shelljs Breaks SemVer for Alpha and Pre-Release Versions

npm published a change to their CDN configuration earlier today that exposed another issue with SemVer publishing via npm. As such, it would seem that shelljs is breaking some of the internet because of the alpha and pre-release versions that were published to NPM.

Would it be possible to get some of those versions unpublished and prevent future releases from breaking SemVer?

air:test_mar9 user$ nvm use 5.7.1
Now using node v5.7.1 (npm v3.6.0)
air:test_mar9 user$ npm install eslint
npm ERR! Darwin 15.3.0
npm ERR! argv "/Users/user/.nvm/versions/node/v5.7.1/bin/node" "/Users/user/.nvm/versions/node/v5.7.1/bin/npm" "install" "eslint"
npm ERR! node v5.7.1
npm ERR! npm  v3.6.0

npm ERR! Invalid Version: 0.0.6pre2
npm ERR!
npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this error at:
npm ERR!     <https://github.com/npm/npm/issues>

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /Users/user/test_mar9/npm-debug.log
air:test_mar9 user$ npm view shelljs versions

[ '0.0.1-alpha1',
  '0.0.1alpha1',
  '0.0.1',
  '0.0.2-pre1',
  '0.0.2pre1',
  '0.0.2',
  '0.0.3',
  '0.0.4pre1',
  '0.0.4-pre1',
  '0.0.4',
  '0.0.5pre1',
  '0.0.5-pre1',
  '0.0.5pre2',
  '0.0.5-pre2',
  '0.0.5-pre3',
  '0.0.5pre3',
  '0.0.5-pre4',
  '0.0.5pre4',
  '0.0.5',
  '0.0.6-pre1',
  '0.0.6pre1',
  '0.0.6-pre2',
  '0.0.6pre2',
  '0.0.6',
  '0.0.7',
  '0.0.8',
  '0.0.9',
  '0.1.0',
  '0.1.1',
  '0.1.2',
  '0.1.3',
  '0.1.4',
  '0.2.0',
  '0.2.1',
  '0.2.2',
  '0.2.3',
  '0.2.4',
  '0.2.5',
  '0.2.6',
  '0.3.0',
  '0.4.0',
  '0.5.0',
  '0.5.1',
  '0.5.2',
  '0.5.3',
  '0.6.0' ]

air:test_mar9 user$

[nfischer]

If there’s a way you can change your registry, that should resolve the issue. npm config set registry https://registry.npmjs.org/.

I can reproduce this error when I use https://skimdb.npmjs.com/registry.

[JonDuffy]

Fixed this by removing shelljs from the private npm repo, forcing a download which does not contain the invalid versions