Changelog for Node Version 19.3.0 (Current)

Updated npm to 9.2.0:

• Engines: The node engines supported by npm@9 make it safe to allow npm@9 as the default in any LTS version of 14 or 16, as well as anything later than or including 18.0.0. npm is now compatible with the following semver range for node: ^14.17.0 || ^16.13.0 || >=18.0.0
• Filesystem: When run as root previous versions of npm attempted to manage file ownership automatically on the user’s behalf. This behavior was problematic in many cases and has been removed in favor of allowing users to manage their own filesystem permissions npm will no longer attempt to modify ownership of files it creates.
• Auth: Any errors thrown from users having unsupported auth configurations will show npm config fix in the remediation instructions, which will allow the user to automatically have their auth config fixed. The presence of auth related settings that are not scoped to a specific registry found in a config file is no longer supported and will throw errors.
• Login: The default auth-type has changed and users can opt back into the old behavior with npm config set auth-type=legacy. login and adduser have also been seperated making each command more closely match it’s name instead of being aliases for each other.
  • Legacy auth types sso, saml & legacy have been consolidated into "legacy".
  • auth-type defaults to "web"
  • login and adduser are now separate commands that send different data to the registry.
  • auth-type config values web and legacy only try their respective methods, npm no longer tries them all and waits to see which one doesn’t fail.
• Tarball Packing: Previously using multiple ignore/allow lists when packing was an undefined behavior, and now the order of operations is strictly defined when packing a tarball making it easier to follow and should only affect users relying on the previously undefined behavior. npm pack now follows a strict order of operations when applying ignore rules. If a files array is present in the package.json, then rules in .gitignore and .npmignore files from the root will be ignored.
• Display/Debug/Timing Info: These changes center around the display of information to the terminal including timing and debug log info. We do not anticipate these changes breaking any existing workflows.
  • Links generated from git urls will now use HEAD instead of master as the default ref.
  • timing has been removed as a value for --loglevel.
  • --timing will show timing information regardless of --loglevel, except when --silent.
  • When run with the --timing flag, npm now writes timing data to a file alongside the debug log data, respecting the logs-dir option and falling back to <CACHE>/_logs/ dir, instead of directly inside the cache directory.
  • The timing file data is no longer newline delimited JSON, and instead each run will create a uniquely named <ID>-timing.json file, with the <ID> portion being the same as the debug log.
  • npm now outputs some json errors on stdout. Previously npm would output all json formatted errors on stderr, making it difficult to parse as the stderr stream usually has logs already written to it.