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Restored the heuristic that preserves tarball URLs in pnpm-lock.yaml when they cannot be derived from name+version+registry, even with the default lockfileIncludeTarballUrl: false. Without this, pnpm install --frozen-lockfile from an empty store fails with ERR_PNPM_FETCH_404 for packages on registries that serve tarballs from a non-standard path — most notably GitHub Packages (https://npm.pkg.github.com/download/<scope>/<name>/<version>/<hash>) and JSR. lockfileIncludeTarballUrl: true continues to force the URL into the lockfile for every package #11276.
Run preversion, version, and postversion lifecycle scripts for pnpm version.
Fixed ERR_PNPM_BAD_TARBALL_SIZE when a registry serves tarballs with an end-to-end Content-Encoding (e.g. gzip). Tarballs are already compressed, so the fetcher now requests them with Accept-Encoding: identity (matching pnpm v10's effective behavior) and, as defense in depth against misbehaving servers, no longer enforces the strict Content-Length check when the response declares a Content-Encoding — Content-Length in that case refers to the encoded payload, not the decoded bytes the fetch implementation yields #11506.
Restore the execute bit on the node-gyp shims packed inside @pnpm/exe (dist/node-gyp-bin/node-gyp, dist/node-gyp-bin/node-gyp.cmd, and dist/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js). Without this, pnpm/action-setup's standalone path (used on runners with Node.js < 22.13) failed any install whose lifecycle script invoked node-gyp rebuild with sh: 1: node-gyp: Permission denied#11483.
Fixed the pn, pnpx, and pnx aliases failing in Git Bash / MSYS2 on Windows when pnpm was installed via @pnpm/exe (or after pnpm self-update) #11486. Running pnpx (or pnx) printed the cmd.exe banner and dropped the user into an interactive command prompt instead of running pnpm dlx. The bin field rewrite on Windows was pointing those aliases at .cmd files; cmd-shim's Bash shim for a .cmd target wraps it in exec cmd /C ..., and MSYS2 mangles /C into a Windows path before cmd.exe sees it. The aliases are now .exe hardlinks of the SEA binary, which detects which name it was launched as via process.execPath and prepends dlx for pnpx / pnx.
Fix pnpm install recreating node_modules after pnpm fetch. pnpm fetch records empty hoistPattern and publicHoistPattern in .modules.yaml; since v11 removed the explicit-config gate, the follow-up install treated those as a hoist-pattern change and purged the modules directory. The fetch step now flags the modules manifest with virtualStoreOnly: true so the next install skips the hoist-pattern comparison and completes the missing post-import linking in place #11488.
Pin the integrity of git-hosted tarballs (codeload.github.com, gitlab.com, bitbucket.org) in the lockfile so that subsequent installs detect a tampered or substituted tarball and refuse to install it. Previously the lockfile only stored the tarball URL for git dependencies, so a compromised git host or a man-in-the-middle could serve arbitrary code on later installs without lockfile changes.
A new gitHosted: true field is recorded on git-hosted tarball resolutions in the lockfile, letting every reader/writer route them by a single typed check instead of pattern-matching the tarball URL in each call site. Lockfiles written by older pnpm versions are enriched on load (URL fallback) so the field can be relied on uniformly across the codebase.
Allow user-level preferences in the global config.yaml. The following settings can now be set in ~/.config/pnpm/config.yaml (or via pnpm config set --location global) instead of being restricted to pnpm-workspace.yaml: agent, globalVirtualStoreDir, initPackageManager, initType, registrySupportsTimeField, scriptShell, shellEmulator, sideEffectsCache, sideEffectsCacheReadonly, stateDir, strictDepBuilds, trustPolicy, trustPolicyExclude, trustPolicyIgnoreAfter, updateNotifier, useStderr, verifyDepsBeforeRun, verifyStoreIntegrity, virtualStoreDir, virtualStoreDirMaxLength#11474.
Make trusted publishing (OIDC) take precedence over a configured static _authToken in pnpm publish, mirroring the npm CLI's behavior. When OIDC succeeds, the OIDC-derived token overrides any pre-configured _authToken; when OIDC is not applicable (no CI environment, exchange fails, registry has no trusted publisher configured), the static token is used as a fallback. This applies on every package during recursive publish, so each workspace package independently attempts trusted publishing.
Additionally, the NPM_ID_TOKEN env var is now honored as a CI-agnostic injection point for an OIDC ID token. Previously OIDC was only attempted on GitHub Actions or GitLab; now any CI provider that exposes its own OIDC mechanism (e.g. CircleCI's CIRCLE_OIDC_TOKEN_V2, Buildkite, etc.) can forward its token via NPM_ID_TOKEN and trusted publishing will work without pnpm needing to recognize the provider explicitly.
--pm-on-fail=ignore (and other universal options like --loglevel, --reporter) is now honored when combined with --help or --version. Previously the CLI argument parser short-circuited those flags before universal options were preserved, so pnpm audit --pm-on-fail=ignore --help and pnpm --pm-on-fail=ignore --version reported the strict packageManager mismatch instead of running the requested action #11487.
Fix a regression where pnpm --recursive --filter '!<pkg>' run/exec/test/add would include the workspace root in the matched projects. The workspace root is now correctly excluded by default when only negative --filter arguments are provided, matching the documented behavior. To include the root, pass --include-workspace-root#11341.
Restore npm-CLI-compatible --json stdout output for pnpm publish (#11476). pnpm 11 reimplemented publish natively (#10591) and inadvertently dropped the per-package JSON object that pnpm 10 emitted transitively via the npm CLI, silently breaking downstream tooling — most notably nx release publish, which parses stdout JSON to confirm success (nrwl/nx#35575). On success, the output is now:
pnpm publish -r --json → array of those objects, mirroring pnpm pack --json's shape choice.
pnpm publish -r --report-summary → existing pnpm-publish-summary.json envelope { publishedPackages: [...] } is preserved, but each entry is upgraded to the same per-package shape (additive — name and version are still present).
pnpm config get @​<scope>:registry now reports the same URL that pnpm publish and the resolvers actually use. Previously, config get only consulted .npmrc, while publish/install used the merged map that includes pnpm-workspace.yaml's registries block — so the two could diverge silently and a publish could go to the wrong registry #11492.
Fix pnpm_config_npmrc_auth_file and pnpm_config_userconfig env vars not actually loading the custom .npmrc. The env vars were parsed and assigned to the resolved config, but only after loadNpmrcConfig had already read the default ~/.npmrc — so the custom file path was set but never read. The relevant env vars are now consulted before the user-level .npmrc is loaded #11465.
Preserve the original key order in pnpm-workspace.yaml when updating it. Existing keys keep their position, and new keys are inserted in alphabetical position when the existing keys are already sorted (with a leading packages key allowed) or appended at the end otherwise.
Fixed pnpm self-update on installations originally set up by pnpm v10. v10 added PNPM_HOME directly to PATH and wrote a pnpm bootstrap shim there. v11 setup writes shims under PNPM_HOME/bin instead, so when a v10 user upgrades to v11 the legacy shim at PNPM_HOME keeps pointing into the old .tools/<version> install — pnpm --version continues to report the pre-update version even though the new version was installed under global/v11. Self-update now detects this layout, refreshes the legacy shims so the upgrade actually takes effect, and prints a hint suggesting pnpm setup to migrate PATH to the v11 layout. #11464.
Print a warning when settings that are not allowed in the global config file (e.g. nodeLinker, hoistPattern) are present in config.yaml and silently ignored. Previously these settings were dropped without any feedback, leaving users unsure why their global configuration had no effect. The warning suggests moving those settings to a project-level pnpm-workspace.yaml, or sharing them across projects via config dependencies.
Throw a pnpm error when overrides has an invalid shape or contains a non-string value.
Validate all readPackage dependency map fields, including devDependencies, and reject falsy non-object invalid values instead of silently accepting them.
Prevent crashes during pnpm config, pnpm set, and pnpm get by tolerating configDependencies install failures. For these commands, a failure to install configDependencies (for example because the registry auth token has not been written yet) is now logged at debug level and the command proceeds. All other commands still surface the install error #10684.
Treat allowBuilds as an install-state input and clear previously ignored builds when they are explicitly disallowed.
Fixes #10594, catalogs not being read from the workspace when using the catalog: protocol with the pnpm dlx / pnpx command, resulting in a catalog entry not found error.
Accept PNPM_CONFIG_* (uppercase) environment variables in addition to pnpm_config_*. Previously, only the lowercase form was honored, so env vars renamed per the v11 migration guide (e.g. PNPM_CONFIG_USERCONFIG) silently had no effect on case-sensitive systems like macOS and Linux #11465.
Drop the darwin-x64 artifact from @pnpm/exe and from the GitHub release page. The Node.js SEA mechanism pnpm pack-app uses produces a binary that segfaults at startup on Intel Macs because of an upstream Node.js bug (nodejs/node#62893, tracked alongside #59553; the Node.js team has opted not to fix it on the grounds that x64 macOS is being phased out). Re-signing with codesign or ldid doesn't help — the corruption is in LIEF's Mach-O surgery, before signing.
Intel Mac users should install pnpm via npm install -g pnpm (uses the system Node.js, no SEA), or stay on pnpm 10.x. @pnpm/exe's preinstall on Intel Mac now exits with a clear error pointing at these alternatives.
pnpm dlx (and pnpx/pnx/pnpm create) now runs the same interactive approve-builds prompt as pnpm add -g when the package being launched depends on transitive packages with install scripts. Previously, the v11 strictDepBuilds default made dlx fail with ERR_PNPM_IGNORED_BUILDS and required users to re-run with --allow-build=<pkg> for every offending dependency. dlx also now removes the partially-populated cache directory when the install fails, so a subsequent run starts clean instead of reusing a broken install whose builds were silently skipped #11444.
72629fc: Fix pnpm -g ls --json and pnpm -g ls --parseable so they emit valid JSON and parseable output respectively, matching pnpm 10 behavior. Since the isolated global packages refactor in pnpm 11, the global list command had a custom path that always printed plain text and ignored --json/--parseable, which broke tools like npm-check-updates that parse the JSON output #11440.
pnpm -g ls --depth=<n> (with n > 0) now errors when more than one isolated global install would be involved, since each install has its own lockfile and merging their transitive trees would be incoherent. When the request can be narrowed to a single install group, the regular list flow is used and the full dependency tree is shown.
Fixed pnpm publish to honor publishConfig.registry from package.json when publishing a single package. The native publish flow introduced in v11 was reading the registry from .npmrc only, ignoring the per-package override #11419.
When strictPeerDependencies is true, the ERR_PNPM_PEER_DEP_ISSUES error once again renders the peer dependency issues inline using the same format as pnpm peers check, so users (and CI tools like Renovate) can see what failed without running pnpm peers check separately #11439.
The WARN and error code labels in pnpm's output now wrap in brackets ([WARN], [ERR_PNPM_FOO]). Previously the labels relied entirely on a colored background to stand out, which meant they blended into the surrounding text in terminals without color (e.g. when NO_COLOR is set or output is piped). The brackets are painted in the same color as the badge background, so they appear as ordinary padding in color-capable terminals — only the no-color rendering changes.
Fixed pnpm ci not reinstalling workspace package node_modules directories after the clean step #11427.
Remove pnpm's workspace state file when cleaning node_modules so pnpm ci performs a fresh install after the clean step.
Do not remove pnpm-lock.yaml during pnpm clean when lockfile: true is configured in pnpm-workspace.yaml. The lockfile is only removed when the --lockfile option is passed to pnpm clean.
pnpm self-update (with no version argument) no longer downgrades pnpm when the registry's latest dist-tag points to an older release than the currently active version. Run pnpm self-update latest to force a downgrade #11418.
minimumReleaseAgeStrict now defaults to true whenever the user explicitly sets minimumReleaseAge (via pnpm-workspace.yaml, the global config.yaml, the CLI, or pnpm_config_* env vars).
Fix too many open files error sometimes happening on Windows, when creating command shims in node_modules/.bin#11412.
Fix ERR_PNPM_FETCH_404 when installing a project whose lockfile depends on a file: tarball. The previous behavior dropped the tarball field from file: and git-hosted resolutions when lockfile-include-tarball-url=false (the default), even though those URLs cannot be reconstructed from the package name, version, and registry #11407.
Fix ENOENT symlink failure when pnpm add -g triggers the approve-builds prompt. The global add flow used to forward an absolute modulesDir (<installDir>/node_modules) into the install run by approve-builds. The install layer treated modulesDir as a path relative to lockfileDir and joined it again, producing a doubled path on Windows because path.join does not collapse an embedded absolute path. The hoist step then tried to mkdir and symlink under <installDir>\<installDir>\node_modules\.pnpm\node_modules\... and failed with ENOENT#11403.
Fixed packageManagerDependencies going stale when pnpm is invoked through corepack. The lockfile sync (and the devEngines.packageManager version check) previously ran only when pnpm was invoked directly; under corepack the entire block was skipped, so a stale entry would persist even after the running pnpm version changed. The lockfile sync now runs regardless of how pnpm was invoked, while the pnpm-managed version switch (onFail: 'download') remains skipped under corepack so it doesn't fight corepack's own version selection #11397.
Fix recursive publish summaries to report the manifest from publishConfig.directory when packages publish from a generated directory #11239.
Fix negated os / cpu entries (e.g. ["!win32"]) being incorrectly rejected when supportedArchitectures expands to multiple platforms #11375.
Report unknown top-level options before falling back to implicit pnpm run scripts.
Reject null named catalogs in workspace manifests with InvalidWorkspaceManifestError instead of crashing with a raw TypeError.
Populate download location for git-sourced dependencies in SBOM output. Previously pnpm sbom emitted NOASSERTION (SPDX) and omitted the distribution reference (CycloneDX) for git dependencies. Now emits the git URL with commit hash, e.g. git+https://github.com/user/repo.git#commit.
pnpm self-update now keeps package.json's packageManager and devEngines.packageManager in sync. When the legacy packageManager field pins pnpm, both fields are rewritten to the new exact pnpm version on update — packageManager to pnpm@<version> (without an integrity hash), and devEngines.packageManager.version to the same exact <version> (dropping any range operator). When only devEngines.packageManager is declared, the existing range-preserving behavior is unchanged #11388.
Sort the keys of the overrides object returned by pnpm audit --fix so that the log output order matches the order written to pnpm-workspace.yaml.
Update the env lockfile's packageManagerDependencies entry when devEngines.packageManager declares a pnpm version that the lockfile no longer satisfies. Previously, the stale entry was kept even though the running pnpm matched the declared version, silently breaking the integrity record #11387.
Node.js 22+ required — support for Node 18, 19, 20, and 21 is dropped, pnpm itself is now pure ESM, and the standalone exe requires glibc 2.27.
Supply-chain protection on by default — minimumReleaseAge defaults to 1 day (newly published packages are not resolved for 24h) and blockExoticSubdeps defaults to true.
allowBuilds replaces the old build-dependency settings — onlyBuiltDependencies, onlyBuiltDependenciesFile, neverBuiltDependencies, ignoredBuiltDependencies, and ignoreDepScripts have been removed.
Global installs are isolated and use the global virtual store by default — each pnpm add -g gets its own directory with its own package.json, node_modules, and lockfile.
New SQLite-backed store index (store v11) with bundled manifests and hex digests, reducing filesystem syscalls and speeding up installation.
pnpm audit uses npm's bulk advisories endpoint — the legacy /security/audits endpoints are gone. CVE-based filtering has been replaced with GHSA-based filtering: migrate auditConfig.ignoreCves entries to auditConfig.ignoreGhsas.
.npmrc is auth/registry only — all other settings must live in pnpm-workspace.yaml or the new global config.yaml, and environment variables use the pnpm_config_* prefix.
Runtime installs are slimmer — installing a Node.js runtime via node@runtime:<version> no longer extracts the bundled npm, npx, and corepack, roughly halving the files pnpm has to hash, write, and link.
ESM pnpmfiles via .pnpmfile.mjs, which takes priority over .pnpmfile.cjs when present.
pnpm audit --fix=update fixes vulnerabilities by updating packages in the lockfile instead of adding overrides, and pnpm audit --fix --interactive lets you select which advisories to fix.
pnpm pack-app packs a CommonJS entry into a standalone executable for one or more target platforms using Node.js Single Executable Applications.
Faster HTTP and I/O — undici with Happy Eyeballs, direct-to-CAS writes, skipped staging directory, pre-allocated tarball downloads, and an NDJSON metadata cache.
Major Changes
Requirements
pnpm is now distributed as pure ESM.
Dropped support for Node.js v18, 19, 20, and 21.
The standalone exe version of pnpm requires at least glibc 2.27.
Security & Build Defaults
Changed default values: optimisticRepeatInstall is now true, verifyDepsBeforeRun is now install, minimumReleaseAge is now 1440 (1 day), and minimumReleaseAgeStrict is false. Newly published packages will not be resolved until they are at least 1 day old. This protects against supply chain attacks by giving the community time to detect and remove compromised versions. To opt out, set minimumReleaseAge: 0 in pnpm-workspace.yaml#11158.
Use the allowBuilds setting instead. It is a map where keys are package name patterns and values are booleans:
true means the package is allowed to run build scripts
false means the package is explicitly denied from running build scripts
Same as before, by default, none of the packages in the dependencies are allowed to run scripts. If a package has postinstall scripts and it isn't declared in allowBuilds, an error is printed.
Removed allowNonAppliedPatches in favor of allowUnusedPatches.
Removed ignorePatchFailures; patch application failures now throw an error.
Store
Runtime dependencies are always linked from the global virtual store #10233.
Optimized index file format to store the hash algorithm once per file instead of repeating it for every file entry. Each file entry now stores only the hex digest instead of the full integrity string (<algo>-<digest>). Using hex format improves performance since file paths in the content-addressable store use hex representation, eliminating base64-to-hex conversion during path lookups.
Store version bumped to v11.
The bundled manifest (name, version, bin, engines, scripts, etc.) is now stored directly in the package index file, eliminating the need to read package.json from the content-addressable store during resolution and installation. This reduces I/O and speeds up repeat installs #10473.
The package index in the content-addressable store is now backed by SQLite. Instead of individual JSON files under $STORE/index/, package metadata is stored in a single SQLite database at $STORE/index.db with MessagePack-encoded values. This reduces filesystem syscall overhead, improves space efficiency for small metadata entries, and enables concurrent access via SQLite's WAL mode. Packages missing from the new index are re-fetched on demand #10500#10826.
Global Packages
Global installs (pnpm add -g pkg) and pnx now use the global virtual store by default. Packages are stored at {storeDir}/links instead of per-project .pnpm directories. This can be disabled by setting enableGlobalVirtualStore: false#10694.
Isolated global packages. Each globally installed package (or group of packages installed together) now gets its own isolated installation directory with its own package.json, node_modules/, and lockfile. This prevents global packages from interfering with each other through peer dependency conflicts, hoisting changes, or version resolution shifts.
Key changes:
pnpm add -g <pkg> creates an isolated installation in {pnpmHomeDir}/global/v11/{hash}/
pnpm remove -g <pkg> removes the entire installation group containing the package
pnpm update -g [pkg] re-installs packages in new isolated directories
pnpm list -g scans isolated directories to show all installed global packages
pnpm install -g (no args) is no longer supported; use pnpm add -g <pkg> instead
Globally installed binaries are now stored in a bin subdirectory of PNPM_HOME instead of directly in PNPM_HOME. This prevents internal directories like global/ and store/ from polluting shell autocompletion when PNPM_HOME is on PATH #10986. After upgrading, run pnpm setup to update your shell configuration.
Breaking changes to pnpm link:
pnpm link <pkg-name> no longer resolves packages from the global store. Only relative or absolute paths are accepted. For example, use pnpm link ./foo instead of pnpm link foo.
pnpm link --global is removed. Use pnpm add -g . to register a local package's bins globally.
pnpm link (no arguments) is removed. Use pnpm link <dir> with an explicit path instead.
Configuration
pnpm no longer reads all settings from .npmrc. Only auth and registry settings are read from .npmrc files. All other settings (like hoistPattern, nodeLinker, shamefullyHoist, etc.) must be configured in pnpm-workspace.yaml or the global ~/.config/pnpm/config.yaml#11189.
Network settings (httpProxy, httpsProxy, noProxy, localAddress, strictSsl, gitShallowHosts) are now written to config.yaml (global) or pnpm-workspace.yaml (local) instead of .npmrc/auth.ini. They are still readable from .npmrc for easier migration from the npm CLI #11209.
pnpm no longer reads npm_config_* environment variables. Use pnpm_config_* environment variables instead (e.g., pnpm_config_registry instead of npm_config_registry).
pnpm no longer reads the npm global config at $PREFIX/etc/npmrc.
pnpm login writes auth tokens to ~/.config/pnpm/auth.ini.
Auth tokens in ~/.npmrc still work — pnpm continues to read ~/.npmrc as a fallback for registry authentication. The new npmrcAuthFile setting can be used to point to a different file instead of ~/.npmrc.
Replace workspace project specific .npmrc with packageConfigs in pnpm-workspace.yaml.
A workspace manifest with packageConfigs looks something like this:
pnpm no longer reads settings from the pnpm field of package.json. Settings should be defined in pnpm-workspace.yaml#10086.
pnpm config get (without --json) no longer prints INI formatted text. Instead, it prints JSON for objects and arrays, and raw strings for strings, numbers, booleans, and nulls. pnpm config get --json still prints all types of values as JSON, as before.
pnpm config get <array> now prints a JSON array.
pnpm config list now prints a JSON object instead of INI formatted text.
pnpm config list and pnpm config get (without argument) now hide auth-related settings.
pnpm config list and pnpm config get (without argument) now show top-level keys as camelCase. Exception: keys that start with @ or // are preserved (their cases don't change).
pnpm config get and pnpm config list no longer load non-camelCase options from the workspace manifest (pnpm-workspace.yaml).
Removed Commands & npm Passthrough
pnpm no longer falls back to the npm CLI. Commands that were previously passed through to npm (access, bugs, docs, edit, find, home, issues, owner, ping, prefix, profile, pkg, repo, search, set-script, star, stars, team, token, unstar, whoami, xmas) and their aliases (s, se) now throw a "not implemented" error, with a suggestion to use the npm CLI directly #10642. Other previously passed-through commands — view (info, show, v), login (adduser), logout, deprecate, unpublish, dist-tag, and version — have been reimplemented natively in pnpm (see New Commands below).
If the registry requests OTP and the user has not provided it via the PNPM_CONFIG_OTP environment variable or the --otp flag, pnpm will prompt the user directly for an OTP code.
If the registry requests web-based authentication, pnpm will print a scannable QR code along with the URL.
Since the new pnpm publish no longer calls npm publish, some undocumented features may have been unknowingly dropped. If you rely on a feature that is now gone, please open an issue at https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/issues. In the meantime, you can use pnpm pack && npm publish *.tgz as a workaround.
Removed support for the useNodeVersion and executionEnv.nodeVersion fields. devEngines.runtime and engines.runtime should be used instead #10373.
Removed support for hooks.fetchers. We now have a new API for custom fetchers and resolvers via the fetchers field of pnpmfile.
Lifecycle Scripts
pnpm no longer populates npm_config_* environment variables from the pnpm config during lifecycle scripts. Only well-known npm_* env vars are now set, matching Yarn's behavior #11116.
CLI Output
Cleaner output for script execution: pnpm now prints $ command instead of > pkg@version stage path\n> command, and shows project name and path only when running in a different directory. The $ command line is printed to stderr to keep stdout clean for piping #11132.
During install, instead of rendering the full peer dependency issues tree, pnpm now suggests running pnpm peers check to view the issues #11133.
Lockfile
Simplified patchedDependencies lockfile format from Record<string, { path: string, hash: string }> to Record<string, string> (selector to hash). Existing lockfiles with the old format are automatically migrated #10911.
Other
The default value of the type field in the package.json file of the project initialized by pnpm init command has been changed to module.
Added support for lowercase options in pnpm add: -d, -p, -o, -e#9197.
When using the pnpm add command only:
-p is now an alias for --save-prod instead of --parseable
-d is now an alias for --save-dev instead of --loglevel=info
The root workspace project is no longer excluded when it is explicitly selected via a filter #10465.
Audit
pnpm audit now calls npm's /-/npm/v1/security/advisories/bulk endpoint. The legacy /-/npm/v1/security/audits{,/quick} endpoints have been retired by the registry, so the legacy request/response contract is no longer supported.
The bulk endpoint does not return CVE identifiers. CVE-based filtering has been replaced with GitHub advisory ID (GHSA) filtering:
auditConfig.ignoreCves → auditConfig.ignoreGhsas (the previous key is no longer recognized)
pnpm audit --ignore <id> / pnpm audit --ignore-unfixable now read and write GHSAs instead of CVEs
GHSAs are derived from each advisory's url (https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx)
To migrate: replace each CVE-YYYY-NNNNN entry in your auditConfig.ignoreCves with the corresponding GHSA-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx value (visible in the More info column of pnpm audit output) and move it under auditConfig.ignoreGhsas.
Package Manager Settings
Breaking: removed the managePackageManagerVersions, packageManagerStrict, and packageManagerStrictVersion settings. They existed only to derive the onFail behavior for the legacy packageManager field, and the pmOnFail setting introduced alongside pnpm with subsumes all three — it directly sets the onFail behavior of both packageManager and devEngines.packageManager. The COREPACK_ENABLE_STRICT environment variable is no longer honored (it only gated packageManagerStrict); use pmOnFail instead.
Migration:
Removed setting
Replace with
managePackageManagerVersions: true
pmOnFail: download (default)
managePackageManagerVersions: false
pmOnFail: ignore
packageManagerStrict: false
pmOnFail: warn
packageManagerStrictVersion: true
pmOnFail: error
COREPACK_ENABLE_STRICT=0
pmOnFail: warn
Runtime Installs
Installing a Node.js runtime via node@runtime:<version> (including pnpm env use and pnpm runtime set node) no longer extracts the bundled npm, npx, and corepack from the Node.js archive. This cuts roughly half of the files pnpm has to hash, write to the CAS, and link during installation, making runtime installs noticeably faster. Users who still need npm can install it as a separate package.
Minor Changes
New Commands
Added native pnpm view (info, show, v) command for viewing package metadata from the registry #11064.
Added pnpm login (and pnpm adduser alias) command for authenticating with npm registries. Supports web-based login with QR code as well as classic username/password login #11094.
Added pnpm logout command for logging out of npm registries. Revokes the authentication token on the registry and removes it from the local auth config file #11213.
Added native pnpm deprecate and pnpm undeprecate commands for setting and removing deprecation messages on package versions without delegating to the npm CLI #11120.
Added native pnpm unpublish command. Supports unpublishing specific versions, version ranges via semver, and entire packages with --force#11128.
Added pnpm sbom command for generating Software Bill of Materials in CycloneDX 1.7 and SPDX 2.3 JSON formats #9088.
Added pnpm clean command that safely removes node_modules directories from all workspace projects #10707. Use --lockfile to also remove pnpm-lock.yaml files.
Added the ability to fix vulnerabilities by updating packages in the lockfile instead of adding overrides. Use pnpm audit --fix=update#10341.
Added pnpm ci command for clean installs #6100. The command runs pnpm clean followed by pnpm install --frozen-lockfile. Designed for CI/CD environments where reproducible builds are critical. Aliases: pnpm clean-install, pnpm ic, pnpm install-clean#11003.
Added pnpm peers check command that checks for unmet and missing peer dependency issues by reading the lockfile #7087.
Implemented the version command natively in pnpm to support workspaces and workspace: protocols correctly. The new command allows bumping package versions (major, minor, patch, etc.) with full workspace support and git integration #10879.
pnpm audit --fix now supports a new interactive mode via --interactive/-i.
Added the pnpm docs command and its alias pnpm home. This command opens the package documentation or homepage in the browser. When the package has no valid homepage, it falls back to https://npmx.dev/package/<name>.
Added native pnpm ping command to test registry connectivity. Provides a simple way to verify connectivity to the configured registry without requiring external tools.
Implemented native search command and its aliases (s, se, find).
Add pnpm with <version|current> <args...> command. Runs pnpm at a specific version (or the currently active one) for a single invocation, bypassing the project's packageManager and devEngines.packageManager pins.
Added support for a global YAML config file named config.yaml.
Configuration is now split into two categories:
Registry and auth settings, which can be stored in INI files such as the global rc file and local .npmrc.
pnpm-specific settings, which can only be loaded from YAML files such as the global config.yaml and local pnpm-workspace.yaml.
Added support for loading environment variables whose names start with pnpm_config_ into config. These environment variables override settings from pnpm-workspace.yaml but not CLI arguments.
Added support for reading allowBuilds from pnpm-workspace.yaml in the global package directory for global installs.
Added support for pnpm config get globalconfig to retrieve the global config file path #9977.
Added a new setting virtualStoreOnly that populates the virtual store without creating importer symlinks, hoisting, bin links, or running lifecycle scripts. This is useful for pre-populating a store (e.g., in Nix builds) without creating unnecessary project-level artifacts. pnpm fetch now uses this mode internally #10840.
Added support for specifying the pnpm version via devEngines.packageManager in package.json. Unlike the packageManager field, this supports version ranges. The resolved version is stored in pnpm-lock.yaml and reused if it still satisfies the range #10932.
Added a new dedupePeers setting that reduces peer dependency duplication. When enabled, peer dependency suffixes use version-only identifiers (name@version) instead of full dep paths, eliminating nested suffixes like (foo@1.0.0(bar@2.0.0)). This dramatically reduces the number of package instances in projects with many recursive peer dependencies #11070.
Config dependencies are now installed into the global virtual store ({storeDir}/links/) and symlinked into node_modules/.pnpm-config/. This allows config dependencies to be shared across projects that use the same store, avoiding redundant fetches and imports #10910. Config dependency and package manager integrity info is now stored in pnpm-lock.yaml instead of inlined in pnpm-workspace.yaml: the workspace manifest contains only clean version specifiers for configDependencies, while the resolved versions, integrity hashes, and tarball URLs are recorded in the lockfile as a separate YAML document. The env lockfile section also stores packageManagerDependencies resolved during version switching and self-update. Projects using the old inline-hash format are automatically migrated on install #10912#10964.
Added nodeDownloadMirrors setting to configure custom Node.js download mirrors in pnpm-workspace.yaml. This replaces the node-mirror:<channel>.npmrc setting, which is no longer read #11194:
pnpm dlx and pnpm create now respect security and trust policy settings (minimumReleaseAge, minimumReleaseAgeExclude, minimumReleaseAgeStrict, trustPolicy, trustPolicyExclude, trustPolicyIgnoreAfter) from project-level configuration #11183.
pnpm init now writes a devEngines.packageManager field instead of the packageManager field when init-package-manager is enabled.
Added a new setting runtimeOnFail that overrides the onFail field of devEngines.runtime (and engines.runtime) in the root project's package.json. Accepted values: ignore, warn, error, download. For example, setting runtimeOnFail=download makes pnpm download the declared runtime version even when the manifest does not set onFail: "download".
Added a new setting minimumReleaseAgeIgnoreMissingTime, which is true by default. When enabled, pnpm skips the minimumReleaseAge maturity check if the registry metadata does not include the time field. Set to false to fail resolution instead.
Store
When the global virtual store is enabled, packages that are not allowed to build (and don't transitively depend on packages that are) now get hashes that don't include the engine name (platform, architecture, Node.js major version). This means ~95% of packages in the GVS survive Node.js upgrades and architecture changes without re-import #10837.
Hooks & Pnpmfiles
Added support for pnpmfiles written in ESM, using the .mjs extension. When .pnpmfile.mjs exists, it takes priority over .pnpmfile.cjs and only one is loaded #9730.
CLI & Other
The built-in clean, setup, deploy, and rebuild commands now prefer user scripts over built-in commands. When a project's package.json has a script with the same name, pnpm executes the script instead of the built-in command. Added purge as an alias for the built-in clean command, which always runs the built-in regardless of scripts #11118.
Added -F as a short alias for the --filter option.
Added support for hidden scripts. Scripts starting with . are hidden and cannot be run directly via pnpm run. They can only be called from other scripts. Hidden scripts are also omitted from the pnpm run listing #11041.
pnpm approve-builds now accepts positional arguments for approving or denying packages without the interactive prompt. Prefix a package name with ! to deny it. Only mentioned packages are affected; the rest are left untouched #11030.
During install, packages with ignored builds that are not yet listed in allowBuilds are automatically added to pnpm-workspace.yaml with a placeholder value, so users can manually set them to true or false#11030.
Added pn and pnx short aliases for pnpm and pnpx (pnpm dlx) #11052.
pnpm store prune now displays the total size of removed files #11047.
pnpm audit --fix now adds the minimum patched version for each advisory to minimumReleaseAgeExclude in pnpm-workspace.yaml, so the security fix can be installed without waiting for minimumReleaseAge#11216.
pnpm now warns when optimisticRepeatInstall skips shouldRefreshResolution hooks #10995.
Performance
Replaced node-fetch with native undici for HTTP requests throughout pnpm #10537.
Eliminated redundant internal linking during GVS warm reinstall when no packages were added #11073.
Eliminated the staging directory when importing packages into node_modules, avoiding the overhead of creating a temp dir and renaming per package #11088.
CAS files are now written directly to their final content-addressed path instead of to a temp file and renamed. This eliminates ~30k rename syscalls per cold install #11087.
Optimized hot-path string operations in the content-addressable store and increased gunzipSync chunk size for fewer buffer allocations during tarball decompression #11086.
Improved HTTP performance with Happy Eyeballs (dual-stack), better keep-alive settings, and an optimized global dispatcher. Tarball downloads with known size now pre-allocate memory to avoid double-copy overhead #11151.
Switched to abbreviated metadata when checking minimumReleaseAge, reducing the amount of data fetched from the registry #11160.
Switched the metadata cache to NDJSON format, improving read/write performance #11188.
Patch Changes
Switched to process.stderr.write instead of console.error for script logging #11140.
Respected the frozen-lockfile flag when migrating config dependencies #11067.
Removed the --workspace flag from the version command #11115.
Handled ENOTSUP error in the clone import path during parallel I/O #11117.
Fixed pnpm audit command.
Updated dependencies to fix vulnerabilities.
pnpm now checks whether a package is installable for non-npm-hosted packages (e.g., git or tarball dependencies) after the manifest has been fetched.
pnpm now explicitly passes the path of the global rc config file to npm.
Fixed YAML formatting preservation in pnpm-workspace.yaml when running commands like pnpm update. Previously, quotes and other formatting were lost even when catalog values didn't change.
The parameter set by the --allow-build flag is now written to allowBuilds.
Fixed a bug in which specifying filter in pnpm-workspace.yaml would cause pnpm to not detect any projects.
Deferred patch errors until all patches in a group are applied, so that one failed patch does not prevent other patches from being attempted.
pnpm now fails on incompatible lockfiles in CI when frozen lockfile mode is enabled #10978.
Fixed strictDepBuilds and allowBuilds checks being bypassed when a package's build side-effects are cached in the store #11039.
In GVS mode, pnpm approve-builds now runs a full install instead of rebuild, ensuring that GVS hash directories and symlinks are updated correctly after changing allowBuilds#11043.
Fixed a crash in the lockfile merger when merging non-semver version strings (e.g. link:, file:, git URLs) #11102.
Handled ENOTSUP error in `linkOrCopy
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10.33.4→11.0.8Release Notes
pnpm/pnpm (pnpm)
v11.0.8Compare Source
Patch Changes
pnpm-lock.yamlwhen they cannot be derived from name+version+registry, even with the defaultlockfileIncludeTarballUrl: false. Without this,pnpm install --frozen-lockfilefrom an empty store fails withERR_PNPM_FETCH_404for packages on registries that serve tarballs from a non-standard path — most notably GitHub Packages (https://npm.pkg.github.com/download/<scope>/<name>/<version>/<hash>) and JSR.lockfileIncludeTarballUrl: truecontinues to force the URL into the lockfile for every package #11276.preversion,version, andpostversionlifecycle scripts forpnpm version.ERR_PNPM_BAD_TARBALL_SIZEwhen a registry serves tarballs with an end-to-endContent-Encoding(e.g.gzip). Tarballs are already compressed, so the fetcher now requests them withAccept-Encoding: identity(matching pnpm v10's effective behavior) and, as defense in depth against misbehaving servers, no longer enforces the strictContent-Lengthcheck when the response declares aContent-Encoding—Content-Lengthin that case refers to the encoded payload, not the decoded bytes the fetch implementation yields #11506.v11.0.7Compare Source
Patch Changes
Restore the execute bit on the
node-gypshims packed inside@pnpm/exe(dist/node-gyp-bin/node-gyp,dist/node-gyp-bin/node-gyp.cmd, anddist/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js). Without this,pnpm/action-setup's standalone path (used on runners with Node.js < 22.13) failed any install whose lifecycle script invokednode-gyp rebuildwithsh: 1: node-gyp: Permission denied#11483.Fixed the
pn,pnpx, andpnxaliases failing in Git Bash / MSYS2 on Windows when pnpm was installed via@pnpm/exe(or afterpnpm self-update) #11486. Runningpnpx(orpnx) printed the cmd.exe banner and dropped the user into an interactive command prompt instead of runningpnpm dlx. Thebinfield rewrite on Windows was pointing those aliases at.cmdfiles; cmd-shim's Bash shim for a.cmdtarget wraps it inexec cmd /C ..., and MSYS2 mangles/Cinto a Windows path before cmd.exe sees it. The aliases are now.exehardlinks of the SEA binary, which detects which name it was launched as viaprocess.execPathand prependsdlxforpnpx/pnx.Fix
pnpm installrecreatingnode_modulesafterpnpm fetch.pnpm fetchrecords emptyhoistPatternandpublicHoistPatternin.modules.yaml; since v11 removed the explicit-config gate, the follow-up install treated those as a hoist-pattern change and purged the modules directory. The fetch step now flags the modules manifest withvirtualStoreOnly: trueso the next install skips the hoist-pattern comparison and completes the missing post-import linking in place #11488.Pin the integrity of git-hosted tarballs (codeload.github.com, gitlab.com, bitbucket.org) in the lockfile so that subsequent installs detect a tampered or substituted tarball and refuse to install it. Previously the lockfile only stored the tarball URL for git dependencies, so a compromised git host or a man-in-the-middle could serve arbitrary code on later installs without lockfile changes.
A new
gitHosted: truefield is recorded on git-hosted tarball resolutions in the lockfile, letting every reader/writer route them by a single typed check instead of pattern-matching the tarball URL in each call site. Lockfiles written by older pnpm versions are enriched on load (URL fallback) so the field can be relied on uniformly across the codebase.Allow user-level preferences in the global
config.yaml. The following settings can now be set in~/.config/pnpm/config.yaml(or viapnpm config set --location global) instead of being restricted topnpm-workspace.yaml:agent,globalVirtualStoreDir,initPackageManager,initType,registrySupportsTimeField,scriptShell,shellEmulator,sideEffectsCache,sideEffectsCacheReadonly,stateDir,strictDepBuilds,trustPolicy,trustPolicyExclude,trustPolicyIgnoreAfter,updateNotifier,useStderr,verifyDepsBeforeRun,verifyStoreIntegrity,virtualStoreDir,virtualStoreDirMaxLength#11474.Make trusted publishing (OIDC) take precedence over a configured static
_authTokeninpnpm publish, mirroring the npm CLI's behavior. When OIDC succeeds, the OIDC-derived token overrides any pre-configured_authToken; when OIDC is not applicable (no CI environment, exchange fails, registry has no trusted publisher configured), the static token is used as a fallback. This applies on every package during recursive publish, so each workspace package independently attempts trusted publishing.Additionally, the
NPM_ID_TOKENenv var is now honored as a CI-agnostic injection point for an OIDC ID token. Previously OIDC was only attempted on GitHub Actions or GitLab; now any CI provider that exposes its own OIDC mechanism (e.g. CircleCI'sCIRCLE_OIDC_TOKEN_V2, Buildkite, etc.) can forward its token viaNPM_ID_TOKENand trusted publishing will work without pnpm needing to recognize the provider explicitly.--pm-on-fail=ignore(and other universal options like--loglevel,--reporter) is now honored when combined with--helpor--version. Previously the CLI argument parser short-circuited those flags before universal options were preserved, sopnpm audit --pm-on-fail=ignore --helpandpnpm --pm-on-fail=ignore --versionreported the strict packageManager mismatch instead of running the requested action #11487.Fix a regression where
pnpm --recursive --filter '!<pkg>' run/exec/test/addwould include the workspace root in the matched projects. The workspace root is now correctly excluded by default when only negative--filterarguments are provided, matching the documented behavior. To include the root, pass--include-workspace-root#11341.Restore npm-CLI-compatible
--jsonstdout output forpnpm publish(#11476). pnpm 11 reimplemented publish natively (#10591) and inadvertently dropped the per-package JSON object that pnpm 10 emitted transitively via the npm CLI, silently breaking downstream tooling — most notablynx release publish, which parses stdout JSON to confirm success (nrwl/nx#35575). On success, the output is now:pnpm publish --json→ single object{ id, name, version, size, unpackedSize, shasum, integrity, filename, files, entryCount, bundled }, mirroringnpm publish --json.pnpm publish -r --json→ array of those objects, mirroringpnpm pack --json's shape choice.pnpm publish -r --report-summary→ existingpnpm-publish-summary.jsonenvelope{ publishedPackages: [...] }is preserved, but each entry is upgraded to the same per-package shape (additive —nameandversionare still present).pnpm config get @​<scope>:registrynow reports the same URL thatpnpm publishand the resolvers actually use. Previously,config getonly consulted.npmrc, whilepublish/install used the merged map that includespnpm-workspace.yaml'sregistriesblock — so the two could diverge silently and a publish could go to the wrong registry #11492.v11.0.6Compare Source
Patch Changes
pnpm_config_npmrc_auth_fileandpnpm_config_userconfigenv vars not actually loading the custom.npmrc. The env vars were parsed and assigned to the resolved config, but only afterloadNpmrcConfighad already read the default~/.npmrc— so the custom file path was set but never read. The relevant env vars are now consulted before the user-level.npmrcis loaded #11465.pnpm-workspace.yamlwhen updating it. Existing keys keep their position, and new keys are inserted in alphabetical position when the existing keys are already sorted (with a leadingpackageskey allowed) or appended at the end otherwise.pnpm self-updateon installations originally set up by pnpm v10. v10 addedPNPM_HOMEdirectly to PATH and wrote apnpmbootstrap shim there. v11 setup writes shims underPNPM_HOME/bininstead, so when a v10 user upgrades to v11 the legacy shim atPNPM_HOMEkeeps pointing into the old.tools/<version>install —pnpm --versioncontinues to report the pre-update version even though the new version was installed underglobal/v11. Self-update now detects this layout, refreshes the legacy shims so the upgrade actually takes effect, and prints a hint suggestingpnpm setupto migrate PATH to the v11 layout. #11464.nodeLinker,hoistPattern) are present inconfig.yamland silently ignored. Previously these settings were dropped without any feedback, leaving users unsure why their global configuration had no effect. The warning suggests moving those settings to a project-levelpnpm-workspace.yaml, or sharing them across projects via config dependencies.overrideshas an invalid shape or contains a non-string value.readPackagedependency map fields, includingdevDependencies, and reject falsy non-object invalid values instead of silently accepting them.pnpm config,pnpm set, andpnpm getby toleratingconfigDependenciesinstall failures. For these commands, a failure to installconfigDependencies(for example because the registry auth token has not been written yet) is now logged at debug level and the command proceeds. All other commands still surface the install error #10684.allowBuildsas an install-state input and clear previously ignored builds when they are explicitly disallowed.catalog:protocol with thepnpm dlx/pnpxcommand, resulting in a catalog entry not found error.PNPM_CONFIG_*(uppercase) environment variables in addition topnpm_config_*. Previously, only the lowercase form was honored, so env vars renamed per the v11 migration guide (e.g.PNPM_CONFIG_USERCONFIG) silently had no effect on case-sensitive systems like macOS and Linux #11465.v11.0.5Compare Source
Patch Changes
Drop the
darwin-x64artifact from@pnpm/exeand from the GitHub release page. The Node.js SEA mechanismpnpm pack-appuses produces a binary that segfaults at startup on Intel Macs because of an upstream Node.js bug (nodejs/node#62893, tracked alongside #59553; the Node.js team has opted not to fix it on the grounds that x64 macOS is being phased out). Re-signing withcodesignorldiddoesn't help — the corruption is in LIEF's Mach-O surgery, before signing.Intel Mac users should install pnpm via
npm install -g pnpm(uses the system Node.js, no SEA), or stay on pnpm 10.x.@pnpm/exe's preinstall on Intel Mac now exits with a clear error pointing at these alternatives.Closes #11423.
pnpm dlx(andpnpx/pnx/pnpm create) now runs the same interactiveapprove-buildsprompt aspnpm add -gwhen the package being launched depends on transitive packages with install scripts. Previously, the v11strictDepBuildsdefault made dlx fail withERR_PNPM_IGNORED_BUILDSand required users to re-run with--allow-build=<pkg>for every offending dependency. dlx also now removes the partially-populated cache directory when the install fails, so a subsequent run starts clean instead of reusing a broken install whose builds were silently skipped #11444.72629fc: Fixpnpm -g ls --jsonandpnpm -g ls --parseableso they emit valid JSON and parseable output respectively, matching pnpm 10 behavior. Since the isolated global packages refactor in pnpm 11, the global list command had a custom path that always printed plain text and ignored--json/--parseable, which broke tools likenpm-check-updatesthat parse the JSON output #11440.pnpm -g ls --depth=<n>(with n > 0) now errors when more than one isolated global install would be involved, since each install has its own lockfile and merging their transitive trees would be incoherent. When the request can be narrowed to a single install group, the regularlistflow is used and the full dependency tree is shown.Fixed
pnpm publishto honorpublishConfig.registryfrompackage.jsonwhen publishing a single package. The native publish flow introduced in v11 was reading the registry from.npmrconly, ignoring the per-package override #11419.When
strictPeerDependenciesistrue, theERR_PNPM_PEER_DEP_ISSUESerror once again renders the peer dependency issues inline using the same format aspnpm peers check, so users (and CI tools like Renovate) can see what failed without runningpnpm peers checkseparately #11439.The
WARNand error code labels in pnpm's output now wrap in brackets ([WARN],[ERR_PNPM_FOO]). Previously the labels relied entirely on a colored background to stand out, which meant they blended into the surrounding text in terminals without color (e.g. whenNO_COLORis set or output is piped). The brackets are painted in the same color as the badge background, so they appear as ordinary padding in color-capable terminals — only the no-color rendering changes.v11.0.4Compare Source
Patch Changes
pnpm cinot reinstalling workspace packagenode_modulesdirectories after the clean step #11427.pnpm ciperforms a fresh install after the clean step.pnpm-lock.yamlduringpnpm cleanwhenlockfile: trueis configured inpnpm-workspace.yaml. The lockfile is only removed when the--lockfileoption is passed topnpm clean.pnpm self-update(with no version argument) no longer downgrades pnpm when the registry'slatestdist-tag points to an older release than the currently active version. Runpnpm self-update latestto force a downgrade #11418.minimumReleaseAgeStrictnow defaults totruewhenever the user explicitly setsminimumReleaseAge(viapnpm-workspace.yaml, the globalconfig.yaml, the CLI, orpnpm_config_*env vars).v11.0.3Compare Source
Patch Changes
node_modules/.bin#11412.ERR_PNPM_FETCH_404when installing a project whose lockfile depends on afile:tarball. The previous behavior dropped thetarballfield fromfile:and git-hosted resolutions whenlockfile-include-tarball-url=false(the default), even though those URLs cannot be reconstructed from the package name, version, and registry #11407.v11.0.2Compare Source
Patch Changes
ENOENTsymlink failure whenpnpm add -gtriggers the approve-builds prompt. The global add flow used to forward an absolutemodulesDir(<installDir>/node_modules) into the install run byapprove-builds. The install layer treatedmodulesDiras a path relative tolockfileDirand joined it again, producing a doubled path on Windows becausepath.joindoes not collapse an embedded absolute path. The hoist step then tried tomkdirand symlink under<installDir>\<installDir>\node_modules\.pnpm\node_modules\...and failed withENOENT#11403.packageManagerDependenciesgoing stale when pnpm is invoked through corepack. The lockfile sync (and thedevEngines.packageManagerversion check) previously ran only when pnpm was invoked directly; under corepack the entire block was skipped, so a stale entry would persist even after the running pnpm version changed. The lockfile sync now runs regardless of how pnpm was invoked, while the pnpm-managed version switch (onFail: 'download') remains skipped under corepack so it doesn't fight corepack's own version selection #11397.publishConfig.directorywhen packages publish from a generated directory #11239.os/cpuentries (e.g.["!win32"]) being incorrectly rejected whensupportedArchitecturesexpands to multiple platforms #11375.v11.0.1Compare Source
Patch Changes
pnpm runscripts.nullnamed catalogs in workspace manifests withInvalidWorkspaceManifestErrorinstead of crashing with a rawTypeError.pnpm sbomemittedNOASSERTION(SPDX) and omitted the distribution reference (CycloneDX) for git dependencies. Now emits the git URL with commit hash, e.g.git+https://github.com/user/repo.git#commit.pnpm self-updatenow keepspackage.json'spackageManageranddevEngines.packageManagerin sync. When the legacypackageManagerfield pins pnpm, both fields are rewritten to the new exact pnpm version on update —packageManagertopnpm@<version>(without an integrity hash), anddevEngines.packageManager.versionto the same exact<version>(dropping any range operator). When onlydevEngines.packageManageris declared, the existing range-preserving behavior is unchanged #11388.pnpm audit --fixso that the log output order matches the order written topnpm-workspace.yaml.packageManagerDependenciesentry whendevEngines.packageManagerdeclares a pnpm version that the lockfile no longer satisfies. Previously, the stale entry was kept even though the running pnpm matched the declared version, silently breaking the integrity record #11387.v11.0.0Compare Source
Highlights
Major
minimumReleaseAgedefaults to 1 day (newly published packages are not resolved for 24h) andblockExoticSubdepsdefaults totrue.allowBuildsreplaces the old build-dependency settings —onlyBuiltDependencies,onlyBuiltDependenciesFile,neverBuiltDependencies,ignoredBuiltDependencies, andignoreDepScriptshave been removed.pnpm add -ggets its own directory with its ownpackage.json,node_modules, and lockfile.pnpm publish,login,logout,view,deprecate,unpublish,dist-tag, andversionno longer delegate to the npm CLI, and the remaining npm passthrough commands now throw "not implemented".pnpm audituses npm's bulk advisories endpoint — the legacy/security/auditsendpoints are gone. CVE-based filtering has been replaced with GHSA-based filtering: migrateauditConfig.ignoreCvesentries toauditConfig.ignoreGhsas..npmrcis auth/registry only — all other settings must live inpnpm-workspace.yamlor the new globalconfig.yaml, and environment variables use thepnpm_config_*prefix.node@runtime:<version>no longer extracts the bundlednpm,npx, andcorepack, roughly halving the files pnpm has to hash, write, and link.Minor
pnpm ci,pnpm sbom,pnpm clean,pnpm peers check,pnpm runtime set,pnpm docs/home,pnpm ping,pnpm search,pnpm star/unstar/stars,pnpm whoami,pnpm with, andpnpm pack-app, pluspn/pnxshort aliases..pnpmfile.mjs, which takes priority over.pnpmfile.cjswhen present.pnpm audit --fix=updatefixes vulnerabilities by updating packages in the lockfile instead of adding overrides, andpnpm audit --fix --interactivelets you select which advisories to fix.pnpm pack-apppacks a CommonJS entry into a standalone executable for one or more target platforms using Node.js Single Executable Applications.Major Changes
Requirements
Security & Build Defaults
Changed default values:
optimisticRepeatInstallis nowtrue,verifyDepsBeforeRunis nowinstall,minimumReleaseAgeis now1440(1 day), andminimumReleaseAgeStrictisfalse. Newly published packages will not be resolved until they are at least 1 day old. This protects against supply chain attacks by giving the community time to detect and remove compromised versions. To opt out, setminimumReleaseAge: 0inpnpm-workspace.yaml#11158.strictDepBuildsistrueby default.blockExoticSubdepsistrueby default.Removed deprecated build dependency settings:
onlyBuiltDependencies,onlyBuiltDependenciesFile,neverBuiltDependencies,ignoredBuiltDependencies, andignoreDepScripts#11220.Use the
allowBuildssetting instead. It is a map where keys are package name patterns and values are booleans:truemeans the package is allowed to run build scriptsfalsemeans the package is explicitly denied from running build scriptsSame as before, by default, none of the packages in the dependencies are allowed to run scripts. If a package has postinstall scripts and it isn't declared in
allowBuilds, an error is printed.Before:
After:
Removed
allowNonAppliedPatchesin favor ofallowUnusedPatches.Removed
ignorePatchFailures; patch application failures now throw an error.Store
<algo>-<digest>). Using hex format improves performance since file paths in the content-addressable store use hex representation, eliminating base64-to-hex conversion during path lookups.package.jsonfrom the content-addressable store during resolution and installation. This reduces I/O and speeds up repeat installs #10473.$STORE/index/, package metadata is stored in a single SQLite database at$STORE/index.dbwith MessagePack-encoded values. This reduces filesystem syscall overhead, improves space efficiency for small metadata entries, and enables concurrent access via SQLite's WAL mode. Packages missing from the new index are re-fetched on demand #10500 #10826.Global Packages
Global installs (
pnpm add -g pkg) andpnxnow use the global virtual store by default. Packages are stored at{storeDir}/linksinstead of per-project.pnpmdirectories. This can be disabled by settingenableGlobalVirtualStore: false#10694.Isolated global packages. Each globally installed package (or group of packages installed together) now gets its own isolated installation directory with its own
package.json,node_modules/, and lockfile. This prevents global packages from interfering with each other through peer dependency conflicts, hoisting changes, or version resolution shifts.Key changes:
pnpm add -g <pkg>creates an isolated installation in{pnpmHomeDir}/global/v11/{hash}/pnpm remove -g <pkg>removes the entire installation group containing the packagepnpm update -g [pkg]re-installs packages in new isolated directoriespnpm list -gscans isolated directories to show all installed global packagespnpm install -g(no args) is no longer supported; usepnpm add -g <pkg>insteadGlobally installed binaries are now stored in a
binsubdirectory ofPNPM_HOMEinstead of directly inPNPM_HOME. This prevents internal directories likeglobal/andstore/from polluting shell autocompletion whenPNPM_HOMEis on PATH #10986. After upgrading, runpnpm setupto update your shell configuration.Breaking changes to
pnpm link:pnpm link <pkg-name>no longer resolves packages from the global store. Only relative or absolute paths are accepted. For example, usepnpm link ./fooinstead ofpnpm link foo.pnpm link --globalis removed. Usepnpm add -g .to register a local package's bins globally.pnpm link(no arguments) is removed. Usepnpm link <dir>with an explicit path instead.Configuration
pnpm no longer reads all settings from
.npmrc. Only auth and registry settings are read from.npmrcfiles. All other settings (likehoistPattern,nodeLinker,shamefullyHoist, etc.) must be configured inpnpm-workspace.yamlor the global~/.config/pnpm/config.yaml#11189.Network settings (
httpProxy,httpsProxy,noProxy,localAddress,strictSsl,gitShallowHosts) are now written toconfig.yaml(global) orpnpm-workspace.yaml(local) instead of.npmrc/auth.ini. They are still readable from.npmrcfor easier migration from the npm CLI #11209.pnpm no longer reads
npm_config_*environment variables. Usepnpm_config_*environment variables instead (e.g.,pnpm_config_registryinstead ofnpm_config_registry).pnpm no longer reads the npm global config at
$PREFIX/etc/npmrc.pnpm loginwrites auth tokens to~/.config/pnpm/auth.ini.New
registriessetting inpnpm-workspace.yaml:Auth tokens in
~/.npmrcstill work — pnpm continues to read~/.npmrcas a fallback for registry authentication. The newnpmrcAuthFilesetting can be used to point to a different file instead of~/.npmrc.Replace workspace project specific
.npmrcwithpackageConfigsinpnpm-workspace.yaml.A workspace manifest with
packageConfigslooks something like this:Or this:
pnpm no longer reads settings from the
pnpmfield ofpackage.json. Settings should be defined inpnpm-workspace.yaml#10086.pnpm config get(without--json) no longer prints INI formatted text. Instead, it prints JSON for objects and arrays, and raw strings for strings, numbers, booleans, and nulls.pnpm config get --jsonstill prints all types of values as JSON, as before.pnpm config get <array>now prints a JSON array.pnpm config listnow prints a JSON object instead of INI formatted text.pnpm config listandpnpm config get(without argument) now hide auth-related settings.pnpm config listandpnpm config get(without argument) now show top-level keys as camelCase. Exception: keys that start with@or//are preserved (their cases don't change).pnpm config getandpnpm config listno longer load non-camelCase options from the workspace manifest (pnpm-workspace.yaml).Removed Commands & npm Passthrough
pnpm no longer falls back to the npm CLI. Commands that were previously passed through to npm (
access,bugs,docs,edit,find,home,issues,owner,ping,prefix,profile,pkg,repo,search,set-script,star,stars,team,token,unstar,whoami,xmas) and their aliases (s,se) now throw a "not implemented" error, with a suggestion to use the npm CLI directly #10642. Other previously passed-through commands —view(info,show,v),login(adduser),logout,deprecate,unpublish,dist-tag, andversion— have been reimplemented natively in pnpm (see New Commands below).pnpm publishnow works without thenpmCLI.The One-time Password feature now reads from
PNPM_CONFIG_OTPinstead ofNPM_CONFIG_OTP:If the registry requests OTP and the user has not provided it via the
PNPM_CONFIG_OTPenvironment variable or the--otpflag, pnpm will prompt the user directly for an OTP code.If the registry requests web-based authentication, pnpm will print a scannable QR code along with the URL.
Since the new
pnpm publishno longer callsnpm publish, some undocumented features may have been unknowingly dropped. If you rely on a feature that is now gone, please open an issue at https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/issues. In the meantime, you can usepnpm pack && npm publish *.tgzas a workaround.Removed the
pnpm servercommand #10463.Removed support for the
useNodeVersionandexecutionEnv.nodeVersionfields.devEngines.runtimeandengines.runtimeshould be used instead #10373.Removed support for
hooks.fetchers. We now have a new API for custom fetchers and resolvers via thefetchersfield ofpnpmfile.Lifecycle Scripts
npm_config_*environment variables from the pnpm config during lifecycle scripts. Only well-knownnpm_*env vars are now set, matching Yarn's behavior #11116.CLI Output
$ commandinstead of> pkg@version stage path\n> command, and shows project name and path only when running in a different directory. The$ commandline is printed to stderr to keep stdout clean for piping #11132.pnpm peers checkto view the issues #11133.Lockfile
patchedDependencieslockfile format fromRecord<string, { path: string, hash: string }>toRecord<string, string>(selector to hash). Existing lockfiles with the old format are automatically migrated #10911.Other
The default value of the
typefield in thepackage.jsonfile of the project initialized bypnpm initcommand has been changed tomodule.Added support for lowercase options in
pnpm add:-d,-p,-o,-e#9197.When using the
pnpm addcommand only:-pis now an alias for--save-prodinstead of--parseable-dis now an alias for--save-devinstead of--loglevel=infoThe root workspace project is no longer excluded when it is explicitly selected via a filter #10465.
Audit
pnpm auditnow calls npm's/-/npm/v1/security/advisories/bulkendpoint. The legacy/-/npm/v1/security/audits{,/quick}endpoints have been retired by the registry, so the legacy request/response contract is no longer supported.The bulk endpoint does not return CVE identifiers. CVE-based filtering has been replaced with GitHub advisory ID (GHSA) filtering:
auditConfig.ignoreCves→auditConfig.ignoreGhsas(the previous key is no longer recognized)pnpm audit --ignore <id>/pnpm audit --ignore-unfixablenow read and write GHSAs instead of CVEsurl(https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx)To migrate: replace each
CVE-YYYY-NNNNNentry in yourauditConfig.ignoreCveswith the correspondingGHSA-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxvalue (visible in theMore infocolumn ofpnpm auditoutput) and move it underauditConfig.ignoreGhsas.Package Manager Settings
Breaking: removed the
managePackageManagerVersions,packageManagerStrict, andpackageManagerStrictVersionsettings. They existed only to derive theonFailbehavior for the legacypackageManagerfield, and thepmOnFailsetting introduced alongsidepnpm withsubsumes all three — it directly sets theonFailbehavior of bothpackageManageranddevEngines.packageManager. TheCOREPACK_ENABLE_STRICTenvironment variable is no longer honored (it only gatedpackageManagerStrict); usepmOnFailinstead.Migration:
managePackageManagerVersions: truepmOnFail: download(default)managePackageManagerVersions: falsepmOnFail: ignorepackageManagerStrict: falsepmOnFail: warnpackageManagerStrictVersion: truepmOnFail: errorCOREPACK_ENABLE_STRICT=0pmOnFail: warnRuntime Installs
node@runtime:<version>(includingpnpm env useandpnpm runtime set node) no longer extracts the bundlednpm,npx, andcorepackfrom the Node.js archive. This cuts roughly half of the files pnpm has to hash, write to the CAS, and link during installation, making runtime installs noticeably faster. Users who still neednpmcan install it as a separate package.Minor Changes
New Commands
pnpm view(info,show,v) command for viewing package metadata from the registry #11064.pnpm login(andpnpm adduseralias) command for authenticating with npm registries. Supports web-based login with QR code as well as classic username/password login #11094.pnpm logoutcommand for logging out of npm registries. Revokes the authentication token on the registry and removes it from the local auth config file #11213.pnpm deprecateandpnpm undeprecatecommands for setting and removing deprecation messages on package versions without delegating to the npm CLI #11120.pnpm unpublishcommand. Supports unpublishing specific versions, version ranges via semver, and entire packages with--force#11128.pnpm dist-tagcommand (ls,add,rmsubcommands) #11218.pnpm sbomcommand for generating Software Bill of Materials in CycloneDX 1.7 and SPDX 2.3 JSON formats #9088.pnpm cleancommand that safely removesnode_modulesdirectories from all workspace projects #10707. Use--lockfileto also removepnpm-lock.yamlfiles.pnpm runtime set <runtime name> <runtime version spec> [-g]for installing runtimes. Deprecatedpnpm env usein favor of the new command.pnpm audit --fix=update#10341.pnpm cicommand for clean installs #6100. The command runspnpm cleanfollowed bypnpm install --frozen-lockfile. Designed for CI/CD environments where reproducible builds are critical. Aliases:pnpm clean-install,pnpm ic,pnpm install-clean#11003.pnpm peers checkcommand that checks for unmet and missing peer dependency issues by reading the lockfile #7087.versioncommand natively in pnpm to support workspaces andworkspace:protocols correctly. The new command allows bumping package versions (major, minor, patch, etc.) with full workspace support and git integration #10879.pnpm audit --fixnow supports a new interactive mode via--interactive/-i.pnpm docscommand and its aliaspnpm home. This command opens the package documentation or homepage in the browser. When the package has no valid homepage, it falls back tohttps://npmx.dev/package/<name>.pnpm pingcommand to test registry connectivity. Provides a simple way to verify connectivity to the configured registry without requiring external tools.searchcommand and its aliases (s,se,find).star,unstar,stars, andwhoamicommands.pnpm with <version|current> <args...>command. Runs pnpm at a specific version (or the currently active one) for a single invocation, bypassing the project'spackageManageranddevEngines.packageManagerpins.pnpm pack-appcommand that packs a CommonJS entry file into a standalone executable for one or more target platforms, using the Node.js Single Executable Applications API under the hood.Configuration
Added support for a global YAML config file named
config.yaml.Configuration is now split into two categories:
rcfile and local.npmrc.config.yamland localpnpm-workspace.yaml.Added support for loading environment variables whose names start with
pnpm_config_into config. These environment variables override settings frompnpm-workspace.yamlbut not CLI arguments.Added support for reading
allowBuildsfrompnpm-workspace.yamlin the global package directory for global installs.Added support for
pnpm config get globalconfigto retrieve the global config file path #9977.Added a new setting
virtualStoreOnlythat populates the virtual store without creating importer symlinks, hoisting, bin links, or running lifecycle scripts. This is useful for pre-populating a store (e.g., in Nix builds) without creating unnecessary project-level artifacts.pnpm fetchnow uses this mode internally #10840.Added support for specifying the pnpm version via
devEngines.packageManagerinpackage.json. Unlike thepackageManagerfield, this supports version ranges. The resolved version is stored inpnpm-lock.yamland reused if it still satisfies the range #10932.Added a new
dedupePeerssetting that reduces peer dependency duplication. When enabled, peer dependency suffixes use version-only identifiers (name@version) instead of full dep paths, eliminating nested suffixes like(foo@1.0.0(bar@2.0.0)). This dramatically reduces the number of package instances in projects with many recursive peer dependencies #11070.Config dependencies are now installed into the global virtual store (
{storeDir}/links/) and symlinked intonode_modules/.pnpm-config/. This allows config dependencies to be shared across projects that use the same store, avoiding redundant fetches and imports #10910. Config dependency and package manager integrity info is now stored inpnpm-lock.yamlinstead of inlined inpnpm-workspace.yaml: the workspace manifest contains only clean version specifiers forconfigDependencies, while the resolved versions, integrity hashes, and tarball URLs are recorded in the lockfile as a separate YAML document. The env lockfile section also storespackageManagerDependenciesresolved during version switching and self-update. Projects using the old inline-hash format are automatically migrated on install #10912 #10964.Added
nodeDownloadMirrorssetting to configure custom Node.js download mirrors inpnpm-workspace.yaml. This replaces thenode-mirror:<channel>.npmrcsetting, which is no longer read #11194:pnpm dlxandpnpm createnow respect security and trust policy settings (minimumReleaseAge,minimumReleaseAgeExclude,minimumReleaseAgeStrict,trustPolicy,trustPolicyExclude,trustPolicyIgnoreAfter) from project-level configuration #11183.pnpm initnow writes adevEngines.packageManagerfield instead of thepackageManagerfield wheninit-package-manageris enabled.Added a new setting
runtimeOnFailthat overrides theonFailfield ofdevEngines.runtime(andengines.runtime) in the root project'spackage.json. Accepted values:ignore,warn,error,download. For example, settingruntimeOnFail=downloadmakes pnpm download the declared runtime version even when the manifest does not setonFail: "download".Added a new setting
minimumReleaseAgeIgnoreMissingTime, which istrueby default. When enabled, pnpm skips theminimumReleaseAgematurity check if the registry metadata does not include thetimefield. Set tofalseto fail resolution instead.Store
Hooks & Pnpmfiles
.mjsextension. When.pnpmfile.mjsexists, it takes priority over.pnpmfile.cjsand only one is loaded #9730.CLI & Other
clean,setup,deploy, andrebuildcommands now prefer user scripts over built-in commands. When a project'spackage.jsonhas a script with the same name,pnpmexecutes the script instead of the built-in command. Addedpurgeas an alias for the built-incleancommand, which always runs the built-in regardless of scripts #11118.-Fas a short alias for the--filteroption..are hidden and cannot be run directly viapnpm run. They can only be called from other scripts. Hidden scripts are also omitted from thepnpm runlisting #11041.pnpm approve-buildsnow accepts positional arguments for approving or denying packages without the interactive prompt. Prefix a package name with!to deny it. Only mentioned packages are affected; the rest are left untouched #11030.allowBuildsare automatically added topnpm-workspace.yamlwith a placeholder value, so users can manually set them totrueorfalse#11030.pnandpnxshort aliases forpnpmandpnpx(pnpm dlx) #11052.pnpm store prunenow displays the total size of removed files #11047.pnpm audit --fixnow adds the minimum patched version for each advisory tominimumReleaseAgeExcludeinpnpm-workspace.yaml, so the security fix can be installed without waiting forminimumReleaseAge#11216.optimisticRepeatInstallskipsshouldRefreshResolutionhooks #10995.Performance
node-fetchwith nativeundicifor HTTP requests throughout pnpm #10537.node_modules, avoiding the overhead of creating a temp dir and renaming per package #11088.gunzipSyncchunk size for fewer buffer allocations during tarball decompression #11086.If-Modified-Sincefor conditional metadata fetches, avoiding re-downloading unchanged registry metadata #11161.minimumReleaseAge, reducing the amount of data fetched from the registry #11160.Patch Changes
Switched to
process.stderr.writeinstead ofconsole.errorfor script logging #11140.Respected the
frozen-lockfileflag when migrating config dependencies #11067.Removed the
--workspaceflag from theversioncommand #11115.Handled
ENOTSUPerror in the clone import path during parallel I/O #11117.Fixed
pnpm auditcommand.Updated dependencies to fix vulnerabilities.
pnpm now checks whether a package is installable for non-npm-hosted packages (e.g., git or tarball dependencies) after the manifest has been fetched.
pnpm now explicitly passes the path of the global
rcconfig file tonpm.Fixed YAML formatting preservation in
pnpm-workspace.yamlwhen running commands likepnpm update. Previously, quotes and other formatting were lost even when catalog values didn't change.Closes #10425
The parameter set by the
--allow-buildflag is now written toallowBuilds.Fixed a bug in which specifying
filterinpnpm-workspace.yamlwould cause pnpm to not detect any projects.Deferred patch errors until all patches in a group are applied, so that one failed patch does not prevent other patches from being attempted.
pnpm now fails on incompatible lockfiles in CI when frozen lockfile mode is enabled #10978.
Fixed
strictDepBuildsandallowBuildschecks being bypassed when a package's build side-effects are cached in the store #11039.In GVS mode,
pnpm approve-buildsnow runs a full install instead of rebuild, ensuring that GVS hash directories and symlinks are updated correctly after changingallowBuilds#11043.Fixed a crash in the lockfile merger when merging non-semver version strings (e.g.
link:,file:, git URLs) #11102.Handled
ENOTSUPerror in `linkOrCopyConfiguration
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