chore: release 11.6.3

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11.6.3

11.6.3 (2025-10-20)

Bug Fixes

• 49a4eef #8676 use look behind regex for trailing slash stripping (fix: use look behind regex for trailing slash stripping #8676) (@wraithgar)
• b1aee62 #8645 dep flag calculation (fix: dep flag calculation #8645) (@liamcmitchell)

Documentation

• 06510a8 #8683 add ignore-scripts option to npm version help and docs (docs: Add --ignore-scripts option to npm version help and docs #8683) (@Tejas242)

Chores

• 4bff14b #8670 write tarball to testDir (chore: write tarball to testDir #8670) (@wraithgar)
• 679486b #8672 fix lockfile (chore: fix lockfile #8672) (@wraithgar)

Dependencies

• workspace: @npmcli/[email protected]
• workspace: [email protected]
• workspace: [email protected]
• workspace: [email protected]
• workspace: [email protected]

arborist: 9.1.7

9.1.7 (2025-10-20)

Bug Fixes

• 05319f0 #8677 code cleanup (fix: code cleanup #8677) (@wraithgar)
• 49a4eef #8676 use look behind regex for trailing slash stripping (fix: use look behind regex for trailing slash stripping #8676) (@wraithgar)
• b1aee62 #8645 dep flag calculation (fix: dep flag calculation #8645) (@liamcmitchell)

libnpmdiff: 8.0.10

Dependencies

• workspace: @npmcli/[email protected]

libnpmexec: 10.1.9

Dependencies

• workspace: @npmcli/[email protected]

libnpmfund: 7.0.10

Dependencies

• workspace: @npmcli/[email protected]

libnpmpack: 9.0.10

Dependencies

• workspace: @npmcli/[email protected]

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Release workflow run: https://github.com/npm/cli/actions/runs/18657361822

Release Checklist for v11.6.3

• 1. Checkout the release branch

  Ensure git status is not dirty on this branch after resetting deps. If it is, then something is probably wrong with the automated release process.

  gh pr checkout 8671 --force

  npm run resetdeps

  node scripts/git-dirty.js

• 2. Check CI status

  gh pr checks --watch

• 3. Publish the CLI and workspaces

  Warning:
  This will publish all updated workspaces to latest, prerelease or backport depending on their version, and will publish the CLI with the dist-tag set to next-11.

  Note:
  The --test argument can optionally be omitted to run the publish process without running any tests locally.

  node scripts/publish.js --test

• 4. Optionally install and test [email protected] locally

  npm i -g [email protected]

  npm --version
  npm whoami
  npm help install
  # etc

• 5. Set latest dist-tag to newly published version

  Warning:
  NOT FOR PRERELEASE: Do not run this step for prereleases or if 11 is not being set to latest.

  node . dist-tag add [email protected] latest

• 6. Trigger docs.npmjs.com update

  gh workflow run update-cli.yml --repo npm/documentation

• 7. Approve and Merge release PR

  gh pr review --approve

  gh pr merge --rebase

  git checkout latest

  git fetch

  git reset --hard origin/latest

  node . run resetdeps

• 8. Wait For Release Tags

  Warning:
  The remaining steps all require the GitHub tags and releases to be created first. These are done once this PR has been labelled with autorelease: tagged.

  Release Please will run on the just merged release commit and create GitHub releases and tags for each package. The release bot will will comment on this PR when the releases and tags are created.

  Note:
  The release workflow also includes the Node integration tests which do not need to finish before continuing.

  You can watch the release workflow in your terminal with the following command:

  gh run watch `gh run list -R npm/cli -w release -b latest -L 1 --json databaseId -q ".[0].databaseId"`
  

• 9. Mark GitHub Release as latest

  Warning:
  You must wait for CI to create the release tags before running this step. These are done once this PR has been labelled with autorelease: tagged.

  Release Please will make GitHub Releases for the CLI and all workspaces, but GitHub has UI affordances for which release should appear as the "latest", which should always be the CLI. To mark the CLI release as latest run this command:

  gh release -R npm/cli edit v11.6.3 --latest

• 10. Open nodejs/node PR to update npm to latest

  Warning:
  You must wait for CI to create the release tags before running this step. These are done once this PR has been labelled with autorelease: tagged.

  Trigger the Create Node PR action. This will open a PR on nodejs/node to the main branch.

  Note:
  The resulting PR may need to be labelled if it is not intended to land on old Node versions.

  First, sync our fork of node with the upstream source:

  gh repo sync npm/node --source nodejs/node --force

  Then, if we are opening a PR against the latest version of node:

  gh workflow run create-node-pr.yml -f spec=next-11

  If the PR should be opened on a different branch (such as when doing backports) then run it with -f branch=<BRANCH_NAME>. There is also a shortcut to target a specific Node version by specifying a major version number with -f branch=18 (or similar).

  For example, this will create a PR on nodejs/node to the v16.x-staging branch:

  gh workflow run create-node-pr.yml -f spec=next-11 -f branch=16

• 11. Label and fast-track nodejs/node PR

  Note:
  This requires being a nodejs collaborator. This could be you!

  • Thumbs-up reaction on the Fast-track comment
  • Add an LGTM / Approval
  • Add request-ci label to get it running CI
  • Add commit-queue label once everything is green