v5.0.1

Hey y'all! Hope you're enjoying the new npm!

As you all know, fresh software that's gone through major overhauls tends to miss a lot of spots the old one used to handle well enough, and npm@5 is no exception. The CLI team will be doing faster release cycles that go directly to the latest tag for a couple of weeks while 5 stabilizes a bit and we're confident the common low-hanging fruit people are running into are all taken care of.

With that said: this is our first patch release! The biggest focus is fixing up a number of git-related issues that folks ran into right out the door. It also fixes other things, like some proxy/auth-related issues, and even has a neat speed boost! (You can expect more speed bumps in the coming releases as pending work starts landing, too!)

Thanks everyone who's been reporting issues and submitting patches!

BUGFIXES

• e61e68dac #16762 Make npm publish obey the --tag flag again. (@zkat)
• 923fd58d3
  #16749 Speed up installations by nearly 20% by... removing one line of code. (hah) (@mikesherov)
• 9aac984cb Guard against a particular failure mode for a bug still being hunted down. (@iarna)
• 80ab521f1 Pull in dependency updates for various core deps:
  • New pacote fixes several git-related bugs.
  • ssri update fixes crash on early node@4 versions.
  • make-fetch-happen update fixes proxy authentication issue.
  • npm-user-validate adds regex for blocking usernames with illegal chars.
    (@zkat)
• 7e5ce87b8 pacote@2.7.26: Fixes various other git issues related to commit hashes. (@zkat)
• acbe85bfc #16791 npm view was calling cb prematurely and giving partial output when called in a child process. (@zkat)
• ebafe48af #16750 Hamilpatch the Musical: Talk less, complete more. (@aredridel)

DOCUMENTATION

• dc2823a6c #16799 Document that package-lock.json is never allowed in tarballs. (@sonicdoe)
• f3cb84b44 #16771 Fix npm -l usage information for the test command. (@grawlinson)

OTHER CHANGES

• 661262309 #16756 remove unused argument (@Aladdin-ADD)
• c3e0b4287 #16296 preserve same name convention for command (@desfero)
• 9f814831d #16757 remove unused argument (@Aladdin-ADD)
• 3cb843239 minor linter fix (@zkat)