npm@5 is now available at  `npm@latest` and it's fast!

npm@5 is now available at `npm@latest` and it's fast!

It’s here!

Starting today, if you type `npm install npm@latest -g`, you’ll be updated to npm version 5. In addition, npm@5 is bundled in all new installations of Node.js 8, which has replaced Node.js 7 in the Node Project’s current release line.

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(Installing the npm website on our own dev environments went from 99 seconds using npm@4 to 27 seconds with npm@5. Now we spend less time jousting.)

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Shrinkwrap has been a part of npm for a long time, but npm@5 makes lockfiles the default, so all npm installs are now reproducible. The files you get when you install a given version of a package will be the same, every time you install it.

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