PNpM CLI

pnpm 11.28.2 fixes pnpm install skipping every workspace project whose common ancestor is the filesystem root, and stops pnpm run from reinstalling or installing when nothing needs it.

Patch Changes

• pnpm install reported success without installing anything when the workspace projects' common ancestor was the filesystem root, such as / or a drive root like C:\. It now installs these projects #16328.

• verifyDepsBeforeRun no longer reports dependencies as outdated after a filtered install just because pnpm-lock.yaml has a newer modification time. It checks the lockfile against the packages that install put in place. Before, pnpm run reinstalled the whole workspace with lifecycle scripts on, for example after a Docker COPY brought in a lockfile with a newer mtime #16322.

  After a filtered install, verifyDepsBeforeRun now also checks that the install put the selected projects' dependencies in place. A node_modules directory alone no longer counts as proof.

• pnpm run and pnpm exec no longer install a project that has never been installed and has nothing to install. Such a project declares no dependencies, no peer dependencies that autoInstallPeers would fetch, and no install lifecycle scripts. The command now runs without writing node_modules or pnpm-lock.yaml #16313.

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