npm: v9.0.0-pre.2 Release

9.0.0-pre.2 (2022-09-23)

⚠️ BREAKING CHANGES

• the default auth-type config value is now web
• login, adduser, and auth-type changes
  • This removes all auth-type configs except web and legacy.
  • login and adduser are now separate commands that send different data to the registry.
  • auth-type config values web and legacy only try their respective methods, npm no longer tries them all and waits to see which one doesn't fail.

Features

• 66ed584 #5551 default auth-type to web (#5551) (@wraithgar)
• 6ee5b32 query: display queryContext in results (@nlf)
• 314311c #5550 separate login/adduser, remove auth types (#5550) (@wraithgar)

Bug Fixes

• 0d90a01 #5480 audit: add a condition to allow third-party registries returning E400 (#5480) (@juanheyns, Juan Heyns)

Documentation

• 2d756cb #5527 add instruction to query objects with npm view (#5527) (@moonith)
• 8743366 #5519 add hash to "tag" config link (#5519) (@mrienstra, @lukekarrys)
• 5645c51 #5521 link mentions of config parameters (#5521) (@mrienstra)
• 19762b4 #5529 modify Misleading doc about bins (@Hafizur046)
• 19762b4 #5529 modify misleading doc about package.json:bin (#5529) (@Hafizur046)
• 8402fd8 #5547 add :outdated pseudo selector to docs (@nlf)

Dependencies

• d030f10 @npmcli/[email protected]
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