- Fixed optional dependency installation where the parent was installed without its required sub‑dependency, adding an install‑check warning for incompatibilities.
- Added support for `publishConfig.name` to publish a package under a different registry name and updated `pnpm setup` to expose PNPM_HOME and the global bin directory in GitHub Actions environments.
- Hardened self‑update by ignoring project‑level `.npmrc`/workspace config, enforcing trusted registry and trust‑policy settings, and improving cooldown handling; plus numerous performance and stability fixes such as dedupe, virtual store ...