pnpm 11.0.6

pnpm 11.0.6

on Node.js NPM

Patch Changes

• 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.

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