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npm automation can now prepare a release without being able to publish it directly. That small permission change matters because it separates build automation from the final act of putting a package on the public registry.
The important Node.js signal is not the individual version number. It is the split release train that lets the ecosystem adopt new runtime capabilities while LTS users receive a steadier path.
The deeper signal is ecosystem convergence: serverless runtimes increasingly need to behave like mainstream Node.js environments if they want developers to move existing applications without rewriting their dependency model.
Brevo's September 14 incident is a useful case study in a web supply-chain boundary that file-integrity checks can miss: attackers changed responses at the CDN edge while origin files stayed untouched.
