pnpm 11.10 adds the _auth setting for CI-friendly registry authentication, new pnpm prefix and pnpm issues commands, and the ability for pnpm self-update to install pnpm v12 (the Rust port). It also improves pnpm up accuracy, speeds up resolution against registries that ignore abbreviated metadata, and hardens global package management, pnpm deploy, and pnpm pack-app.

pnpm 11.9 computes missing tarball integrity for registries that cannot publish checksums, adds pnpm sbom --exclude-peers, improves audit performance on cyclic lockfiles, fixes peer-resolution nondeterminism, and tightens exclusion handling for minimumReleaseAge and trustPolicy.

pnpm 11.8 adds install dry-run previews, Node.js package map generation, richer SBOM output, pnpm view defaulting to the current package, and correct pnpm run --no-bail exit codes. It also includes a config-dependency lockfile traversal fix and many install/update determinism fixes.

pnpm 11.7 adds a frozenStore setting for installing against a read-only package store, a --batch flag for publishing a whole workspace in one request, scope-specific auth tokens, and full resolving installs delegated to pacquet. It also hardens lockfile alias handling, makes several install paths deterministic, and ships a number of publish and Windows fixes.

pnpm used to expand ${ENV_VAR} placeholders everywhere it found them — including in the .npmrc and pnpm-workspace.yaml files that live inside the repository you just cloned. That turned out to be a way for a malicious repository to steal the secrets in your environment. As of v10.34.2 and v11.5.3, pnpm stops expanding environment variables in repository-controlled registry and credential settings.

This was a security fix (GHSA-3qhv-2rgh-x77r), and it is a breaking change for some setups. This post explains the attack, what exactly changed, and how to migrate.

pnpm 11.6 adds a file-free way to supply registry authentication through npm_config_//… and pnpm_config_//… environment variables, raises the default network concurrency, and skips full re-resolution when only pnpm-lock.yaml is missing. It also infers platform fields for optional dependencies so foreign-platform binaries are never downloaded.

pnpm 11.5 adds a hoistingLimits setting for controlling how far dependencies hoist in nodeLinker: hoisted installs, replaces the interactive prompt library to fix scrolling in long choice lists, recognizes staged publishes in the trust scale, and ships several install and dist-tag fixes.

pnpm 11.4 closes a cluster of supply-chain holes around lockfile integrity, credential scoping, git resolutions, patch files, and dependency aliases, makes tarball-integrity mismatches a hard install failure by default (with a narrowly-scoped --update-checksums opt-in), and changes pnpm runtime set to write to devEngines.runtime instead of engines.runtime by default.

pnpm 11.3 adds support for npm's staged publishing (pnpm stage), the new trustLockfile setting for skipping the supply-chain verification pass on already-trusted lockfiles, and native implementations of pnpm pkg, pnpm repo, and pnpm set-script. It also adds a --skip-manifest-obfuscation flag for pack / publish and cuts the memory footprint of minimumReleaseAge / trustPolicy verification on large workspaces.

pnpm 11.2 ships an experimental opt-in into pacquet (the Rust port of pnpm) as the install backend, expands config dependencies to install one level of optionalDependencies (so the esbuild/swc platform-binary pattern works for config deps too), wires up the long-documented pnpm login --scope flag, and surfaces runtime entries (Node.js, Deno, Bun) in pnpm outdated and pnpm update --interactive.