Good to see you all again! It's been a while since we had an LTS release, and the team continues to work hard to both get the issue tracker under control, and get our test suite to be awesome and reliable.

This is also the first LTS release of this year.

We're gonna have an interesting time -- most of our focus this year will be around stability and maintainability of the CLI, so you might actually end up seeing a number of updates even over here, just for the sake of making sure we're stable, that bugs get fixed, and tests have proper coverage.

What better way to start this effort, then, than getting Travis tests green, fix a few things here and there, and tweak a bunch of documentation? 😁

FIX ALL THE BUGS AND TWEAK ALL THE THINGS

• 24b13fb#11158 Fix custom node-gyp env var quoting on Windows. (@orangemocha)
• e2503f2#11142 Fix race condition withcorrectMkdir in the cache directory. (@Jimbly)
• 5c0e4c4#10940 Ignore failures replacingpackage.json. writeFileAtomic is not atomic in Windows, it fails if the file is being accessed concurrently. (@orangemocha)
• 2c44d8d#10903 Add tests fornpm adduser --scope. (@ekmartin)
• 4cb25d0#10903 Add a message informing users when they have been successfully logged in. (@ekmartin)
• fe3ec6d#10628 Tell users how to open an issue with a package that has errored. (@trodrigues)

DOCS DOCS DOCS

We got a TON of lovely documentation patches, too! Thanks all for submitting!

• 22482a1#11188 Briefly explain what's included when you publish. (@beaugunderson)
• fa47724#11150 Advise use of--depth Infinity instead of--depth 9999 innpm update. (@halhenke)
• 248ddfe#11130 Nuke "using npm programmatically" section from README. The programmatic npm API is unsupported, and is not guaranteed not to break in non-major versions. Removing this section so newcomers aren't encouraged to discover or use it. (@ljharb)
• ae9c452#11128 Add link to local paths section indocs forpackage.json. (@orangejulius)
• 663a8c6#11044 Update default value documentation for the color option in npm's config. (@scottaddie)
• 5c1dda0#11037 Correct the name property max length constraint verbiage. (@scottaddie)
• 8288365#10990 Update folder docs to reflect that process.installPrefix was removed as of 0.8.x. (@jeffmcmahan)
• 61d63fa#10790 Clarify thatnpm install foo is the same asnpm install foo@latest now. (@cvrebert)
• 442c920#10789 Link over tonpm-dist-tag(1) innpm install docs when they talk about thepkg@<tag> syntax. (@cvrebert)
• dca7a5e#10788 Link to tag docs in docs fornpm publish --tag. (@cvrebert)
• a72904e#10787 Explain why thelatest tag matters. (@cvrebert)
• 9d0697a#10785 Replace some quite marks innpm dist-tag docs for the sake of consistency. (@cvrebert)

I REALLY LIKE GREEN. CAN YOU TELL?

So Travis is all green now onnpm@2, thanks to the removal of nock and a few other test suite tweaks. This is a fantastic step towards making sure we can all have confidence in our test suite! 🎉

• 64995be75ab216a9f6fe9649c19394cb05e6541690255be6f9e84fa48a587b0bf812a5#10903 Get rid of nock from tests, and get Travis green. (@zkat and@iarna)
• 70a5310npm-registry-couchapp@2.6.12: Better 0.8 compatibility, and ability to run in travis docker stuff. This means the test suite should run a lot faster, too! (@iarna)
• 28fae39 Get rid of sudo, for Travis! (@zkat)