HEY WHERE DID EVERYBODY GO

I keep hearing some commotion. Is there something going on? Like, a party or something? Anyway, here's a small release with at least two significant bug fixes, at least one of which some of you have been waiting for for quite a while.

REMEMBER WHEN I SAID "REMEMBER WHEN I SAID THAT THING ABOUT PERMISSIONS?"?

npm@2.12.0 has a change that introduces a fix for a permissions problem whereby the _locks directory in the cache directory can up being owned by root. The fix in 2.12.0 takes care of that problem, but introduces a new problem for Windows users where npm tries to call process.getuid(), which doesn't exist on Windows. It was easy enough to fix (but more or less impossible to test, thanks to all the external dependencies involved with permissions and platforms and whatnot), but as a result, Windows users might want to skip npm@2.12.0 and go straight to npm@2.12.1. Sorry about that!

• 7e5da23 When using the new, "fixed" cache directory creator, be extra-careful to not call process.getuid() on platforms that lack it. (@othiym23)

WHEW! ALL DONE FIXING GIT FOREVER!

New npm CLI team hero @zkat has finally (FINALLY) fixed the regression somebody (hi!) introduced a couple months ago whereby git URLs of the format git+ssh://user@githost.com:org/repo.git suddenly stopped working, and also started being saved (and cached) incorrectly. I am 100% sure there are absolutely no more bugs in the git caching code at all ever. Mm hm. Yep. Pretty sure. Maybe. Hmm... I hope.

Sighs audibly.

Let us know if we broke something else with this fix.

• 94ca4a7 #8031 Even though git+ssh://user@githost.com:org/repo.git isn't a URL, treat it like one for the purposes of npm. (@zkat)
• e7f56e5 #8031 normalize-git-url@2.0.0: Handle git URLs (and URL-like remote refs) in a manner consistent with npm's docs. (@zkat)

YEP, THERE ARE STILL DEPENDENCY UPGRADES

• 679bf47 #40 read-installed@4.0.1: Handle prerelease versions in top-level dependencies not in package.json without marking those packages as invalid. (@benjamn)
• 3a67410 tap@1.3.1 (@isaacs)
• 151904a nopt@3.0.3 (@isaacs)