pnpm 11.2.0

pnpm 11.2

on Node.js NPM

See full v11.0.0 changelog
Migration guide: Migrating from v10 to v11

Minor Changes

• Experimental: Adding @pnpm/pacquet (the Rust port of pnpm) to configDependencies in pnpm-workspace.yaml now delegates the materialization phase of pnpm install to the pacquet binary. pnpm still owns dependency resolution; pacquet only fetches and imports from the freshly-written lockfile. This is an opt-in preview of the Rust install engine #11723.

  To configure pacquet in a project, run:

  pnpm add @pnpm/pacquet --config
  

  You'll see changes in pnpm-workspace.yaml and pnpm-lock.yaml that should be committed. If you experience any issues with pacquet, please let us know by mentioning this in the GitHub issue you create.

• configDependencies now resolve and install one level of optionalDependencies declared by the config dependency, with os/cpu/libc platform filtering applied at install time. This unlocks the esbuild/swc-style pattern where a package ships platform-specific binaries via optionalDependencies — a config dependency can now do the same and have the matching binary symlinked next to it in the global virtual store, so require('pkg-platform-arch') from inside the config dependency resolves correctly.

  The env lockfile records all platform variants regardless of host platform, so it remains portable across machines. Each entry in a config dependency's optionalDependencies must declare an exact version — ranges and tags are rejected to keep installs reproducible.

• Implement the documented pnpm login --scope <scope> flag. The scope is normalized (a leading @ is added if missing; blank values are ignored) and an @<scope>:registry=<registry> mapping is written to the pnpm auth file alongside the auth token. Subsequent installs of @<scope>/* packages then route to the chosen registry. Previously pnpm login --scope foo errored with Unknown option: 'scope' despite the flag being listed in the online documentation #11716.

• pnpm outdated and pnpm update --interactive now report Node.js, Deno, and Bun runtimes installed as project dependencies (runtime: specifiers). Previously these were silently skipped.

Patch Changes

• Fix cafile=<relative-path> in .npmrc being read from the wrong directory when pnpm is invoked from a different cwd (e.g. pnpm --dir <project> install from a CI wrapper or monorepo script). The path is now resolved against the directory of the .npmrc that declared it, not process.cwd(). Before this fix the CA file silently failed to load — the install proceeded without the configured CA and the user only saw TLS errors against a private registry, with no log line tying back to the wrongly resolved path #11624.

• Fix config.registry getting a trailing slash appended when registry is set in .npmrc and no registries.default is provided by pnpm-workspace.yaml. The sync from registries.default to config.registry introduced in #11744 now only fires when the workspace manifest actually contributes a different default.

• Fix global add/update to handle minimumReleaseAge policy violations instead of surfacing an internal resolver guardrail error.

• Fix two crashes with injectWorkspacePackages: true when the lockfile has been pruned (e.g. by turbo prune --docker):

  • Cannot use 'in' operator to search for 'directory' in undefined: a peer-dependency-variant injected snapshot inherits its resolution from the base packages: entry; when a pruner drops that base entry the readers crash. convertToLockfileObject now reconstructs the directory resolution from the file: depPath at load time — a single normalization point, so every reader sees a fully-formed snapshot.
  • ERR_PNPM_ENOENT on node_modules/.bin/<tool>: after prepare/postinstall, runLifecycleHooksConcurrently re-imported each injected workspace package; the scanDir-into-filesMap workaround fed target-internal paths to the importer, which the makeEmptyDir fast path (#11088) then wiped. Drop the workaround and pass keepModulesDir: true so the importer preserves the target's existing node_modules (bin links + transitive deps) and source files keep their hardlinks.

• Fixed pnpm login and pnpm logout ignoring registries.default from pnpm-workspace.yaml #10099.

• Fix the minimumReleaseAge (publishedBy) maturity shortcut to be inclusive at the cutoff. Previously, abbreviated metadata whose modified field equalled the cutoff fell off the fast path and triggered a full-metadata re-fetch (or a MISSING_TIME error when full metadata wasn't permitted). Since modified is an upper bound on every version's publish time, modified == publishedBy already implies every version passes the per-version <= filter in filterPkgMetadataByPublishDate, so the shortcut now accepts the boundary case directly. Strictly > (was >=) at the rejection branch.

• Honor publishConfig.access when publishing packages.

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