--- title: pnpm 10.31 | daily.dev description: pnpm 10.31 now preserves comments, string formatting, and whitespace when it updates pnpm-workspace.yaml. The release also ships a large batch of patch fixes,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/pnpm-10-31-t5lujovjp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: pnpm 10.31 | daily.dev og:description: pnpm 10.31 now preserves comments, string formatting, and whitespace when it updates pnpm-workspace.yaml. The release also ships a large batch of patch fixes,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/pnpm-10-31-t5lujovjp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/T5LujoVjP.png og:image:alt: pnpm 10.31 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # pnpm 10.31 **[Fast, disk space efficient package manager \| pnpm](https://daily.dev/sources/pnpm-blog)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary pnpm 10.31 now preserves comments, string formatting, and whitespace when it updates pnpm-workspace.yaml. The release also ships a large batch of patch fixes, including a short -F alias for --filter, a fix for a race condition when concurrent worker threads import the same package into the global virtual store, corrected handling of lockfile-include-tarball-url, a fix for optimisticRepeatInstall skipping installs after certain config changes, a resolved permission error in pnpm patch-commit under Docker/CI environments, fixes for pnpm why -r output, and corrected workspace package linking behavior. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Does pnpm 10.31 preserve comments when it updates pnpm-workspace.yaml? Yes, pnpm 10.31 preserves comments, string formatting, and whitespace when it automatically updates pnpm-workspace.yaml. Previously these updates could strip or reformat the file, which was disruptive for teams that annotate their workspace config with comments. _Developers tracking pnpm changelog details like this can follow release notes on daily.dev._ ### Why is my pnpm patch-commit command failing with a permission denied error on /.config/git/attributes? This happens in environments where HOME is unset or non-standard, such as Docker containers or CI systems, causing pnpm patch-commit to fail with 'unable to access /.config/git/attributes: Permission denied'. This bug was fixed in pnpm 10.31, referenced as GitHub issue #6537. _Teams debugging CI-specific pnpm errors can track fixes like this one on daily.dev._ ### Why does pnpm link-workspace-packages=true link the wrong version of a workspace package? In pnpm versions before 10.31, setting link-workspace-packages=true could incorrectly link a workspace package even when the requested version didn't match the workspace package's actual version. This was fixed as part of the pnpm 10.31 patch release, tracked as GitHub issue #10173. _Developers debugging workspace dependency resolution issues can check fixes like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [pnpm 12.2-12.3](https://daily.dev/posts/pnpm-12-2-12-3-gtkuwlrn9) · Fast, disk space efficient package manager \| pnpm · 4 upvotes · 0 comments - [pnpm 11.21-11.22](https://daily.dev/posts/pnpm-11-21-11-22-samutlmgg) · Fast, disk space efficient package manager \| pnpm · 27 upvotes · 2 comments - [pnpm 12.7](https://daily.dev/posts/pnpm-12-7-ot65yjyad) · Fast, disk space efficient package manager \| pnpm · 11 upvotes · 0 comments - [pnpm 11 cuts the npm umbilical cord](https://daily.dev/posts/pnpm-11-cuts-the-npm-umbilical-cord-vhucinbuf) · Bytes by ui.dev · 50 upvotes · 5 comments --- Tags: [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#javascript](https://daily.dev/tags/javascript), [#pnpm](https://daily.dev/tags/pnpm) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/pnpm-10-31-t5lujovjp) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"pnpm 10.31","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/pnpm-10-31-t5lujovjp","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/pnpm-10-31-t5lujovjp"},"datePublished":"2026-08-23T12:17:33.470Z","dateModified":"2026-08-23T12:24:43.387Z","description":"pnpm 10.31 now preserves comments, string formatting, and whitespace when it updates pnpm-workspace.yaml. 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