v2.11.0

For the first time in a very long time, we've added new events to the life cycle used by npm run-script. Since running npm version (major|minor|patch) is typically the last thing many developers do before publishing their updated packages, it makes sense to add life cycle hooks to run tests or otherwise preflight the package before doing a full publish. Thanks, as always, to the indefatigable @watilde for yet another great usability improvement for npm!

FEATURELETS

• b07f7c7 #7906 Add new scripts to allow you to run scripts before and after the npm version command has run. This makes it easy to, for instance, require that your test suite passes before bumping the version by just adding "preversion": "npm test" to the scripts section of your package.json. (@watilde)
• 8a46136 #8185 When we get a "not found" error from the registry, we'll now check to see if the package name you specified is invalid and if so, give you a better error message. (@thefourtheye)

BUG FIXES

• 9bcf573 #8324 On Windows, when you've configured a custom node-gyp, run it with node itself instead of using the default open action (which is almost never what you want). (@bangbang93)
• 1da9b04 #7195 #7260 npm-registry-client@6.4.0: (Re-)allow publication of existing mixed-case packages (part 1). (@smikes)
• e926783 #7195 #7260 normalize-package-data@2.2.0: (Re-)allow publication of existing mixed-case packages (part 2). (@smikes)

DOCUMENTATION IMPROVEMENTS

• f62ee05 #8314 Update the README to warn folks away from using the CLI's internal API. For the love of glob, just use a child process to run the CLI! (@claycarpenter)
• 1093921 #8279 Update the documentation to note that, yes, you can publish scoped packages to the public registry now! (@mantoni)
• f87cde5 #8292 Fix typo in an example and grammar in the description in the shrinkwrap documentation. (@vshih)
• d3526ce Improve the formatting in the shrinkwrap documentation. (@othiym23)
• 19fe6d2 #8311 Update README.md to use syntax highlighting in its code samples and bits of shell scripts. (@SimenB)

DEPENDENCY UPDATES! ALWAYS AND FOREVER!

• fc52160 #4700 #5044 init-package-json@1.6.0: Make entering an invalid version while running npm init give you an immediate error and prompt you to correct it. (@watilde)
• 738853e #7763 fs-write-stream-atomic@1.0.3: Fix a bug where errors would not propagate, making error messages unhelpful. (@iarna)
• 6d74a2d npm-package-arg@4.0.1: Fix tests on windows (@Bacra) and with more recent hosted-git-info. (@iarna)
• 50f7178 hosted-git-info@2.1.4: Correct spelling in its documentation. (@iarna)
• d7956ca glob@5.0.7: Fix a bug where unusual error conditions could make further use of the module fail. (@isaacs)
• 44f7d74 tap@1.1.0: Update to the most recent tap to get a whole host of bug fixes and integration with coveralls.
  (@isaacs)
• c21e8a8 nock@2.2.0 (@othiym23)

LICENSE FILES FOR THE LICENSE GOD

• Add missing ISC license file to package (@kasicka):
  • aa9908c realize-package-specifier@3.0.1
  • 23a3b1a fs-vacuum@1.2.6
  • 8e04bba dezalgo@1.0.2
  • 50f7178 hosted-git-info@2.1.4
  • 6a54917 write-file-atomic@1.1.2
  • 971f92c async-some@1.0.2
  • 67b50b7 normalize-git-url@1.0.1

SPDX LICENSE UPDATES

• Switch license to
  BSD-2-Clause from
  plain "BSD" (@isaacs):
  • efdb733 npm-user-validate@0.1.2
  • e926783 normalize-package-data@2.2.0
• Switch license to ISC from
  BSD
  (@isaacs):
  • c300956 block-stream@0.0.8
  • 1de1253 lockfile@1.0.1
  • 0d5698a osenv@0.1.1
  • 2e84921 abbrev@1.0.6
  • 872fac9 chmodr@0.1.1
  • 01eb7f6 chownr@0.0.2
  • 294336f read@1.0.6
  • ebdf6a1 graceful-fs@3.0.7
• Switch license to ISC from
  MIT
  (@isaacs):
  • e5d237f nopt@3.0.2
  • 79fef14 rimraf@2.3.4
  • 22527da minimatch@2.0.8
  • 882ac87 lru-cache@2.6.4
  • 9d9d015 npmlog@1.2.1