Release v6.11.0 · npm/cli

v6.11.0 (2019-08-20):

A few meaty bugfixes, and introducing peerDependenciesMeta.

24acc9fc8 and 45772af0d #217 npm.community#8863 npm.community#9327 do not descend into directory deps' child modules, fix shrinkwrap files that inappropriately list child nodes of symlink packages (@isaacs and @salomvary)
50cfe113d #229 fixed typo in semver doc (@gall0ws)
e8fb2a1bd #231 Fix spelling mistakes in CHANGELOG-3.md (@XhmikosR)
769d2e057 npm/uid-number#7 Better error on invalid --user/--group configs. This addresses the issue when people fail to install binary packages on Docker and other environments where there is no 'nobody' user. (@isaacs)
8b43c9624 nodejs/node#28987 npm.community#6032 npm.community#6658 npm.community#6069 npm.community#9323 Fix the regression where random config values in a .npmrc file are not passed to lifecycle scripts, breaking build processes which rely on them. (@isaacs)
8b85eaa47 save files with inferred ownership rather than relying on SUDO_UID and SUDO_GID. (@isaacs)
b7f6e5f02 Infer ownership of shrinkwrap files (@isaacs)
54b095d77 #235 Add spec to dist-tag remove function (@theberbie)

dc8f9e52f pacote@9.5.7: Infer the ownership of all unpacked files in node_modules, so that we never have user-owned files in root-owned folders, or root-owned files in user-owned folders. (@isaacs)
bb33940c3 cmd-shim@3.0.0:
- 9c93ac3 #2 npm#3380 Handle environment variables properly (@basbossink)
- 2d277f8 #25 #36 #35 Fix 'no shebang' case by always providing $basedir in shell script (@igorklopov)
- adaf20b #26 Fix $* causing an error when arguments contain parentheses (@satazor)
- 49f0c13 #30 Fix paths for MSYS/MINGW bash (@dscho)
- 51a8af3 #34 Add proper support for PowerShell (@ExE-Boss)
- 4c37e04 #10 Work around quoted batch file names (@isaacs)
a4e279544 npm-lifecycle@3.1.3 (@isaacs):
- fail properly if uid-number raises an error
7086a1809 libcipm@4.0.3 (@isaacs)
8845141f9 read-package-json@2.1.0 (@isaacs)
51c028215 bin-links@1.1.3 (@isaacs)
534a5548c read-cmd-shim@1.0.3 (@isaacs)
3038f2fd5 gentle-fs@2.2.1 (@isaacs)
a609a1648 graceful-fs@4.2.2 (@isaacs)
f0346f754 cacache@12.0.3 (@isaacs)
ca9c615c8 npm-pick-manifest@3.0.0 (@isaacs)
b417affbf pacote@9.5.8 (@isaacs)