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pnpm 11 ignores the package.json "pnpm" field and non-auth .npmrc settings — move them to pnpm-workspace.yaml

pnpm@11#pnpm#npmrc#pnpm-workspace#config#migration
Fix

Before:

// package.json
{ "pnpm": { "overrides": { "lodash": "^4.17.21" } } }

# .npmrc
node-linker=hoisted
//registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken=${NPM_TOKEN}

After:

# pnpm-workspace.yaml (create it even in a single-package repo)
nodeLinker: hoisted
overrides:
  lodash: ^4.17.21

# .npmrc — auth/registry only
//registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken=${NPM_TOKEN}

Settings use camelCase keys in YAML. For per-user settings use pnpm config set --location=user <key> <value> (writes the global config.yaml).

Symptom

After upgrading to pnpm 11, settings that used to work silently stop applying: overrides/patchedDependencies/onlyBuiltDependencies in package.json → "pnpm": {...}, or .npmrc lines like shamefully-hoist=true, node-linker=hoisted, auto-install-peers=false, minimum-release-age=.... No error is printed.

Cause

pnpm 11.0.0 (2026-04-28):

  • "pnpm no longer reads settings from the pnpm field of package.json."
  • "Only auth and registry settings are read from .npmrc files." Everything else must live in pnpm-workspace.yaml (project) or the new global config.yaml (user).

Verify

pnpm config get nodeLinker (or the setting you moved) returns your value; re-run pnpm install and confirm behaviour (e.g. flat node_modules with hoisted linker).

Sources

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