# pnpm changelog > Fast, disk-space-efficient package manager for JavaScript. - Vendor: pnpm - Category: Developer Tools - Official site: https://pnpm.io - Tracked by: What's New (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/pnpm) - Harvested from: Blog (https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/releases.atom) - Entries below: 10 (newest first) What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. ## Releases ### pnpm 12 Alpha 21 - Date: 2026-07-24 - Original notes: https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/releases/tag/v12.0.0-alpha.21 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/pnpm/releases/feed-tag-github.com-2008-repository-50565430-v12.0.0-alpha.2-b23229f0 Minor Changes pnpm setup now appends PNPM_HOME and the global bin directory to the GitHub Actions environment files ( GITHUB_ENV and GITHUB_PATH ), so later steps in the same job can run pnpm add --gl… - **changed** — pnpm setup now appends PNPM_HOME and the global bin directory to the GitHub Actions environment files (GITHUB_ENV and GITHUB_PATH) so later steps in the same job can run pnpm add --global and other commands ### pnpm 12 Alpha 20 - Date: 2026-07-23 - Original notes: https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/releases/tag/v12.0.0-alpha.20 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/pnpm/releases/feed-tag-github.com-2008-repository-50565430-v12.0.0-alpha.2 Patch Changes Close three CLI parity gaps with the TypeScript pnpm CLI: --registry is now accepted on every command as a universal rc-option, not only through --config.registry= ( pnpm view pnpm dist-… - **added** — --registry is now accepted on every command as a universal rc-option, not only through --config.registry= ### pnpm 12 Alpha 19 - Date: 2026-07-23 - Original notes: https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/releases/tag/untagged-e518c274b13ed6243f61 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/pnpm/releases/feed-tag-github.com-2008-repository-50565430-untagged-e518c2 Minor Changes Added a new setting, update.githubActionsServer , for specifying the base URL of the GitHub server that hosts the repositories of the GitHub Actions referenced by the workflow files (for… - **added** — Add a new setting update.githubActionsServer for specifying the base URL of the GitHub server that hosts the repositories of the GitHub Actions referenced by the workflow files ### pnpm 11.17 - Date: 2026-07-23 - Original notes: https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/releases/tag/v11.17.0 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/pnpm/releases/feed-tag-github.com-2008-repository-50565430-v11.17.0 Minor Changes Added a new setting, update.githubActionsServer , for specifying the base URL of the GitHub server that hosts the repositories of the GitHub Actions referenced by the workflow files (for… - **added** — Add a new setting, update.githubActionsServer, for specifying the base URL of the GitHub server that hosts the repositories of the GitHub Actions referenced by the workflow files ### pnpr 0.1.0-alpha.5 - Date: 2026-07-23 - Original notes: https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/releases/tag/pnpr%400.1.0-alpha.5 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/pnpm/releases/feed-tag-github.com-2008-repository-50565430-pnpr-0.1.0-alph Patch Changes Fixed catalog: references in dependencies and overrides failing to resolve when installing through a pnpr server, which errored with "No catalog entry '' was found for catalog 'default'.… - **fixed** — Fix catalog references in dependencies and overrides failing to resolve when installing through a pnpr server with error "No catalog entry '' was found for catalog 'default' ### v12.0.0-alpha.19 - Date: 2026-07-23 - Version: v12.0.0-alpha.19 - Original notes: https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/releases/tag/v12.0.0-alpha.19 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/pnpm/releases/v12.0.0-alpha.19 - Labels: Pre-release chore(release): 11.17.0, pacquet 12.0.0-alpha.19, pnpr 0.1.0-alpha.5 … ### pnpm 11.16 - Date: 2026-07-22 - Original notes: https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/releases/tag/v11.16.0 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/pnpm/releases/feed-tag-github.com-2008-repository-50565430-v11.16.0 Minor Changes The first release of a package now publishes the version written in its manifest verbatim, instead of bumping off it. pnpm version -r and pnpm change status check the registry for each r… - **changed** — The first release of a package now publishes the version written in its manifest verbatim, instead of bumping off it ### pnpm 12 Alpha 18 - Date: 2026-07-22 - Original notes: https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/releases/tag/v12.0.0-alpha.18 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/pnpm/releases/feed-tag-github.com-2008-repository-50565430-v12.0.0-alpha.1-1362bed8 Minor Changes The first release of a package now publishes the version written in its manifest verbatim, instead of bumping off it. pnpm version -r and pnpm change status check the registry for each r… - **changed** — The first release of a package now publishes the version written in its manifest verbatim, instead of bumping off it ### pnpm 12 Alpha 17 - Date: 2026-07-20 - Original notes: https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/releases/tag/v12.0.0-alpha.17 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/pnpm/releases/feed-tag-github.com-2008-repository-50565430-v12.0.0-alpha.1-0a145c4f Minor Changes Added support for alias-less Git dependency adds, preserved locked Git commits during unrelated dependency changes, and reported Git package versions in install logs. pnpm list and pnpm… - **added** — Support for alias-less Git dependency adds - **added** — Report Git package versions in install logs - **changed** — Preserve locked Git commits during unrelated dependency changes ### pnpm 12 Alpha 16 - Date: 2026-07-19 - Original notes: https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/releases/tag/v12.0.0-alpha.16 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/pnpm/releases/feed-tag-github.com-2008-repository-50565430-v12.0.0-alpha.1 Minor Changes Completed pnpm runtime installation parity for Node.js, Deno, and Bun, including runtime failure policy, target architecture selection, and dependency runtime engines. Runtime failure ov… - **added** — Complete pnpm runtime installation parity for Node.js, Deno, and Bun, including runtime failure policy, target architecture selection, and dependency runtime engines