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This is a pre-release not a final one. But running npm update -g seems to install the 5.7.0 pre-release, due to a second bug, so some people will still hit the filesystem permissions bug in practice, even if they don't try to explicitly install this specific release.


>This is a pre-release not a final one.

Which is not mentioned anywhere in the linked blog post.


Which is why I explicitly mentioned that, as the blog post is likely to confuse people in this regard.




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