pnpm 11.5.0

pnpm 11.5

on Node.js NPM

Minor Changes

• Added a new hoistingLimits setting for nodeLinker: hoisted installs, mirroring yarn's nmHoistingLimits. It accepts none (the default — hoist as far as possible), workspaces (hoist only as far as each workspace package), or dependencies (hoist only up to each workspace package's direct dependencies). Originally proposed in #6468, closing #6457.

• Replaced enquirer with @inquirer/prompts for all interactive prompts. Fixes the update -i scrolling overflow bug where long choice lists were clipped in the terminal #6643.

  User-facing changes:

  • pnpm update -i / pnpm update -i --latest: Scrolling now works correctly when many packages are available; the new library uses visual-line-aware pagination via usePagination
  • pnpm audit --fix -i: Same scrolling fix for vulnerability selection
  • pnpm approve-builds: Interactive build approval prompts updated
  • pnpm patch: Version selection and "apply to all" prompts updated
  • pnpm patch-remove: Patch removal selection updated
  • pnpm publish: Branch confirmation prompt updated
  • pnpm login: Credential prompts updated
  • pnpm run / pnpm exec (with verifyDepsBeforeRun=prompt): Confirmation prompt updated

  Vim-style j/k keys still work for up/down navigation in all interactive prompts.

  Internal: The OtpEnquirer and LoginEnquirer DI interfaces changed from { prompt } to { input } / { input, password } respectively. Plugins or custom builds that inject their own enquirer mock will need to update.

• Staged publishes are now recognized in the trust scale. When a package version's registry metadata carries an approver field, it is treated as the strongest trust evidence (ranked above trusted publishers and provenance attestations), since staged publishes require 2FA publish approvals. This prevents false-positive trust downgrade errors when moving from a staged publish to a lower trust level #11887.

Patch Changes

• Fix pnpm hanging during peer resolution when an aliased install pulls in transitive packages with mutual peer cycles at different depths in the dependency tree (for example, pnpm i nuxt@npm:nuxt-nightly@5x). Cycles whose members hit the findHit cache instead of running their own calculateDepPath are now short-circuited by sibling resolutions at the level where the cycle is detected, so the cached path promises no longer deadlock. #11999.

• Fix pnpm dist-tag add and pnpm dist-tag rm against npmjs.org failing without --otp with [ERR_PNPM_UNAUTHORIZED] You must be logged in to set dist-tag … "You must provide a one-time pass. Upgrade your client to npm@latest in order to use 2FA.". pnpm now sends npm-auth-type: web on dist-tag writes and surfaces the resulting OTP challenge through the existing browser-based 2FA flow (the same withOtpHandling helper used by pnpm publish), so the browser opens, the user authenticates, and the dist-tag is set on retry. --otp=<code> continues to work via the classic flow.

• Fix minimumReleaseAgeExclude handling in npm resolution fast paths so excluded packages do not get pinned to stale versions. Excludes are honored consistently during publishedBy metadata selection and cache-mtime shortcuts.

• Fix the integrity field being dropped from the lockfile entry of a remote (non-registry) https-tarball dependency when an unrelated package is installed afterwards. URL/tarball resolvers do not return an integrity (it is only known after the tarball is downloaded), so when such a dependency was reused from the lockfile without being re-fetched, its integrity was lost. It is now carried over from the existing resolution. With pnpm's lockfile-integrity hardening, the missing integrity made subsequent --frozen-lockfile installs fail with ERR_PNPM_MISSING_TARBALL_INTEGRITY. #12001.

• Skip dependency re-resolution when pnpm-lock.yaml is missing but node_modules/.pnpm/lock.yaml exists and still satisfies the manifest. pnpm install now reuses the materialized snapshot to regenerate pnpm-lock.yaml instead of walking the registry to rebuild it from scratch, turning the cache+node_modules variation into a near-no-op for users who deleted the lockfile but kept the install #11993.

  --frozen-lockfile still refuses to proceed when pnpm-lock.yaml is absent — the regenerated lockfile must be committed, so failing loudly is the correct behavior for CI.

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