npm/CHANGELOG.md

a package manager for JavaScript

### v2.15.2 (2016-03-24):

It's always nice to see new contributors. 💚

This week sees another small release, but we're still chugging along on our
[Windows efforts](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11444).

There's also some small process changes to our LTS process relatively recently
that you might wanna know about! 💁

For one, the `2.x` branch was removed in favor of just `lts`. If you're making
PRs exclusively against npm's LTS, please use that name from now on. `2.x` was
deleted.

Also, [@othiym23](https://github.com/othiym23) put some time into [writing down
our LTS process and policy](https://github.com/npm/npm/wiki/LTS). Check it out
and ping us if you have questions or comments about it!

In general, we're trying to make sure all our policy and such for our
contributors is written down, and we hope it makes it easier in general for
y'all. Forrest is also working on a shiny new Contributor's Guide right now, but
we'll link to that in the (near?) future, when it's ready to roll out.

#### TESTS

* [`1d0e468`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/1d0e468c06c7b8e2b95b7fe874a3399a16d9db74)
  [#11931](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11931)
  Removes a bunch of old, disabled tests that have just been sitting around,
  doing nothing.
  ([@othiym23](https://github.com/othiym23))
* [`7ae8aa1`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/7ae8aa1d9dc47761024f6756114205db3fb2c80b)
  [#11987](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11987)
  There was a failure in the `outdated-symlink` test caused by using the default
  registry instead of the mock registry tests.
  ([@yodeyer](https://github.com/yodeyer))

#### DOCS

* [`b2649fb`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/b2649fb360f239aadef1ab51a580cbf4fdf29722)
  [#12006](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/12006)
  Access was Team and Team was Access, but someone from the community rolled
  around and corrected it for us. Thanks a bunch!
  ([@yaelz](https://github.com/yaelz))

### v2.15.1 (2016-03-17):

It's another one of those releases again! Docs and tests, it turns out, have a
pretty easy time getting into LTS releases, and boring is exactly how LTS should
be. 💁

#### DOCS

* [`981c89c`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/981c89c8e398ca22ab6bf466123b25728ef6f543)
  [#11820](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11820)
  The basic explanation for how `npm link` works was a bit confusing, and
  somewhat incorrect. It should be clearer now.
  ([@rhgb](https://github.com/rhgb))
* [`35b2b45`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/35b2b45f181dcbfb297f53b577dc1f26efcf3aba)
  [#11787](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11787)
  The `verison` alias for `npm version` no longer shows up in the command list
  when you do `npm -h`.
  ([@doug-wade](https://github.com/doug-wade))
* [`1c9d00f`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/1c9d00f788298a81a8a7293d7dcf430f01bdd7fd)
  [#11786](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11786)
  Add a comment to the `npm-scope.md` docs about `npm@>=2` being required in
  order to use scoped packaged.
  ([@doug-wade](https://github.com/doug-wade))
* [`7d64fb1`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/7d64fb1452d360aa736f31c85d6776ce570b2365)
  [#11762](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11762)
  Roll back patch that previously advised people to use `--depth Infinity`
  instead of `--depth 9999`. Just keep using `--depth 9999`.
  ([@GriffinSchneider](https://github.com/GriffinSchneider))

#### TESTS

* [`98a9ee4`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/98a9ee4773f83994b8eb63c0ff75a9283408ba1a)
  [#11912](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11912)
  Did you know npm can install itself? `npm install -g npm` is the way to
  upgrade! Turns out that one of the tests that verified this functionality got
  rewritten as part of our recent push for better tests, and in the process
  omitted a detail about *how* the test ran. We're testing that corner case
  again, now, by moving the install folder to `/tmp`, where the original legacy
  test ran.
  ([@iarna](https://github.com/iarna))

### v2.15.0 (2016-03-10):

#### WHY IS THIS SEMVER-MINOR I THOUGHT THIS WAS LTS

A brief note about LTS this week!

npm, as you may know if you're using this `2.x` branch, has an LTS process for
releases. We also try and play nice with [Node.js' own LTS release
process](https://github.com/nodejs/LTS#lts-plan). That means we generally try to
avoid things like minor version bumps on our `2.x` branch (which is also tagged
`lts` in the `dist-tag`s).

That said, we had a minor-bump update recently for `npm@3.8.0` which added a
`maxsockets` option to allow users to configure the number of concurrent sockets
that npm would keep open at a time -- a setting that has the potential to help a
bunch for people with fussy routers or internet connections that aren't very
happy with Node.js applications' usual concurrency storm. This change was done
to `npm-registry-client`, which we don't have a parallel LTS-tracking branch
for.

After talking it over, we ended up deciding that this was a reasonable enough
addition to LTS, even though it's *technically* a `semver-minor` bump, taking
into account both its potential for bugfixing (specially on `2.x`!) and the
general hassle it would be to maintain another branch for `npm-registry-client`.


* [`6dd61e7`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/6dd61e781c145480dc255a3e6a748729868443fd)
  Expose `maxsockets` config setting from new `npm-registry-client`.
  ([@misterbyrne](https://github.com/misterbyrne))
* [`8a021c3`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/8a021c35184e665bd1f3f70ae2f478af812ab614)
  `npm-registry-client@7.1.0`:
  Adds support for configuring the max number of concurrent sockets, defaulting
  to `50`.
  ([@iarna](https://github.com/iarna))

#### DOC PATCH IS HERE TOO

* [`0ae9f74`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/0ae9f740001a1bdf5920bc464cf9e284d5d139f0)
  [#11748](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11748)
  Add command aliases as a separate section in documentation for npm
  subcommands.
  ([@watilde](https://github.com/watilde))

#### DEP UPDATES

* [`bfc3888`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/bfc38887f832f701c16b7ee410c4e0220a90399f)
  `strip-ansi@3.0.1`
  ([@jbnicolai](https://github.com/jbnicolai))
* [`d5f4d51`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/d5f4d51a1b7ea78d7431c7ed4fed30200b2622f8)
  `node-gyp@3.3.1`: Fixes Android generator
  ([@bnoordhuis](https://github.com/bnoordhuis))
* [`4119df8`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/4119df8aecd2ae57b0492ad8c9a480d900833008)
  `glob@7.0.3`: Some path-related fixes for Windows.
  ([@isaacs](https://github.com/isaacs))

### v2.14.22 (2016-03-03):

This week is all documentation improvements. In case you hadn't noticed, we
*love* doc patches. We love them so much, we give socks away if you submit
documentation PRs!

These folks are all getting socks if they ask for them. The socks are
super-sweet. Do you have yours yet? 👣

* [`3f3c7d0`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/3f3c7d080f052a5db91ff6091f8b1b13f26b53d6)
  [#11441](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11441)
  Add a link to the [Contribution
  Guidelines](https://github.com/npm/npm/wiki/Contributing-Guidelines) to the
  main npm docs.
  ([@watilde](https://github.com/watilde))
* [`9f87bb1`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/9f87bb1934acb33b678c17b7827165b17c071a82)
  [#11441](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11441)
  Remove Google Group email from npm docs about contributing.
  ([@watilde](https://github.com/watilde))
* [`93eaab3`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/93eaab3ee5ad16c7d90d1a4b38a95403fcf3f0f6)
  [#11474](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11474)
  Fix an invalid JSON error overlooked in
  [#11196](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11196).
  ([@robludwig](https://github.com/robludwig))
* [`a407ca2`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/a407ca2bcf6a05117e55cf2ab69376e09094995e)
  [#11483](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11483)
  Add more details and an example to the documentation for bundledDependencies.
  ([@gnerkus](https://github.com/gnerkus))
* [`2c851a2`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/2c851a231afd874baa77c42ea5ba539c454ac79c)
  [#11490](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11490)
  Document the `--registry` flag for `npm search`.
  ([@plumlee](https://github.com/plumlee))

### v2.14.21 (2016-02-25):

Good news, everyone! There's a new LTS release with a few shinies here and there!

#### USE THIS ONE INSTEAD

We had some cases where the versions of npm and node used in some scripting situations were different than the ideal, or what folks actually expected. These should be particularly helpful to our Windows friends! <3

* [`02813c5`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/02813c55782a9def23f7f1e614edc38c6c88aed3) [#9253](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/9253) Fix a bug where, when running lifecycle scripts, if the Node.js binary you ran `npm` with wasn't in your `PATH`, `npm` wouldn't use it to run your scripts. ([@segrey](https://github.com/segrey) and [@narqo](https://github.com/narqo))
* [`a985dd5`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/a985dd50e06ee51ba5544577f977c7440c227ba2) [#11526](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11526) Prefer locally installed npm in Git Bash -- previous behavior was to use the global one. This was done previously for other shells, but not for Git Bash. ([@destroyerofbuilds](https://github.com/destroyerofbuilds))

#### SOCKS FOR THE SOCK GOD

* [`f961092`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/f9610920079d8b88ae464b30007a92c594bd85a8)
  [#11636.](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/11636.)
  Document the `--save-bundle` option for `npm install`.
  ([@datyayu](https://github.com/datyayu))
* [`7c908b6`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/7c908b618f7123f0a3b860c71eb779e33df35964)
  [#11644](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11644)
  Add documentation for the `test` directory for packages.
  ([@lewiscowper](https://github.com/lewiscowper))

#### INTERNAL TEST IMPROVEMENTS

The npm CLI team's time recently has been sunk into npm's many years of tech debt. Specifically, we've been working on improving the test suite. This isn't user visible, but in future should mean a more stable, easier to contribute to npm. Ordinarily we don't report these kinds of changes in the change log, but I thought I might share this week as this chunk is bigger than usual.

These patches were previously released for `npm@3`, and then ported back to `npm@2` LTS.

* [`437c537`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/437c537e2be5923c6d2c2753154564ba13db8fd9) [#11613](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11613) Fix up one of the tests after rebasing the legacy test rewrite to `npm@2`. ([@zkat](https://github.com/zkat))
* [`55abd0c`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/55abd0cc20e87a144d33ce2d459f65e7506da576) [#11613](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11613) Test that the `package.json` `files` section and `.npmignore` do what they're supposed to. ([@zkat](https://github.com/zkat))
* [`a2b99b6`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/a2b99b6273ada14b2121ebc0acb7933e630edd9d) [#11613](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11613) Test that npm's distribution binary is complete and can be installed and used. ([@iarna](https://github.com/iarna))
* [`8a8c36c`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/8a8c36ce51166006022e5c5d4f8655bbc458d651) [#11613](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11613) Test that environment variables are properly passed into scripts.
  ([@iarna](https://github.com/zkat))
* [`a95b550`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/a95b5507616bd51e83d7eab5f2337b1aff6480b1) [#11613](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11613) Test that we don't leak auth info into the environment. ([@iarna](https://github.com/iarna))
* [`a1c1c52`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/a1c1c52efeab24f6dba154d054f85d9efc833486) [#11613](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11613) Remove all the relatively cryptic legacy tests and creates new tap tests that check the same functionality. The *legacy* tests were tests that were originally a shell script that was ported to javascript early in `npm`'s history. ([@iarna](https:\\github.com/iarna) and [@zkat](https://github.com/zkat))
* [`9d89581`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/9d895811d3ee70c2e672f3d8fa06574495b5b488) [#11613](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11613) `tacks@1.0.9`: Add a package that provides a tool to generate fixtures from folders and, relatedly, a module that an create and tear down filesystem fixtures easily. ([@iarna](https://github.com/iarna))

### v2.14.20 (2016-02-18):

Hope y'all are having a nice week! As usual, it's a fairly limited release. The
most notable thing is some dependency updates that might help the Node.js CI
setup for Windows run a little better, even if we have some work to do on that
path length things, still.

#### WHITTLING AWAY AT PATH LENGTHS

So for all of you who don't know -- Node.js does, in fact, support long Windows
paths. Unfortunately, depending on the tool and the Windows version, a lot of
external tooling does not. This means, for example, that some (all?) versions of
Windows Explorer *can literally never delete npm from their system entirely
because of deeply-nested npm dependencies*. Which is pretty gnarly.

Incidentally, if you run into that in particularly, you can use
[rimraf](npm.im/rimraf) to remove such files 💁.

The latest victim of this issue was the Node.js CI setup for testing on Windows,
which uses some tooling or another that croaks on the usual path length limit
for that OS: 255 characters.

This issue, of course, is largely not a problem as of `npm@3`, with its flat
trees, but it still occasionally and viciously bites LTS.

We've taken another baby step towards alleviating this in this release by
updating a couple of dependencies that were preventing `npmlog` from deduping,
and then doing a dedupe on that and `gauge`. Hopefully it helps.

* [`4199551`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/41995517e617674710748ab6d262670c96124393)
  [#11528](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11528)
  `npm-install-checks@1.0.7`: Just updates the version of npmlog so we can
  dedupe it better.
  ([@zkat](https://github.com/zkat))
* [`14d72c7`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/14d72c756b89e2d167eb52c1849263dbddcb9f35)
  [#11552](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11552)
  [#11528](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11528)
  `node-gyp@3.3.0`: AIX support, new `gyp`, update `npmlog` (for the dedupe),
  adds `--cafile` command line option, and allows configuration of Node.js and
  io.js mirrors.
  ([@rvagg](https://github.com/rvagg))
* [`0453cb9`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/0453cb94b33520eb723b7072cd2654b1d0142533)
  [#11528](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11528)
  Do a `dedupe` on `gauge` to flatten our dependencies a bit more.
  ([@zkat](https://github.com/zkat))

#### OTHER DEP STUFF

* [`686c0b3`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/686c0b37ec3a7b65f9b3849e1099805e5221c408)
  `rimraf@2.5.2`: Just updates to glob@7.
  ([@isaacs](https://github.com/isaacs))

#### @wyze, DOCUMENTATION HERO OF THE PEOPLE, GETS THEIR OWN HEADER

* [`7232948`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/72329484c775376cb40d5b348f453eaaf2f0b821)
  [#11416](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11416)
  Logout docs were using a section copy-pasted from the adduser docs.
  ([@wyze](https://github.com/wyze))
* [`922b33a`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/922b33aba4362e1e90f42e9348f061a1cc73eafb)
  [#11414](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11414)
  Add colon for consistency.
  ([@wyze](https://github.com/wyze))

### v2.14.19 (2016-02-11):

Really tiny micro-release this week! The main thing to note is a dependency
update that means we no longer have `graceful-fs@3` in our dependency tree. This
has some implications for being able to run on future Node.js releases, so
better to get this out the door. 😁

#### DEPS

* [`a556e0f`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/a556e0f9dcb5d7b44224ba9c16c9d0dc6c8d2532)
  `cmd-shim@2.0.2`: Final straggler using `graceful-fs@<4`.
  ([@ForbesLindesay](https://github.com/ForbesLindesay))

#### DOCS

* [`69a2d59`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/69a2d599bf0cba674ee268483e9bd5c14333b89f)
  [#11391](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11391)
  Fixed versions of `shrinkwrap.json` in examples in documentation for `npm
  shrinkwrap`, which did not quite match up.
  ([@xcatliu](https://github.com/xcatliu))

### v2.14.18 (2016-02-04):

Clearly our docs are perfect after all those wonderful PRs, 'cause this week's
gonna be all about dependency updates. Note: There is a small security-related
fix included here!

#### SECURITY-RELATED DEPENDENCY UPDATE

* [`5c095ef`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/5c095eff8dc006980d4d083f2007e4dacff23be3)
  [#11341](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11341)
  `request@2.69.0`: Includes security-related dependency updates involving
  `hawk` and `is-my-json-valid`
  ([@remy](https://github.com/remy) and [@simov](https://github.com/simov))

#### OTHER DEPENDENCY UPDATES

* [`f9c2668`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/f9c2668ca3e6e2602d91250ce61280e5e12d0a00)
  `which@1.2.4`
  ([@isaacs](https://github.com/isaacs))
* [`2907c43`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/2907c43ad4ef87e5f730c2576f680d6837fcbad0)
  `spdx-license-ids@1.2.0`
  ([@shinnn](https://github.com/shinnn))
* [`7734069`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/773406960bf7f4a87b2ecb6ebf593c62d0e9f95d)
  `rimraf@2.5.1`
  ([@isaacs](https://github.com/isaacs))
* [`f4b39a7`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/f4b39a7dd5e1335d92aa22c46d99abb33f271b8b)
  `retry@0.9.0`
  ([@tim-kos](https://github.com/tim-kos))
* [`ded1e7a`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/ded1e7a1c9c7bec29bb7c30a8f85546670e75b56)
  Nest `retry@0.8.0` inside `npm-registry-client` to prevent invalid
  dependency issue until the latter gets a dependency update.
  ([@zkat](https://github.com/zkat))
* [`ab9f867`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/ab9f8679f9687f91ad03adaab6211a897aeebbae)
  `read-package-json@2.0.3`
  ([@iarna](https://github.com/iarna))
* [`b638c41`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/b638c41607bb936b9eaaceba2aeeda1d34e3a9b2)
  `npmlog@2.0.2`
  ([@iarna](https://github.com/iarna))
* [`49f34af`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/49f34af463a674359269025d8438feb6a7c69960)
  `init-package-json@1.9.3`
  ([@iarna](https://github.com/iarna))
* [`2305dab`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/2305dab4e7bff09bb7686cec653cf1e663dbf15d)
  `graceful-fs@4.1.3`: Fixed `.close()` not being patched.
  ([@isaacs](https://github.com/isaacs))
* [`18496d9`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/18496d9a0fff94e3652655998e8333056aa52b15)
  `fs-write-stream-atomic@1.0.8`
  ([@iarna](https://github.com/iarna))
* [`6637bc7`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/6637bc7a0e194d82554cd7c91e1794018fef5943)
  `config-chain@1.1.10`
  ([@dominictarr](https://github.com/dominictarr))
* [`4222bad`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/4222badffed9e9edacea6a8a96a99a164d376158)
  `columnify@1.5.4`
  ([@timoxley](https://github.com/timoxley))
* [`df9016f`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/df9016f327a2a9ce492ebc75b882b03069438e13)
  `ansi@0.3.1`: Added a license file.
  ([@TooTallNate](https://github.com/TooTallNate))

### v2.14.17 (2016-01-28):

Another week, another small LTS release!

#### BETTER ERROR REPORTING YAY

So as it turns out, when stuff goes wrong, it's actually nice to give people a
better clue rather than just say "oh well 😏".

* [`5b8ccb9`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/5b8ccb91cf11b4edb463609cd4ed1dee84ed4db0)
  [#11289](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11289)
  There is an obscure feature that lets you monkey-patch npm when it starts up.
  If the module being required with this feature failed, it would previous just
  make npm error out– this reduces that to a warning.
  ([@evanlucas](https://github.com/evanlucas))
* [`556e42a`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/556e42ac6bab078722ddc1dc6cce4428d001133b)
  [#11300](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11300)
  Report symlinked packages as 'linked' in the output for `npm outdated`.
  ([@halhenke](https://github.com/halhenke))
* [`3842317`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/3842317583e0ea2eca78e39aa03f5bc06ba21de7)
  [#11290](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11290)
  Suppress warnings about pre-release node versions. This should get node's CI
  passing on non-Windows platforms without needing to modify the node version to
  get rid of the pre-release suffix.
  ([@iarna](https://github.com/iarna))

#### EVERYONE WANTS THOSE NPM SOCKS, GEEZE

Did you know that you can get npm socks for contributing to our docs? I bet
these people do, and now so do you!

* [`dcde451`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/dcde451cb85a6ca08acc6ef45782c652f1d8fc89)
  [#11232](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11232)
  Update automatically included/excluded packages in `package.json`.
  ([@jscissr](https://github.com/jscissr))
* [`e3f8d5b`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/e3f8d5be5ac5ec1d72db42f7abf50cc4a8c5935c)
  [#11273](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11273)
  Add an example for `npm view <pkg> versions`.
  ([@vedatmahir](https://github.com/vedatmahir))
* [`6a06ef2`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/6a06ef2252748089f0013de951f2d06160b90306)
  [#11272](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11272)
  Fix a typo in `npm-update.md`.
  ([@jonathanp](https://github.com/jonathanp))
* [`2515ff1`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/2515ff1de28f0b261fb25c79a66bd762a65961c4)
  [#11215](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11215)
  Correct small thinko in docs for SPDX expressions.
  ([@kemitchell](https://github.com/kemitchell))
* [`70f897b`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/70f897b03da9a5d5d4fd34614e9ee40e6f9e9653)
  [#11196](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11196)
  Make JSON snippets valid JSON in `npm update` docs.
  ([@s100](https://github.com/s100))

### v2.14.16 (2016-01-21):

Good to see you all again! It's been a while since we had an LTS release, and
the team continues to work hard to both get the issue tracker under control, and
get our test suite to be awesome and reliable.

This is also the first LTS release of this year.

We're gonna have an interesting time -- most of our focus this year will be
around stability and maintainability of the CLI, so you might actually end up
seeing a number of updates even over here, just for the sake of making sure
we're stable, that bugs get fixed, and tests have proper coverage.

What better way to start this effort, then, than getting Travis tests green, fix
a few things here and there, and tweak a bunch of documentation? 😁

#### FIX ALL THE BUGS AND TWEAK ALL THE THINGS

* [`24b13fb`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/24b13fbc57d34db1d5b0a37bcca122c00deba978)
  [#11158](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11158)
  Fix custom node-gyp env var quoting on Windows.
  ([@orangemocha](https://github.com/orangemocha))
* [`e2503f2`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/e2503f2be40157b05a9c500ec3b5d16090ffee50)
  [#11142](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11142)
  Fix race condition with `correctMkdir` in the cache directory.
  ([@Jimbly](https://github.com/Jimbly))

* [`5c0e4c4`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/5c0e4c45a29d774ab729e86044377d4e5e424252)
  [#10940](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/10940)
  Ignore failures replacing `package.json`. writeFileAtomic is not atomic in
  Windows, it fails if the file is being accessed concurrently.
  ([@orangemocha](https://github.com/orangemocha))
* [`2c44d8d`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/2c44d8dc8c267d5e054d0175ce2f4750f0986463)
  [#10903](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/10903)
  Add tests for `npm adduser --scope`.
  ([@ekmartin](https://github.com/ekmartin))
* [`4cb25d0`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/4cb25d0fed5c7792dfd1aec891380ecc1f8a5761)
  [#10903](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/10903)
  Add a message informing users when they have been successfully logged in.
  ([@ekmartin](https://github.com/ekmartin))
* [`fe3ec6d`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/fe3ec6d6658262054c0c19c55373c21e84ab9f17)
  [#10628](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/10628)
  Tell users how to open an issue with a package that has errored.
  ([@trodrigues](https://github.com/trodrigues))

#### DOCS DOCS DOCS

We got a TON of lovely documentation patches, too! Thanks all for submitting!

* [`22482a1`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/22482a1f22079d72c3f8ca55c2f0c153bdd024c0)
  [#11188](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11188)
  Briefly explain what's included when you publish.
  ([@beaugunderson](https://github.com/beaugunderson))
* [`fa47724`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/fa4772438df0c66a19309dd1c1a3ce43cbee5461)
  [#11150](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11150)
  Advise use of `--depth Infinity` instead of `--depth 9999` in `npm update`.
  ([@halhenke](https://github.com/halhenke))
* [`248ddfe`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/248ddfe8f7ddd3318e14bf61de41cab4a638c8a3)
  [#11130](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11130)
  Nuke "using npm programmatically" section from README. The programmatic npm
  API is unsupported, and is not guaranteed not to break in non-major versions.
  Removing this section so newcomers aren't encouraged to discover or use it.
  ([@ljharb](https://github.com/ljharb))
* [`ae9c452`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/ae9c4521222d60ab4a69c19fee5e361c62f41fae)
  [#11128](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11128)
  Add link to local paths section indocs for `package.json`.
  ([@orangejulius](https://github.com/orangejulius))
* [`663a8c6`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/663a8c6b4b1647f9b86c15ef32e30023edc8c060)
  [#11044](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11044)
  Update default value documentation for the color option in npm's config.
  ([@scottaddie](https://github.com/scottaddie))
* [`5c1dda0`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/5c1dda0d3a18b2954872dba33fbc696ff0700ffe)
  [#11037](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/11037)
  Correct the name property max length constraint verbiage.
  ([@scottaddie](https://github.com/scottaddie))
* [`8288365`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/8288365d08e97fa3a5b0d31703c015a8be49e07f)
  [#10990](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/10990)
  Update folder docs to reflect that process.installPrefix was removed as of
  0.8.x.
  ([@jeffmcmahan](https://github.com/jeffmcmahan))
* [`61d63fa`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/61d63fa22c4f09742180c2de460a4ffb6c32738e)
  [#10790](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/10790)
  Clarify that `npm install foo` is the same as `npm install foo@latest` now.
  ([@cvrebert](https://github.com/cvrebert))
* [`442c920`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/442c9207f375354c91d36df8711ba2d33e1c97f3)
  [#10789](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/10789)
  Link over to `npm-dist-tag(1)` in `npm install` docs when they talk about the
  `pkg@<tag>` syntax.
  ([@cvrebert](https://github.com/cvrebert))
* [`dca7a5e`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/dca7a5e2be3bfa306a870a123707d35c732406c0)
  [#10788](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/10788)
  Link to tag docs in docs for `npm publish --tag`.
  ([@cvrebert](https://github.com/cvrebert))
* [`a72904e`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/a72904e8d4ab1d43ae8150fbe3f6468b0cbb1efd)
  [#10787](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/10787)
  Explain why the `latest` tag matters.
  ([@cvrebert](https://github.com/cvrebert))
* [`9d0697a`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/9d0697a534046df7efda32170014041bbc1f4e7d)
  [#10785](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/10785)
  Replace some quite marks in `npm dist-tag` docs for the sake of consistency.
  ([@cvrebert](https://github.com/cvrebert))

#### I REALLY LIKE GREEN. CAN YOU TELL?

So Travis is all green now on `npm@2`, thanks to the removal of nock and a few
other test suite tweaks. This is a fantastic step towards making sure we can all
have confidence in our test suite! 🎉

* [`64995be`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/64995be6d874356b15c136f9867302d805dfe1e9) [`75ab216`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/75ab2164cf79e28ac7f7ebe714f3c5aee99c6626) [`a9f6fe9`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/a9f6fe9dc558f17c4a7b9eb83329ac080f7df4b7) [`649c193`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/649c193adadf714c2819837f9372a29d724a5ec0) [`94cb05e`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/94cb05eaa9e5ad6675cf15c4ac0a44fbdde05900) [`6541690`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/65416907008061ac5a5f66b1630a57776803b526) [`255be6f`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/255be6f5bca9e3d216f3a5cbdf6714c6c9fcf132) [`9e84fa4`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/9e84fa43c49d04cf86ca1678e2a61412f5559cb9) [`8a587b0`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/8a587b0c1696ae7302891fa6355fc3e8670e00d3) [`bf812a5`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/bf812a54e497a573493346399798aa0b9373ac24)
  [#10903](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/10903)
  Get rid of nock from tests, and get Travis green.
  ([@zkat](https://github.com/zkat) and [@iarna](https://github.com/iarna))
* [`70a5310`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/70a5310712c6666e753ca8f3bfff4a780ec6292d)
  `npm-registry-couchapp@2.6.12`:
  Better 0.8 compatibility, and ability to run in travis docker stuff. This
  means the test suite should run a lot faster, too!
  ([@iarna](https://github.com/iarna))
* [`28fae39`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/28fae399212eda5554e6c0ffd8c9591144ab7b9d)
  Get rid of sudo, for Travis!
  ([@zkat](https://github.com/zkat))

### v2.14.15 (2015-12-10):

Did you know that Bob Ross reached the rank of master sergeant in the US Air
Force before becoming perhaps the most soothing painter of all time?

#### TWO HAPPY LITTLE BUG FIXES

* [`f482664`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/f4826645dc6b5c0f05c5f9187efb28c1a293554f)
  [#10505](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10505) `npm ls --json --depth=0`
  now respects the depth parameter, when it is zero and when it is not zero.
  ([@MarkReeder](https://github.com/MarkReeder))
* [`529fa1f`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/529fa1ff2c6432a773af99a1c5209c0865f7a19c)
  [#9099](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/9099) I had always thought you
  could run `npm version` from subdirectories in your project, which is great,
  because now you can. I guess I was just ahead of my time.
  ([@ekmartin](https://github.com/ekmartin))

#### NOW PAINT IN SOME NICE DOCS CHANGES

* [`1fc7f2b`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/1fc7f2b523ea760e08adb9b861b28e3ba450e565)
  [#10546](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10546) Goodbye, FAQ! You were
  cheeky and fun until you weren't! Don't worry: npm still loves everyone,
  especially you! ([@ashleygwilliams](https://github.com/ashleygwilliams))
* [`7fe6950`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/7fe6950b44d241bb4d90857a44d89d750af1e2b3)
  [#10570](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10570) Update documentation URLs
  to be HTTPS everywhere sensible. No HTTP shall be spared!
  ([@rsp](https://github.com/rsp))
* [`96ebb90`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/96ebb902439e4f6f37f8beffb589769146fecf24)
  [#10650](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10650) Correctly note that there
  are two lifecycle scripts run by an install phase in an example, instead of
  three. ([@eymengunay](https://github.com/eymengunay))
* [`5196893`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/5196893a7496f68a514b83641ff6b72f14d664dd)
  [#10687](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10687) `npm outdated`'s output can
  be a little puzzling sometimes. I've attempted to make it clearer, with some
  examples, of what's going on with "wanted" and "latest" in more cases.
  ([@othiym23](https://github.com/othiym23))
* [`8e6712d`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/8e6712d4ee128858cab36c77723e35bddbb977ba)
  [#10700](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10700) Hey, do you remember when
  `search.npmjs.org` was a thing? I think I do? The last time I used it was in
  like 2012, and it's gone now, so remove it from the docs.
  ([@gagern](https://github.com/gagern))
* [`27d2612`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/27d2612b3f5aa88b12c943d04e162ce4c3a350ae)
  `semver@5.1.0`: Include BNF for SemVer expression grammar (which is also now
  included in `npm help semver`). ([@isaacs](https://github.com/isaacs))

#### LAND YOUR DEPENDENCY UPGRADES IN PAIRS SO EVERYONE HAS A FRIEND

* [`fc6c3c5`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/fc6c3c53a31e9e11c2616fcd378202e5b80bf286)
  `request@2.67.0` ([@simov](https://github.com/simov))
* [`07013fd`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/07013fd0fd55a2eb31fb9334631ee5d0dd5c41bb)
  [isaacs/rimraf#89](https://github.com/isaacs/rimraf/pull/89) `rimraf@2.4.4`
  ([@zerok](https://github.com/zerok))
* [`bc149be`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/bc149bef871f0f00639509898cece531af3aa8b3)
  [isaacs/once#7](https://github.com/isaacs/once/pull/7) `once@1.3.3`
  ([@floatdrop](https://github.com/floatdrop))
* [`ac598d3`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/ac598d36e1ad207bc0d8a7eadfd84b26146aec1f)
  `lru-cache@3.2.0` ([@isaacs](https://github.com/isaacs))
* [`1b915ce`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/1b915ce1e0787ccb6d8aa235d002d66565f2175d)
  `npm-registry-client@7.0.9` ([@othiym23](https://github.com/othiym23))
* [`df7dd78`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/df7dd78b8fe3cc58202996fa6c994fc55419bfa5)
  `tap@2.3.1` ([@isaacs](https://github.com/isaacs))

### v2.14.14 (2015-12-03):

#### FIX URL IN LICENSE

The license incorrectly identified the registry URL as `registry.npmjs.com` and
this has been corrected to `registry.npmjs.org`.

* [`6051a69`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/6051a69b1adc80f5f200077067e831643f655bd4)
  [#10685](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/10685)
  Fix npm public registry URL in notices.
  ([@kemitchell](https://github.com/kemitchell))

#### NO MORE MD5

We updated modules that had been using MD5 for non-security purposes.  While
this is perfectly safe, if you compile Node in FIPS-compliance mode it will
explode if you try to use MD5. We've replaced MD5 with Murmur, which conveys
our intent better and is faster to boot.

* [`30b5994`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/30b599496a9762482e1cef945a378e3a534fd366)
  [#10629](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10629)
  `write-file-atomic@1.1.4`
  ([@othiym23](https://github.com/othiym23))
* [`68c63ff`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/68c63ff1279d3d5ea7b2c970ab5562a8e0536f27)
  [#10629](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10629)
  `fs-write-stream-atomic@1.0.5`
  ([@othiym23](https://github.com/othiym23))

#### DEPENDENCY UPDATES

* [`e48e5a9`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/e48e5a90b4dcf76124b7e9ea3b295c1383e7f0c8)
  [nodejs/node-gyp#831](https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/pull/831)
  `node-gyp@3.2.1`: Improved \*BSD support.
  ([@bnoordhuis](https://github.com/bnoordhuis))

### v2.14.13 (2015-11-25):

#### THE npm CLI !== THE npm REGISTRY !== npm, INC.

npm-the-CLI is licensed under the terms of the [Artistic License
2.0](https://github.com/npm/npm/blob/8d79c1a39dae908f27eaa37ff6b23515d505ef29/LICENSE),
which is a liberal open-source license that allows you to take this code and do
pretty much whatever you like with it (that is, of course, not legal language,
and if you're doing anything with npm that leaves you in doubt about your legal
rights, please seek the review of qualified counsel, which is to say, not
members of the CLI team, none of whom have passed the bar, to my knowledge). At
the same time the primary registry the CLI uses when looking up and downloading
packages is a commercial service run by npm, Inc., and it has its own [Terms of
Use](https://www.npmjs.com/policies/terms).

Aside from clarifying the terms of use (and trying to make sure they're more
widely known), the only recent changes to npm's licenses have been making the
split between the CLI and registry clearer. You are still free to do whatever
you like with the CLI's source, and you are free to view, download, and publish
packages to and from `registry.npmjs.org`, but now the existing terms under
which you can do so are more clearly documented. Aside from the two commits
below, see also [the release notes for
`npm@2.14.11`](https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.14.11), which is where
the split between the CLI's code and the terms of use for the registry was
first made more clear.

* [`1f3e936`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/1f3e936aab6840667948ef281e0c3621df365131)
  [#10532](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10532) Clarify that
  `registry.npmjs.org` is the default, but that you're free to use the npm CLI
  with whatever registry you wish. ([@kemitchell](https://github.com/kemitchell))
* [`6733539`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/6733539eeb9b32a5f2d1a6aa797987e2252fa760)
  [#10532](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10532) Having semi-duplicate
  release information in `README.md` was confusing and potentially inaccurate,
  so remove it. ([@kemitchell](https://github.com/kemitchell))

#### EASE UP ON WINDOWS BASH USERS

It turns out that a fair number of us use bash on Windows (through MINGW or
bundled with Git, plz – Cygwin is still a bridge too far, for both npm and
Node.js). [@jakub-g](https://github.com/jakub-g) did us all a favor and relaxed
the check for npm completion to support MINGW bash. Thanks, Jakub!

* [`460cc09`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/460cc0950fd6a005c4e5c4f85af807814209b2bb)
  [#10156](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10156) completion: enable on
  Windows in git bash ([@jakub-g](https://github.com/jakub-g))

#### MAKE NODE-GYP A LITTLE BLUER

* [`333e118`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/333e1181082842c21edc62f0ce515928424dff1f)
  `node-gyp@3.2.0`: Support AIX, use `which` to find Python, updated to a newer
  version of `gyp`, and more! ([@bnoordhuis](https://github.com/bnoordhuis))

#### WE LIKE SPDX AND ALL BUT IT'S NOT ACTUALLY A DIRECT DEP, SORRY

* [`1f4b4bb`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/1f4b4bbdf8758281beecb7eaf75d05a6c4a77c15)
  Removed `spdx` as a direct npm dependency, since we don't actually need it at
  that level, and updated subdeps for `validate-npm-package-license`
  ([@othiym23](https://github.com/othiym23))

#### A BOUNTEOUS THANKSGIVING CORNUCOPIA OF DOC TWEAKS

These are great! Keep them coming! Sorry for letting them pile up so deep,
everybody. Also, a belated Thanksgiving to our Canadian friends, and a happy
Thanksgiving to all our friends in the USA.

* [`6101f44`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/6101f44737645d9379c3396fae81bbc4d94e1f7e)
  [#10250](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10250) Correct order of `org:team`
  in `npm team` documentation. ([@louislarry](https://github.com/louislarry))
* [`e8769f9`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/e8769f9807b91582c15ef130733e2e72b6c7bda4)
  [#10371](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10371) Remove broken / duplicate
  link to tag. ([@WickyNilliams](https://github.com/WickyNilliams))
* [`1ae2dbe`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/1ae2dbe759feb80d8634569221ec6ee2c6d1d1ff)
  [#10419](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10419) Remove references to
  nonexistent `npm-rm(1)` documentation. ([@KenanY](https://github.com/KenanY))
* [`777a271`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/777a271830a42d4ee62540a89f764a6e7d62de19)
  [#10474](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10474) Clarify that install finds
  dependencies in `package.json`. ([@sleekweasel](https://github.com/sleekweasel))
* [`dcf4b5c`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/dcf4b5cbece1b0ef55ab7665d9acacc0b6b7cd6e)
  [#10497](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10497) Clarify what a package is
  slightly. ([@aredridel](https://github.com/aredridel))
* [`447b3d6`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/447b3d669b2b6c483b8203754ac0a002c67bf015)
  [#10539](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10539) Remove an extra, spuriously
  capitalized letter. ([@alexlukin-softgrad](https://github.com/alexlukin-softgrad))

### v2.14.12 (2015-11-19):

#### TEEN ORCS AT THE GATES

This week heralds the general release of the primary npm registry's [new
support for private packages for
organizations](http://blog.npmjs.org/post/133542170540/private-packages-for-organizations).
For many potential users, it's the missing piece needed to make it easy for you
to move your organization's private work onto npm. And now it's here! The
functionality to support it has been in place in the CLI for a while now,
thanks to [@zkat](https://github.com/zkat)'s hard work.

During our final testing before the release, our ace support team member
[@snopeks](https://github.com/snopeks) noticed that there had been some drift
between the CLI team's implementation and what npm was actually preparing to
ship. In the interests of everyone having a smooth experience with this
_extremely useful_ new feature, we quickly made a few changes to square up the
CLI and the web site experiences.

* [`0e8b15e`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/0e8b15e9fbc89e31bd00e573b648846beddfb835)
  [#9327](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/9327) `npm access` no longer has
  problems when run in a directory that doesn't contain a `package.json`.
  ([@othiym23](https://github.com/othiym23))
* [`c4e939c`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/c4e939c1d493601d25dcb88e6ffcca73076fd3fd)
  [npm/npm-registry-client#126](https://github.com/npm/npm-registry-client/issues/126)
  `npm-registry-client@7.0.8`: Allow the CLI to grant, revoke, and list
  permissions on unscoped (public) packages on the primary registry.
  ([@othiym23](https://github.com/othiym23))

#### A BRIEF NOTE ON NPM'S BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY

We don't often have much to say about the changes we make to our internal
testing and tooling, but I'm going to take this opportunity to reiterate that
npm tries hard to maintain compatibility with a wide variety of Node versions.
As this change shows, we want to ensure that npm works the same across:

* Node.js 0.8
* Node.js 0.10
* Node.js 0.12
* the latest io.js release
* Node.js 4 LTS
* Node.js 5

Contributors who send us pull requests often notice that it's very rare that
our tests pass across all of those versions (ironically, almost entirely due to
the packages we use for testing instead of any issues within npm itself). We're
currently beginning an effort, lasting the rest of 2015, to clean up our test
suite, and not only get it passing on all of the above versions of Node.js, but
working solidly on Windows as well. This is a compounding form of technical
debt that we're finally paying down, and our hope is that cleaning up the tests
will produce a more robust CLI that's a lot easier to write patches for.

* [`d743620`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/d743620a0005213a65d25de771661b4d48a09717)
  [#10233](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10233) Update Node.js versions
  that Travis uses to test npm. ([@iarna](https://github.com/iarna))

#### TYPOS IN THE LICENSE, OH MY

* [`58ac241`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/58ac241f556b2c202a8ee33321965e2540361ca7)
  [#10478](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10478) Correct two typos in npm's
  LICENSE. ([@jorrit](https://github.com/jorrit))

### v2.14.11 (2015-11-12):

#### ASK FOR NOTHING, GET LATEST

When you run `npm install foo`, you probably expect that you'll get the
`latest` version of `foo`, whatever that is. And good news! That's what this
change makes it do.

We _think_ this is what everyone wants, but if this causes problems for you, we
want to know! If it proves problematic for people we will consider reverting it
(preferrably before this becomes `npm@latest`).

Previously, when you ran `npm install foo` we would act as if you typed `npm
install foo@*`. Now, like any range-type specifier, in addition to matching the
range, it would also have to be `<=` the value of the `latest` dist-tag.
Further, it would exclude prerelease versions from the list of versions
considered for a match.

This worked as expected most of the time, unless your `latest` was a prerelease
version, in which case that version wouldn't be used, to everyone's surprise.

* [`6f0a646`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/6f0a646cd865b24fe3ff25365bf5421780e63e01)
  [#10189](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10189) `npm-package-arg@4.1.0`:
  Change the default version from `*` to `latest`.
  ([@zkat](https://github.com/zkat))

#### LICENSE CLARIFICATION

* [`54a9046`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/54a90461f068ea89baa5d70248cdf1581897936d)
  [#10326](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10326) Clarify what-all is covered
  by npm's license and point to the registry's terms of use.
  ([@kemitchell](https://github.com/kemitchell))

#### CLOSER TO GREEN TRAVIS

* [`28efd3d`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/28efd3d7dfb2fa3755076ae706ea4d38c6ee6900)
  [#10232](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10232) `nock@1.9.0`: Downgrade
  nock to a version that doesn't depend on streams2 in core so that more of our
  tests can pass in 0.8. ([@iarna](https://github.com/iarna))

#### A BUG FIX

* [`eacac8f`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/eacac8f05014d15217c3d8264d0b00a72eafe2d2)
  [#9965](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/9965) Fix a corrupt `package.json`
  file introduced by a merge conflict in
  [`022691a`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/022691a).
  ([@waynebloss](https://github.com/waynebloss))

#### A DEPENDENCY UPGRADE

* [`ea7d8e0`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/ea7d8e00a67a3d5877ed72c9728909c848468a9b)
  [npm/nopt#51](https://github.com/npm/nopt/pull/51) `nopt@3.0.6`: Allow
  types checked to be validated by passed-in name in addition to the JS name of
  the type / class. ([@wbecker](https://github.com/wbecker))

### v2.14.10 (2015-11-05):

There's nothing in here that that isn't in the `npm@3.4.0` release notes, but
all of the commit shasums have been adjusted to be correct. Enjoy!

#### BUG FIXES VIA DEPENDENCY UPDATES

* [`204c558`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/204c558c06637a753c0b41d0cf19f564a1ac3715)
  [#8640](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/8640)
  [npm/normalize-package-data#69](https://github.com/npm/normalize-package-data/pull/69)
  `normalize-package-data@2.3.5`: Fix a bug where if you didn't specify the
  name of a scoped module's binary, it would install it such that it was
  impossible to call it.  ([@iarna](https://github.com/iarna))
* [`bbdf4ee`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/bbdf4ee0a3cd12be6a2ace255b67d573a72f1f8f)
  [npm/fstream-npm#14](https://github.com/npm/fstream-npm/pull/14)
  `fstream-npm@1.0.7`: Only filter `config.gypi` when it's in the build
  directory.  ([@mscdex](https://github.com/mscdex))
* [`d82ff81`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/d82ff81403e906931fac701775723626dcb443b3)
  [npm/fstream-npm#15](https://github.com/npm/fstream-npm/pull/15)
  `fstream-npm@1.0.6`: Stop including directories that happened to have names
  matching whitelisted npm files in npm module tarballs. The most common cause
  was that if you had a README directory then everything in it would be
  included if wanted it or not. ([@taion](https://github.com/taion))

#### DOCUMENTATION FIXES

* [`16361d1`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/16361d122f2ff6d1a4729c66153b7c24c698fd19)
  [#10036](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/10036) Fix typo / over-abbreviation.
  ([@ifdattic](https://github.com/ifdattic))
* [`d1343dd`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/d1343dda42f113dc322f95687f5a8c7d71a97c35)
  [#10176](https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/10176) Fix broken link, scopes =>
  scope.  ([@ashleygwilliams](https://github.com/ashleygwilliams))
* [`110663d`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/110663d000a3908a4853393d9abae481700cf4dc)
  [#9460](https://github.com/npm/npm/issue/9460) Specifying the default command
  run by "npm start" and the fact that you can pass it arguments.
  ([@JuanCaicedo](https://github.com/JuanCaicedo))

#### DEPENDENCY UPDATES FOR THEIR OWN SAKE

* [`7476d2d`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/7476d2d31552a41671c425aa7fcc2844e0381008)
  [npm/npmlog#19](https://github.com/npm/npmlog/pull/19)
  `npmlog@2.0.0`: Make it possible to emit log messages with `error` as the
  prefix.
  ([@bengl](https://github.com/bengl))
* [`6ca7888`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/6ca7888862cfe8bf802dc7c66632c102acd94cf5)
  `read-package-json@2.0.2`: Minor cleanups.
  ([@KenanY](https://github.com/KenanY))

### v2.14.9 (2015-10-29):

There's still life in `npm@2`, but for now, enjoy these dependency upgrades!
Also, [@othiym23](https://github.com/othiym23) says hi! _waves_
[@zkat](https://github.com/zkat) has her hands full, and
[@iarna](https://github.com/iarna)'s handling `npm@3`, so I'm dealing with
`npm@2` and the totally nonexistent weird bridge `npm@1.4` LTS release that may
or may not be happening this week.

#### CAN'T STOP WON'T STOP UPDATING THOSE DEPENDENCIES

* [`f52f0cb`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/f52f0cb51526314197e9d67619feebbd82a397b7)
  [#10150](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10150) `chmodr@1.0.2`: Use
  `fs.lstat()` to check if an entry is a directory, making `chmodr()` work
  properly with NFS mounts on Windows. ([@sheerun](https://github.com/sheerun))
* [`f7011d7`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/f7011d7b3b1d9148a6cd8f7b8359d6fe3269a912)
  [#10150](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10150) `which@1.2.0`: Additional
  command-line parameters, which is nice but not used by npm.
  ([@isaacs](https://github.com/isaacs))
* [`ebcc0d8`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/ebcc0d8629388da0b849bbbad590382cd7268f51)
  [#10150](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10150) `minimatch@3.0.0`: Don't
  package browser version. ([@isaacs](https://github.com/isaacs))
* [`8c98dce`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/8c98dce5ffe242bafbe92b849e73e8de1803e256)
  [#10150](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10150) `fstream-ignore@1.0.3`:
  Upgrade to use `minimatch@3` (for deduping purposes).
  ([@othiym23](https://github.com/othiym23))
* [`db9ef33`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/db9ef337c253ecf21c921055bf8742e10d1cb3bb)
  [#10150](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10150) `request@2.65.0`:
  Dependency upgrades and a few bug fixes, mostly related to cookie handling.
  ([@simov](https://github.com/simov))

#### DEVDEPENDENCIES TOO, I GUESS, IT'S COOL

* [`dfbf621`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/dfbf621afa09c46991249b4f9a995d1823ea7ede)
  [#10150](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10150) `tap@2.2.0`: Better
  handling of test order handling (including some test fixes for npm).
  ([@isaacs](https://github.com/isaacs))
* [`cf5ad5a`](https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/cf5ad5a8c88bfd72e30ef8a8d1d3c5508e0b3c23)
  [#10150](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10150) `nock@2.16.0`: More
  expectations, documentation, and bug fixes.
  ([@pgte](https://github.com/pgte))

### v2.14.8 (2015-10-08):

#### SLOWLY RECOVERING FR