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Isn't this article wrong about npm minumum release age. 1. The config is min-release-age. 2. For some reason they have chosen to make it days instead of minutes: https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v11/using-npm/config#min-release-...

Completely unforced fragmentation of the dependency manager space imo

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This confused me too, until I realized that the article is about pnpm, not npm (pnpm reads .npmrc for some reason, despite not having the same options as npm)

On a related note, it seems to be impossible to find the documentation of min-release-age by googling it. Very annoying.

I just set this up for npm, here's the command that worked for me:

npm config set min-release-age 7

The '7' is days. This is the only format that worked for me, just a single integer number of days.

Confirmed by trying to install the latest version of React 19.2.6 (published 5 days ago as of the time of this comment). It failed with a comment confirming that it could not find such a version published before a week ago.

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