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Staged publishing and new install-time controls for npm
- koinedad 4mo agoNice…maybe will help some of the recent attacks
- turkeyboi 4mo agoIf maintainers actually use it
- Klaster_1 4mo agoThis is the biggest question I also had after reading the blog post. Given the recent chain of attacks, wouldn't it make sense to enforce staged publish by default or at least gradually move over to it?
- sieabahlpark 4mo ago[dead]
- eff-nix 4mo ago[dead]
- weinzierl 4mo agoSeen favorably, staged publishing is a band aid. Seen more realistically I believe that in the long run it will even hurt our efforts for more secure infra.
- buildfocus 4mo agoHow could it possibly hurt? For trusted publishing, it's not a band-aid, it's a significant improvement that kills an entire class of CI takeover publish attacks. I'm sure attackers will find another way but it's a big gap this is closing up.
- NicoHartmann 4mo ago[dead]
- supriyo-biswas 4mo agoIs any form of code analysis out of the question? Static and dynamic analysis of the code would seem like a promising idea rather than just trying to defer the update and hence the problem.
- sieabahlpark 4mo ago[dead]
- bob1029 4mo ago[dead]
- madarco 4mo agomeanwhile pnpm 10.x by default won't donwload packages younger than a day
- stabbles 4mo agoIs one day enough to find vulnerabilities? Who keeps an eye on new releases? Otherwise the problem continues to exist, just delayed by one day.
- captn3m0 4mo agoThere’s almost a dozen cybersecurity companies scanning NPM publishes in real-time and analysing them.
- jamietanna 4mo ago*11.x
- warmwaffles 4mo agoPerfect, now we'll start seeing people automate auto publishing because they don't want to explicitly push a button to publish it.