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vpnpm 11.28.1 · today

pnpm 11.28.1 makes pnpm install work in StackBlitz WebContainers, repairs lockfiles whose patch hashes disagree with patchedDependencies, and fixes many bugs in Windows command shims, injected workspace dependencies, and pnpm deploy.

Patch Changes

Installing packages

pnpm install now works in StackBlitz WebContainers. On projects without a lockfile, it used to fail with ENOENT ... pnpm-lock.yaml, because pnpm did not recognize the errors that WebContainers return from asynchronous file system calls. It also failed with "this.db.exec is not a function", because node:sqlite there lacks DatabaseSync.exec. When node:sqlite cannot prepare statements either, pnpm stores the index in index.fallback #15649.
pnpm install now completes after downloading a Node.js runtime specified by devEngines.runtime when pnpm runs on Node.js 24.4.x #14667.
pnpm install no longer fails when a package from the registry declares a file: dependency on a directory inside itself, such as "@types/css-tree": "file:./typings/css-tree". pnpm links that dependency to the directory inside the package, as npm and Yarn do. The lockfile records it as link:<root>/typings/css-tree #9141.
Installing a git-hosted dependency that has to be built no longer fails when that dependency's own dependencies have build scripts nobody approved. pnpm skips those builds while preparing the dependency, as it does without strictDepBuilds #9764.
pnpm now uses pnpm to prepare a git-hosted dependency that is a pnpm workspace without a committed lockfile. It used npm before, which could skip the dependency's build #14011.
When installing a git dependency over SSH fails with Permission denied (publickey), pnpm suggests checking the loaded keys with ssh-add -l. Resolving an SSH URL that refuses the key also shows a local HTTPS rewrite that leaves the recorded URL alone #13743.
pnpm install --dev and pnpm fetch --dev now install the optional dependencies of devDependencies, such as the platform binaries of Biome and oxlint. The project's own optionalDependencies are still skipped #9678.
pnpm install --frozen-lockfile now works on a detached HEAD when gitBranchLockfile is enabled. The install now reads the lockfiles of the local and remote-tracking branches that contain the checked-out commit. It still writes the shared pnpm-lock.yaml #7672.
pnpm install on CI now fails on an outdated lockfile when preferFrozenLockfile is explicitly set to true. Setting it to true used to let CI update the lockfile #9072.
pnpm install now fails with ERR_PNPM_IGNORED_BUILDS on a repeat install when strictDepBuilds is on and a dependency's build is still undecided. A repeat install against an existing node_modules reported success where a fresh install failed #10450.
pnpm install now removes an optional dependency from node_modules if its install script fails. Code that checks whether the package is installed no longer finds a package that cannot load #8756.
pnpm install --offline and pnpm add --offline now resolve a version range to the newest matching version whose tarball is already in the store. They used to pick the newest version in the cached metadata and fail with ERR_PNPM_NO_OFFLINE_TARBALL when its tarball was missing #10715.
If an offline install fails because the registry metadata cache uses the layout from before pnpm 11.27 and 12.4, the error now names the older mirror on disk and explains that one online install repopulates the cache #15656.
pnpm install now fails right away when writing package files fails because the store is full. It no longer retries the tarball download first #8581.
With nodeLinker: hoisted, pnpm install now restores a workspace project's node_modules after it was deleted. Before, the install printed "Already up to date" and left the project without the dependencies nested under it.
Under nodeLinker: hoisted, pnpm install now clears orphaned package directories that an interrupted or failed install leaves in a project's node_modules. A directory recorded by the previous install is removed, while an unrecorded directory is moved to node_modules/.ignored. A copy already in .ignored is never overwritten #13676.
Packages in an external virtualStoreDir can resolve the project's direct dependencies selected by hoistPattern. Run pnpm install --force to repair an existing installation #5652.
A repeat install now keeps the fast path when a declared local file dependency is replaced by an override #12892.

Store, build cache, and global virtual store

Files imported from the store now follow the umask of the install that writes them. Installing with a umask of 077 no longer leaves imported files readable by the group and others #3807.
With the global virtual store, pnpm rebuild no longer modifies packages shared with projects that have not approved their build scripts #12302.
The side-effects cache now restores the symlinks that a build script creates inside a package. A warm install used to replace each of them with a copy of its target #12859.

After upgrading, every package with a build script is built once more.
pnpm install now restores cached build artifacts when reinstalling a workspace that uses separate lockfiles #12942.
The global virtual store and the side-effects cache now key built packages by the Node.js version that the root project's devEngines.runtime or engines.runtime pins. That is the Node.js their build scripts run with. A dependency that declares its own engines.runtime no longer changes the key for every other package.
Concurrent installs that share a global virtual store now run a package's build in its shared slot one at a time. A failed build leaves the slot in place and marks it for the next install to rebuild #15568.
Concurrent installs no longer fail when they replace the same stale hoisted dependency link. Virtual store cleanup now keeps the temporary lockfiles that concurrent installs are still writing.
pnpm install keeps the owner, group, and mode of files already in a shared store, including index.db. New store files and directories inherit the store directory's group-write bit. When that directory is setgid, new files inherit its group. pnpm does not change a file's owner or group #12765.
When pnpm install repairs a store file that was modified through a hard link in node_modules, the repair now keeps the file's inode on Linux and macOS. Hard-linked copies in other projects are healed at the same time. Before, only the project running the install received the restored content. On Windows the repair still replaces the file, so other projects are healed on their next install #3445.
A tarball whose integrity pnpm computed during download is now found in the store on the next install. Before, that install downloaded the tarball again once the lockfile recorded the integrity #12562.
pnpm now warns when it cannot hard link packages from an existing store in the pnpm home directory and uses a store on the project's filesystem. This can happen when the project is on another filesystem, such as a bind-mounted workspace in a container. The warning names both stores and suggests setting storeDir #14505.

Resolving and linking dependencies

A peer dependency no longer resolves to two different versions for one package. This happened when the package peer-depends on another package and on one of that package's peers, and it is installed deeper than a direct dependency of the package that provides them #12098.
An optional peer dependency is no longer resolved from another workspace project's package when the project provides one of that package's own peers at a version it rejects. This avoids bogus unmet peer errors #13989.
pnpm no longer reports unmet peer dependency warnings for aliased npm: peer ranges that a tarball dependency satisfies #11126.
pnpm install now links the executables of auto-installed peer dependencies into the workspace root's node_modules/.bin, including after a frozen-lockfile reinstall #8511.
With resolutionMode: time-based and minimumReleaseAge both set, pnpm install no longer reports a subdependency as too new when only the time-based cutoff excludes it. Such subdependencies used to fail a strict install with ERR_PNPM_NO_MATURE_MATCHING_VERSION, or were added to minimumReleaseAgeExclude #13569.

A transitive dependency that has no matching version published before the time-based cutoff now resolves to the lowest matching version allowed by minimumReleaseAge. pnpm picks a version younger than minimumReleaseAge only if no older version matches #16298.
With minimumReleaseAge set, re-resolving the lockfile no longer rewrites the peerDependencies recorded for a package whose version did not change. This happened when the registry metadata of a package differed from the package.json in its tarball #13988.
pnpm no longer revalidates cached registry metadata when the registry sends Cache-Control: max-age=0, no-cache, or no-store. It downloads the metadata again, so a version newly published to such a registry is visible on the next install #13487.
pnpm's built-in package compatibility database no longer applies to a project's own manifest. A project named like a published package, such as vue-loader, no longer gains dependencies on pnpm install or pnpm update. User-configured packageExtensions still apply to project manifests #11700.
Relative local tarball paths in pnpm.overrides without an explicit file: prefix are now rebased correctly for workspace packages #11131.
pnpm no longer reports pnpm-lock.yaml as broken when a project depends on a package named constructor. A __proto__ key in the lockfile is now kept as a plain entry when pnpm reads or writes the lockfile. It no longer replaces the prototype of the objects pnpm builds from it #11028.
With nodeLinker: pnp, a workspace package can now require another workspace package it depends on #3567. On Windows, workspace dependency paths in the generated .pnp.cjs now use forward slashes.

Performance

pnpm now uses less memory when installing a package whose archive is larger than 64 MiB unpacked, and when installing a runtime from a zip archive, such as Node.js on Windows, Deno, or Bun #14164.
A fresh install reusing a warm global virtual store skips reimporting packages whose target directory is already complete #11112.
A warm pnpm install reuses on-disk package metadata for five minutes when the registry does not send an ETag. Registries that send an ETag, including the public npm registry, still revalidate with a conditional request. pnpm update still fetches current metadata #13976.

Patched dependencies

pnpm install now repairs a pnpm-lock.yaml whose (patch_hash=<hash>) dependency paths disagree with its patchedDependencies map, including paths that lack the hash their patch calls for. pnpm previously accepted such a lockfile as up to date and kept the old patched files. pnpm install --frozen-lockfile now fails on such a lockfile with ERR_PNPM_INCONSISTENT_PATCH_HASH. It fails with ERR_PNPM_UNCHECKABLE_PATCH_HASH when a patch hash in the lockfile is malformed, or when the lockfile lacks the package version or patch entry that the check needs #15336.
pnpm install now fails with ERR_PNPM_PATCH_NOT_FOUND when a patch file listed in patchedDependencies does not exist. It used to fail with a raw ENOENT error and a stack trace #5268.
pnpm now fails with ERR_PNPM_INVALID_PATCHED_DEPENDENCY when patchedDependencies has an invalid shape or contains a non-string value.
engineStrict now checks the patched package.json when a patchedDependencies entry changes engines. A patch that relaxes engines.node no longer fails the install against the published range #9603.
pnpm patch now applies the existing patch file to the edit directory of a git-hosted dependency, as it already does for packages from the registry #9699.
pnpm patch-commit now fails with an error when git cannot be found in PATH. It previously reported that no changes were found #8666.

Workspaces and filtering

pnpm install refreshes injected copies of workspace packages when source projects are rebuilt. Injected copies previously stayed stale until pnpm install --force #4407.
Scripts listed in syncInjectedDepsAfterScripts now update injected dependencies while they run. A watcher on the injected package, such as a dev server, sees each change before the script exits #4410.
pnpm install no longer fails for an injected workspace dependency whose package publishes from a publishConfig.directory that its own prepare script builds. The injected copy now picks up that directory once prepare finishes building it. pnpm install --frozen-lockfile no longer reports the dependency as outdated while the directory has not been built yet #7811.
With sharedWorkspaceLockfile: false, an injected workspace package that has lifecycle scripts is now hard linked into the projects that depend on it. Before, pnpm left a plain copy, so later edits to the package did not reach those projects #9828.
injectWorkspacePackages now hard links a workspace dependency declared with a relative path, such as workspace:../foo, the same way it already does for workspace:* #10446.
pnpm install no longer creates a node_modules symlink inside the publishConfig.directory of a workspace package linked with linkDirectory. A build tool that cleaned its output directory through that symlink deleted the files of the package's dependencies. pnpm install also removes a symlink that an earlier install left there #16226.
When verifyDepsBeforeRun triggers an install before a filtered pnpm run or pnpm exec, pnpm now installs only the selected projects and their dependencies. A later filtered command also installs a selected project that an earlier filtered install skipped #11865.
pnpm import in a workspace now keeps the versions pinned by a yarn.lock inside a workspace project #4385.
Installing with pnprServer set now records the pnpmfile checksum in the lockfile, so a later pnpm install --frozen-lockfile accepts that lockfile. A frozen install through the pnpr server now fails if the pnpmfile changed. If the pnpmfile defines a readPackage, afterAllResolved or preResolution hook or custom resolvers, pnpm resolves dependencies locally and prints a warning that the pnpr server was not used #14460.

Installing through a pnpr server now links a workspace project at the directory its publishConfig.directory names. An install that resolves through a server which does not forward the setting fails with ERR_PNPM_PNPR_PUBLISH_DIRECTORY_MISMATCH. The server rejects a publishConfig.directory that points outside its project.

Adding, updating, and removing dependencies

With autoInstallPeers, pnpm add and pnpm remove in a workspace project keep the locked version of a peer dependency the project declares. In a workspace where another project depended on a different version of that package, the peer could switch to that version #11225.
Adding a dependency now keeps unrelated transitive dependencies on their locked versions #11456.
pnpm update --recursive <pkg> no longer changes the version of a peer dependency that another workspace project installs automatically. Such a peer could move to a version outside the range the project declares, for example to React 19 in a project that declares react: ^18.3.1 #14928.
pnpm update package@beta on a dependency declared as catalog: now updates the catalog entry and keeps catalog: in package.json. Before, pnpm wrote the resolved specifier to package.json #13399.
pnpm update now applies an override that references a catalog with the catalog's new value when the update bumps that catalog entry. Before, the packages the override targets kept the old version in the lockfile #12159.
pnpm add <dir> now warns when the added directory declares peer dependencies, as pnpm link does. The directory is saved as a link: dependency, and its peers are not resolved from the project that adds it. Use the file: protocol to have them resolved #5523.

Running scripts and commands

pnpm run and pnpm exec no longer install dependencies automatically when the root package.json still keeps overrides, packageExtensions, patchedDependencies, or ignoredOptionalDependencies in its pnpm field. pnpm no longer reads that field, so the install rewrote the lockfile without those settings. The command now fails and asks to move the settings to pnpm-workspace.yaml #16278.
pnpm run no longer reinstalls dependencies when a node_modules directory installed outside CI is used with CI=true, or the other way around #12337.
pnpm no longer hangs after a lifecycle script exits while a process it started in the background keeps the script's output open. pnpm stops reading that output one second after the script exits #5730.
A signal sent to pnpm, such as SIGTERM, now reaches the pnpm that pnpm switches to because of packageManager or devEngines.packageManager, and the one that pnpm with runs. The signal used to be dropped, so scripts running under that pnpm never got to shut down #9948.
pnpm run exits with the code of a script that handles Ctrl+C and shuts down. A script that finished cleanly is not reported as a lifecycle failure. The commands after it in the same script still run #9945.
pnpm run and lifecycle scripts use the configured scriptShell, including Git Bash on Windows, when shellEmulator is also enabled. shellEmulator still runs scripts when scriptShell is not set. Extra arguments passed to pnpm run are quoted for the shell that runs the script, so a Windows path stays intact #14719.
pnpm -r run /regexp/ now honors the tasks dependsOn declared for each script the selector matches, like running the script by name does. Matched scripts that depend on each other run in order. Each matched script runs once #15596.
Commands run from a POSIX shell through a dependency's own node_modules/.bin, such as node_modules/vite/node_modules/.bin/esbuild, no longer fail with MODULE_NOT_FOUND #10189.
pnpm rebuild with nodeLinker: hoisted no longer puts one package's parent node_modules/.bin directories on the PATH of the packages it builds after it.

Publishing, packing, and deploying

pnpm publish now waits at least 5 minutes for the registry to answer a publish request, like npm. This fixes "409 Conflict - Failed to save packument" errors when the registry is slow to answer #11454.
pnpm deploy with a shared lockfile now copies workspace dependencies into the deploy directory, even when packageImportMethod is set to hardlink. Previously, their files were hard-linked to the workspace sources, so editing a source file also changed the deployed copy #12176.
pnpm deploy --prod no longer fails with ERR_PNPM_OUTDATED_LOCKFILE when the deployed project declares a devEngines.runtime with onFail: download. The runtime stays out of the deployed node_modules with the rest of the dev dependencies #15703.
pnpm deploy --legacy no longer leaves broken links to nested local dependencies of workspace packages #9575.
pnpm deploy no longer creates extra directories inside the deploy target and workspace projects when using a relative deploy path #10981.

Manifests and configuration files

Settings given on the command line, such as --registry and --store-dir, now take precedence over the values a pnpmfile updateConfig hook sets #14063.
An updateConfig hook that returns registriesByScope without the default or @jsr entry no longer crashes the install with Invalid URL. A missing default keeps the configured registry, and a missing @jsr falls back to the built-in JSR registry #15619.

The hook's registry and the default entry of its registriesByScope now set one default registry, which installs, pnpm publish, and pnpm login all use. If a hook changes both, registry wins. A route that is not a string fails with ERR_PNPM_INVALID_UPDATE_CONFIG_RESULT.
An updateConfig hook in .pnpmfile.cjs has to use config.registriesByScope, config.registriesByPrefix, and config.registryOptionsByUrl. These registry lookups were renamed in pnpm 11.23.0 from config.registries, config.namedRegistries, and config.registryOptions #15620.
An async updateConfig hook that resolves to undefined now fails with ERR_PNPM_CONFIG_IS_UNDEFINED, as a synchronous hook that returns undefined already did.
pnpm config set --location=project and pnpm config delete --location=project, run from a package inside a workspace, now write settings that belong in pnpm-workspace.yaml to the workspace root's pnpm-workspace.yaml. Before, they created a new pnpm-workspace.yaml in the current package, which made that package the workspace root. Settings stored in .npmrc are still written to the current directory #13757.
pnpm now reads the workspace directory override from PNPM_CONFIG_WORKSPACE_DIR, like other settings. NPM_CONFIG_WORKSPACE_DIR still works as a fallback #16275.
A ${VAR} placeholder in .npmrc or pnpm-workspace.yaml whose name matches a built-in object property, such as ${toString}, is now treated as an unset variable. It used to be replaced with the source text of a JavaScript function.
pnpm now rejects a falsy non-array packages field in pnpm-workspace.yaml, such as packages: false, with an error. It used to treat the field as omitted.

Global packages, pnpm versions, and runtimes

pnpm update --global now reinstalls the global packages that pnpm 10 installed into the previous global directory, <global-dir>/5, so their commands are linked into the pnpm home bin directory again and pnpm list --global lists them. Once every package is migrated, pnpm deletes the previous directory and the commands pnpm 10 linked into the pnpm home #11528.
pnpm env remove --global deletes Node.js versions that pnpm installed into its own store, including when another tool installed pnpm #8357.
pnpm self-update no longer suggests a downgrade when minimumReleaseAge holds back the registry's latest release. It now says that release is still within the cutoff #12006.
@pnpm/exe no longer ships a binary for arm64 musl Linux, such as Alpine on ARM. The published binary crashed with a segmentation fault at startup. Installing @pnpm/exe on that platform now fails with an error that suggests npm install -g pnpm or pnpm 12 #10443.
The macOS and Linux release archives no longer include Windows-only files, such as node-gyp.cmd and the fastlist executables #11352.

Windows and WSL

On Windows, pnpm run now passes the arguments after the script name to the script as typed. Before, cmd expanded %VAR% in them and backslashes arrived doubled. Line breaks still arrive as the two characters \n, because cmd cannot pass them. The command line pnpm prints for the script quotes the arguments the same way on every platform #16257.
On Windows, command shims now run tools whose paths contain non-ASCII characters #6999. The PowerShell shims do so in Windows PowerShell 5.1 too #16217.
On Windows, the .cmd command shims in node_modules/.bin now keep a % in the project path. Before, cmd.exe expanded it as a variable reference, so the command received a mangled NODE_PATH #15716.
Bin shims in node_modules/.bin run from Cygwin on Windows again. The shims passed a /cygdrive/c/... path to the Windows node found on PATH, so Node.js failed with Cannot find module 'C:\cygdrive\c\...' #12845.
pnpm setup no longer writes the pn.ps1, pnpx.ps1, and pnx.ps1 PowerShell wrappers. It also removes the ones an earlier setup wrote. PowerShell now runs pn, pnpx, and pnx through their .cmd wrappers, like pnpm itself. Before, these aliases failed with a "not digitally signed" error wherever the execution policy blocks unsigned scripts #8444.
On Windows, globally installed @pnpm/exe commands now run in the invoking PowerShell console and return their exit status #6503.
On Windows, installing @pnpm/exe with npm inside a project now writes node_modules/.bin shims that run the standalone executable #15688.
On Windows, pnpm env use -g and pnpm add -g node@runtime:<version> now replace a node.exe in the global bin directory that is a broken symlink. Previously they failed with ENOENT #5411.
On Windows, pnpm expands nested %VAR% references in PNPM_HOME and the other directory environment variables it uses for its home, store, cache, state, and config directories. pnpm fails with an error when a %VAR% reference remains after expansion #13236.
On Windows, if the global bin directory is not in PATH and a PATH entry still contains an unexpanded variable such as %PNPM_HOME%, the error now names that entry. A variable referenced from the user Path must be set to a full path and stored as a plain string (REG_SZ) for the entry to expand #5283.
On Windows, pnpm setup no longer garbles non-ASCII characters in existing Path entries #6346.
On Windows, pnpm setup repairs the PNPM_HOME registry type left by older pnpm versions, even when the configured directory has not changed.
On Windows, the ERR_PNPM_BAD_ENV_FOUND error of pnpm setup now shows the value PNPM_HOME is currently set to. It used to show the directory pnpm wanted to set.
On Windows, pnpm install no longer skips a dependency's build script on a later install when the script changes nothing inside the package directory #15667.
On Windows, pnpm now retries writing the workspace state file while another process, such as an antivirus scanner, briefly holds it open #14550.

Inspecting dependencies

pnpm licenses list now reports the actual on-disk package locations when using nodeLinker: hoisted or shamefully-hoist: true #8589. pnpm licenses list --json now includes every installed copy of a package in its paths array, including hoisted copies and isolated installations with different peer dependencies. Its paths also exist on disk when the isolated linker uses a custom modulesDir.
pnpm list now shows the correct path of a link: dependency that points to a directory on another drive on Windows. The path used to be appended to the project directory, such as C:\project\D:\lib, and pnpm list --long could not show the package's details #10362.
pnpm root now prints the configured modulesDir. It used to print node_modules regardless of the setting. A project's own modulesDir from packageConfigs is printed too #9113.
pnpm audit and pnpm audit signatures now fail with an error when the lockfile contains unresolvable dependency references #13638.

Output and messages

With the default and append-only reporters, installs with --loglevel warn or --loglevel error now print the full output of a failed install script. The output of successful scripts, including the root project's own install hooks, stays hidden. With --loglevel warn, pnpm also prints ignored build script warnings.
The lockfile verification error now suggests relaxing the policy that flagged an entry only if a fresh resolution still fails and you trust the affected packages. Errors from checks that no policy controls, such as a missing tarball integrity, no longer suggest relaxing a policy #14411.
pnpm run --recursive now prints GitLab CI collapsible sections that GitLab recognizes. The section markers used to appear as raw text in the job log.
Local tarball dependencies using the file protocol are no longer counted as downloaded in the progress banner #1103.

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