npm: v7.16.0 Release

v7.16.0 (2021-06-03)

FEATURES

• e92b5f2ba npm-registry-fetch@11.0.0
  • feat: improved logging of cache status

BUG FIXES

• e864bd3ce #3345 fix(update-notifier): do not update notify when installing npm@spec (@isaacs)
• aafe23572 #3348 fix(update-notifier): parallelize check for updates (@isaacs)

DOCUMENTATION

• bc9c57dda #3353 fix(docs): remove documentation for '--scripts-prepend-node-path' as it was removed in npm@7 (@gimli01)
• ca2822110 #3360 fix(docs): link foreground-scripts w/ loglevel (@wraithgar)
• fb630b5a9 #3342 chore(docs): manage docs as a workspace (@ruyadorno)

DEPENDENCIES

• 54de5c6a4 npm-package-arg@8.1.4:
  • fix: trim whitespace from fetchSpec
  • fix: handle file: when root directory begins with a special character
• e92b5f2ba make-fetch-happen@9.0.1
  • breaking: complete refactor of caching. drops warning headers, prevents cache indexes from growing for every request, correctly handles varied requests to the same url, and now caches redirects.
  • fix: support url-encoded proxy authorization
  • fix: do not lazy-load proxy agents or agentkeepalive. fixes the intermittent failures to update npm on slower connections. npm-registry-fetch@11.0.0
  • breaking: drop handling of deprecated warning headers
  • docs: fix header type for npm-command
  • docs: update registry param
  • feat: improved logging of cache status
• 23c50a45f make-fetch-happen@9.0.2:
  • fix: work around negotiator's lazy loading

AUTOMATION

• c4ef78b08 #3344 fix(automation): update incorrect variable name in create-cli-deps-pr workflow (@gimli01)