- Stop expanding ${VAR} placeholders from repository‑controlled .npmrc files to prevent secret leakage (security fix).
- Treat the lockfile stored in node_modules/.pnpm/lock.yaml as the wanted lockfile, enabling “already up‑to‑date” detection when pnpm‑lock.yaml is missing (minor improvement).
- Add support for URL‑scoped registry settings via environment variables, raise default network concurrency, improve warnings, and skip optional dependencies with missing platform metadata (feature and bugfix).