Show-stopping bug appears in npm Node.js package manager

Posted by bob on Feb 23, 2018 4:47 PM EDT
ZDNet | open-source RSS; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols 		Mail this story
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A new release of the JavaScript and Node.js package manager, npm, fatally changes file permissions. While that's been fixed, the entire messy process revealed more fundamental problems. Are you a developer who uses npm as the package manager for your JavaScript or Node.js code? If so, do not -- I repeat do not -- upgrade to npm 5.7.0. Nothing good can come of it.

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