chore: add min-release-age cooldown to .npmrc#3286
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Set a 1-day cooldown on new dependency versions as a low-cost defense against supply-chain attacks. Requires npm CLI 11.10.0+. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Do we need to make sure that we have the correct version in the release workflow?
- name: Use npm with min-release-age support
shell: bash
run: npm install -g npm@^11.10.0
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Set a 1-day cooldown on new dependency versions as a low-cost defense against supply-chain attacks. Requires npm CLI 11.10.0+.
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Low risk config-only change that affects how npm resolves/installs newly released package versions; potential impact is slower uptake of fresh releases in CI/developer installs.
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Adds an
.npmrcsettingmin-release-age=1to enforce a 1-day delay before newly published dependency versions are eligible for install, as a supply-chain hardening measure.Reviewed by Cursor Bugbot for commit 0cc797d. Bugbot is set up for automated code reviews on this repo. Configure here.