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Rebecca Turner 32b51c97ec deps: upgrade npm to 3.3.6 
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3310
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
2015-10-25 21:25:49 -04:00

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v3.3.6 (2015-09-30):

I have the most exciting news for you this week. YOU HAVE NO IDEA. Well, ok, maybe you do if you follow my twitter.

Performance just got 5 bazillion times better (under some circumstances, ymmv, etc). So– my test scenario is our very own website. In npm@2, on my macbook running npm ls takes about 5 seconds. Personally it's more than I'd like, but it's entire workable. In npm@3 it has been taking 50 seconds, which is appalling. But after doing some work on Monday isolating the performance issues I've been able to reduce npm@3's run time back down to 5 seconds.

Other scenarios were even worse, there was one that until now in npm@3 that took almost 6 minutes, and has been reduced to 14 seconds.

  • 7bc0d4c cf42217 #8826 Stop using deepclone on super big datastructures. Avoid cloning all-together even when that means mutating things, when possible. Otherwise use a custom written tree-copying function that understands the underlying datastructure well enough to only copy what we absolutely need to. (@iarna)

In other news, look for us this Friday and Saturday at the amazing Open Source and Feelings conference, where something like a third of the company will be attending.

And finally a dependency update

And some subdep updates

v3.3.5 (2015-09-24):

Some of you all may not be aware, but npm is ALSO a company. I tell you this 'cause npm-the-company had an all-staff get together this week, flying in our remote folks from around the world. That was great, but it also basically eliminated normal work on Monday and Tuesday.

Still, we've got a couple of really important bug fixes this week. Plus a lil bit from the now LTS 2.x branch.

ATTENTION WINDOWS USERS

If you previously updated to npm 3 and you try to update again, you may get an error messaging telling you that npm won't install npm into itself. Until you are at 3.3.5 or greater, you can get around this with npm install -f -g npm.

  • bef06f5 #9741 Uh... so... er... it seems that since npm@3.2.0 on Windows with a default configuration, it's been impossible to update npm. Well, that's not actually true, there's a work around (see above), but it shouldn't be complaining in the first place. (@iarna)

STACK OVERFLOWS ON PUBLISH

  • 330b496 #9667 We were keeping track of metadata about your project while packing the tree in a way that resulted in this data being written to packed tar files headers. When this metadata included cycles, it resulted in the the tar file entering an infinite recursive loop and eventually crashing with a stack overflow.

    I've patched this by keeping track of your metadata by closing over the variables in question instead, and I've further restricted gathering and tracking the metadata to times when it's actually needed. (Which is only if you need bundled modules.) (@iarna)

LESS CRASHY ERROR MESSAGES ON BAD PACKAGES

  • 829921f #9741 Packages with invalid names or versions were crashing the installer. These are now captured and warned as was originally intended. (@iarna)

ONE DEPENDENCY UPDATE

AND ONE SUBDEPENDENCY

v2.14.6 (2015-09-24):

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Since 2.x is LTS now, you can expect a slowdown in overall release sizes. On top of that, we had our all-company-npm-internal-conf thing on Monday and Tuesday so there wasn't really time to do much at all.

Still, we're bringing you a couple of tiny little changes this week!

  • 7b7da13 #9471 When the port for a tarball is different than the registry it's in, but the hostname is the same, the protocol is now allowed to change, too. (@fastest963)
  • 6643ada request@2.63.0: Use application/json as the default content type when making json requests. (@simov)

v3.3.4 (2015-09-17):

This is a relatively quiet release, bringing a few bug fixes and some module updates, plus via the 2.14.5 release some forward compatibility fixes with versions of Node that aren't yet released.

NO BETA NOTICE THIS TIME!!

But, EXCITING NEWS FRIENDS, this week marks the exit of npm@3 from beta. This means that the week of this release, v3.3.3 will become latest and this version (v3.3.4) will become next!!

CRUFT FOR THE CRUFT GODS

What I call "cruft", by which I mean, files sitting around in your node_modules folder, will no longer produce warnings in npm ls nor during npm install. This brings npm@3's behavior in line with npm@2.

BETTER ERROR MESSAGE

MODULE UPDATES

SUB DEP MODULE UPDATES

v2.14.5 (2015-09-17):

NPM IS DEAD. LONG LIVE NPM

That's right folks. As of this week, npm@next is npm@3, which means it'll be npm@latest next week! There's some really great shiny new things over there, and you should really take a look.

Many kudos to @iarna for her hard work on npm@3!

Don't worry, we'll keep 2.x around for a while (as LTS), but you won't see many, if any, new features on this end. From now on, we're going to use latest-2 and next-2 as the dist tags for the npm@2 branch.

OKAY THAT'S FINE CAN I DEPRECATE THINGS NOW?

Yes! Specially if you're using scoped packages. Apparently, deprecating them never worked, but that should be better now. :)

  • eca7b24 #9558 Add tests for npm deprecate. (@zkat)
  • 648fe16 #9558 npm-registry-client@7.0.7: Fixes npm deprecate so you can actually deprecate scoped modules now (it never worked). (@zkat)

WTF IS node-waf

idk. Some old thing. We don't talk about it anymore.

  • cf1b39f #9584 Fix ancient references to node-waf in the docs to refer to the node-gyp version of things. (@KenanY)

THE graceful-fs AND node-gyp SAGA CONTINUES

Last week had some sweeping graceful-fs upgrades, and this takes care of one of the stragglers, as well as bumping node-gyp. node@4 users might be excited about this, or even node@<4 users who previously had to cherry-pick a bunch of patches to get the latest npm working.

DEPS! DEPS! MORE DEPS! OK STOP DEPS

v3.3.3 (2015-09-10):

This short week brought us brings us a few small bug fixes, a doc change and a whole lotta dependency updates.

Plus, as usual, this includes a forward port of everything in npm@2.14.4.

BETA BUT NOT FOREVER

THIS IS BETA SOFTWARE. npm@3 will remain in beta until we're confident that it's stable and have assessed the effect of the breaking changes on the community. During that time we will still be doing npm@2 releases, with npm@2 tagged as latest and next. We'll also be publishing new releases of npm@3 as npm@v3.x-next and npm@v3.x-latest alongside those versions until we're ready to switch everyone over to npm@3. We need your help to find and fix its remaining bugs. It's a significant rewrite, so we are sure there still significant bugs remaining. So do us a solid and deploy it in non-critical CI environments and for day-to-day use, but maybe don't use it for production maintenance or frontline continuous deployment just yet.

REMOVE INSTALLED BINARIES ON WINDOWS

So waaaay back at the start of August, I fixed a bug with #9198. That fix made it so that if you had two modules installed that both installed the same binary (eg gulp & gulp-cli), that removing one wouldn't remove the binary if it was owned by the other.

It did this by doing some hocus-pocus that, turns out, was Unix-specific, so on Windows it just threw up its hands and stopped removing installed binaries at all. Not great.

So today we're fixing that– it let us maintain the same safety that we added in #9198, but ALSO works with windows.

API DOCUMENTATION HAS BEEN SACRIFICED THE API GOD

The documentation of the internal APIs of npm is going away, because it would lead people into thinking they should integrate with npm by using it. Please don't do that! In the future, we'd like to give you a suite of stand alone modules that provide better, more stand alone APIs for your applications to build on. But for now, call the npm binary with process.exec or process.spawn instead.

ALLOW npm link ON WINDOWS W/ PRERELEASE VERSIONS OF NODE

We never meant to have this be a restriction in the first place and it was only just discovered with the recent node 4.0.0 release candidate.

graceful-fs update

We're updating all of npm's deps to use the most recent graceful-fs. This turns out to be important for future not yet released versions of node, because older versions monkey-patch fs in ways that will break in the future. Plus it ALSO makes use of process.binding which is an internal API that npm definitely shouldn't have been using. We're not done yet, but this is the bulk of them.

DEPENDENCY UPDATES

THE DEPENDENCIES OF OUR DEPENDENCIES ARE OUR DEPENDENCIES UPDATES

v2.14.4 (2015-09-10):

THE GREAT NODEv4 SAGA

So Node 4 is out now and that's going to involve a number of things over in npm land. Most importantly, it's the last major release that will include the 2.x branch of npm. That also means that 2.x is going to go into LTS mode in the coming weeks -- once npm@3 becomes our official latest release. You can most likely expect Node 5 to include npm@3 by default, whenever that happens. We'll go into more detail about LTS at that point, as well, so keep your eyes peeled for announcements!

NODE IS DEAD. LONG LIVE NODE!

Node 4 being released means that a few things that used to be floating patches are finally making it right into npm proper. This week, we've got two such updates, both to dependencies:

  • 505d9e4 node-gyp@3.0.1: Support for node nightlies and compilation for both node and io.js without extra patching (@rvagg)

@thefourtheye was kind enough to submit a bunch of PRs to npm's dependencies updating them to graceful-fs@4.1.2, which mainly makes it so we're no longer monkey-patching fs. The following are all updates related to this:

OTHER PATCHES

MORE DEPENDENCIES!

  • d940594 tap@1.4.1 (@isaacs)
  • ee38486 which@1.1.2: Added tests for Windows-related dead code that was previously helping a silent failure happen. Travis stuff, too. (@isaacs)

DOC UPDATES

  • 475daf5 #9492 Clarify how .npmignore and .gitignore are found and used by npm. (@addaleax)
  • b2c391d nopt@3.0.4: Minor clarifications to docs about how array and errors work. (@zkat)

v3.3.2 (2015-09-04):

PLEASE HOLD FOR THE NEXT AVAILABLE MAINTAINER

This is a tiny little maintenance release, both to update dependencies and to keep npm@3 up to date with changes made to npm@2. @othiym23 is putting out this release (again) as his esteemed colleague @iarna finishes relocating herself, her family, and her sizable anime collection all the way across North America. It contains all the goodies in npm@2.14.3 and one other dependency update.

BETA WARNINGS FOR FUN AND PROFIT

THIS IS BETA SOFTWARE. npm@3 will remain in beta until we're confident that it's stable and have assessed the effect of the breaking changes on the community. During that time we will still be doing npm@2 releases, with npm@2 tagged as latest and next. We'll also be publishing new releases of npm@3 as npm@v3.x-next and npm@v3.x-latest alongside those versions until we're ready to switch everyone over to npm@3. We need your help to find and fix its remaining bugs. It's a significant rewrite, so we are sure there still significant bugs remaining. So do us a solid and deploy it in non-critical CI environments and for day-to-day use, but maybe don't use it for production maintenance or frontline continuous deployment just yet.

That said, it's getting there! It will be leaving beta very soon!

ONE OTHER DEPENDENCY UPDATE

  • bb5de34 is-my-json-valid@2.12.2: Upgrade to a new, modernized version of json-pointer. (@mafintosh)

v2.14.3 (2015-09-03):

TEAMS AND ORGS STILL BETA. CLI CODE STILL SOLID.

Our closed beta for Teens and Orcs is happening! The web team is hard at work making sure everything looks pretty and usable and such. Once we fix things stemming from that beta, you can expect the feature to be available publicly. Some time after that, it'll even be available for free for FOSS orgs. It'll Be Done When It's Done™.

OH GOOD, I CAN ACTUALLY UPSTREAM NOW

Looks like last week's release foiled our own test suite when trying to upstream it to Node! Just a friendly reminder that no, .npmrc is no longer included then you pack/release a package! @othiym23 and @isaacs managed to suss the really strange test failures resulting from that, and we've patched it in this release.

  • 01a3428 #9476 test: Recreate missing .npmrc files when missing so downstream packagers can run tests on packed npm. (@othiym23)

TALKING ABOUT THE CHANGELOG IN THE CHANGELOG IS LIKE, POMO OR SOMETHING

devDependencies UPDATED

No actual dep updates this week, but we're bumping a couple of devDeps:

  • 8454835 tap@1.4.0: Add t.contains() as alias to t.match() (@isaacs)
  • 13d2216 deep-equal@1.0.1: Make null == undefined in non-strict mode (@isaacs)

v3.3.1 (2015-08-27):

Hi all, this npm@3 update brings you another round of bug fixes. The headliner here is that npm update works again. We're running down the clock on blocker 3.x issues! Shortly after that hits zero we'll be promoting 3.x to latest!!

And of course, we have changes that were brought forward from 2.x. Check out the release notes for 2.14.1 and 2.14.2.

BETA WARNINGS FOR FUN AND PROFIT

THIS IS BETA SOFTWARE. npm@3 will remain in beta until we're confident that it's stable and have assessed the effect of the breaking changes on the community. During that time we will still be doing npm@2 releases, with npm@2 tagged as latest and next. We'll also be publishing new releases of npm@3 as npm@v3.x-next and npm@v3.x-latest alongside those versions until we're ready to switch everyone over to npm@3. We need your help to find and fix its remaining bugs. It's a significant rewrite, so we are sure there still significant bugs remaining. So do us a solid and deploy it in non-critical CI environments and for day-to-day use, but maybe don't use it for production maintenance or frontline continuous deployment just yet.

NPM UPDATE, NOW AGAIN YOUR FRIEND

  • f130a00 #9095 npm update once again works! Previously, after selecting packages to update, it would then pick the wrong location to run the install from. (@iarna)

MORE VERBOSING FOR YOUR VERBOSE LIFECYCLES

  • d088b7d #9227 Add some additional logging at the verbose and silly levels when running lifecycle scripts. Hopefully this will make debugging issues with them a bit easier! (@saper)

AND SOME OTHER BUG FIXES…

  • f4a5784 #9308 Make fetching metadata for local modules faster! This ALSO means that doing things like running npm repo won't build your module and maybe run prepublish. (@iarna)

  • 4468c92 #9205 Fix a bug where local modules would sometimes not resolve relative links using the correct base path. (@iarna)

  • d395a6b #8995 Certain combinations of packages could result in different install orders for their initial installation than for reinstalls run on the same folder. (@iarna)

  • d119ea6 #9113 Make extraneous packages always up in npm ls. Previously, if an extraneous package had a dependency that depended back on the original package this would result in the package not showing up in ls. (@iarna)

  • 02420dc #9113 Stop warning about missing top level package.json files. Errors in said files will still be reported. (@iarna)

SOME DEP UPDATES

SOME DEPS OF DEPS UPDATES

v2.14.2 (2015-08-27):

GETTING THAT PESKY preferGlobal WARNING RIGHT

So apparently the preferGlobal option hasn't quite been warning correctly for some time. But now it should be all better! tl;dr: if you try and install a dependency with preferGlobal: true, and it's not already in your package.json, you'll get a warning that the author would really rather you install it with --global. This should prevent Windows PowerShell from thinking npm has failed just because of a benign warning.

  • bbb25f3 #8841 #9409 The preferGlobal warning shouldn't happen if the dependency being installed is listed in devDependencies. (@saper)
  • 222fcec #9409 preferGlobal now prints a warning when there are no dependencies for the current package. (@zkat)
  • 5cfed6d #9409 Verify that preferGlobal is warning as expected (when a preferGlobal dependency is installed, but isn't listed in either dependencies or devDependencies). (@zkat)

BUMP +1

  • eeafce2 validate-npm-package-license@3.0.1: Include additional metadata in parsed license object, useful for license checkers. (@kemitchell)
  • 1502a28 normalise-package-data@2.3.2: Updated to use validate-npm-package-license@3.0.1. (@othiym23)
  • cbde823 init-package-json@1.9.1: Add a silent option to suppress output on writing the generated package.json. Also, updated to use validate-npm-package-license@3.0.1. (@zkat)
  • 08fda46 tar@2.2.0: Minor improvements. (@othiym23)
  • dc2f20b rimraf@2.4.3: EPERM now triggers a delay / retry loop (since Windows throws this when things still hold a handle). (@isaacs)
  • e8acb27 read@1.0.7: Fix licensing ambiguity. (@isaacs)

OTHER STUFF THAT'S RELEVANT

  • 73a1ee0 #9386 Include additional unignorable files in documentation. (@mjhasbach)
  • 0313e40 #9396 Improve the EISDIR error message returned by npm's error-handling code to give users a better hint of what's most likely going on. Usually, error reports with this error code are about people trying to install things without a package.json. (@KenanY)
  • 2677457 #9360 Make it easier to run only some of npm tests with lifecycle scripts via npm tap test/tap/testname.js. (@iarna)

v2.14.1 (2015-08-20):

SECURITY FIX

There are patches for two information leaks of moderate severity in npm@2.14.1:

  1. In some cases, npm was leaking sensitive credential information into the child environment when running package and lifecycle scripts. This could lead to packages being published with files (most notably config.gypi, a file created by node-gyp that is a cache of environmental information regenerated on every run) containing the bearer tokens used to authenticate users to the registry. Users with affected packages have been notified (and the affected tokens invalidated), and now npm has been modified to not upload files that could contain this information, as well as scrubbing the sensitive information out of the environment passed to child scripts.
  2. Per-package .npmrc files are used by some maintainers as a way to scope those packages to a specific registry and its credentials. This is a reasonable use case, but by default .npmrc was packed into packages, leaking those credentials. npm will no longer include .npmrc when packing tarballs.

If you maintain packages and believe you may be affected by either of the above scenarios (especially if you've received a security notification from npm recently), please upgrade to npm@2.14.1 as soon as possible. If you believe you may have inadvertently leaked your credentials, upgrade to npm@2.14.1 on the affected machine, and run npm logout and then npm login. Your access tokens will be invalidated, which will eliminate any risk posed by tokens inadvertently included in published packages. We apologize for the inconvenience this causes, as well as the oversight that led to the existence of this issue in the first place.

Huge thanks to @ChALkeR for bringing these issues to our attention, and for helping us identify affected packages and maintainers. Thanks also to the Node.js security working group for their coördination with the team in our response to this issue. We appreciate everybody's patience and understanding tremendously.

  • b9474a8 fstream-npm@1.0.5: Stop publishing build cruft (config.gypi) and per-project .npmrc files to keep local configuration out of published packages. (@othiym23)
  • 13c286d #9348 Filter "private" (underscore-prefixed, even when scoped to a registry) configuration values out of child environments. (@othiym23)

BETTER WINDOWS INTEGRATION, ONE STEP AT A TIME

  • e40e71f #6412 Improve the search strategy used by the npm shims for Windows to prioritize your own local npm installs. npm has really needed this tweak for a long time, so hammer on it and let us know if you run into issues, but with luck it will Just Work. (@joaocgreis)
  • 204ebbb #8751 #7333 Keep autorun scripts from interfering with npm package and lifecycle script execution on Windows by adding /d and /s when invoking cmd.exe. (@saper)

IT SEEMED LIKE AN IDEA AT THE TIME

  • 286f3d9 #9201 For a while npm was building HTML partials for use on docs.npmjs.com, but we weren't actually using them. Stop building them, which makes running the full test suite and installation process around a third faster. (@isaacs)

A SINGLE LONELY DEPENDENCY UPGRADE

  • b343b95 request@2.61.0: Bug fixes and keep-alive tweaks. (@simov)

v3.3.0 (2015-08-13):

This is a pretty EXCITING week. But I may be a little excitable– or possibly sleep deprived, it's sometimes hard to tell them apart. =D So Kat really went the extra mile this week and got the client side support for teams and orgs out in this week's 2.x release. You can't use that just yet, 'cause we have to turn on some server side stuff too, but this way it'll be there for you all the moment we do! Check out the details over in the 2.14.0 release notes!

But we over here in 3.x ALSO got a new feature this week, check out the new --only and --also flags for better control over when dev and production dependencies are used by various npm commands.

That, and some important bug fixes round out this week. Enjoy everyone!

NEVER SHALL NOT BETA THE BETA

THIS IS BETA SOFTWARE. EXCITING NEW BETA WARNING!!! Ok, I fibbed, EXACTLY THE SAME BETA WARNINGS: npm@3 will remain in beta until we're confident that it's stable and have assessed the effect of the breaking changes on the community. During that time we will still be doing npm@2 releases, with npm@2 tagged as latest and next. We'll also be publishing new releases of npm@3 as npm@v3.x-next and npm@v3.x-latest alongside those versions until we're ready to switch everyone over to npm@3. We need your help to find and fix its remaining bugs. It's a significant rewrite, so we are sure there still significant bugs remaining. So do us a solid and deploy it in non-critical CI environments and for day-to-day use, but maybe don't use it for production maintenance or frontline continuous deployment just yet.

ONLY ALSO DEV

Hey we've got a SUPER cool new feature for you all, thanks to the fantastic work of @davglass and @bengl we have --only=prod, --only=dev, --also=prod and --also=dev options. These apply in various ways to: npm install, npm ls, npm outdated and npm update.

So for instance:

npm install --only=dev

Only installs dev dependencies. By contrast:

npm install --only=prod

Will only install prod dependencies and is very similar to --production but differs in that it doesn't set the environment variables that --production does.

The related new flag, --also is most useful with things like:

npm shrinkwrap --also=dev

As shrinkwraps don't include dev deps by default. This replaces passing in --dev in that scenario.

And that leads into the fact that this deprecates --dev as its semantics across commands were inconsistent and confusing.

DON'T TOUCH! THAT'S NOT YOUR BIN

  • b31812e #8996 When removing a module that has bin files, if one that we're going to remove is a symlink to a DIFFERENT module, leave it alone. This only happens when you have two modules that try to provide the same bin. (@iarna)

THERE'S AN END IN SIGHT

  • d2178a9 #9223 Close a bunch of infinite loops that could show up with symlink cycles in your dependencies. (@iarna)

OOPS DIDN'T MEAN TO FIX THAT

Well, not just yet. This was scheduled for next week, but it snuck into 2.x this week.

  • 139dd92 #8716 npm init will now only pick up the modules you install, not everything else that got flattened with them. (@iarna)

v2.14.0 (2015-08-13):

IT'S HERE! KINDA!

This release adds support for teens and orcs (err, teams and organizations) to the npm CLI! Note that the web site and registry-side features of this are still not ready for public consumption.

A beta should be starting in the next couple of weeks, and the features themselves will become public once all that's done. Keep an eye out for more news!

All of these changes were done under #9011:

  • 6424170 Added new npm team command and subcommands. (@zkat)
  • 52220d1 Added documentation for new npm team command. (@zkat)
  • 4e66830 Updated npm access to support teams and organizations. (@zkat)
  • ea3eb87 Gussied up docs for npm access with new commands. (@zkat)
  • 6e0b431 Fix up npm whoami to make the underlying API usable elsewhere. (@zkat)
  • f29c931 npm-registry-client@7.0.1: Upgrade npm-registry-client API to support team and access calls against the registry. (@zkat)

A FEW EXTRA VERSION BUMPS

ALSO A DOC FIX

  • 846fcc7 #9200 Remove single quotes around semver range, thus making it valid semver. (@KenanY)

v3.2.2 (2015-08-08):

Lot's of lovely bug fixes for npm@3. I'm also suuuuper excited that I think we have a handle on stack explosions that effect a small portion of our users. We also have some tantalizing clues as to where some low hanging fruit may be for performance issues.

And of course, in addition to the npm@3 specific bug fixes, there are some great one's coming in from npm@2! @othiym23 put together that release this week– check out its release notes for the deets.

AS ALWAYS STILL BETA

THIS IS BETA SOFTWARE. Just like the airline safety announcements, we're not taking this plane off till we finish telling you: npm@3 will remain in beta until we're confident that it's stable and have assessed the effect of the breaking changes on the community. During that time we will still be doing npm@2 releases, with npm@2 tagged as latest and next. We'll also be publishing new releases of npm@3 as npm@v3.x-next and npm@v3.x-latest alongside those versions until we're ready to switch everyone over to npm@3. We need your help to find and fix its remaining bugs. It's a significant rewrite, so we are sure there still significant bugs remaining. So do us a solid and deploy it in non-critical CI environments and for day-to-day use, but maybe don't use it for production maintenance or frontline continuous deployment just yet.

BUG FIXES

  • a8c8a13 #9050 Resolve peer deps relative to the parent of the requirer (@iarna)
  • 05f0226 #9077 Fix crash when saving git+ssh urls (@iarna)
  • e4a3808 #8951 Extend our patch to allow * to match something when a package only has prerelease versions to everything and not just the cache. (@iarna)
  • d135abf #8871 Don't warn about a missing package.json or missing fields in the global install directory. (@iarna)

DEP VERSION BUMPS

v2.13.5 (2015-08-07):

This is another quiet week for the npm@2 release. @zkat has been working hard on polishing the CLI bits of the registry's new feature to support direct management of teams and organizations, and @iarna continues to work through the list of issues blocking the general release of npm@3, which is looking more and more solid all the time.

@othiym23 and @zkat have also been at this week's Node.js / io.js collaborator summit, both as facilitators and participants. This is a valuable opportunity to get some face time with other contributors and to work through a bunch of important discussions, but it does leave us feeling kind of sleepy. Running meetings is hard!

What does that leave for this release? A few of the more tricky bug fixes that have been sitting around for a little while now, and a couple dependency upgrades. Nothing too fancy, but most of these were contributed by developers like you, which we think is swell. Thanks!

BUG FIXES

  • d7271b8 #4530 The bash completion script for npm no longer alters global completion behavior around word breaks. (@whitty)
  • c9ce294 #7198 When setting up dependencies to be shared via npm link <package>, only run the lifecycle scripts during the original link, not when running npm link <package> or npm install --link against them. (@murgatroid99)
  • 422da66 #9108 Clear up minor confusion around wording in bundledDependencies section of package.json docs. (@derekpeterson)
  • 6b42d99 #9146 Include scripts that run for preversion, version, and postversion in the section for lifecycle scripts rather than the generic npm run-script output. (@othiym23)

NOPE, NOT DONE WITH DEPENDENCY UPDATES

  • 91a48bb chmodr@1.0.1: Ignore symbolic links when recursively changing mode, just like the Unix command. (@isaacs)
  • 4bbc86e nock@2.10.0 (@pgte)

v3.2.1 (2015-07-31):

AN EXTRA QUIET RELEASE

A bunch of stuff got deferred for various reasons, which just means more branches to land next week!

Don't forget to check out Kat's 2.x release for other quiet goodies.

AS ALWAYS STILL BETA

THIS IS BETA SOFTWARE. Yes, we're still reminding you of this. No, you can't be excused. npm@3 will remain in beta until we're confident that it's stable and have assessed the effect of the breaking changes on the community. During that time we will still be doing npm@2 releases, with npm@2 tagged as latest and next. We'll also be publishing new releases of npm@3 as npm@v3.x-next and npm@v3.x-latest alongside those versions until we're ready to switch everyone over to npm@3. We need your help to find and fix its remaining bugs. It's a significant rewrite, so we are sure there still significant bugs remaining. So do us a solid and deploy it in non-critical CI environments and for day-to-day use, but maybe don't use it for production maintenance or frontline continuous deployment just yet.

MAKING OUR TESTS TEST THE THING THEY TEST

  • 6e53c3d #8985 Many thanks to @bengl for noticing that one of our tests wasn't testing what it claimed it was testing! (@bengl)

MY PACKAGE.JSON WAS ALREADY IN THE RIGHT ORDER

  • eb2c7aa #9068 Stop sorting keys in the package.json that we haven't edited. Many thanks to @Qix- for bringing this up and providing a first pass at a patch for this. (@iarna)

DEV DEP UPDATE

v2.13.4 (2015-07-30):

JULY ENDS ON A FAIRLY QUIET NOTE

Hey everyone! I hope you've had a great week. We're having a fairly small release this week while we wrap up Teams and Orgs (or, as we've taken to calling it internally, Teens and Orcs).

In other exciting news, a bunch of us are gonna be at the Node.js Collaborator Summit, and you can also find us at wafflejs on Wednesday. Hopefully we'll be seeing some of you there. :)

THE PATCH!!!

So here it is. The patch. Hope it helps. (Thanks, @ktarplee!)

OH AND THERE'S A DEV DEPENDENCIES UPDATE

Hooray.

v3.2.0 (2015-07-24):

MORE CONFIG, BETTER WINDOWS AND A BUG FIX

This is a smallish release with a new config option and some bug fixes. And lots of module updates.

BETA BETAS ON

THIS IS BETA SOFTWARE. Yes, we're still reminding you of this. No, you can't be excused. npm@3 will remain in beta until we're confident that it's stable and have assessed the effect of the breaking changes on the community. During that time we will still be doing npm@2 releases, with npm@2 tagged as latest and next. We'll also be publishing new releases of npm@3 as npm@v3.x-next and npm@v3.x-latest alongside those versions until we're ready to switch everyone over to npm@3. We need your help to find and fix its remaining bugs. It's a significant rewrite, so we are sure there still significant bugs remaining. So do us a solid and deploy it in non-critical CI environments and for day-to-day use, but maybe don't use it for production maintenance or frontline continuous deployment just yet.

NEW CONFIGS, LESS PROGRESS

  • 423d8f7 #8704 Add the ability to disable the new progress bar with --no-progress (@iarna)

AND BUG FIXES

  • b3ee452 #9038 We previously disabled the use of the new fs.access API on Windows, but the bug we were seeing is fixed in io.js@1.5.0 so we now use fs.access if you're using that version or greater. (@iarna)

  • b181fa3 #8921 #8637 Rejigger how we validate modules for install. This allow is to fix a problem where arch/os checking wasn't being done at all. It also made it easy to add back in a check that declines to install a module in itself unless you force it. (@iarna)

AND A WHOLE BUNCH OF SUBDEP VERSIONS

These are all development dependencies and semver-compatible subdep upgrades, so they should not have visible impact on users.

MERGED FORWARD

  • As usual, we've ported all the npm@2 goodies in this week's v2.13.3 release.

v2.13.3 (2015-07-23):

I'M SAVING THE GOOD JOKES FOR MORE INTERESTING RELEASES

It's pretty hard to outdo last week's release buuuuut~ I promise I'll have a treat when we release our shiny new Teams and Organizations feature! :D (Coming Soon™). It'll be a real gem.

That means it's a pretty low-key release this week. We got some nice documentation tweaks, a few bugfixes, and other such things, though!

Oh, and a bunch of version bumps. Thanks, semver!

IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS THAT MATTER

  • 2fac6ae #9012 A convenience for releases -- using the globally-installed npm before now was causing minor annoyances, so we just use the exact same npm we're releasing to build the new release. (@zkat)

WHAT DOES THIS BUTTON DO?

There's a couple of doc updates! The last one might be interesting.

  • 4cd3205 #9002 Updated docs to list the various files that npm automatically includes and excludes, regardless of settings. (@SimenB)
  • cf09e75 #9022 Document the "access" field in "publishConfig". Did you know you don't need to use --access=public when publishing scoped packages?! Just put it in your package.json! Go refresh yourself on scopes packages by checking our docs on them. (@boennemann)
  • bfd73da #9013 fixed typo in changelog (@radarhere)

THE SEMVER MAJOR VERSION APOCALYPSE IS UPON US

Basically, semver is up to @5, and that meant we needed to go in an update a bunch of our dependencies manually. node-gyp is still pending update, since it's not ours, though!

*BUMP*

And some other version bumps for good measure.

  • 254ecfb #8990 marked-man@0.1.5: Fixes an issue with documentation rendering where backticks in 2nd-level headers would break rendering (?!?!) (@steveklabnik)
  • 79efd79 minimatch@2.0.10: A pattern like '*.!(x).!(y)' should not match a name like 'a.xyz.yab'. (@isaacs)
  • 39c7dc9 request@2.60.0: A few bug fixes and doc updates. (@simov)
  • 72d3c3a rimraf@2.4.2: Minor doc and dep updates (@isaacs)
  • 7513035 nock@2.9.1 (@pgte)
  • 3d9aa82 Fixes this thing where Kat decided to save nock as a regular dependency ;) (@othiym23)

v3.1.3 (2015-07-17):

Rebecca: So Kat, I hear this week's other release uses a dialog between us to explain what changed?

Kat: Well, you could say that…

Rebecca: I would! This week I fixed more npm@3 bugs!

Kat: That sounds familiar.

Rebecca: Eheheheh, well, before we look at those, a word from our sponsor…

BETA IS AS BETA DOES

THIS IS BETA SOFTWARE. Yes, we're still reminding you of this. No, you can't be excused. npm@3 will remain in beta until we're confident that it's stable and have assessed the effect of the breaking changes on the community. During that time we will still be doing npm@2 releases, with npm@2 tagged as latest and next. We'll also be publishing new releases of npm@3 as npm@v3.x-next and npm@v3.x-latest alongside those versions until we're ready to switch everyone over to npm@3. We need your help to find and fix its remaining bugs. It's a significant rewrite, so we are sure there still significant bugs remaining. So do us a solid and deploy it in non-critical CI environments and for day-to-day use, but maybe don't use it for production maintenance or frontline continuous deployment just yet.

Rebecca: Ok, enough of the dialoguing, that's Kat's schtick. But do remember kids, betas hide in dark hallways waiting to break your stuff, stuff like…

SO MANY LINKS YOU COULD MAKE A CHAIN

  • 6d69ec9 #8967 Removing a module linked into your globals would result in having all of its subdeps removed. Since the npm release process does exactly this, it burned me -every- -single- -week-. =D While we're here, we also removed extraneous warns that used to spill out when you'd remove a symlink. (@iarna)

  • fdb360f #8874 Linking scoped modules was failing outright, but this fixes that and updates our tests so we don't do it again. (@iarna)

WE'LL TRY NOT TO CRACK YOUR WINDOWS

  • 9fafb18 #8701 npm@3 introduced permissions checks that run before it actually tries to do something. This saves you from having an install fail half way through. We did this using the shiny new fs.access function available in node 0.12 and io.js, with fallback options for older nodes. Unfortunately the way we implemented the fallback caused racey problems for Windows systems. This fixes that by ensuring we only ever run any one check on a directory once. BUT it turns out there are bugs in fs.access on Windows. So this ALSO just disables the use of fs.access on Windows entirely until that settles out. (@iarna)

ZOOM ZOOM, DEP UPDATES

  • 5656baa gauge@1.2.2: Better handle terminal resizes while printing the progress bar (@iarna)

MERGED FORWARD

v2.13.2 (2015-07-16):

HOLD ON TO YOUR TENTACLES... IT'S NPM RELEASE TIME!

Kat: Hooray! Full team again, and we've got a pretty small patch release this week, about everyone's favorite recurring issue: git URLs!

Rebecca: No Way! Again?

Kat: The ride never ends! In the meantime, there's some fun, exciting work in the background to get orgs and teams out the door. Keep an eye out for news. :)

Rebecca: And make sure to keep an eye out for patches for the super-fresh npm@3!

LET'S GIT INKY

Rebecca: So what's this about another git URL issue?

Kat: Welp, I apparently broke backwards-compatibility on what are actually invalid git+https URLs! So I'm making it work, but we're gonna deprecate URLs that look like git+https://user@host:path/is/here.

Rebecca: What should we use instead?!

Kat: Just do me a solid and use git+ssh://user@host:path/here or git+https://user@host/absolute/https/path instead!

  • 769f06e Updated tests for getResolved so the URLs are run through normalize-git-url. (@zkat)
  • edbae68 #8881 Added tests to verify that git+https: URLs are handled compatibly. (@zkat)

NEWS FLASH! DOCUMENTATION IMPROVEMENTS!

  • bad4e014 #8924 Make sure documented default values in lib/cache.js properly correspond to current code. (@watilde)
  • e7a11fd #8036 Clarify the documentation for .npmrc to clarify that it's not read at the project level when doing global installs. (@espadrine)

STAY FRESH~

Kat: That's it for npm core changes!

Rebecca: Great! Let's look at the fresh new dependencies, then!

Kat: See you all next week!

Both: Stay Freeesh~

(some cat form of Forrest can be seen snoring in the corner)

  • bfa1f45 normalize-git-url@3.0.1: Fixes url normalization such that git+https: accepts scp syntax, but get converted into absolute-path https: URLs. Also fixes scp syntax so you can have absolute paths after the : (git@myhost.org:/some/absolute/place.git) (@zkat)
  • 6f757d2 glob@5.0.15: Better handling of ENOTSUP (@isaacs)
  • 0920819 node-gyp@2.0.2: Fixes an issue with long paths on Win32 (@TooTallNate)

v3.1.2

SO VERY BETA RELEASE

So, v3.1.1 managed to actually break installing local modules. And then immediately after I drove to an island for the weekend. 😁 So let's get this fixed outside the usual release train!

Fortunately it didn't break installing global modules and so you could swap it out for another version at least.

DISCLAIMER MEANS WHAT IT SAYS

THIS IS BETA SOFTWARE. Yes, we're still reminding you of this. No, you can't be excused. npm@3 will remain in beta until we're confident that it's stable and have assessed the effect of the breaking changes on the community. During that time we will still be doing npm@2 releases, with npm@2 tagged as latest and next. We'll also be publishing new releases of npm@3 as npm@v3.x-next and npm@v3.x-latest alongside those versions until we're ready to switch everyone over to npm@3. We need your help to find and fix its remaining bugs. It's a significant rewrite, so we are sure there still significant bugs remaining. So do us a solid and deploy it in non-critical CI environments and for day-to-day use, but maybe don't use it for production maintenance or frontline continuous deployment just yet.

THIS IS IT, THE REASON

v3.1.1

RED EYE RELEASE

Rebecca's up too late writing tests, so you can have npm@3 bug fixes! Lots of great new issues from you all! ❤️️ Keep it up!

YUP STILL BETA, PLEASE PAY ATTENTION

THIS IS BETA SOFTWARE. Yes, we're still reminding you of this. No, you can't be excused. npm@3 will remain in beta until we're confident that it's stable and have assessed the effect of the breaking changes on the community. During that time we will still be doing npm@2 releases, with npm@2 tagged as latest and next. We'll also be publishing new releases of npm@3 as npm@v3.x-next and npm@v3.x-latest alongside those versions until we're ready to switch everyone over to npm@3. We need your help to find and fix its remaining bugs. It's a significant rewrite, so we are sure there still significant bugs remaining. So do us a solid and deploy it in non-critical CI environments and for day-to-day use, but maybe don't use it for production maintenance or frontline continuous deployment just yet.

BOOGS

  • 9badfd6 #8608 Make global installs and uninstalls MUCH faster by only reading the directories of modules referred to by arguments. (@iarna
  • 075a5f0 #8660 Failed optional deps would still result in the optional deps own dependencies being installed. We now find them and fail them out of the tree. (@iarna
  • c9fbbb5 #8863 The "no compatible version found" error message was including only the version requested, not the name of the package we wanted. Ooops! (@iarna
  • 32e6bbd #8806 The "uninstall" lifecycle was being run after all of a module's dependencies has been removed. This reverses that order-- this means "uninstall" lifecycles can make use of the package's dependencies. (@iarna

MERGED FORWARD

v2.13.1 (2015-07-09):

KAUAI WAS NICE. I MISS IT.

But Forrest's still kinda on vacation, and not just mentally, because he's hanging out with the fine meatbags at CascadiaFest. Enjoy this small bug release.

MAKE OURSELVES HAPPY

  • 40981f2 #8862 Make the lifecycle's safety check work with scoped packages. (@tcort)
  • 5125856 #8855 Make dependency versions of "*" match "latest" when all versions are prerelease. (@iarna)
  • 22fdc1d Visually emphasize the correct way to write lifecycle scripts. (@josh-egan)

MAKE TRAVIS HAPPY

  • 413c3ac Use npm's 2.x branch for testing its 2.x branch. (@iarna)
  • 7602f64 Don't prompt for GnuPG passphrase in version lifecycle tests. (@othiym23)

MAKE npm outdated HAPPY

  • d338668 #8796 fstream-npm@1.0.4: When packing the package tarball, npm no longer crashes for packages with certain combinations of .npmignore entries, .gitignore entries, and lifecycle scripts. (@iarna)
  • dbe7c9c nock@2.7.0: Add matching based on query strings. (@othiym23)

There are new versions of strip-ansi and ansi-regex, but npm only uses them indirectly, so we pushed them down into their dependencies where they can get updated at their own pace.

v3.1.0 (2015-07-02):

This has been a brief week of bug fixes, plus some fun stuff merged forward from this weeks 2.x release. See the 2.13.0 release notes for details on that.

You all have been AWESOME with all the npm@3 bug reports! Thank you and keep up the great work!

NEW PLACE, SAME CODE

Remember how last week we said npm@3 would go to 3.0-next and latest tags? Yeaaah, no, please use npm@v3.x-next and npm@v3.x-latest going forward.

I dunno why we said "suuure, we'll never do a feature release till we're out of beta" when we're still forward porting npm@2.x features. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If you do accidentally use the old tag names, I'll be maintaining them for a few releases, but they won't be around forever.

YUP STILL BETA, PLEASE PAY ATTENTION

THIS IS BETA SOFTWARE. npm@3 will remain in beta until we're confident that it's stable and have assessed the effect of the breaking changes on the community. During that time we will still be doing npm@2 releases, with npm@2 tagged as latest and next. We'll also be publishing new releases of npm@3 as npm@v3.x-next and npm@v3.x-latest alongside those versions until we're ready to switch everyone over to npm@3. We need your help to find and fix its remaining bugs. It's a significant rewrite, so we are sure there still significant bugs remaining. So do us a solid and deploy it in non-critical CI environments and for day-to-day use, but maybe don't use it for production maintenance or frontline continuous deployment just yet.

BUGS ON THE WINDOWS

  • 0030ade #8685 Windows would hang when trying to clone git repos (@euprogramador)
  • b259bcc #8786 Windows permissions checks would cause installations to fail under some circumstances. We're disabling the checks entirely for this release. I'm hoping to check back with this next week to get a Windows friendly fix in. (@iarna)

SO MANY BUGS SQUASHED, JUST CALL US RAID

  • 0848698 #8686 Stop leaving progress bar cruft on the screen during publication (@ajcrites)
  • 57c3cea #8695 Remote packages with shrinkwraps made npm cause node + iojs to explode and catch fire. NO MORE. (@iarna)
  • 2875ba3 #8723 I uh, told you that engineStrict checking had gone away last week. TURNS OUT I LIED. So this is making that actually be true. (@iarna)
  • 28064e5 #3358 Consistently allow Unicode BOMs at the start of package.json files. Previously this was allowed some of time, like when you were installing modules, but not others, like running npm version or installing w/ --save. (@iarna)
  • 3cb6ad2 #8736 npm@3 wasn't running the "install" lifecycle in your current (toplevel) module. This broke modules that relied on C compilation. BOO. (@iarna)
  • 68da583 #8766 To my great shame, npm link package wasn't working AT ALL if you didn't have package already installed. (@iarna)
  • edd7448 read-package-tree@5.0.0: This update makes read-package-tree not explode when there's bad data in your node_modules folder. npm@2 silently ignores this sort of thing. (@iarna)
  • 0bb08c8 #8778 RELATEDLY, we now show any errors from your node_modules folder after your installation completes as warnings. We're also reporting these in npm ls now. (@iarna)
  • 6c248ff #8779 Hey, you know how we used to complain if your package.json was missing stuff? Well guess what, we are again. I know, I know, you can thank me later. (@iarna)
  • d6f7c98 So, when we were rolling back after errors we had untested code that tried to undo moves. Being untested it turns out it was very broken. I've removed it until we have time to do this right. (@iarna)

NEW VERSION

Just the one. Others came in via the 2.x release. Do check out its changelog, immediately following this message.

v2.13.0 (2015-07-02):

FORREST IS OUT! LET'S SNEAK IN ALL THE THINGS!

Well, not everything. Just a couple of goodies, like the new npm ping command, and the ability to add files to the commits created by npm version with the new version hooks. There's also a couple of bugfixes in npm itself and some of its dependencies. Here we go!

YES HELLO THIS IS NPM REGISTRY SORRY NO DOG HERE

Yes, that's right! We now have a dedicated npm ping command. It's super simple and super easy. You ping. We tell you whether you pinged right by saying hello right back. This should help out folks dealing with things like proxy issues or other registry-access debugging issues. Give it a shot!

This addresses #5750, and will help with the npm doctor stuff described in #6756.

I'VE WANTED THIS FOR version SINCE LIKE LITERALLY FOREVER AND A DAY

Seriously! This patch lets you add files to the version commit before it's made, So you can add additional metadata files, more automated changes to package.json, or even generate CHANGELOG.md automatically pre-commit if you're into that sort of thing. I'm so happy this is there I can't even. Do you have other fun usecases for this? Tell npmbot (@npmjs) about it!

ALL YOUR FILE DESCRIPTORS ARE BELONG TO US

We've had problems in the past with things like EMFILE errors popping up when trying to install packages with a bunch of dependencies. Isaac patched up graceful-fs to handle this case better, so we should be seeing fewer of those.

  • 022691a graceful-fs@4.1.2: Updated so we can monkey patch globally. (@isaacs)
  • c9fb0fd Globally monkey-patch graceful-fs. This should fix some errors when installing packages with lots of dependencies. (@isaacs)

READ THE FINE DOCS. THEY'VE IMPROVED

MORE NUMBERS! MORE VALUE!

  • 5afa2d5 validate-npm-package-name@2.2.2: Documented package name rules in README (@zeusdeux)
  • 021f4d9 rimraf@2.4.1: #74 Use async function for bin (to better handle Window's EBUSY) (@isaacs)
  • 5223432 osenv@0.1.3: Use os.homedir() polyfill for more reliable output. io.js added the function and the polyfill does a better job than the prior solution. (@sindresorhus)
  • 8ebbc90 npm-cache-filename@1.0.2: Make sure different git references get different cache folders. This should prevent foo/bar#v1.0 and foo/bar#master from sharing the same cache folder. (@tomekwi)
  • 367b854 lru-cache@2.6.5: Minor test/typo changes (@isaacs)
  • 9fcae61 glob@5.0.13: Tiny doc change + stop firing 'match' events for ignored items. (@isaacs)

OH AND ONE MORE THING

v2.12.1 (2015-06-25):

HEY WHERE DID EVERYBODY GO

I keep hearing some commotion. Is there something going on? Like, a party or something? Anyway, here's a small release with at least two significant bug fixes, at least one of which some of you have been waiting for for quite a while.

REMEMBER WHEN I SAID "REMEMBER WHEN I SAID THAT THING ABOUT PERMISSIONS?"?

npm@2.12.0 has a change that introduces a fix for a permissions problem whereby the _locks directory in the cache directory can up being owned by root. The fix in 2.12.0 takes care of that problem, but introduces a new problem for Windows users where npm tries to call process.getuid(), which doesn't exist on Windows. It was easy enough to fix (but more or less impossible to test, thanks to all the external dependencies involved with permissions and platforms and whatnot), but as a result, Windows users might want to skip npm@2.12.0 and go straight to npm@2.12.1. Sorry about that!

  • 7e5da23 When using the new, "fixed" cache directory creator, be extra-careful to not call process.getuid() on platforms that lack it. (@othiym23)

WHEW! ALL DONE FIXING GIT FOREVER!

New npm CLI team hero @zkat has finally (FINALLY) fixed the regression somebody (hi!) introduced a couple months ago whereby git URLs of the format git+ssh://user@githost.com:org/repo.git suddenly stopped working, and also started being saved (and cached) incorrectly. I am 100% sure there are absolutely no more bugs in the git caching code at all ever. Mm hm. Yep. Pretty sure. Maybe. Hmm... I hope.

Sighs audibly.

Let us know if we broke something else with this fix.

  • 94ca4a7 #8031 Even though git+ssh://user@githost.com:org/repo.git isn't a URL, treat it like one for the purposes of npm. (@zkat)
  • e7f56e5 #8031 normalize-git-url@2.0.0: Handle git URLs (and URL-like remote refs) in a manner consistent with npm's docs. (@zkat)

YEP, THERE ARE STILL DEPENDENCY UPGRADES

v3.0.0 (2015-06-25):

Wow, it's finally here! This has been a long time coming. We are all delighted and proud to be getting this out into the world, and are looking forward to working with the npm user community to get it production-ready as quickly as possible.

npm@3 constitutes a nearly complete rewrite of npm's installer to be easier to maintain, and to bring a bunch of valuable new features and design improvements to you all.

@othiym23 and @isaacs have been talking about the changes in this release for well over a year, and it's been the primary focus of @iarna since she joined the team.

Given that this is a near-total rewrite, all changes listed here are @iarna's work unless otherwise specified.

NO, REALLY, READ THIS PARAGRAPH. IT'S THE IMPORTANT ONE.

THIS IS BETA SOFTWARE. npm@3 will remain in beta until we're confident that it's stable and have assessed the effect of the breaking changes on the community. During that time we will still be doing npm@2 releases, with npm@2 tagged as latest and next. We'll also be publishing new releases of npm@3 as npm@3.0-next and npm@3.0-latest alongside those versions until we're ready to switch everyone over to npm@3. We need your help to find and fix its remaining bugs. It's a significant rewrite, so we are sure there still significant bugs remaining. So do us a solid and deploy it in non-critical CI environments and for day-to-day use, but maybe don't use it for production maintenance or frontline continuous deployment just yet.

BREAKING CHANGES

peerDependencies

grunt, gulp, and broccoli plugin maintainers take note! You will be affected by this change!

  • #6930 (#6565) peerDependencies no longer cause anything to be implicitly installed. Instead, npm will now warn if a packages peerDependencies are missing, but it's up to the consumer of the module (i.e. you) to ensure the peers get installed / are included in package.json as direct dependencies or devDependencies of your package.
  • #3803 npm also no longer checks peerDependencies until after it has fully resolved the tree.

This shifts the responsibility for fulfilling peer dependencies from library / framework / plugin maintainers to application authors, and is intended to get users out of the dependency hell caused by conflicting peerDependency constraints. npm's job is to keep you out of dependency hell, not put you in it.

engineStrict
  • #6931 The rarely-used package.json option engineStrict has been deprecated for several months, producing warnings when it was used. Starting with npm@3, the value of the field is ignored, and engine violations will only produce warnings. If you, as a user, want strict engines field enforcement, just run npm config set engine-strict true.

As with the peer dependencies change, this is about shifting control from module authors to application authors. It turns out engineStrict was very difficult to understand even harder to use correctly, and more often than not just made modules using it difficult to deploy.

npm view
  • 77f1aec With npm view (aka npm info), always return arrays for versions, maintainers, etc. Previously npm would return a plain value if there was only one, and multiple values if there were more. (@KenanY)

KNOWN BUGS

Again, this is a BETA RELEASE, so not everything is working just yet. Here are the issues that we already know about. If you run into something that isn't on this list, let us know!

  • #8575 Circular deps will never be removed by the prune-on-uninstall code.
  • #8588 Local deps where the dep name and the name in the package.json differ don't result in an error.
  • #8637 Modules can install themselves as direct dependencies. npm@2 declined to do this.
  • #8660 Dependencies of failed optional dependencies aren't rolled back when the optional dependency is, and then are reported as extraneous thereafter.

NEW FEATURES

The multi-stage installer!

  • #5919 Previously the installer had a set of steps it executed for each package and it would immediately start executing them as soon as it decided to act on a package.

    But now it executes each of those steps at the same time for all packages, waiting for all of one stage to complete before moving on. This eliminates many race conditions and makes the code easier to reason about.

This fixes, for instance:

  • #6926 (#5001, #6170) install and postinstall lifecycle scripts now only execute after all the module with the script's dependencies are installed.
Install: it looks different!

You'll now get a tree much like the one produced by npm ls that highlights in orange the packages that were installed. Similarly, any removed packages will have their names prefixed by a -.

Also, npm outdated used to include the name of the module in the Location field:

Package                Current  Wanted  Latest  Location
deep-equal             MISSING   1.0.0   1.0.0  deep-equal
glob                     4.5.3   4.5.3  5.0.10  rimraf > glob

Now it shows the module that required it as the final point in the Location field:

Package                Current  Wanted  Latest  Location
deep-equal             MISSING   1.0.0   1.0.0  npm
glob                     4.5.3   4.5.3  5.0.10  npm > rimraf

Previously the Location field was telling you where the module was on disk. Now it tells you what requires the module. When more than one thing requires the module you'll see it listed once for each thing requiring it.

Install: it works different!
  • #6928 (#2931 #2950) npm install when you have an npm-shrinkwrap.json will ensure you have the modules specified in it are installed in exactly the shape specified no matter what you had when you started.
  • #6913 (#1341 #3124 #4956 #6349 #5465) npm install when some of your dependencies are missing sub-dependencies will result in those sub-dependencies being installed. That is, npm install now knows how to fix broken installs, most of the time.
  • #5465 If you directly npm install a module that's already a subdep of something else and your new version is incompatible, it will now install the previous version nested in the things that need it.
  • a2b50cf #5693 When installing a new module, if it's mentioned in your npm-shrinkwrap.json or your package.json use the version specifier from there if you didn't specify one yourself.
Flat, flat, flat!

Your dependencies will now be installed maximally flat. Insofar as is possible, all of your dependencies, and their dependencies, and THEIR dependencies will be installed in your project's node_modules folder with no nesting. You'll only see modules nested underneath one another when two (or more) modules have conflicting dependencies.

  • #3697 This will hopefully eliminate most cases where windows users ended up with paths that were too long for Explorer and other standard tools to deal with.
  • #6912 (#4761 #4037) This also means that your installs will be deduped from the start.
  • #5827 This deduping even extends to git deps.
  • #6936 (#5698) Various commands are dedupe aware now.

This has some implications for the behavior of other commands:

  • npm uninstall removes any dependencies of the module that you specified that aren't required by any other module. Previously, it would only remove those that happened to be installed under it, resulting in left over cruft if you'd ever deduped.
  • npm ls now shows you your dependency tree organized around what requires what, rather than where those modules are on disk.
  • #6937 npm dedupe now flattens the tree in addition to deduping.

And bundling of dependencies when packing or publishing changes too:

  • #2442 bundledDependencies no longer requires that you specify deduped sub deps. npm can now see that a dependency is required by something bundled and automatically include it. To put that another way, bundledDependencies should ONLY include things that you included in dependencies, optionalDependencies or devDependencies.
  • #5437 When bundling a dependency that's both a devDependency and the child of a regular dependency, npm bundles the child dependency.

As a demonstration of our confidence in our own work, npm's own dependencies are now flattened, deduped, and bundled in the npm@3 style. This means that npm@3 can't be packed or published by npm@2, which is something to be aware of if you're hacking on npm.

Shrinkwraps: they are a-changin'!

First of all, they should be idempotent now (#5779). No more differences because the first time you install (without npm-shrinkwrap.json) and the second time (with npm-shrinkwrap.json).

  • #6781 Second, if you save your changes to package.json and you have npm-shrinkwrap.json, then it will be updated as well. This applies to all of the commands that update your tree:
    • npm install --save
    • npm update --save
    • npm dedupe --save (#6410)
    • npm uninstall --save
  • #4944 (#5161 #5448) Third, because node_modules folders are now deduped and flat, shrinkwrap has to also be smart enough to handle this.

And finally, enjoy this shrinkwrap bug fix:

  • #3675 When shrinkwrapping a dependency that's both a devDependency and the child of a regular dependency, npm now correctly includes the child.
The Age of Progress (Bars)!
  • #6911 (#1257 #5340 #6420) The spinner is gone (yay? boo? will you miss it?), and in its place npm has progress bars, so you actually have some sense of how long installs will take. It's provided in Unicode and non-Unicode variants, and Unicode support is automatically detected from your environment.

TINY JEWELS

The bottom is where we usually hide the less interesting bits of each release, but each of these are small but incredibly useful bits of this release, and very much worth checking out:

  • 9ebe312 Build system maintainers, rejoice: npm does a better job of cleaning up after itself in your temporary folder.
  • #6942 Check for permissions issues prior to actually trying to install anything.
  • Emit warnings at the end of the installation when possible, so that they'll be on your screen when npm stops.
  • #3505 npm --dry-run: You can now ask that npm only report what it would have done with the new --dry-run flag. This can be passed to any of the commands that change your node_modules folder: install, uninstall, update and dedupe.
  • 81b46fb npm now knows the correct URLs for npm bugs and npm repo for repositories hosted on Bitbucket and GitLab, just like it does for GitHub (and GitHub support now extends to projects hosted as gists as well as traditional repositories).
  • 5be4008a npm has been cleaned up to pass the standard style checker. Forrest and Rebecca both feel this makes it easier to read and understand the code, and should also make it easier for new contributors to put merge-ready patches. (@othiym23)

ZARRO BOOGS

  • 6401643 Make sure the global install directory exists before installing to it. (@thefourtheye)
  • #6158 When we remove modules we do so inside-out running unbuild for each one.
  • 960a765 The short usage information for each subcommand has been brought in sync with the documentation. (@smikes)

v2.12.0 (2015-06-18):

REMEMBER WHEN I SAID THAT THING ABOUT PERMISSIONS?

About a million people have filed issues related to having a tough time using npm after they've run npm once or twice with sudo. "Don't worry about it!" I said. "We've fixed all those permissions problems ages ago! Use this one weird trick and you'll never have to deal with this again!"

Well, uh, if you run npm with root the first time you run npm on a machine, it turns out that the directory npm uses to store lockfiles ends up being owned by the wrong user (almost always root), and that can, well, it can cause problems sometimes. By which I mean every time you run npm without being root it'll barf with EACCES errors. Whoops!

This is an obnoxious regression, and to prevent it from recurring, we've made it so that the cache, cached git remotes, and the lockfile directories are all created and maintained using the same utilty module, which not only creates the relevant paths with the correct permissions, but will fix the permissions on those directories (if it can) when it notices that they're broken. An npm install run as root ought to be sufficient to fix things up (and if that doesn't work, first tell us about it, and then run sudo chown -R $(whoami) $HOME/.npm)

Also, I apologize for inadvertently gaslighting any of you by claiming this bug wasn't actually a bug. I do think we've got this permanently dealt with now, but I'll be paying extra-close attention to permissions issues related to the cache for a while.

  • 85d1a53 Set permissions on lock directory to the owner of the process. (@othiym23)

I WENT TO NODECONF AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY SPDX T-SHIRT

That's not literally true. We spent very little time discussing SPDX, @kemitchell is a champ, and I had a lot of fun playing drum & bass to a mostly empty Boogie Barn and only ended up with one moderately severe cold for my pains. Another winner of a NodeConf! (I would probably wear a SPDX T-shirt if somebody gave me one, though.)

A bunch of us did have a spirited discussion of the basics of open-source intellectual property, and the convergence of me, @kemitchell, and @jandrieu in one place allowed us to hammmer out a small but significant issue that had been bedeviling early adopters of the new SPDX expression syntax in package.json license fields: how to deal with packages that are left without a license on purpose.

Refer to the docs for the specifics, but the short version is that instead of using LicenseRef-LICENSE for proprietary licenses, you can now use either UNLICENSED if you want to make it clear that you don't want your software to be licensed (and want npm to stop warning you about this), or SEE LICENSE IN <filename> if there's a license with custom text you want to use. At some point in the near term, we'll be updating npm to verify that the mentioned file actually exists, but for now you're all on the honor system.

SMALLISH BUG FIXES

  • 9d8cac9 #8548 Remove extraneous newline from npm view output, making it easier to use in shell scripts. (@eush77)
  • 765fd4b #8521 When checking for outdated packages, or updating packages, raise an error when the registry is unreachable instead of silently "succeeding". (@ryantemple)

SMALLERISH DOCUMENTATION TWEAKS

WELL, I GUESS THERE ARE MORE DEPENDENCY UPGRADES

  • 7ce2f06 request@2.58.0: Refactor tunneling logic, and use extend instead of abusing util._extend. (@simov)
  • e6c6195 nock@2.6.0: Refined interception behavior. (@pgte)
  • 9583cc3 fstream-npm@1.0.3: Ensure that main entry in package.json is always included in the bundled package tarball. (@coderhaoxin)
  • df89493 fstream@1.0.7 (@isaacs)
  • 9744049 dezalgo@1.0.3: dezalgo should be usable in the browser, and can be now that asap has been upgraded to be browserifiable. (@mvayngrib)

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

  • 9f439da spdx@0.4.1: License range updates (@kemitchell)
  • 2dd055b normalize-package-data@2.2.1: Fixes a crashing bug when the package.json scripts property is not an object. (@iarna)
  • e02e85d osenv@0.1.2: Switches to using the os-tmpdir module instead of os.tmpdir() for greate consistency in behavior between node versions. (@iarna)
  • a6f0265 ini@1.3.4 (@isaacs)
  • 7395977 rimraf@2.4.0 (@isaacs)

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