pnpm 11 Hardens npm Against Supply Chain Attacks

The TanStack npm attack demonstrated how vulnerable package managers remain to malicious actors exploiting CI/CD weaknesses and cache poisoning techniques. pnpm 11 responds with new security defaults—including a 24-hour delay on new package installations and stricter dependency verification—representing an industry shift from convenience-first to secure-by-default package management. For developers, this means significantly reduced transitive dependency attack risks without requiring manual security configuration.