v9.0.0

9.0.0 (2026-05-22)

⚠️ BREAKING CHANGES

• init-package-json now supports node ^22.22.2 || ^24.15.0 || >=26.0.0
• template-oss-apply
• The author prompt will now be shown even if an author is already specified in the existing package.json. If the user leaves the prompt blank, the author field will be omitted from the resulting package.json instead of being set to an empty string.
• existing packages in node_modules are no longer used to try to pre-populate dependencies and devDependencies
• The license field is no longer included by default when running npm init or npm init --yes. If you want to include a license, you can either set it in your npm config (npm set init-license=MIT) or provide it interactively when running npm init.

Features

• 042e1c4 #359 bump to new node engine range (@owlstronaut)
• 965f605 #359 template-oss-apply (@owlstronaut)
• 0ab701a #352 make author prompt even when already specified (@owlstronaut)
• 6e34dd8 #350 omit license field by default when initializing package.json (@owlstronaut)

Bug Fixes

• cddad4f #349 stop auto populating dependencies (#349) (@wraithgar)

Dependencies

• 2959f9c #359 validate-npm-package-name@8.0.0
• 96a5bb8 #359 read@6.0.0
• fefbeee #359 promzard@4.0.0
• 6114288 #359 npm-package-arg@14.0.0
• da6fbc1 #359 @npmcli/package-json@8.0.0

Chores

• 43073db #359 @npmcli/eslint-config@7.0.0 (@owlstronaut)
• 0f70db1 #359 template-oss-apply (@owlstronaut)
• 7dfdb1a #359 bumping @npmcli/template-oss from 4.30.0 to 5.1.0 (@owlstronaut)
• cc57229 #350 template-oss-apply (@owlstronaut)
• e885190 #348 bump @npmcli/template-oss from 4.29.0 to 4.30.0 (#348) (@dependabot[bot], @npm-cli-bot)

v8.2.5

8.2.5 (2026-02-19)

Bug Fixes

• 94effe9 update license validation code (#345) (@wraithgar)

Chores

• 803e95d #346 trigger release process (#346) (@wraithgar)
• 81d2b3c #343 bump @npmcli/template-oss from 4.23.4 to 4.29.0 (#343) (@dependabot[bot], @npm-cli-bot, @owlstronaut)

v8.2.4

8.2.4 (2025-11-21)

Dependencies

• f2df0e2 #338 bump promzard from 2.0.0 to 3.0.1 (#338) (@dependabot[bot])
• 02e2313 #341 bump read from 4.1.0 to 5.0.1 (#341) (@dependabot[bot])

Chores

• 291136b #340 bump @npmcli/eslint-config from 5.1.0 to 6.0.1 (#340) (@dependabot[bot])

v8.2.3

8.2.3 (2025-11-17)

Dependencies

• f03c37b #336 validate-npm-package-name@7.0.0 (#336)

v8.2.2

8.2.2 (2025-08-29)

Dependencies

• f480504 #332 @npmcli/package-json@7.0.0
• 2662a02 #332 validate-npm-package-name@6.0.2
• 160c315 #332 semver@7.7.2
• adbd5cb #332 npm-package-arg@13.0.0

v8.2.1

8.2.1 (2025-05-14)

Bug Fixes

• d2da53b #330 private option uses the real config to determine default (#330) (@owlstronaut)

v8.2.0

8.2.0 (2025-05-05)

Features

• 8f6d95d #329 add new test packages (#329) (@wraithgar)

Bug Fixes

• 23c5eb9 #327 Use the private value as long as it isn't undefined (#327) (@owlstronaut)

v8.1.1

8.1.1 (2025-04-23)

Bug Fixes

• 52b3766 #324 make private only effective when set to true, handle existing packages (#324) (@owlstronaut)

v8.1.0

8.1.0 (2025-04-23)

Features

• 78b2cd0 #322 adds init-private option to config (#322) (@owlstronaut)

Chores

• 0578b8b #320 bump @npmcli/config from 9.0.0 to 10.0.0 (#320) (@dependabot[bot])

v8.0.0

8.0.0 (2024-12-02)

⚠️ BREAKING CHANGES

• this module is now compatible with the following node versions: ^20.17.0 || >=22.9.0
• adds a new type prompt and changes the sort order of created packages

Features

• 5eeea50 #313 adds type, sorting (#313) (@reggi)

Bug Fixes

• f4c1430 update node engines to ^20.17.0 || >=22.9.0 (#318) (@wraithgar)

Chores

• 47339ef #311 bump @npmcli/config from 8.3.4 to 9.0.0 (#311) (@dependabot[bot])
• 2ccbf30 #310 bump @npmcli/template-oss from 4.23.3 to 4.23.4 (#310) (@dependabot[bot], @npm-cli-bot)