pnpm v11.19.0

Minor Changes

• pnpm login no longer requires an interactive terminal when the registry supports web-based login: without a TTY it prints the authentication URL (skipping the QR code and the "Press ENTER to open the URL in your browser" prompt) and polls the registry until the browser approval completes. Only the classic username/password login still fails with ERR_PNPM_LOGIN_NON_INTERACTIVE in a non-interactive terminal.

• The save-prefix setting now accepts =: newly added dependencies are saved with an explicit = operator (=1.2.3) instead of the setting being silently treated as the default ^.

Patch Changes

• allowBuilds entries can now approve git-hosted packages that pnpm downloads as a tarball, such as github: dependencies (which are fetched from codeload.github.com rather than cloned), by their repository URL without the resolved commit hash. This matches the hashless git+ matching already supported for cloned git dependencies. For example:

  allowBuilds:
    "foo@git+https://github.com/org/foo.git": true
  

  This approves the package whether pnpm clones it or downloads a tarball, so the entry no longer has to be updated every time the pinned commit changes. GitLab and Bitbucket tarball downloads are matched the same way. Approving or denying a specific resolved commit by its full tarball dep path continues to work.

• pnpm outdated --include-github-actions no longer blocks on an interactive git credential prompt when a workflow uses a private action repo.

• Prevented minimumReleaseAge from replacing latest with a SemVer-greater version than the registry tag target #13034.

• Fixed empty bundledDependencies and bundleDependencies arrays causing nondeterministic lockfile changes. See pnpm/pnpm#13123.

• The install summary no longer prints (X is available) when the registry's dist-tags.latest is still held back by the active minimumReleaseAge policy. The hint only ever names the actual latest tag, so an immature latest suppresses the hint instead of advertising the version pnpm just refused to install #11698.

• pnpm update keeps the explicit = operator of an exact version pin: a dependency saved as =3.5.1 now updates to =3.5.2 instead of the bare 3.5.2. See pnpm/pnpm#13168.

• Preserve a workspace dependency's link: entry when a run does not target it — e.g. pnpm update <other-pkg> (with or without --recursive), or a plain install after a root/catalog dependency change — with injectWorkspacePackages, instead of spuriously rewriting it to a peer-suffixed file: protocol. See pnpm/pnpm#10433.

• Workspace dependencies declared with a relative path (e.g. "foo": "workspace:../foo") are no longer silently dropped from the workspace projects graph, so --filter selection and the topological order of recursive commands take them into account.

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