v6.6.0-next.0

REFACTORING OUT npm-REGISTRY-CLIENT

Today is an auspicious day! This release marks the end of a massive internal refactor to npm that means we finally got rid of the legacy npm-registry-client in favor of the shiny, new, window.fetch-like npm-registry-fetch.

Now, the installer had already done most of this work with the release of npm@5, but it turns out every other command still used the legacy client. This release updates all of those commands to use the new client, and while we're at it, adds a few extra goodies:

• All OTP-requiring commands will now prompt. --otp is no longer required for dist-tag, access, et al.
• We're starting to integrate a new config system which will eventually get extracted into a standalone package.
• We now use libnpm for the API functionality of a lot of our commands! That means you can install a library if you want to write your own tooling around them.
• There's now an npm org command for managing users in your org.
• pacote now consumes npm-style configurations, instead of its own naming for various config vars. This will make it easier to load npm configs using libnpm.config and hand them directly to pacote.

There's too many commits to list all of them here, so check out the PR if you're curious about details:

• c5af34c05 npm-registry-client@REMOVED (@zkat)
• 4cca9cb90 ad67461dc 77625f9e2 6e922aefb 584613ea8 64de4ebf0 6cd87d1a9 2786834c0 514558e09 dec07ebe3 084741913 45aff0e02 846ddcc44 8971ba1b9 99156e081 ab2155306 b37a66542 d2af0777a e0b4c6880 ff72350b4 6ed943303 90a069e7d b24ed5fdc ec9fcc14f 8a56fa39e 41d19e18f 125ff9551 1c3b226ff 3c0a7b06b 08fcb3f0f c8135d97a ae936f22c #2 Move rest of commands to npm-registry-fetch and use figgy-pudding for configs. (@zkat)

NEW FEATURES

• 02c837e01 #106 Make npm dist-tags the same as npm dist-tag ls. (@isaacs)
• 1065a7809 #65 Add support for IBM i. (@dmabupt)

BUGFIXES

• 890a74458 npm.community#3278 Fix support for passing git binary path config with --git. (@larsgw)
• 90e55a143 npm.community#2713 Check for npm.config's existence in error-handler.js to prevent weird errors when failures happen before config object is loaded. (@BeniCheni)

DOCS

• 31a7274b7 #71 Fix typo in npm-token documentation. (@GeorgeTaveras1231)

DEPENDENCIES

• 9cefcdc1d npm-registry-fetch@3.8.0 (@zkat)
• 1c769c9b3 pacote@9.1.0 (@zkat)
• f3bc5539b figgy-pudding@3.5.1 (@zkat)
• bf7199d3c npm-profile@4.0.1 (@zkat)
• 118c50496 semver@5.5.1 (@isaacs)
• eab4df925 libcipm@3.0.2 (@zkat)
• b86e51573 libnpm@1.4.0 (@zkat)
• 56fffbff2 get-stream@4.1.0 (@zkat)
• df972e948 npm-profile@REMOVED (@zkat)
• 32c73bf0e libnpm@2.0.1 (@zkat)
• 569491b80 licensee@5.0.0 (@zkat)
• a3ba0ccf1 move rimraf to prod deps (@zkat)