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v6.3.0-next.0
NEW FEATURES
ad0dd226fnpm/cli#26npm versionnow supports a--preidoption to specify the preid for prereleases. For example,npm version premajor --preid rcwill tag a version like2.0.0-rc.0. (@dwilches)
MESSAGING IMPROVEMENTS
c1dad1e99npm/cli#6 Makenpm audit fixmessage provide better instructions for vulnerabilities that require manual review. (@bradsk88)15c1130feFix missing colon next to tarball url in newnpm viewoutput. (@zkat)21cf0ab68npm/cli#24 Use the defaut OTP explanation everywhere except when the context is “OTP-aware” (like when setting double-authentication). This improves the overall CLI messaging when prompting for an OTP code. (@jdeniau)
MISC
a9ac8712dnpm/cli#21 Use the extractedstringify-packagepackage. (@dpogue)9db15408cnpm/cli#27wrappywas previously added to dependencies in order to flatten it, but we no longer do legacy-style for npm itself, so it has been removed frompackage.json. (@rickschubert)
DOCUMENTATION
3242baf08npm/cli#13 Update more dead links in README.md. (@u32i64)06580877bnpm/cli#19 Update links in docs’index.htmlto refer to new bug/PR URLs. (@watilde)ca03013c2npm/cli#15 Fix some typos in file-specifiers docs. (@Mstrodl)4f39f79bcnpm/cli#16 Fix some typos in file-specifiers and package-lock docs. (@watilde)35e51f79dnpm/cli#18 Update build status badge url in README. (@watilde)a67db5607npm/cli#17 Replace TROUBLESHOOTING.md with posts in npm.community. (@watilde)e115f9de6npm/cli#7 Use https URLs in documentation when appropriate. Happy Not Secure Day! (@XhmikosR)