Invalid Version 1.0.2beta

[craigodavis]

Hi, I just installed npm 3.8.2 and am getting the following error when running npm install:
npm ERR! Darwin 15.3.0
npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install"
npm ERR! node v5.9.0
npm ERR! npm v3.8.2

npm ERR! Invalid Version: 1.0.2beta
npm ERR!
npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this error at:
npm ERR! https://github.com/npm/npm/issues

Here is the log file:
npm-debug.log.zip

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[zkat]

Are you using 1.0.2beta as the version for your package? That's not a valid semver range. According to the semver spec, the correct syntax would be 1.0.2-beta in order to be valid.

[godserahul1986]

@zkat So the semver specs are applied on all npm versions now onwards? I had a package versioned 9.2.0.2 and everything worked fine weeks back and now the build fails with the error Invalid version: 9.2.0.2

[zkat]

@godserahul1986 I honestly don't know what version of npm would allow you to get away with an invalid semver like that -- version was never meant to be anything but valid semver ranges, and any case where that was possible is simply a bug.

[computnik]

I tried with npm v3.8.6, the issue is still there.. Is there an expected timeline when this would get fixed?

[kenany]

@nikhilmotiani There's no bug here as far as I can tell.

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