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npm v4 just landed into master in 9946519
The CTC has discussed landing npm 4 into node 7 and so far all discussion has been positive. One of the biggest reasons is to get the deprecation warnings around prepublish into as many hands as possible to avoid confusion if npm 5 ships with node 8
The only hesitation so far has been the dropping of support of partial shrinkwraps.
This did at one point break hapi, but was fixed in hapijs/hapi@0ca8cea (thanks for pointing that out @iarna). It is worth mentioning that this will likely break older hapi builds on npm4 if the change was not backported.
It might be a good idea to scan the registry and find out what other projects are currently shipping broken shrinkwraps so we can better estimate ecosystem brekages, /cc @ChALkeR.
Please chime in if you have any concerns, we can bring this to the ctc again next week.
/cc @nodejs/npm