e bundled with a particular version of npm, it's the
policy of the CLI team that we recommend all users run <code class="language-text">npm@latest</code> if they
can. As the CLI is maintained by a small team of contributors, there are only
resources for a single line of development, so npm's own long-term support
releases typically only receive critical security and regression fixes. The
team believes that the latest tested version of npm is almost always likely to
be the most functional and defect-free ver