PNpM CLI

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vpnpm 10.12 · 1y+

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Minor Changes

Experimental. Added support for global virtual stores. When enabled, node_modules contains only symlinks to a central virtual store, rather to node_modules/.pnpm. By default, this central store is located at <store-path>/links (you can find the store path by running pnpm store path).

In the central virtual store, each package is hard linked into a directory whose name is the hash of its dependency graph. This allows multiple projects on the system to symlink shared dependencies from this central location, significantly improving installation speed when a warm cache is available.

> This is conceptually similar to how NixOS manages packages, using dependency graph hashes to create isolated and reusable package directories.

To enable the global virtual store, set enableGlobalVirtualStore: true in your root pnpm-workspace.yaml, or globally via:
```
pnpm config -g set enable-global-virtual-store true
```
NOTE: In CI environments, where caches are typically cold, this setting may slow down installation. pnpm automatically disables the global virtual store when running in CI.

Related PR: #8190
The pnpm update command now supports updating catalog: protocol dependencies and writes new specifiers to pnpm-workspace.yaml.
Added two new CLI options (--save-catalog and --save-catalog-name=<name>) to pnpm add to save new dependencies as catalog entries. catalog: or catalog:<name> will be added to package.json and the package specifier will be added to the catalogs or catalog[<name>] object in pnpm-workspace.yaml #9425.
Semi-breaking. The keys used for side-effects caches have changed. If you have a side-effects cache generated by a previous version of pnpm, the new version will not use it and will create a new cache instead #9605.
Added a new setting called ci for explicitly telling pnpm if the current environment is a CI or not.

Patch Changes

Sort versions printed by pnpm patch using semantic versioning rules.
Improve the way the error message displays mismatched specifiers. Show differences instead of 2 whole objects #9598.
Revert #9574 to fix a regression #9596.

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