npm v6.2.0-next.0

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npm v6.2.0-next.0 Release Notes

• 🆕 NEW FEATURES

  • ⚡️ ce0793358 #20750 You can now disable the update notifier entirely by using --no-update-notifier or setting it in your config with npm config set update-notifier false. (@travi)
  • d2ad776f6 #20879 When npm run-script <script> fails due to a typo or missing script, npm will now do a "did you mean?..." for scripts that do exist. (@watilde)

  🛠 BUGFIXES

  • 8f033d72d #20948 Fix the regular expression matching in xcode_emulation in node-gyp to also handle version numbers with multiple-digit major versions which would otherwise break under use of XCode 10. (@Trott)
  • c8ba7573a Stop trying to hoist/dedupe bundles dependencies. (@iarna)
  • cd698f068 #20762 Add synopsis to brief help for npm audit and suppress trailing newline. (@wyardley)
  • 6808ee3bd #20881 Exclude /.github directory from npm tarball. (@styfle)
  • 177cbb476 #21105 Add suggestion to use a temporary cache instead of npm cache clear --force. (@karanjthakkar)

  📄 DOCS

  • 7ba3fca00 #20855 Direct people to npm.community instead of the GitHub issue tracker on error. (@zkat)
  • 📄 88efbf6b0 #20859 Fix typo in registry docs. (@strugee)
  • 🛠 61bf827ae #20947 Fixed a small grammar error in the README. (@bitsol)
  • f5230c90a #21018 Small typo fix in CONTRIBUTING.md. (@reggi)
  • 📦 833efe4b2 #20986 Document current structure/expectations around package tarballs. (@Maximaximum)
  • 9fc0dc4f5 #21019 Clarify behavior of npm link ../path shorthand. (@davidgilbertson)
  • 3924c72d0 #21064 Add missing "if" (@roblourens)

  DEPENDENCY SHUFFLE!

  🚚 We did some reshuffling and moving around of npm's own dependencies. This significantly reduces the total bundle size of the npm pack, from 8MB to 4.8MB for the distributed tarball! We also moved around what we actually commit to the repo as far as devDeps go.

  • 0483f5c5d Flatten and dedupe our dependencies! (@iarna)
  • 🚚 ef9fa1ceb Remove unused direct dependency ansi-regex. (@iarna)
  • 👍 0d14b0bc5 Reshuffle ansi-regex for better deduping. (@iarna)
  • 👍 68a101859 Reshuffle strip-ansi for better deduping. (@iarna)
  • 👍 0d5251f97 Reshuffle is-fullwidth-code-point for better deduping. (@iarna)
  • 🤡 2d0886632 Add fake-registry, npm-registry-mock replacement. (@iarna)

  DEPENDENCIES

  • 8cff8eea7 [email protected] (@zkat)
  • bfc4f873b [email protected] (@zkat)
  • 532096163 [email protected] (@zkat)
  • 4a512771b [email protected] (@iarna)
  • b7cc48dee [email protected] (@iarna)
  • bae657c28 [email protected] (@iarna)
  • 3d46e5c4e [email protected] (@iarna)
  • d0a905daf [email protected] (@iarna)
  • 4fc1f815f [email protected] (@iarna)
  • f72202944 [email protected] (@iarna)
  • bdce96eb3 [email protected] (@iarna)
  • fe4240e85 [email protected] (@zkat)

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