v5.4.2 (2017-09-14):

This is a small bug fix release wrapping up most of the issues introduced with 5.4.0.

Bugs

• 0b28ac72d #18458 Fix a bug on Windows where rolling back of failed optional dependencies would fail. (@marcins)
• 3a1b29991 write-file-atomic@2.1.0 Revert update of write-file-atomic. There were changes made to it that were resulting in EACCES errors for many users. (@iarna)
• cd8687e12 Fix a bug where if npm decided it needed to move a module during an upgrade it would strip out much of the package.json. This would result in broken trees after package updates.
• 5bd0244ee #18385 Fix npm outdated when run on non-registry dependencies. (@joshclow) (@iarna)

Ux

• 339f17b1e Report unsupported node versions with greater granularity. (@iarna)

Docs

• b2ab6f43b #18397 Document that the default loglevel with npm@5 is notice. (@KenanY)
• e5aedcd82 #18372 In npm-config documentation, note that env vars use _ in place of -. (@jakubholynet)