node/deps/npm/CHANGELOG.md

v2.5.1 (2015-02-06):

This release doesn't look like much, but considerable effort went into ensuring that npm's tests will pass on io.js 1.1.0 and Node 0.11.16 / 0.12.0 on both OS X and Linux.

NOTE: there are no actual changes to npm's code in npm@2.5.1. Only test code (and the upgrade of request to the latest version) has changed.

npm-registry-mock@1.0.0:

• 0e8d473 #7281 npm-registry-mock@1.0.0: Clean up API, set connection: close. (@robertkowalski)
• 4707bba Further update tests to work with npm-registry-mock@1.0.0. (@othiym23)
• 41a0f89 Got rid of completely gratuitous global config manipulation in tests. (@othiym23)

MINOR DEPENDENCY TWEAK

• a4c7af9 request@2.53.0: Tweaks to tunneling proxy behavior. (@nylen)

v2.5.0 (2015-01-29):

SMALL FEATURE I HAVE ALREADY USED TO MAINTAIN NPM ITSELF

• 9d61e96 npm outdated --long now includes a column showing the type of dependency. (@watilde)

BUG FIXES & TWEAKS

• fec4c96 Allow --no-proxy to override HTTP_PROXY setting in environment. (@othiym23)
• 589acb9 Only set access when publshing when it's explicitly set. (@othiym23)
• 1027087 Add script and Makefile stanza to update AUTHORS. (@KenanY)
• eeff04d Add NPMOPTS to top-level install in Makefile to override userconfig. (@aredridel)
• 0d17328 fstream@1.0.4: Run chown only when necessary. (@silkentrance)
• 9aa4622 columnify@1.4.1: ES6ified! (@timoxley)
• 51b2fd1 Update default version in docs/npm-config.md. (@lucthev)

npm-registry-client@6.0.7:

• f9313a0 #7226 Ensure that all request settings are copied onto the agent. (@othiym23)
• e186f6e Only set access on publish when it differs from the norm. (@othiym23)
• f9313a0 Allow overriding request's environment-based proxy handling. (@othiym23)
• f9313a0 Properly handle retry failures on fetch. (@othiym23)

v2.4.1 (2015-01-23):

Let's accentuate the positive: the dist-tag endpoints for npm dist-tag {add,rm,ls} are now live on the public npm registry.

• f70272b npm-registry-client@6.0.3: Properly escape JSON tag version strings and filter _etag from CouchDB docs. (@othiym23)

v2.4.0 (2015-01-22):

REGISTRY 2: ACCESS AND DIST-TAGS

NOTE: This week's registry-2 commands are leading the implementation on registry.npmjs.org a little bit, so some of the following may not work for another week or so. Also note that npm access has documentation and subcommands that are not yet finished, because they depend on incompletely specified registry API endpoints. Things are coming together very quickly, though, so expect the missing pieces to be filled in the coming weeks.

• c963eb2 #7181 NEW npm access public and npm access restricted: Toggle visibility of scoped packages. (@othiym23)
• dc51810 #6243 / #6854 NEW npm dist-tags: Directly manage dist-tags on packages. Most notably, dist-tags can now be deleted. (@othiym23)
• 4c7c132 #7181 / #6854 npm-registry-client@6.0.1: Add new access and dist-tags endpoints (@othiym23)

NOT EXACTLY SELF-DEPRECATING

• 10d5c77 #6274 Deprecate npm tag in favor of npm dist-tag. (@othiym23)

BUG FIX AND TINY FEATURE

• 29a6ef3 #6850 Be smarter about determining base of file deletion when unbuilding. (@phated)
• 4ad01ea init-package-json@1.2.0: Support --save-exact in npm init. (@gustavnikolaj)

v2.3.0 (2015-01-15):

REGISTRY 2: OH MY STARS! WHO AM I?

• e662a60 The new whoami endpoint might not return a value. (@othiym23)
• c2cccd4 npm-registry-client@5.0.0: Includes the following fine changes (@othiym23):
  • ba6b73e #92 BREAKING CHANGE: Move /whoami endpoint out of the package namespace (to /-/whoami). (@othiym23)
  • 3b174b7 #93 Registries based on token-based auth can now offer starring. (@bcoe)
  • 4701a29 Fix HTTP[S] connection keep-alive on Node 0.11 / io.js 1.0. (@fengmk2)

BETTER REGISTRY METADATA CACHING

• 98e1e10 #6791 Add caching based on Last-Modified / If-Modified-Since headers. Includes this npm-registry-client@5.0.0 change (@lxe):
  • 07bc335 #86 Add Last-Modified / If-Modified-Since cache header handling. (@lxe)

HOW MUCH IS THAT WINDOWS IN THE DOGGY?

• 706d49a #7107 getCacheStat passes a stub stat on Windows. (@rmg)
• 5fce278 #5267 Use %COMSPEC% when set on Windows. (@edmorley)
• cc2e099 #7083 Ensure Git cache prefix exists before repo clone on Windows. (@othiym23)

THRILLING BUG FIXES

• c6fb430 #4197 Report umask as a 0-padded octal literal. (@smikes)
• 209713e #4197 umask@1.1.0: Properly handle umasks (i.e. not decimal numbers). (@smikes)
• 9eac0a1 Make the example for bin links non-destructive. (@KevinSheedy)
• 6338bcf glob@4.3.5: " -> ', for some reason. (@isaacs)

v2.2.0 (2015-01-08):

• 88c531d #7056 version doesn't need a package.json. (@othiym23)
• 2656c19 #7095 Link to npm website instead of registry. (@konklone)
• c76b801 #7067 Obfuscate secrets, including nerfed URLs. (@smikes)
• 17f66ce #6849 Explain the tag workflow more clearly. (@smikes)
• e309df6 #7096 Really, npm update -g is almost always a terrible idea. (@smikes)
• acf287d #6999 npm run-script env: add a new default script that will print out environment values. (@gcb)
• 560c009 #6745 Document npm update --dev. (@smikes)
• 226a677 #7046 We have never been the Node package manager. (@linclark)
• 38eef22 npm-install-checks@1.0.5: Compatibility with npmlog@^1. (@iarna)

v2.1.18 (2015-01-01):

• bf8640b #7044 Document .npmignore syntax. (@zeke)

v2.1.17 (2014-12-25):

merry npm xmas

Working with @phated, I discovered that npm still had some lingering race conditions around how it handles Git dependencies. The following changes were intended to remedy to these issues. Thanks to @phated for all his help getting to the bottom of these.

• bdf1c84 #7006 Only chown template and top-level Git cache directories. (@othiym23)
• 581a72d #7006 Map Git remote inflighting to clone paths rather than Git URLs. (@othiym23)
• 1c48d08 #7009 normalize-git-url@1.0.0: Normalize Git URLs while caching. (@othiym23)
• 5423cf0 #7009 Pack tarballs to their final locations atomically. (@othiym23)
• 7f6557f #7009 Inflight local directory packing, just to be safe. (@othiym23)

Other changes:

• 1c491e6 #6991 npm version: fix regression in dirty-checking behavior (@rlidwka)
• 55ceb2b #1991 modify docs to reflect actual npm restart behavior (@smikes)
• fb8e31b #6982 when doing registry operations, ensure registry URL always ends with / (@othiym23)
• 5bcba65 pull whitelisted Git environment variables out into a named constant (@othiym23)
• be04bbd #7000 No longer install badly-named manpage files, and log an error when trying to uninstall them. (@othiym23)
• 6b7c5ec #7011 Send auth for tarball fetches for packages in npm-shrinkwrap.json from private registries. (@othiym23)
• 9b9de06 glob@4.3.2: Better handling of trailing slashes. (@isaacs)
• 030f3c7 semver@4.2.0: Diffing between version strings. (@isaacs)

v2.1.16 (2014-12-22):

• a4e4e33 #6987 read-installed@3.1.5: fixed a regression where a new / empty package would cause read-installed to throw. (@othiym23 / @pgilad)

v2.1.15 (2014-12-18):

• e5a2dee #6951 fs-vacuum@1.2.5: Use path-is-inside for better Windows normalization. (@othiym23)
• ac6167c #6955 Call path.normalize in lib/utils/gently-rm.js for better Windows normalization. (@ben-page)
• c625d71 #6964 Clarify CA configuration docs. (@jeffjo)
• 58b8cb5 #6950 Fix documentation typos. (@martinvd)
• 7c1299d #6909 Remove confusing mention of rubygems ~> semver operator. (@mjtko)
• 7dfdcc6 #6909 semver@4.1.1: Synchronize documentation with PR #6909 (@othiym23)
• adfddf3 #6925 Correct typo in doc/api/npm-ls.md (@oddurs)
• f5c534b #6920 Remove recommendation to run as root from README.md. (@robertkowalski)
• 3ef4459 #6920 npm-@googlegroups.com has gone the way of all things. That means it's gone. (@robertkowalski)

v2.1.14 (2014-12-13):

• cf7aeae #6923 Overaggressive link update for new website broke node-gyp. (@othiym23)

v2.1.13 (2014-12-11):

• cbb890e #6897 npm is a nice package manager that runs server-side JavaScript. (@othiym23)
• d9043c3 #6893 Remove erroneous docs about preupdate / update / postupdate lifecycle scripts, which have never existed. (@devTristan)
• c5df4d0 #6884 Update npmjs.org to npmjs.com in docs. (@linclark)
• cb6ff8d #6879 npm version: Update shrinkwrap post-check. (@othiym23)
• 2a340bd #6868 Use magic numbers instead of regexps to distinguish tarballs from other things. (@daxxog)
• f1c8bdb #6861 npm-registry-client@4.0.5: Distinguish between error properties that are part of the response and error strings that should be returned to the user. (@disrvptor)
• d3a1b63 #6762 Make npm outdated ignore private packages. (@KenanY)
• 16d8542 install.sh: Drop support for node < 0.8, remove engines bits. (@isaacs)
• b9c6046 init-package-json@1.1.3: (@terinstock) noticed that init.license configuration doesn't stick. Make sure that dashed defaults don't trump dotted parameters. (@othiym23)
• b6d6acf which@1.0.8: No longer use graceful-fs for some reason. (@isaacs)
• d39f673 request@2.51.0: Incorporate bug fixes. (@nylen)
• c7ad727 columnify@1.3.2: Incorporate bug fixes. (@timoxley)

v2.1.12 (2014-12-04):

• e5b1e44 add alias verison=version (@isaacs)
• 5eed7bd request@2.49.0 (@nylen)
• e72f81d glob@4.3.1 / minimatch@2.0.1 (@isaacs)
• b8dcc36 graceful-fs@3.0.5 (@isaacs)

v2.1.11 (2014-11-27):

• 4861d28 which@1.0.7: License update. (@isaacs)
• 30a2ea8 ini@1.3.2: License update. (@isaacs)
• 6a4ea05 fstream@1.0.3: Propagate error events to downstream streams. (@gfxmonk)
• a558695 tar@1.0.3: Don't extract broken files, propagate drain event. (@gfxmonk)
• 989624e #6767 Actually pass parameters when adding git repo to cach under Windows. (@othiym23)
• 657af73 #6774 When verifying paths on unbuild, resolve both source and target as symlinks. (@hokaccha)
• fd19c40 #6713 realize-package-specifier@1.3.0: Make it so that npm install foo@1 work when a file named 1 exists. (@iarna)
• c8ac37a npm-registry-client@4.0.4: Fix regression in failed fetch retries. (@othiym23)

v2.1.10 (2014-11-20):

• 756f3d4 #6735 Log "already built" messages at info, not error. (@smikes)
• 1b7330d #6729 npm-registry-client@4.0.3: GitHub won't redirect you through an HTML page to a compressed tarball if you don't tell it you accept JSON responses. (@KenanY)
• d9c7857 #6506 readdir-scoped-modules@1.0.1: Use graceful-fs so the whole dependency tree gets read, even in case of EMFILE. (@sakana)
• 3a085be Grammar fix in docs. (@icylace)
• 3f8e2ff Did you know that npm has a Code of Conduct? Add a link to it to CONTRIBUTING.md. (@isaacs)
• 319ccf6 glob@4.2.1: Performance tuning. (@isaacs)
• 835f046 readable-stream@1.0.33: Bug fixes. (@rvagg)
• a34c38d request@2.48.0: Bug fixes. (@nylen)

v2.1.9 (2014-11-13):

• eed9f61 #6542 npm owner add / remove now works properly with scoped packages (@othiym23)
• cd25973 #6548 using sudo won't leave the cache's git directories with bad permissions (@othiym23)
• 56930ab fixed irregular npm cache ls output (yes, that's a thing) (@othiym23)
• 740f483 legacy tests no longer poison user's own cache (@othiym23)
• ce37f14 #6169 add terse output similar to npm publish / unpublish for npm owner add / remove (@KenanY)
• bf2b8a6 #6680 pass auth credentials to registry when downloading search index (@terinjokes)
• 00ecb61 #6400 .npmignore is respected for git repos on cache / pack / publish (@othiym23)
• d1b3a9e #6311 npm ls -l --depth=0 no longer prints phantom duplicate children (@othiym23)
• 07c5f34 #6690 uid-number@0.0.6: clarify confusing names in error-handling code (@isaacs)
• 1ac9be9 #6684 npm init: don't report write if canceled (@smikes)
• 7bb207d #5754 never remove app directories on failed install (@othiym23)
• 705ce60 #5754 fs-vacuum@1.2.2: don't throw when another fs task writes to a directory being vacuumed (@othiym23)
• 1b650f4 #6255 ensure that order credentials are used from .npmrc doesn't regress (@othiym23)
• 9bb2c34 #6644 warn rather than info on fetch failure (@othiym23)
• e34a7b6 #6524 npm-registry-client@4.0.2: proxy via request more transparently (@othiym23)
• 40afd6a #6524 push proxy settings into request (@tauren)

v2.1.8 (2014-11-06):

• 063d843 npm version now updates version in npm-shrinkwrap.json (@faiq)
• 3f53cd7 #6559 save local dependencies in npm-shrinkwrap.json (@Torsph)
• e249262 npm-faq.md: mention scoped pkgs in namespace Q (@smikes)
• 6b06ec4 #6642 init-package-json@1.1.2: Handle both init-author-name and init.author.name. (@othiym23)
• 9cb334c #6409 document commit-ish with GitHub URLs (@smikes)
• 0aefae9 #2959 npm run no longer fails silently (@flipside)
• e007a2c #3908 include command in spawn errors (@smikes)

v2.1.7 (2014-10-30):

• 6750b05 #6398 npm-registry-client@4.0.0: consistent API, handle relative registry paths, use auth more consistently (@othiym23)
• 7719cfd #6560 use new npm-registry-client API (@othiym23)
• ed61971 move caching of search metadata from npm-registry-client to npm itself (@othiym23)
• 3457041 handle caching of metadata independently from npm-registry-client (@othiym23)
• 20a331c #6538 map registry URLs to credentials more safely (@indexzero)
• 4072e97 #6589 npm-registry-client@4.0.1: allow publishing of packages with names identical to built-in Node modules (@feross)
• 254f0e4 tar@1.0.2: better error-handling (@runk)
• 73ee2aa request@2.47.0 (@mikeal)

v2.1.6 (2014-10-23):

• 681b398 #6523 fix default logelevel doc (@KenanY)
• 80b368f #6528 npm version should work in a git directory without git (@terinjokes)
• 5f5f9e4 #6483 init-package-json@1.1.1: Properly pick up default values from environment variables. (@othiym23)
• a114870 perl 5.18.x doesn't like -pi without filenames (@othiym23)
• de5ba00 request@2.46.0: Tests and cleanup. (@othiym23)
• 76933f1 fstream-npm@1.0.1: Always include LICENSE[.*], LICENCE[.*], CHANGES[.*], CHANGELOG[.*], and HISTORY[.*]. (@jonathanong)

v2.1.5 (2014-10-16):

• 6a14b23 #6397 Defactor npmconf back into npm. (@othiym23)
• 4000e33 #6323 Install peerDependencies from top. (@othiym23)
• 5d119ae #6498 Better error messages on malformed .npmrc properties. (@nicks)
• ae18efb #6093 Replace instances of 'hash' with 'object' in documentation. (@zeke)
• 53108b2 #1558 Clarify how local paths should be used. (@KenanY)
• 344fa1a #6488 Work around bug in marked. (@othiym23)

OUTDATED DEPENDENCY CLEANUP JAMBOREE

• 60c2942 realize-package-specifier@1.2.0: Handle names and rawSpecs more consistently. (@iarna)
• 1b5c95f sha@1.3.0: Change line endings? (@ForbesLindesay)
• d7dee3f request@2.45.0: Dependency updates, better proxy support, better compressed response handling, lots of 'use strict'. (@mikeal)
• 3d75180 opener@1.4.0: Added gratuitous return. (@Domenic)
• 8e2703f retry@0.6.1 / npm-registry-client@3.2.4: Change of ownership. (@tim-kos)
• c87b00f once@1.3.1: Wrap once with wrappy. (@isaacs)
• 01ec790 npm-user-validate@0.1.1: Correct repository URL. (@robertkowalski)
• 389e52c glob@4.0.6: Now absolutely requires graceful-fs. (@isaacs)
• e15ab15 ini@1.3.0: Tighten up whitespace handling. (@isaacs)
• 7610f3e archy@1.0.0 (@substack)
• 9c13149 semver@4.1.0: Add support for prerelease identifiers. (@bromanko)
• f096c25 graceful-fs@3.0.4: Add a bunch of additional tests, skip the unfortunate complications of graceful-fs@3.0.3. (@isaacs)

v2.1.4 (2014-10-09):

• 3aeb440 #6442 proxying git needs GIT_SSL_CAINFO (@wmertens)
• a8da8d6 #6413 write builtin config on any global npm install (@isaacs)
• 9e4d632 #6343 don't pass run arguments to pre & post scripts (@TheLudd)
• d831b1f #6399 race condition: inflight installs, prevent peerDependency problems (@othiym23)
• 82b775d #6384 race condition: inflight caching by URL rather than semver range (@othiym23)
• 7bee042 inflight@1.0.4: callback can take arbitrary number of parameters (@othiym23)
• 3bff494 #5195 fixed regex color regression for npm search (@chrismeyersfsu)
• 33ba2d5 #6387 allow npm view global if package is specified (@evanlucas)
• 99c4cfc #6388 npm-publish → npm-developers(7) (@kennydude)

TEST CLEANUP EXTRAVAGANZA:

• 8d6bfcb tap tests run with no system-wide side effects (@chrismeyersfsu)
• 7a1472f added npm cache cleanup script (@chrismeyersfsu)
• 0ce6a37 stripped out dead test code (othiym23)
• replace spawn with common.npm (@chrismeyersfsu):
  • 0dcd614 test/tap/cache-shasum-fork.js
  • 97f861c test/tap/false_name.js
  • d01b3de test/tap/git-cache-locking.js
  • 7b63016 test/tap/pack-scoped.js
  • c877553 test/tap/scripts-whitespace-windows.js
  • df98525 test/tap/prepublish.js
  • 99c4cfc test/tap/prune.js

v2.1.3 (2014-10-02):

BREAKING CHANGE FOR THE SQRT(i) PEOPLE ACTUALLY USING npm submodule:

• 1e64473 rm -rf npm submodule command, which has been broken since the Carter Administration (@isaacs)

BREAKING CHANGE IF YOU ARE FOR SOME REASON STILL USING NODE 0.6 AND YOU SHOULD NOT BE DOING THAT CAN YOU NOT:

• 3e431f9 joyent/node#8492 bye bye customFds, hello stdio (@othiym23)

Other changes:

• ea607a8 #6372 noisily error (without aborting) on multi-{install,build} (@othiym23)
• 3ee2799 #6372 only make cache creation requests in flight (@othiym23)
• 1a90ec2 #6372 wait to put Git URLs in flight until normalized (@othiym23)
• 664795b #6372 log what is and isn't in flight (@othiym23)
• 00ef580 inflight@1.0.3: fix largely theoretical race condition, because we really really hate race conditions (@isaacs)
• 1cde465 #6363 realize-package-specifier@1.1.0: handle local dependencies better (@iarna)
• 86f084c realize-package-specifier@1.0.2: dependency realization! in its own module! (@iarna)
• 553d830 npm-package-arg@2.1.3: simplified semver, better tests (@iarna)
• bec9b61 readable-stream@1.0.32: for some reason (@rvagg)
• ff08ec5 dezalgo@1.0.1: use wrappy for instrumentability (@isaacs)

v2.1.2 (2014-09-29):

• a1aa20e #6282 normalize-package-data@1.0.3: don't prune bundledDependencies (@isaacs)
• a1f5fe1 move locks back into cache, now path-aware (@othiym23)
• a432c4b convert lib/utils/tar.js to use atomic streams (@othiym23)
• b8c3c74 fs-write-stream-atomic@1.0.2: Now works with streams1 fs.WriteStreams. (@isaacs)
• c7ab76f logging cleanup (@othiym23)
• 4b2d95d #6329 efficiently validate tmp tarballs safely (@othiym23)

v2.1.1 (2014-09-26):

• 563225d #6318 clean up locking; prefix lockfile with "." (@othiym23)
• c7f30e4 #6318 remove locking code around tarball packing and unpacking (@othiym23)

v2.1.0 (2014-09-25):

NEW FEATURE:

• 3635601 #5520 Add 'npm view .'. (@evanlucas)

Other changes:

• f24b552 #6294 Lock cache → lock cache target. (@othiym23)
• ad54450 #6296 Ensure that npm-debug.log file is created when rollbacks are done. (@isaacs)
• 6810071 docs: Default loglevel "http" → "warn". (@othiym23)
• 35ac89a Skip installation of installed scoped packages. (@timoxley)
• e468527 Ensure cleanup executes for scripts-whitespace-windows test. (@timoxley)
• ef9101b Ensure cleanup executes for packed-scope test. (@timoxley)
• 69b4d18 fs-write-stream-atomic@1.0.1: Fix a race condition in our race-condition fixer. (@isaacs)
• 26b17ff #6272 npmconf decides what the default prefix is. (@othiym23)
• 846faca Fix development dependency is preferred over dependency. (@andersjanmyr)
• 9d1a9db #3265 Re-apply a71615a. Fixes #3265 again, with a test! (@glasser)
• 1d41db0 marked-man@0.1.4: Fixes formatting of synopsis blocks in man docs. (@kapouer)
• a623da0 #5867 Specify dummy git template dir when cloning to prevent copying hooks. (@boneskull)

v2.0.2 (2014-09-19):

• 42c872b #5920 fs-write-stream-atomic@1.0.0 (@isaacs)
• 6784767 #5920 make all write streams atomic (@isaacs)
• f6fac00 #5920 barf on 0-length cached tarballs (@isaacs)
• 3b37592 write-file-atomic@1.1.0: use graceful-fs (@iarna)

v2.0.1 (2014-09-18):

• 74c5ab0 #6201 npmconf@2.1.0: scope always-auth to registry URI (@othiym23)
• 774b127 #6201 npm-registry-client@3.2.2: use scoped always-auth settings (@othiym23)
• f2d2190 #6201 support saving --always-auth when logging in (@othiym23)
• 17c941a #6163 use write-file-atomic instead of fs.writeFile() (@fiws)
• fb5724f #5925 npm init -f: allow npm init to run without prompting (@michaelnisi)
• b706d63 #3059 disable prepublish when running npm install --production (@jussi-kalliokoski)
• 119f068 attach the node version used when publishing a package to its registry metadata (@othiym23)
• 8fe0081 seriously, don't use npm -g update npm (@thomblake)
• ea5b3d4 request@2.44.0 (@othiym23)

v2.0.0 (2014-09-12):

BREAKING CHANGES:

• 4378a17 semver@4.0.0: prerelease versions no longer show up in ranges; ^0.x.y behaves the way it did in semver@2 rather than semver@3; docs have been reorganized for comprehensibility (@isaacs)
• c6ddb64 npm now assumes that node is newer than 0.6 (@isaacs)

Other changes:

• ea515c3 #6043 slide@1.1.6: wait until all callbacks have finished before proceeding (@othiym23)
• 0b0a59d #6043 defer rollbacks until just before the CLI exits (@isaacs)
• a11c88b #6175 pack scoped packages correctly (@othiym23)
• e4e48e0 #6121 read-installed@3.1.2: don't mark linked dev dependencies as extraneous (@isaacs)
• d673e41 cmd-shim@2.0.1: depend on graceful-fs directly (@ForbesLindesay)
• 9d54d45 npm-registry-couchapp@2.5.3: make tests more reliable on Travis (@iarna)
• 673d738 ensure permissions are set correctly in cache when running as root (@isaacs)
• 6e6a5fb prepare for upgrade to node-semver@4.0.0 (@isaacs)
• ab8dd87 swap out ronn for marked-man@0.1.3 (@isaacs)
• 803da54 npm-registry-client@3.2.0: prepare for node-semver@4.0.0 and include more error information (@isaacs)
• 4af0e71 make default error display less scary (@isaacs)
• 4fd9e79 npm-registry-client@3.2.1: handle errors returned by the registry much, much better (@othiym23)
• ca791e2 restore a long (always?) missing pass for deduping (@othiym23)
• ca0ef0e correctly interpret relative paths for local dependencies (@othiym23)
• 5eb8db2 npm-package-arg@2.1.2: support git+file:// URLs for local bare repos (@othiym23)
• 860a185 tweak docs to no longer advocate checking in node_modules (@hunterloftis)
• 80e9033 add links to nodejs.org downloads to docs (@meetar)

v1.4.28 (2014-09-12):

• f4540b6 #6043 defer rollbacks until just before the CLI exits (@isaacs)
• 1eabfd5 #6043 slide@1.1.6: wait until all callbacks have finished before proceeding (@othiym23)

v2.0.0-beta.3 (2014-09-04):

• fa79413 #6119 fall back to registry installs if package.json is missing in a local directory (@iarna)
• 16073e2 npm-package-arg@2.1.0: support file URIs as local specs (@othiym23)
• 9164acb github-url-from-username-repo@1.0.2: don't match strings that are already URIs (@othiym23)
• 4067d6b #5629 support saving of local packages in package.json (@dylang)
• 1b2ffdf #6097 document scoped packages (@seldo)
• 0a67d53 #6007 request@2.42.0: properly set headers on proxy requests (@isaacs)
• 9bac6b8 npmconf@2.0.8: disallow semver ranges in tag configuration (@isaacs)
• d2d4d7c #6082 don't allow tagging with a semver range as the tag name (@isaacs)

v1.4.27 (2014-09-04):

• 4cf3c8f #6007 request@2.42.0: properly set headers on proxy requests (@isaacs)
• 403cb52 #6055 npmconf@1.1.8: restore case-insensitivity of environmental config (@iarna)

v2.0.0-beta.2 (2014-08-29):

SPECIAL LABOR DAY WEEKEND RELEASE PARTY WOOO

• ed207e8 npm-registry-client@3.1.7: Clean up auth logic and improve logging around auth decisions. Also error on trying to change a user document without writing to it. (@othiym23)
• 66c7423 npmconf@2.0.7: support -C as an alias for --prefix (@isaacs)
• 0dc6a07 #6059 run commands in prefix, not cwd (@isaacs)
• 65d2179 github-url-from-username-repo@1.0.1: part 3 handle slashes in branch names (@robertkowalski)
• e8d75d0 #6057 read-installed@3.1.1: properly handle extraneous dev dependencies of required dependencies (@othiym23)
• 0602f70 #6064 ls: do not show deps of extraneous deps (@isaacs)

v2.0.0-beta.1 (2014-08-28):

• 78a1fc1 github-url-from-git@1.4.0: add support for git+https and git+ssh (@stefanbuck)
• bf247ed columnify@1.2.1 (@othiym23)
• 4bbe682 cmd-shim@2.0.0: upgrade to graceful-fs 3 (@ForbesLindesay)
• ae1d590 npm-package-arg@2.0.4: accept slashes in branch names (@thealphanerd)
• b2f51ae semver@3.0.1: semver.clean() is cleaner (@isaacs)
• 1d041a8 github-url-from-username-repo@1.0.0: accept slashes in branch names (@robertkowalski)
• 02c85d5 async-some@1.0.1 (@othiym23)
• 5af493e ensure lifecycle spawn errors caught properly (@isaacs)
• 60fe012 npmconf@2.0.6: init.version defaults to 1.0.0 (@isaacs)
• b4c717b npm-registry-client@3.1.4: properly encode % in passwords (@isaacs)
• 7b55f44 doc: Fix 'npm help index' (@isaacs)

v1.4.26 (2014-08-28):

• eceea95 github-url-from-git@1.4.0: add support for git+https and git+ssh (@stefanbuck)
• e561758 columnify@1.2.1 (@othiym23)
• 0c4fab3 cmd-shim@2.0.0: upgrade to graceful-fs 3 (@ForbesLindesay)
• 2d69e4d github-url-from-username-repo@1.0.0: accept slashes in branch names (@robertkowalski)
• 81f9b2b ensure lifecycle spawn errors caught properly (@isaacs)
• bfaab8c npm-registry-client@2.0.7: properly encode % in passwords (@isaacs)
• 91cfb58 doc: Fix 'npm help index' (@isaacs)

v2.0.0-beta.0 (2014-08-21):

• 685f8be npm-registry-client@3.1.3: Print the notification header returned by the registry, and make sure status codes are printed without gratuitous quotes around them. (@isaacs / @othiym23)
• a8cb676 #5900 remove npm from its own engines field in package.json. None of us remember why it was there. (@timoxley)
• 6c47201 #5752, #6013 save git URLs correctly in _resolved fields (@isaacs)
• e4e1223 #5936 document the use of tags in package.json (@KenanY)
• c92b8d4 #6004 manually installed scoped packages are tracked correctly (@dead-horse)
• 21ca0aa #5945 link scoped packages correctly (@dead-horse)
• 16bead7 #5958 ensure that file streams work in all versions of node (@dead-horse)
• dbf0cab you can now pass quoted args to npm run-script (@bcoe)
• 0583874 tar@1.0.1: Add test for removing an extract target immediately after unpacking. (@isaacs)
• cdf3b04 lockfile@1.0.0: Fix incorrect interaction between wait, stale, and retries options. Part 2 of race condition leading to ENOENT (@isaacs) errors.
• 22d72a8 fstream@1.0.2: Fix a double-finish call which can result in excess FS operations after the close event. Part 1 of race condition leading to ENOENT errors. (@isaacs)

v1.4.25 (2014-08-21):

• 64c0ec2 npm-registry-client@2.0.6: Print the notification header returned by the registry, and make sure status codes are printed without gratuitous quotes around them. (@othiym23)
• a8ed12b tar@1.0.1: Add test for removing an extract target immediately after unpacking. (@isaacs)
• 70fd11d lockfile@1.0.0: Fix incorrect interaction between wait, stale, and retries options. Part 2 of race condition leading to ENOENT errors. (@isaacs)
• 0072c4d fstream@1.0.2: Fix a double-finish call which can result in excess FS operations after the close event. Part 2 of race condition leading to ENOENT errors. (@isaacs)

v2.0.0-alpha.7 (2014-08-14):

• f23f1d8 doc: update version doc to include pre-* increment args (@isaacs)
• b6bb746 build: add 'make tag' to tag current release as latest (@isaacs)
• 27c4bb6 build: publish with --tag=v1.4-next (@isaacs)
• cff66c3 build: add script to output v1.4-next publish tag (@isaacs)
• 22abec8 build: remove outdated docpublish make target (@isaacs)
• 1be4de5 build: remove unpublish step from make publish (@isaacs)
• e429e20 doc: add new changelog (@othiym23)
• 9243d20 lifecycle: test lifecycle path modification (@isaacs)
• 021770b lifecycle: BREAKING CHANGE do not add the directory containing node executable (@chulkilee)
• 1d5c41d install: rename .gitignore when unpacking foreign tarballs (@isaacs)
• 9aac267 cache: detect non-gzipped tar files more reliably (@isaacs)
• 3f24755 readdir-scoped-modules@1.0.0 (@isaacs)
• 151cd2f read-installed@3.1.0 (@isaacs)
• f5a9434 test: fix Travis timeouts (@dylang)
• 126cafc npm-registry-couchapp@2.5.0 (@othiym23)

v1.4.24 (2014-08-14):

• 9344bd9 doc: add new changelog (@othiym23)
• 4be76fd doc: update version doc to include pre-* increment args (@isaacs)
• e4f2620 build: add make tag to tag current release as latest (@isaacs)
• ec2596a build: publish with --tag=v1.4-next (@isaacs)
• 9ee55f8 build: add script to output v1.4-next publish tag (@isaacs)
• aecb56f build: remove outdated docpublish make target (@isaacs)
• b57a9b7 build: remove unpublish step from make publish (@isaacs)
• 2c6acb9 install: rename .gitignore when unpacking foreign tarballs (@isaacs)
• 22f3681 cache: detect non-gzipped tar files more reliably (@isaacs)

v2.0.0-alpha.6 (2014-08-07):

BREAKING CHANGE:

• ea547e2 Bump semver to version 3: ^0.x.y is now functionally the same as =0.x.y. (@isaacs)

Other changes:

• d987707 move fetch into npm-registry-client (@othiym23)
• 9b318e2 read-installed@3.0.0 (@isaacs)
• 9d73de7 remove unnecessary mkdirps (@isaacs)
• 33ccd13 Don't squash execute perms in _git-remotes/ dir (@adammeadows)
• 48fd233 npm-package-arg@2.0.1 (@isaacs)

v1.4.23 (2014-07-31):

• 8dd11d1 update several dependencies to avoid using semvers starting with 0.

v1.4.22 (2014-07-31):

• d9a9e84 read-package-json@1.2.4 (@isaacs)
• 86f0340 github-url-from-git@1.2.0 (@isaacs)
• a94136a fstream@0.1.29 (@isaacs)
• bb82d18 glob@4.0.5 (@isaacs)
• 5b6bcf4 cmd-shim@1.1.2 (@isaacs)
• c2aa8b3 license: Cleaned up legalese with actual lawyer (@isaacs)
• 63fe0ee init-package-json@1.0.0 (@isaacs)

v2.0.0-alpha-5 (2014-07-22):

This release bumps up to 2.0 because of this breaking change, which could potentially affect how your package's scripts are run:

• df4b0e7 #5518 BREAKING CHANGE: support passing arguments to run scripts (@bcoe)

Other changes:

• cd422c9 #5748 link binaries for scoped packages (@othiym23)
• 4c3c778 #5758 npm link includes scope when linking scoped package (@fengmk2)
• f9f58dd #5707 document generic pre- / post-commands (@sudodoki)
• ac7a480 #5406 npm cache displays usage when called without arguments (@michaelnisi)
• f4554e9 Test fixes for Windows (@isaacs)
• update dependencies (@othiym23)

v1.5.0-alpha-4 (2014-07-18):

• fall back to _auth config as default auth when using default registry (@isaacs)
• support for 'init.version' for those who don't want to deal with semver 0.0.x oddities (@rvagg)
• be06213 remove residual support for win log level (@aterris)

v1.5.0-alpha-3 (2014-07-17):

• a3a85dd --save scoped packages correctly (@othiym23)
• 18a3385 npm-registry-client@3.0.2 (@othiym23)
• 375988b invalid package names are an early error for optional deps (@othiym23)
• consistently use node-package-arg instead of arbitrary package spec splitting (@othiym23)

v1.4.21 (2014-07-14):

• 88f51aa fix handling for 301s in npm-registry-client@2.0.3 (@Raynos)

v1.5.0-alpha-2 (2014-07-01):

• 54cf625 fix handling for 301s in npm-registry-client@3.0.1 (@Raynos)
• e410861 don't crash if no username set on whoami (@isaacs)
• 0353dde respect --json for output (@isaacs)
• b3d112a outdated: Don't show headings if there's nothing to output (@isaacs)
• bb4b90c outdated: Default to latest rather than * for unspecified deps (@isaacs)

v1.4.20 (2014-07-02):

• 0353dde respect --json for output (@isaacs)
• b3d112a outdated: Don't show headings if there's nothing to output (@isaacs)
• bb4b90c outdated: Default to latest rather than * for unspecified deps (@isaacs)

v1.5.0-alpha-1 (2014-07-01):

• eef4884 use the correct piece of the spec for GitHub shortcuts (@othiym23)

v1.5.0-alpha-0 (2014-07-01):

• 7f55057 install scoped packages (#5239) (@othiym23)
• 0df7e16 publish scoped packages (#5239) (@othiym23)
• 0689ba2 support (and save) --scope=@s config (@othiym23)
• f34878f scope credentials to registry (@othiym23)
• 0ac7ca2 capture and store bearer tokens when sent by registry (@othiym23)
• 63c3277 only delete files that are created by npm (@othiym23)
• 4f54043 npm-package-arg@2.0.0 (@othiym23)
• 9e1460e read-package-json@1.2.3 (@othiym23)
• 719d8ad fs-vacuum@1.2.1 (@othiym23)
• 9ef8fe4 async-some@1.0.0 (@othiym23)
• a964f65 npmconf@2.0.1 (@othiym23)
• 113765b npm-registry-client@3.0.0 (@othiym23)

v1.4.19 (2014-07-01):

• f687433 relative URLS for working non-root registry URLS (@othiym23)
• bea190c #5591 bump nopt and npmconf (@isaacs)

v1.4.18 (2014-06-29):

• Bump glob dependency from 4.0.2 to 4.0.3. It now uses graceful-fs when available, increasing resilience to various filesystem errors. (@isaacs)

v1.4.17 (2014-06-27):

• replace escape codes with ansicolors (@othiym23)
• Allow to build all the docs OOTB. (@GeJ)
• Use core.longpaths on win32 git - fixes #5525 (@bmeck)
• npmconf@1.1.2 (@isaacs)
• Consolidate color sniffing in config/log loading process (@isaacs)
• add verbose log when project config file is ignored (@isaacs)
• npmconf: Float patch to remove 'scope' from config defs (@isaacs)
• doc: npm-explore can't handle a version (@robertkowalski)
• Add user-friendly errors for ENOSPC and EROFS. (@voodootikigod)
• bump tar and fstream deps (@isaacs)
• Run the npm-registry-couchapp tests along with npm tests (@isaacs)

v1.2.8000 (2014-06-17):

• Same as v1.4.16, but with the spinner disabled, and a version number that starts with v1.2.

v1.4.16 (2014-06-17):

• npm-registry-client@2.0.2 (@isaacs)
• fstream@0.1.27 (@isaacs)
• sha@1.2.4 (@isaacs)
• rimraf@2.2.8 (@isaacs)
• npmlog@1.0.1 (@isaacs)
• npm-registry-client@2.0.1 (@isaacs)
• removed redundant dependency (@othiym23)
• npmconf@1.0.5 (@isaacs)
• Properly handle errors that can occur in the config-loading process (@isaacs)

v1.4.15 (2014-06-10):

• cache: atomic de-race-ified package.json writing (@isaacs)
• fstream@0.1.26 (@isaacs)
• graceful-fs@3.0.2 (@isaacs)
• osenv@0.1.0 (@isaacs)
• Only spin the spinner when we're fetching stuff (@isaacs)
• Update osenv@0.1.0 which removes ~/tmp as possible tmp-folder (@robertkowalski)
• ini@1.2.1 (@isaacs)
• graceful-fs@3 (@isaacs)
• Update glob and things depending on glob (@isaacs)
• github-url-from-username-repo and read-package-json updates (@isaacs)
• editor@0.1.0 (@isaacs)
• columnify@1.1.0 (@isaacs)
• bump ansi and associated deps (@isaacs)

v1.4.14 (2014-06-05):

• char-spinner: update to not bork windows (@isaacs)

v1.4.13 (2014-05-23):

• Fix npm install on a tarball. (ed3abf1, #5330, @othiym23)
• Fix an issue with the spinner on Node 0.8. (9f00306, @isaacs)
• Re-add npm.commands.cache.clean and npm.commands.cache.read APIs, and document npm.commands.cache.* as npm-cache(3). (e06799e, @isaacs)

v1.4.12 (2014-05-23):

• remove normalize-package-data from top level, de-^-ify inflight dep (@isaacs)
• Always sort saved bundleDependencies (@isaacs)
• add inflight to bundledDependencies (@othiym23)

v1.4.11 (2014-05-22):

• fix npm ls labeling issue
• node-gyp@0.13.1
• default repository to https:// instead of git://
• addLocalTarball: Remove extraneous unpack (@isaacs)
• Massive cache folder refactor (@othiym23 and @isaacs)
• Busy Spinner, no http noise (@isaacs)
• Per-project .npmrc file support (@isaacs)
• npmconf@1.0.0, Refactor config/uid/prefix loading process (@isaacs)
• Allow once-disallowed characters in passwords (@isaacs)
• Send npm version as 'version' header (@isaacs)
• fix cygwin encoding issue (Karsten Tinnefeld)
• Allow non-github repositories with npm repo (@evanlucas)
• Allow peer deps to be satisfied by grandparent
• Stop optional deps moving into deps on update --save (@timoxley)
• Ensure only matching deps update with update --save* (@timoxley)
• Add support for prerelease, preminor, prepatch to npm version

v1.4.10 (2014-05-05):

• Don't set referer if already set
• fetch: Send referer and npm-session headers
• run-script: Support --parseable and --json
• list runnable scripts (@evanlucas)
• Use marked instead of ronn for html docs

v1.4.9 (2014-05-01):

• Send referer header (with any potentially private stuff redacted)
• Fix critical typo bug in previous npm release

v1.4.8 (2014-05-01):

• Check SHA before using files from cache
• adduser: allow change of the saved password
• Make npm install respect config.unicode
• Fix lifecycle to pass Infinity for config env value
• Don't return 0 exit code on invalid command
• cache: Handle 404s and other HTTP errors as errors
• Resolve ~ in path configs to env.HOME
• Include npm version in default user-agent conf
• npm init: Use ISC as default license, use save-prefix for deps
• Many test and doc fixes

v1.4.7 (2014-04-15):

• Add --save-prefix option that can be used to override the default of ^ when using npm install --save and its counterparts. (64eefdf, @thlorenz)
• Allow --silent to silence the echoing of commands that occurs with npm run. (c95cf08, @Raynos)
• Some speed improvements to the cache, which should improve install times. (cb94310, 3b0870f, 120f5a9, @isaacs)
• Improve ability to retry registry requests when a subset of the registry servers are down. (4a5257d, github.com/npm/npm-registry-client@7686d02cb0, @isaacs)
• Fix marking of peer dependencies as extraneous. (779b164, github.com/npm/read-installed@6680ba6ef2, @isaacs)
• Fix npm crashing when doing npm shrinkwrap in the presence of a package.json with no dependencies. (a9d9fa5, @kislyuk)
• Fix error when using npm view on packages that have no versions or have been unpublished. (94df2f5, @juliangruber; 2241a09, @isaacs)

v1.4.6 (2014-03-19):

• Fix extraneous package detection to work in more cases. (f671286, npm/read-installed#20, @LaurentVB)

v1.4.5 (2014-03-18):

• Sort dependencies in package.json when doing npm install --save and all its variants. (6fd6ff7, @domenic)
• Add --save-exact option, usable alongside --save and its variants, which will write the exact version number into package.json instead of the appropriate semver-compatibility range. (17f07df, @timoxley)
• Accept gzipped content from the registry to speed up downloads and save bandwidth. (a3762de, npm/npm-registry-client#40, @fengmk2)
• Fix npm ls's --depth and --log options. (1d29b17, npm/read-installed#13, @zertosh)
• Fix "Adding a cache directory to the cache will make the world implode" in certain cases. (9a4b2c4, domenic/path-is-inside#1, @pmarques)
• Fix readmes not being uploaded in certain rare cases. (527b72c, @isaacs)

v1.4.4 (2014-02-20):

• Add npm t as an alias for npm test (which is itself an alias for npm run test, or even npm run-script test). We like making running your tests easy. (14e650b, @isaacs)

v1.4.3 (2014-02-16):

• Add back npm prune --production, which was removed in 1.3.24. (acc4d02, @davglass)
• Default npm install --save and its counterparts to use the ^ version specifier, instead of ~. (0a3151c, @mikolalysenko)
• Make npm shrinkwrap output dependencies in a sorted order, so that diffs between shrinkwrap files should be saner now. (059b2bf, @Raynos)
• Fix npm dedupe not correctly respecting dependency constraints. (86028e9, @rafeca)
• Fix npm ls giving spurious warnings when you used "latest" as a version specifier. (github.com/npm/read-installed@d2956400e0, @bajtos)
• Fixed a bug where using npm link on packages without a name value could cause npm to delete itself. (401a642, @isaacs)
• Fixed npm install ./pkg@1.2.3 to actually install the directory at pkg@1.2.3; before it would try to find version 1.2.3 of the package ./pkg in the npm registry. (46d8768, @rlidwka; see also f851b79)
• Fix npm outdated to respect the color configuration option. (d4f6f3f, @timoxley)
• Fix npm outdated --parseable. (9575a23, @yhpark)
• Fix a lockfile-related errors when using certain Git URLs. (164b97e, @nigelzor)

v1.4.2 (2014-02-13):

• Fixed an issue related to mid-publish GET requests made against the registry. (github.com/npm/npm-registry-client@acbec48372, @isaacs)

v1.4.1 (2014-02-13):

• Fix npm shrinkwrap forgetting to shrinkwrap dependencies that were also development dependencies. (9c575c5, @diwu1989)
• Fixed publishing of pre-existing packages with uppercase characters in their name. (github.com/npm/npm-registry-client@9345d3b6c3, @isaacs)

v1.4.0 (2014-02-12):

• Remove npm publish --force. See https://github.com/npm/npmjs.org/issues/148. (@isaacs, npm/npm-registry-client@2c8dba990d)
• Other changes to the registry client related to saved configs and couch logins. (@isaacs; npm/npm-registry-client@25e2b019a1, npm/npm-registry-client@9e41e9101b, npm/npm-registry-client@2c8dba990d)
• Show an error to the user when doing npm update and the package.json specifies a version that does not exist. (@evanlucas, 027a33a)
• Fix some issues with cache ownership in certain installation configurations. (@outcoldman, a132690)
• Fix issues where GitHub shorthand dependencies user/repo were not always treated the same as full Git URLs. (@robertkowalski, github.com/meryn/normalize-package-data@005d0b637a)

v1.3.26 (2014-02-02):

• Fixes and updates to publishing code (735427a and c0ac832, @isaacs)
• Fix npm bugs with no arguments. (b99d465, @Hoops)

v1.3.25 (2014-01-25):

• Remove gubblebum blocky font from documentation headers. (6940c9a, @isaacs)

v1.3.24 (2014-01-19):

• Make the search output prettier, with nice truncated columns, and a --long option to create wrapping columns. (20439b2 and 3a6942d, @timoxley)
• Support multiple packagenames in npm docs. (823010b, @timoxley)
• Fix the npm adduser bug regarding "Error: default value must be string or number" again. (b9b4248, @isaacs)
• Fix scripts entries containing whitespaces on Windows. (80282ed, @robertkowalski)
• Fix npm update for Git URLs that have credentials in them (93fc364, @danielsantiago)
• Fix npm install overwriting npm link-ed dependencies when they are tagged Git dependencies. (af9bbd9, @evanlucas)
• Remove npm prune --production since it buggily removed some dependencies that were necessary for production; see #4509. Hopefully it can make its triumphant return, one day. (1101b6a, @isaacs)

Dependency updates:

• 909cccf read-package-json@1.1.6
• a3891b6 rimraf@2.2.6
• ac6efbc sha@1.2.3
• dd30038 node-gyp@0.12.2
• c8c3ebe npm-registry-client@0.3.3
• 4315286 npmconf@0.1.12

v1.3.23 (2014-01-03):

• Properly handle installations that contained a certain class of circular dependencies. (5dc93e8, @substack)

v1.3.22 (2013-12-25):

• Fix a critical bug in npm adduser that would manifest in the error message "Error: default value must be string or number." (fba4bd2, @isaacs)
• Allow npm bugs in the current directory to open the current package's bugs URL. (d04cf64, @evanlucas)
• Several fixes to various error messages to include more useful or updated information. (1e6f2a7, ff46366, 8b4bb48; @rlidwka, @evanlucas)

v1.3.21 (2013-12-17):

• Fix a critical bug that prevented publishing due to incorrect hash calculation. (4ca4a2c, @dominictarr)

v1.3.20 (2013-12-17):

• Fixes a critical bug in v1.3.19. Thankfully, due to that bug, no one could install npm v1.3.19 :)

v1.3.19 (2013-12-16):

• Adds atomic PUTs for publishing packages, which should result in far fewer requests and less room for replication errors on the server-side.

v1.3.18 (2013-12-16):

• Added an --ignore-scripts option, which will prevent package.json scripts from being run. Most notably, this will work on npm install, so e.g. npm install --ignore-scripts will not run preinstall and prepublish scripts. (d7e67bf, @sqs)
• Fixed a bug introduced in 1.3.16 that would manifest with certain cache configurations, by causing spurious errors saying "Adding a cache directory to the cache will make the world implode." (966373f, @domenic)
• Re-fixed the multiple download of URL dependencies, whose fix was reverted in 1.3.17. (a362c3f, @spmason)

v1.3.17 (2013-12-11):

• This release reverts 644c2ff, which avoided re-downloading URL and shinkwrap dependencies when doing npm install. You can see the in-depth reasoning in d8c907e; the problem was, that the patch changed the behavior of npm install -f to reinstall all dependencies.
• A new version of the no-re-downloading fix has been submitted as #4303 and will hopefully be included in the next release.

v1.3.16 (2013-12-11):

• Git URL dependencies are now updated on npm install, fixing a two-year old bug (5829ecf, @robertkowalski). Additional progress on reducing the resulting Git-related I/O is tracked as #4191, but for now, this will be a big improvement.
• Added a --json mode to npm outdated to give a parseable output. (0b6c9b7, @yyx990803)
• Made npm outdated much prettier and more useful. It now outputs a color-coded and easy-to-read table. (fd3017f, @quimcalpe)
• Added the --depth option to npm outdated, so that e.g. you can do npm outdated --depth=0 to show only top-level outdated dependencies. (1d184ef, @yyx990803)
• Added a --no-git-tag-version option to npm version, for doing the usual job of npm version minus the Git tagging. This could be useful if you need to increase the version in other related files before actually adding the tag. (59ca984, @evanlucas)
• Made npm repo and npm docs work without any arguments, adding them to the list of npm commands that work on the package in the current directory when invoked without arguments. (bf9048e, @robertkowalski; 07600d0, @wilmoore). There are a few other commands we still want to implement this for; see #4204.
• Pass through the GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY environment variable to Git, if it is set; we currently do this with a few other environment variables, but we missed that one. (c625de9, @arikon)
• Fixed npm dedupe on Windows due to incorrect path separators being used (7677de4, @mcolyer).
• Fixed the npm help command when multiple words were searched for; it previously gave a ReferenceError. (6a28dd1, @dereckson)
• Stopped re-downloading URL and shrinkwrap dependencies, as demonstrated in #3463 (644c2ff, @spmason). You can use the --force option to force re-download and installation of all dependencies.