficult for npm contributors to figure out what the conventional style is for tests. Part of the problem is that the documentation in CONTRIBUTING.md is inadequate, but another important factor is that the tests themselves are written in a variety of styles. One of the most notable examples of this is the fact that many tests use fixture directories to store precooked test scenarios and package.json files.

This had some negative consequences:

  • tests weren't idempotent
  • subtle dependencies between tests existed
  • new tests get written in this deprecated style because it's not obvious that the style is out of favor
  • it's hard to figure out why a lot of those directories existed, because they served a variety of purposes, so it was difficult to tell when it was safe to remove them

All in all, the fixture directories were a major source of technical debt, and cleaning them up, while time-consuming, makes the whole test suite much more approachable, and makes it more likely that new tests written by outside contributors will follow a conventional style. To support that, all of the tests touched by this changed were cleaned up to pass the standard style checker.

And here's a little extra context from a comment I left on #7929:

One of the other things that encouraged me was looking at this presentation on technical debt from Pycon 2015, especially slide 53, which I interpreted in terms of difficulty getting new contributors to submit patches to an OSS project like npm. npm has a long ways to go, but I feel good about this change.

THE EVER-BEATING DRUM OF DEPENDENCY UPDATES

  • d90d0b9 #7924 Remove child-process-close, as it was included for Node 0.6 compatibility, and npm no longer supports 0.6. (@robertkowalski)
  • 16427c1 lru-cache@2.5.2: More accurate updating of expiry times when maxAge is set. (@isaacs)
  • 03cce83 nock@1.6.0: Mocked network error handling. (@pgte)
  • f93b1f0 glob@5.0.5: Use path-is-absolute polyfill, allowing newer Node.js and io.js versions to use path.isAbsolute(). (@sindresorhus)
  • a70d694 request@2.55.0: Bug fixes and simplification. (@simov)
  • 2aecc6f columnify@1.5.1: Switch to using babel from 6to5. (@timoxley)

v2.8.0 (2015-04-09):

WE WILL NEVER BE DONE FIXING NPM'S GIT SUPPORT

If you look at the last release's release notes, you will note that they confidently assert that it's perfectly OK to force all GitHub URLs through the same git: -> git+ssh: fallback flow for cloning. It turns out that many users depend on git+https: URLs in their build environments because they use GitHub auth tokens instead of SSH keys. Also, in some cases you just want to be able to explicitly say how a given dependency should be cloned from GitHub.

Because of the way we resolved the inconsistency in GitHub shorthand handling before, this turned out to be difficult to work around. So instead of hacking around it, we completely redid how git is handled within npm and its attendant packages. Again. This time, we changed things so that normalize-package-data and read-package-json leave more of the git logic to npm itself, which makes handling shorthand syntax consistently much easier, and also allows users to resume using explicit, fully-qualified git URLs without npm messing with them.

Here's a summary of what's changed:

  • Instead of converting the GitHub shorthand syntax to a git+ssh:, git:, or git+https: URL and saving that, save the shorthand itself to package.json.
  • If presented with shortcuts, try cloning via the git protocol, SSH, and HTTPS (in that order).
  • No longer prompt for credentials -- it didn't work right with the spinner, and wasn't guaranteed to work anyway. We may experiment with doing this a better way in the future. Users can override this by setting GIT_ASKPASS in their environment if they want to experiment with interactive cloning, but should also set --no-spin on the npm command line (or run npm config set spin=false).
  • EXPERIMENTAL FEATURE: Add support for github:, gist:, bitbucket:, and gitlab: shorthand prefixes. GitHub shortcuts will continue to be normalized to org/repo instead of being saved as github:org/repo, but gitlab:, gist:, and bitbucket: prefixes will be used on the command line and from package.json. BE CAREFUL WITH THIS. package.json files published with the new shorthand syntax can only be read by npm@2.8.0 and later, and this feature is mostly meant for playing around with it. If you want to save git dependencies in a form that older versions of npm can read, use --save-exact, which will save the git URL and resolved commit hash of the head of the branch in a manner similar to the way that --save-exact pins versions for registry dependencies. This is documented (so check npm help install for details), but we're not going to make a lot of noise about it until it has a chance to bake in a little more.

It is @othiym23's sincere hope that this will resolve all of the inconsistencies users were seeing with GitHub and git-hosted packages, but given the level of change here, that may just be a fond wish. Extra testing of this change is requested.

  • 6b0f588 #7867 Use git shorthand and git URLs as presented by user. Support new hosted-git-info shortcut syntax. Save shorthand in package.json. Try cloning via git:, git+ssh:, and git+https:, in that order, when supported by the underlying hosting provider. (@othiym23)
  • 75d4267 #7867 Document new GitHub, GitHub gist, Bitbucket, and GitLab shorthand syntax. (@othiym23)
  • 7d92c75 #7867 When --save-exact is used with git shorthand or URLs, save the fully-resolved URL, with branch name resolved to the exact hash for the commit checked out. (@othiym23)
  • 9220e59 #7867 Ensure that non-prefixed and non-normalized GitHub shortcuts are saved to package.json. (@othiym23)
  • dd398e9 #7867 hosted-git-info@2.1.1: Ensure that gist: shorthand survives being round-tripped through package.json. (@othiym23)
  • 33d1420 #7867 hosted-git-info@2.1.0: Add support for auth embedded directly in git URLs. (@othiym23)
  • 23a1d5a #7867 hosted-git-info@2.0.2: Make it possible to determine in which form a hosted git URL was passed. (@iarna)
  • eaf75ac #7867 normalize-package-data@2.0.0: Normalize GitHub specifiers so they pass through shortcut syntax and preserve explicit URLs. (@iarna)
  • 95e0535 #7867 npm-package-arg@4.0.0: Add git URL and shortcut to hosted git spec and use hosted-git-info@2.0.2. (@iarna)
  • a808926 #7867 realize-package-specifier@3.0.0: Use npm-package-arg@4.0.0 and test shortcut specifier behavior. (@iarna)
  • 6dd1e03 #7867 init-package-json@1.4.0: Allow dependency on read-package-json@2.0.0. (@iarna)
  • 63254bb #7867 read-installed@4.0.0: Use read-package-json@2.0.0. (@iarna)
  • 254b887 #7867 read-package-json@2.0.0: Use normalize-package-data@2.0.0. (@iarna)
  • 0b9f8be #7867 npm-registry-client@6.3.0: Mark compatibility with normalize-package-data@2.0.0 and npm-package-arg@4.0.0. (@iarna)
  • f40ecaa #7867 Extract a common method to use when cloning git repos for testing. (@othiym23)

TEST FIXES FOR NODE 0.8

npm continues to get closer to being completely green on Travis for Node 0.8.

SMALL FIX AND DOC TWEAK

  • 20e9003 tar@2.0.1: Fix regression where relative symbolic links within an extraction root that pointed within an extraction root would get normalized to absolute symbolic links. (@isaacs)
  • 2ef8898 #7879 Better document that npm publish --tag=foo will not set latest to that version. (@linclark)

v2.7.6 (2015-04-02):

GIT MEAN, GIT TUFF, GIT ALL THE WAY AWAY FROM MY STUFF

Part of the reason that we're reluctant to take patches to how npm deals with git dependencies is that every time we touch the git support, something breaks. The last few releases are a case in point. npm@2.7.4 completely broke installing private modules from GitHub, and npm@2.7.5 fixed them at the cost of logging a misleading error message that caused many people to believe that their dependencies hadn't been successfully installed when they actually had been.

This all started from a desire to ensure that GitHub shortcut syntax is being handled correctly. The correct behavior is for npm to try to clone all dependencies on GitHub (whether they're specified with the GitHub organization/repository shortcut syntax or not) via the plain git: protocol first, and to fall back to using git+ssh: if git: doesn't work. Previously, sometimes npm would use git: and git+ssh: in some cases (most notably when using GitHub shortcut syntax on the command line), and use git+https: in others (when the GitHub shortcut syntax was present in package.json). This led to subtle and hard-to-understand inconsistencies, and we're glad that as of npm@2.7.6, we've finally gotten things to where they were before we started, only slightly more consistent overall.

We are now going to go back to our policy of being extremely reluctant to touch the code that handles Git dependencies.

  • b747593 #7630 Don't automatically log all git failures as errors. maybeGithub needs to be able to fail without logging to support its fallback logic. (@othiym23)
  • cd67a0d #7829 When fetching a git remote URL, handle failures gracefully (without assuming standard output exists). (@othiym23)
  • 637c7d1 #7829 When fetching a git remote URL, handle failures gracefully (without assuming standard error exists). (@othiym23)

OTHER SIGNIFICANT FIXES

  • 78005eb #7743 Always quote arguments passed to npm run-script. This allows build systems and the like to safely escape glob patterns passed as arguments to run-scripts with `npm run-script