NPM Inc. is offering version 4.0.0 of the NPM package manager for JavaScript, while NPM 2 and 3 are set for maintenance mode.
The 4.0.0 version offers several breaking changes but is not considered as dramatic as its predecessor, having less impact on day-to-day operations than version 3, according to NPM. Both version 2 and 3 will move to the background with the release of NPM 4.
“We will no longer be updating those release branches with anything except critical bug fixes and security patches,” said NPM’s Kat Marchán, a CLI engineer.
