Release v7.0.6

Another Tuesday, another release (or three)!

This week we released some bug fixes, a few documentation updates, and some dependency updates while we continue improving the npm 7 experience for everyone.

You can get the latest release in the usual ways

npm install -g npm@7

7.0.6 (2020-10-27)

BUG FIXES

• 46c7f792a #2047 #1935 skip the prompt when in a known ci environment (@nlf)
• f8f6e1fad #2049 properly remove pycache in release script (@MylesBorins)
• 5db95b393 #2050 pack: do not show individual files of bundled deps (@isaacs)
• 3ee8f3b34 #2051 view: Better errors when package.json is not JSON (@isaacs)

DEPENDENCIES

• 99ae633f6 libnpmversion@1.0.6
  • respect gitTagVersion = false
• d4173f58d @npmcli/promise-spawn@1.3.1
  • do not return empty buffer when stdio is inherited
  • attach child process to returned promise
• c09380fa5 @npmcli/run-script@1.7.3
  • forward SIGINT and SIGTERM to children that inherit stdio
• b154861ad @npmcli/arborist@1.0.5
• ffea6596b agent-base@6.0.2
  • support http proxy for https registries

7.0.5 (2020-10-23)

• 77ad86b5e Merge docs deps with main project

7.0.4 (2020-10-23)

DOCUMENTATION

• cc026daf8 docs: npm-dedupe through npm-install
• aec77acf8 #1915 use “dockhand” for faster static documentation generation (@ethomson)
• aeb10d210 #2024 Fix post-install script name (@irajtaghlidi)

BUG FIXES

• 59e8dd6c6 #2015 #2016 Properly set npm_command environment variable.

TESTS

• 39ad1ad9e #2001 npm config tests (@ruyadorno)
• b9c1caa8e #2026 npm owner test and refactor (@ruyadorno)

DEPENDENCIES

• ed6e6a9d3 eslint-plugin-standard@4.0.2

• b737ee999 #2009 #2007 npm-packlist@2.1.4:

  • Maintain order in package.json files array globs
  • Strip slashes from package files list results

• 783965508 #1997 #2000 #2005 @npmcli/arborist@1.0.4

  • Ensure that root is added when root.meta is set
  • Include all edges in explain() output when a root edge exists
  • Do not conflict on meta-peers that will not be replaced
  • Install peerOptionals if explicitly requested, or dev