chore(deps): update pnpm to v11.7.0

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
pnpm (source)	11.3.0+sha512.2c403d6594527287672b1f7056343a1f7c3634036a67ffabfcc2b3d7595d843768f8787148d1b57cf7956c90606bbd192857c363af19e96d2d0ec9ec5741d215 → 11.7.0
pnpm (source)	11.3.0 → 11.7.0

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Release Notes

pnpm/pnpm (pnpm)

v11.7.0

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Minor Changes

• Added a new setting frozenStore (--frozen-store) that lets pnpm install run against a package store on a read-only filesystem (e.g. a Nix store, a read-only bind mount, an OCI layer). When enabled, pnpm opens the store's SQLite index.db through the immutable=1 URI — bypassing the WAL/-shm sidecar creation that otherwise fails on a read-only directory — and suppresses every store-write path (the index.db writer and the project-registry write). Pair it with --offline --frozen-lockfile against a fully-populated store. Under the global virtual store, package directories live inside the store, so if the store is missing the build output of a package whose lifecycle scripts are approved (or that has a patch), pnpm fails up front with ERR_PNPM_FROZEN_STORE_NEEDS_BUILD rather than crashing mid-build on a read-only write — seed the store with those builds first. Incompatible with --force and with a configured pnpr server, since both write into the store; the side-effects cache is likewise not written under frozenStore. If the store is missing its content directory, the install fails fast with ERR_PNPM_FROZEN_STORE_INCOMPLETE rather than attempting to initialize it. The read-only immutable=1 open requires Node.js >=22.15.0, >=23.11.0, or >=24.0.0; on older runtimes --frozen-store fails with a clear ERR_PNPM_FROZEN_STORE_UNSUPPORTED_NODE error. Bin-linking also tolerates a read-only store: under the global virtual store a package's bin source lives inside the store, so the chmod that makes it executable would be refused — with EPERM/EACCES, or with EROFS on a genuinely read-only filesystem. That chmod is redundant when the seed already ships its bins executable with a normalized shebang, so it is now skipped in that case, while a non-executable bin (or one still carrying a Windows CRLF shebang) on a read-only store still errors.

• When pacquet (the Rust port of pnpm) is declared in configDependencies, pnpm now delegates dependency resolution to it too — not just materialization — provided the installed pacquet is new enough to support full resolving installs (>= 0.11.7).

  Previously pacquet only ran in frozen-install mode: pnpm always resolved the dependency graph itself (writing pnpm-lock.yaml) and handed pacquet a finished lockfile to fetch / import / link. With pacquet >= 0.11.7, a non-frozen pnpm install (default isolated nodeLinker, plain install) is delegated to pacquet end-to-end in a single pass — pacquet resolves the manifests, writes the lockfile, and materializes node_modules. pnpm detects the capability from the installed pacquet's version; older pacquet releases keep the resolve-then-materialize split, and add / update / remove still resolve in pnpm (it has to mutate the manifests first). This remains an opt-in preview of the Rust install engine #​11723.

• Added a new opt-in --batch flag to pnpm publish --recursive that sends all selected packages to the registry in a single PUT /-/pnpm/v1/publish request instead of one request per package. The target registry has to implement the batch publish endpoint (pnpr does); registries that don't are reported with a clear ERR_PNPM_BATCH_PUBLISH_UNSUPPORTED error. The batch is processed all-or-nothing by pnpr: if any package in the batch fails validation, none of the packages are published.

Patch Changes

• Reject path-traversal and reserved dependency aliases (such as ../../../escape, .bin, .pnpm, or node_modules) that come from a lockfile rather than a freshly resolved manifest. A crafted lockfile alias could otherwise be joined directly under a hoisted node_modules directory, letting package files be written outside the intended install root or overwrite pnpm-owned layout.

  The fix adds two layers:

  • The nodeLinker: hoisted graph builder now validates each alias at the directory sink (safeJoinModulesDir), matching the validation pnpm already performs when resolving aliases from manifests.
  • The lockfile verification gate (verifyLockfileResolutions) now runs an always-on, policy-independent check that rejects any importer or snapshot dependency alias that is not a valid package name, failing the install early — before any fetch or filesystem work — for every node linker at once.

• Made shared package child resolution deterministic when the same package is reached through multiple contexts. pnpm now chooses the shallowest occurrence, then importer order, then parent path, instead of letting request timing decide the child context and missing-peer report pnpm/pnpm#12358.

• Fix garbled summary line after submitting pnpm update -i and pnpm audit --fix -i. The interactive checkbox prompt previously printed every selected choice's full table row (label, current/target versions, workspace, URL) joined by commas, producing a wall of text after pressing Enter. The summary now lists only the selected package names (or vulnerability keys) by setting an explicit short per choice; the in-progress selection UI is unchanged.

• Prevent pnpm patch-remove from removing files outside the configured patches directory.

• Fixed pnpm publish ignoring strictSsl: false when publishing to registries with self-signed certificates. The strictSSL option is now forwarded to libnpmpublish / npm-registry-fetch so that strict-ssl=false in .npmrc or strictSsl: false in pnpm-workspace.yaml is respected during publish, the same way it is for pnpm install pnpm/pnpm#12012.

• Fixed Cannot destructure property 'manifest' of 'manifestsByPath[rootDir]' as it is undefined regression introduced in 11.6.0 when running pnpm add <pkg> outside a workspace on Windows. selectProjectByDir was keying the resulting ProjectsGraph by opts.dir instead of project.rootDir, so downstream manifestsByPath lookups missed when the two paths normalized differently (typically drive-letter casing). pnpm/pnpm#12379

• Git dependencies that point to a subdirectory of a repository (repo#commit&path:/sub/dir) keep their path in the lockfile again. Since the integrity of git-hosted tarballs started being pinned in the lockfile, any install that actually downloaded the tarball rebuilt the lockfile resolution as { integrity, tarball, gitHosted } and dropped the path field, while installs served from the store kept it — so the field disappeared seemingly at random. Without path, later installs from that lockfile silently unpacked the repository root instead of the subdirectory #​12304.

• Fixed nondeterministic lockfile output that made pnpm dedupe --check fail intermittently in CI. When a locked peer provider was pinned for a dependency that has no child dependencies of its own, the pinned provider leaked into the shared parent scope, so siblings resolved after it could pick up an optional peer they should not see. Which siblings were affected depended on resolution order, which varies with network timing.

• Sped up pnpm install with a frozen lockfile by running lockfile verification (the policy revalidation gate added for minimumReleaseAge/trustPolicy and the tarball-URL anti-tamper check) concurrently with fetching and linking instead of blocking the whole install on it. Dependency lifecycle scripts are still held back until verification succeeds, so no script runs on an unverified lockfile: if verification fails the install aborts before any dependency build, and if linking finishes first the install waits for the verification verdict before completing.

• User-defined npm_config_* environment variables are now preserved during lifecycle script execution. Previously, all npm_-prefixed env vars were stripped, which caused user-set variables like npm_config_platform_arch to be lost pnpm/pnpm#12399.

• pnpm can now use different auth tokens for different package scopes, even when those scopes use the same registry URL.

  Previously, auth was selected only by registry URL. If @org-a and @org-b both used https://npm.pkg.github.com/, they had to share the same token. This caused problems for registries that issue tokens per organization or per scope.

  Configure a scope-specific token by adding the package scope after the registry URL in the auth key:

  @​org-a:registry=https://npm.pkg.github.com/
  @​org-b:registry=https://npm.pkg.github.com/
  
  //npm.pkg.github.com/:@​org-a:_authToken=${ORG_A_TOKEN}
  //npm.pkg.github.com/:@​org-b:_authToken=${ORG_B_TOKEN}
  
  //npm.pkg.github.com/:_authToken=${FALLBACK_TOKEN}

  pnpm login --registry=https://npm.pkg.github.com --scope=@​org-a writes the token to the same scope-specific auth key.

  When installing or publishing @org-a/*, pnpm uses ORG_A_TOKEN. For @org-b/*, pnpm uses ORG_B_TOKEN. Packages without a matching scope continue to use the registry-wide fallback token.

• pnpm setup no longer prompts to approve build scripts for @pnpm/exe when installing the standalone executable. pnpm links the platform-specific binary itself, so the package's install scripts are skipped during the global self-install #​12377.

• Close lockfile reads deterministically before rewriting lockfiles and keep pacquet's virtual store directory length aligned with pnpm on Windows.

• A 304 Not Modified answer from the registry now renews the cached metadata file's mtime, so the minimumReleaseAge freshness shortcut keeps serving resolutions from the cache. Previously, once a cached packument grew older than minimumReleaseAge, every subsequent install re-validated it against the registry forever, because a 304 never rewrites the file.

• Updated dependency ranges. Notably:

  • @pnpm/logger peer dependency range moved to ^1100.0.0.
  • msgpackr 1.11.8 → 2.0.4 (store index files remain byte-compatible in both directions).
  • open ^7.4.2 → ^11.0.0, memoize ^10 → ^11, cli-truncate ^5 → ^6, pidtree ^0.6 → ^1.
  • @yarnpkg/core 4.5.0 → 4.8.0, @rushstack/worker-pool 0.7.7 → 0.7.18, @cyclonedx/cyclonedx-library 10.0.0 → 10.1.0, @pnpm/config.nerf-dart ^1 → ^2, @pnpm/log.group 3.0.2 → 4.0.1, @pnpm/util.lex-comparator ^3 → ^4.

• Updated @zkochan/cmd-shim to v9.0.6.

• Fixed a Windows-only hang where a failed command could take 20–46 seconds to exit. On error, pnpm enumerates descendant processes (via pidtree) to terminate them, which on Windows shells out to wmic/PowerShell Get-CimInstance Win32_Process — a lookup that is extremely slow on some machines. The lookup is now bounded by a short timeout so it can no longer stall the process exit.

v11.6.0

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Minor Changes

• pnpm install completes without re-resolving when pnpm-lock.yaml was deleted but node_modules is intact: the up-to-date check now treats the current lockfile (node_modules/.pnpm/lock.yaml) — the record of what the previous install materialized — as the wanted lockfile, verifies the manifests still match it, restores pnpm-lock.yaml from it, and reports "Already up to date". Previously this scenario triggered a full resolution and a re-verification of every locked package against the registry.

• 615c669: Added support for configuring URL-scoped registry settings through npm_config_//… and pnpm_config_//… environment variables, for example:

  npm_config_//registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken=<token>
  pnpm_config_//registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken=<token>
  

  This provides a file-free way to supply registry authentication. Because the registry a value applies to is encoded in the (trusted) environment variable name, it is host-scoped by construction and cannot be redirected to another registry by repository-controlled config. The environment value is treated as trusted config: it takes precedence over a project/workspace .npmrc but is still overridden by command-line options. When the same key is provided through both prefixes, pnpm_config_ wins.

• Raised the default network concurrency from min(64, max(cpuCores * 3, 16)) to min(96, max(cpuCores * 3, 64)). Package downloads are I/O-bound, not CPU-bound, so deriving the floor from the core count left machines with few cores (for example 4-vCPU CI runners) downloading only 16 tarballs at a time and unable to saturate a low-latency registry. The networkConcurrency setting still overrides the default.

Patch Changes

• Improved the warning printed when a project .npmrc uses an environment variable in a registry/proxy URL or in registry credentials. The message now explains why the setting was ignored and how to migrate it to a trusted source — for example by moving the line to the user-level ~/.npmrc or running pnpm config set "<key>" <value> — with a link to https://pnpm.io/npmrc. The pnpm config set example is only suggested when the key has no ${...} placeholder, so the snippet is always safe to copy-paste.
• Print a "Lockfile passes supply-chain policies (verified 2h ago)" message when lockfile verification is skipped because a cached verdict for the same lockfile content and policy is reused. Previously the cached short-circuit was completely silent, which made it look like the policy gate never ran #​12324.
• Platform-specific optional dependencies are now skipped even when their os/cpu/libc fields are missing from the registry metadata or the lockfile. Some registries strip these fields from the package metadata, which made pnpm download and install the binaries of every platform regardless of supportedArchitectures. The missing platform fields of an optional dependency are now inferred from its name (e.g. @nx/nx-win32-arm64-msvc → os: win32, cpu: arm64), so foreign-platform binaries are skipped without even downloading them #​11702.

v11.5.3

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Patch Changes

• Stopped expanding environment variables in repository-controlled registry/proxy request destinations and registry credential values from .npmrc, and in workspace registry URLs from pnpm-workspace.yaml. Move dynamic registry URL and token configuration to trusted user, global, CLI, or environment config.

• Resolve package-manager bootstrap dependencies with trusted user or CLI registry and network config, and reject package-manager env-lockfile records that do not use registry package paths with integrity-only resolutions before auto-switch execution.

• Avoid writing packageManagerDependencies to pnpm-lock.yaml when package manager policy is set to onFail: ignore or pmOnFail: ignore #​12228.

• Avoid running dependency-status auto-install when the dependency status is unavailable without a project manifest.

• Using the $ version reference syntax in overrides (e.g. "react": "$react") now prints a deprecation warning. The syntax still works, but catalogs are the recommended way to keep an overridden version in sync with the rest of the workspace. Reference a catalog entry with the catalog: protocol instead.

• Fixed pnpm config get globalconfig to return the global config.yaml path again pnpm/pnpm#11962.

• Fixed bare --color so it does not consume the following CLI flag, allowing command shorthands like --parallel to expand correctly and forms like pnpm --color with current <command> to dispatch the inner command instead of failing with MISSING_WITH_CURRENT_CMD.

• Fix pnpm install ignoring enableGlobalVirtualStore toggle by including it in the workspace state settings check #​12142.

• Security: pnpm now verifies the npm registry signature of a package-manager binary before spawning it, so a cloned repository cannot make pnpm download and execute an arbitrary native binary.

  This covers two paths that select an executable from repository-controlled input:

  • pacquet install engine — declaring pacquet (or @pnpm/pacquet) in configDependencies opts in to pnpm's Rust install engine. pnpm now verifies that the installed pacquet shim and the host's @pacquet/<platform>-<arch> binary carry a valid npm registry signature for their exact name@version, and refuses to run pacquet (failing the command) if the signature does not verify or cannot be checked. The only graceful fallback to pnpm's own engine is when pacquet has no binary for the current platform.
  • automatic version switch / self-update — the packageManager / devEngines.packageManager field makes pnpm download and run a specific pnpm version. pnpm now verifies the registry signature of pnpm, @pnpm/exe, and the host platform binary before installing/spawning them, and refuses to run an engine whose signature does not match a published, signed release. The check runs only on an actual download (store cache miss), so it does not add a network round trip to every command.

  In both cases the signature is verified over the installed integrity, against npm's public signing keys that ship embedded in the pnpm CLI (like corepack), so bytes substituted via a tampered lockfile or a repository-controlled registry fail verification — and a registry the user did not vouch for cannot supply its own signing keys. The signed packument is fetched from the configured registry, so an npm mirror works transparently. Verification fails closed: if it cannot be completed (for example, the registry is unreachable), the command fails rather than running an unverified binary. The embedded keys are kept current by a release-time check against npm's signing-keys endpoint.

• Made peer-dependent deduplication deterministic. When a peer-suffixed package variant was a subset of two or more mutually incompatible larger variants, the variant it collapsed into depended on the order importers were resolved in, which varies between machines. This could resolve the same workspace to different lockfiles on different platforms and make pnpm dedupe --check alternate between passing and failing.

• Reject invalid package names and versions from staged tarball manifests before deriving filenames for pnpm stage download.

• Clarified in CLI help that the pnpm store is trusted shared state and store integrity checks are corruption detection, not a tamper boundary for untrusted store writers.

• Reject reserved manifest bin names ("", ".", "..", and scoped forms such as @scope/..) when resolving a package's bins. These names previously passed the bin-name guard and, when joined to the global bin directory during global remove/update/add operations, could resolve to the global bin directory itself or its parent and have it recursively deleted.

• Require trusted package identity before package-name allowBuilds entries can approve lifecycle scripts for git, git-hosted tarball, direct tarball, and local directory artifacts. To approve one of those artifacts explicitly, use its peer-suffix-free lockfile depPath as the allowBuilds key. Lockfile verification now rejects lockfiles where a registry-style dependency path (name@semver) is backed by a git, directory, or git-hosted tarball resolution (ERR_PNPM_RESOLUTION_SHAPE_MISMATCH), so the dependency path is a reliable artifact identity by the time scripts can run.

• Security: pnpm now verifies the OpenPGP signature of a downloaded Node.js runtime's SHASUMS256.txt before trusting its integrity hashes.

  When a repository requests a Node.js runtime (e.g. via devEngines.runtime / useNodeVersion), the download mirror is repository-configurable through node-mirror:<channel>. The integrity of the downloaded binary was only checked against SHASUMS256.txt fetched from that same mirror — a circular check that a malicious mirror could satisfy by serving a tampered binary together with a matching SHASUMS256.txt. pnpm then executes the binary (for example to run lifecycle scripts).

  pnpm now fetches SHASUMS256.txt.sig and verifies the detached OpenPGP signature against the Node.js release team's public keys, which ship embedded in the pnpm CLI. A mirror that serves a tampered binary cannot also produce a valid signature, so the download fails to verify. The embedded keys are kept current by a release-time check against the canonical nodejs/release-keys list.

  The musl variants from the hardcoded unofficial-builds.nodejs.org mirror are not repository-configurable and are signed by a different key, so they continue to be trusted over TLS.

v11.5.2

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Patch Changes

• Peer dependency resolution now reuses the peer contexts already recorded in the lockfile when those providers are still present in the dependency graph and still satisfy the peer ranges. This avoids unnecessary peer-context rewrites during lockfile regeneration. Current manifest choices remain authoritative: a newly added, explicitly updated, or aliased direct provider, a changed nested provider, or a locked version that no longer satisfies the range still takes precedence.

• The lockfile verifier now checks that a registry entry pinning an explicit tarball URL points at the artifact the registry's own metadata lists for that name@version. Previously a tampered lockfile could pair a trusted name@version with an attacker-chosen tarball URL (and a matching integrity for those bytes), so the install fetched the attacker's bytes. A mismatch — or any entry that can't be confirmed against the registry — is rejected with ERR_PNPM_TARBALL_URL_MISMATCH. Non-registry resolutions (file:, git-hosted, etc.) and registry entries without an explicit tarball URL (the URL is reconstructed from name+version+registry, so it is inherently bound) are unaffected; non-standard registry tarball URLs (npm Enterprise, GitHub Packages) still pass because they match the metadata.

• Fix pnpm update --recursive --lockfile-only <pkg>@&#8203;<version> crashing with Invalid Version when the catalog entry for <pkg> is a version range (e.g. ^21.2.10) and catalogMode is strict or prefer. The catalog–version comparison now skips the equality check when either side is a range rather than passing a range to semver.eq(), so range specifiers fall through to the existing mismatch handling instead of throwing #​11570.

• Avoided a Node.js crash when pnpm exits after network requests on Windows.

• Fixed packages being materialized into the virtual store without their root-level files (package.json, LICENSE, README, root entrypoints) when multiple pnpm install processes ran against the same store/workspace concurrently. The fast import path used to destructively empty the shared target directory, so a concurrent importer could wipe files another importer had already written; if the surviving files included the package.json completion marker, every later install treated the broken directory as complete and never repaired it. The fast path now imports directly only when it can create the target directory exclusively, and otherwise builds the package in a private temp directory and atomically renames it into place #​12197.

• Fix dependency build scripts not running under the global virtual store (enableGlobalVirtualStore).

  In a workspace install, dependency build scripts are deferred to a single rebuild pass (buildProjects). That pass resolved each package's location from the classic node_modules/.pnpm/<depPathToFilename> layout, which does not exist under the global virtual store — so native dependencies (e.g. packages using node-gyp / prebuild-install) were never built and failed to load at runtime (Cannot find module .../build/Release/*.node).

  buildProjects now resolves the global-virtual-store projection directory (<storeDir>/links/<hash>, computed with the same graph hash the installer uses) when enableGlobalVirtualStore is set, and serializes concurrent builds of the same shared projection so parallel workspace projects don't race on the same directory.

• Don't promote a runtime: dependency (such as the Node.js version from devEngines.runtime or pnpm runtime set) into a catalog when catalogMode is strict or prefer. A runtime: dependency round-trips to devEngines.runtime, which only recognizes the runtime: protocol; cataloging it rewrote the manifest entry to catalog:, which broke that round-trip, stranded it in devDependencies, and left devEngines.runtime untouched.

• Skip lockfile minimumReleaseAge/trustPolicy verification for non-registry tarball protocols (for example file:), so local tarball dependencies are not incorrectly checked against npm registry metadata.

v11.5.1

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Patch Changes

• Improve pnpm audit performance by pruning non-vulnerable lockfile subtrees and stopping path enumeration once vulnerable findings reach the path cap.
• Avoid crashing when the workspace state cache is partially written or malformed.
• Set npm_config_user_agent for root lifecycle scripts during headless installs.
• Preserve the integrity field of a remote (non-registry) tarball dependency when its lockfile entry is rebuilt. Re-resolving such a dependency without re-fetching it (for example via pnpm update, or when another dependency changes) produced a resolution with no integrity — URL/tarball resolvers only learn the integrity after the tarball is downloaded — so the previously recorded integrity was dropped, making later installs fail with ERR_PNPM_MISSING_TARBALL_INTEGRITY #​12067.
• Normalize a string repository field into the { type, url } object form when creating the publish manifest, matching npm's behavior. Some registries (e.g. Gitea/Codeberg) reject a string repository with a 500 Internal Server Error during pnpm publish #​12099.
• Preserve compatible optional peer versions already present in the lockfile when resolving dependencies.
• Fixed inconsistent resolution of a peer dependency that is shared through a diamond. When a package peer-depends on both another package and one of that package's own peer dependencies (for example @typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin peer-depends on both @typescript-eslint/parser and typescript, and @typescript-eslint/parser peer-depends on typescript), pnpm no longer reuses a hoisted instance of the shared peer that was resolved against a different version #​12079.

v11.5.0

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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.

v11.4.0

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Minor Changes

• Treat tarball-integrity mismatches against the lockfile as a hard failure by default. Previously, pnpm install (non-frozen) would log ERR_PNPM_TARBALL_INTEGRITY, silently re-resolve from the registry, and overwrite the locked integrity — which meant a compromised registry, proxy, or republished version could substitute attacker-controlled content on a clean machine even though the project shipped a committed lockfile.

  pnpm install now exits with ERR_PNPM_TARBALL_INTEGRITY and a hint pointing at the new opt-in flag.

  The only opt-in is pnpm install --update-checksums — narrowly scoped to refreshing the locked integrity values from what the registry currently serves. Mirrors yarn's flag of the same name. A warning still prints when the bypass takes effect so the operation is auditable.

  --force and pnpm update deliberately do not bypass the integrity check. They are routine refresh operations; silently overwriting a locked integrity in those flows would erase the protection a committed lockfile is supposed to provide. --frozen-lockfile behavior is unchanged. --fix-lockfile keeps its documented purpose (filling in missing lockfile entries) and is also not a bypass.

• pnpm runtime set <name> <version> now saves the runtime to devEngines.runtime by default instead of engines.runtime. Pass --save-prod (or -P) to save it to engines.runtime instead #​11948.

Patch Changes

• Fix a credential disclosure issue where an unscoped _authToken (or _auth, or username + _password, or tokenHelper) defined in one source — ~/.npmrc, ~/.config/pnpm/auth.ini, a workspace .npmrc, CLI flags, etc. — would be sent as an Authorization header to whichever registry a different (potentially untrusted) source named. The same fix extends to client TLS credentials (cert, key) so they aren't presented to a registry their author didn't choose.

  pnpm now rewrites each unscoped per-registry setting (_authToken, _auth, username, _password, tokenHelper, cert, key) to its URL-scoped form at load time, using the registry= value declared in the same source (or the npmjs default registry if the source declares none). A later layer overriding registry= therefore cannot pull an unscoped credential along, because it is already pinned to the URL its author intended. ca/cafile are intentionally not rescoped — they're trust anchors, not credentials, and corporate MITM-proxy setups rely on them applying globally.

  Every rescope emits a deprecation warning telling the user where the setting was pinned and how to write it directly. npm has rejected unscoped credentials outright since npm@9, and pnpm intends to remove support in a future major release. To target a specific registry, write the setting URL-scoped (e.g. //registry.example.com/:_authToken=... or //registry.example.com/:cert=...).

  @pnpm/network.auth-header: removed the defaultRegistry parameter from createGetAuthHeaderByURI and getAuthHeadersFromCreds. Now that credentials are URL-scoped at load time, the merged configByUri never contains the empty-string "default registry" placeholder slot, so re-keying it onto the merged default registry is no longer needed.

• Fix pnpm deploy crashing with ENOENT: ... lstat '<deployDir>/node_modules' when configDependencies declares pacquet (pacquet or @pnpm/pacquet). The deploy directory never installs config dependencies, so the install engine they designate isn't on disk to invoke; the nested install now skips them.

• Reject git resolutions whose commit field is not a 40-character hexadecimal SHA before invoking git. A malicious lockfile could otherwise smuggle a value such as --upload-pack=<command> through git fetch / git checkout, which on SSH or local-file transports executes the supplied command.

• Limit concurrent project manifest reads while listing large workspaces to avoid EMFILE errors.

• Reject patch files whose diff --git headers reference paths outside the patched package directory. Previously a malicious .patch file added via a pull request could write, delete, or rename arbitrary files reachable by the user running pnpm install.

• Improve the log message that pnpm prints after auto-adding entries to minimumReleaseAgeExclude when minimumReleaseAge is set without minimumReleaseAgeStrict. The message previously referred to the internal "loose mode" terminology, which wasn't searchable in the docs; it now tells the user to set minimumReleaseAgeStrict to true if they want these updates gated behind a prompt instead #​11747.

• Reject dependency aliases that contain path-traversal segments (such as @x/../../../../../.git/hooks) when reading them from a package manifest or symlinking them into node_modules. A malicious registry package could otherwise use a transitive dependency key to make pnpm install create symlinks at attacker-chosen paths outside the intended node_modules directory.

• Reject pnpm-lock.yaml entries whose remote tarball resolution: block is missing the integrity field. Previously the worker that extracts a downloaded tarball skipped hash verification when no integrity was supplied and minted a fresh one from the unverified bytes, so an attacker who could both alter the lockfile (e.g. via a pull request that strips integrity:) and serve modified content at the referenced tarball URL could install a tampered package without any error — including under --frozen-lockfile. pnpm now fails closed at lockfile-read time with ERR_PNPM_MISSING_TARBALL_INTEGRITY. Git-hosted tarballs (gitHosted: true or a URL on codeload.github.com / bitbucket.org / gitlab.com) and file: tarballs are exempt — the commit SHA in a git-host URL and the user-controlled local path already anchor the bytes.

• Validate devEngines.runtime and engines.runtime version ranges for node, deno, and bun when onFail is set to error or warn. Previously these settings only had an effect with onFail: 'download' — the error and warn modes silently did nothing #​11818. Violations now throw ERR_PNPM_BAD_RUNTIME_VERSION.

• Require provenance before treating trusted publisher metadata as the strongest trust evidence.

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