npm: v9.0.0-pre.0 Release

9.0.0-pre.0 (2022-09-08)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• workspaces: all workspace packages are now compatible with the following semver range for node: ^14.17.0 || ^16.13.0 || >=18.0.0
• this removes the npm birthday command
• this removes npm set-script
• this changes the default value of install-links to true
• this removes the npm bin command
• npm is now compatible with the following semver range for node: ^14.17.0 || ^16.13.0 || >=18.0.0

Features

• e95017a #5485 feat(workspaces): update supported node engines in package.json (@lukekarrys)
• 49bbb2f #5455 feat: remove npm birthday (@wraithgar)
• 926f0ad #5456 feat: remove npm set-script (@wraithgar)
• 2a8c2fc #5458 feat: default install-links to true (@wraithgar)
• 2e92800 #5459 feat: remove npm bin (@wraithgar)
• 457d388 #5475 feat: update supported node engines in package.json (@wraithgar)

Bug Fixes

• 41481f8 #5475 fix: attempt more graceful failure in older node versions (@wraithgar)

Documentation

• 7fc2b6f #5468 docs: remove duplicate description for prepare script (@kidonng)
• 285b39f #5324 docs: add documentation for expanded :semver selector (@nlf)

Dependencies

• The following workspace dependencies were updated
  • dependencies
  • @npmcli/arborist bumped from ^5.6.1 to ^6.0.0-pre.0
  • libnpmaccess bumped from ^6.0.4 to ^7.0.0-pre.0
  • libnpmdiff bumped from ^4.0.5 to ^5.0.0-pre.0
  • libnpmexec bumped from ^4.0.12 to ^5.0.0-pre.0
  • libnpmfund bumped from ^3.0.3 to ^4.0.0-pre.0
  • libnpmhook bumped from ^8.0.4 to ^9.0.0-pre.0
  • libnpmorg bumped from ^4.0.4 to ^5.0.0-pre.0
  • libnpmpack bumped from ^4.1.3 to ^5.0.0-pre.0
  • libnpmpublish bumped from ^6.0.5 to ^7.0.0-pre.0
  • libnpmsearch bumped from ^5.0.4 to ^6.0.0-pre.0
  • libnpmteam bumped from ^4.0.4 to ^5.0.0-pre.0
  • libnpmversion bumped from ^3.0.7 to ^4.0.0-pre.0