Major regression with npm version

[sonny]

Hello,

We have the following in our services package.json files:

  "engines": {
    "node": ">=18.7 <19",
    "npm": ">=8 <9"
  }

It used to work fine until now and render would exclusively use npm 8.

We are now unable to deploy because render is using npm 9 as shown here:

[John_B]

Hi Sonny,

Our npm is the version of npm that comes with the Node version you’re using.

18.14.0 comes with 9.3.1 npm as detailed at https://nodejs.org/en/download/releases/ if you were to lock to 18.13.0 you’d be back using npm 8.19.3

Regards,

John B

[sonny]

Thank you.

I didn’t expect Node.js to update to an npm version with breaking changes in the LTS version. It seems very short-sighted. I have reported the issue to Node.js Stop updating npm with breaking update in LTS · Issue #825 · nodejs/Release · GitHub