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Migration guide: Migrating from v10 to v11

Minor Changes

• Added pnpm audit signatures to verify ECDSA registry signatures for installed packages against keys from /-/npm/v1/keys #7909. Scoped registries are respected, and registries without signing keys are skipped.

• Added support for installing packages from the GitHub Packages npm registry via a built-in gh: prefix (e.g. pnpm add gh:@acme/private), and, more broadly, for arbitrary named registries in the style of vlt's named-registry aliases. Authentication is picked up from the existing per-URL .npmrc entries (e.g. //npm.pkg.github.com/:_authToken=...), so no separate auth mechanism is required.

  Additional aliases — or an override for the built-in gh alias, for GitHub Enterprise Server — can be configured under namedRegistries in pnpm-workspace.yaml:

  namedRegistries:
    gh: https://npm.pkg.github.example.com/
    work: https://npm.work.example.com/

  With this, work:@corp/lib@^2.0.0 resolves against https://npm.work.example.com/. #11324.

• Allow setting sbom spec version using --sbom-spec-version #11389.

• Add --no-runtime flag (config: runtime=false) to skip installing runtime entries (e.g. Node.js downloaded via devEngines.runtime) without modifying the lockfile. The lockfile keeps the runtime entry so frozen-lockfile validation still passes; only the runtime fetch and .bin linking are skipped. Useful in CI matrices where the runtime is provisioned externally (e.g. via pnpm runtime -g set node <version>) before pnpm install runs.

• Added the pnpm bugs command that opens a package's bug tracker URL in the browser. With no arguments, it reads the current project's package.json; with one or more package names, it fetches each package's metadata from the registry and opens its bug tracker. Falls back to <repository>/issues when the bugs field is missing #11279.

• Added pnpm owner command to manage package owners on the registry.

Patch Changes

• Added "published X ago by Y" information to the pnpm view command output, similar to npm view. This is useful when comparing against minimumReleaseAge.

  For example, pnpm view pnpm now shows:

  published 17 hours ago by GitHub Actions
  

• pnpm publish now honors the configured HTTP/HTTPS proxy (including https_proxy/http_proxy/no_proxy environment variables) when polling the registry's doneUrl during the web-based authentication flow. Previously the poll bypassed the proxy, causing the registry to respond 403 from a different source IP and the login to never complete #11561.

• pnpm add -g now installs each space-separated package into its own isolated directory by default. To bundle multiple packages into the same isolated install (so that they share dependencies and are removed together), pass them as a comma-separated list. For example:

  • pnpm add -g foo bar installs foo and bar as two independent globals — removing one does not affect the other.
  • pnpm add -g foo,bar qar bundles foo and bar into a single isolated install while qar is installed on its own.

  Related: #11587.

• pnpm runtime set <name> <version> no longer fails in the root of a multi-package workspace with the ADDING_TO_ROOT error. Installing the workspace root is a valid target for a runtime, so the command now bypasses that safety check.

• Fix pnpm --version hanging for the lifetime of the worker pool after the version was printed. main.ts's --version short-circuit returned before reaching the command-handler finally that calls finishWorkers(), so the worker pool that switchCliVersion had spawned during integrity resolution stayed alive and held the Node event loop open. The CLI entry now runs finishWorkers() from its own finally, so every exit path tears the pool down.

  Repro: pnpm --version in a workspace whose devEngines.packageManager version already matches the running pnpm + onFail: "download". switchCliVersion resolves the integrity (spawning workers), finds nothing to swap, returns. The version prints, then the process hangs.

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