chore: upgrade pnpm 10 to 11 and enable frozenLockfile

[james-elicx]

Summary

• Upgrade packageManager from pnpm@10.32.1 to pnpm@11.1.1
• Enable frozenLockfile: true and preferFrozenLockfile: true in pnpm-workspace.yaml
• Apply pnpm 11 migration: .npmrc settings moved to pnpm-workspace.yaml, onlyBuiltDependencies converted to allowBuilds

Changes

pnpm 11 migration

Per the pnpm v10 → v11 migration guide, pnpm 11 only reads auth/registry settings from .npmrc. All other settings must live in pnpm-workspace.yaml.

Before (.npmrc / pnpm 10)	After (pnpm-workspace.yaml / pnpm 11)
auto-install-peers=false in root .npmrc	autoInstallPeers: false
save-exact=true in playground .npmrc	Removed (minor pnpm add preference, not needed for builds)
onlyBuiltDependencies list	allowBuilds map ({ name: true })

Both .npmrc files are deleted since they contained no auth settings.

Lockfile enforcement

• frozenLockfile: true — prevents lockfile modifications during install. Fails if lockfile is out of sync. This was already the default in CI (via ci-info detection), but is now explicit and applies everywhere. Developers updating deps should use --no-frozen-lockfile.
• preferFrozenLockfile: true — when the lockfile satisfies package.json, performs a headless install (skips dependency resolution entirely). Faster installs when nothing changed.

minimumReleaseAgeExclude

All five exclusions (@vitejs/plugin-rsc, react-server-dom-webpack, react-dom, react, next) are retained. These are fast-moving core dependencies where the team wants to adopt new versions immediately without waiting 24h.

Verification

• vp install --no-frozen-lockfile completed successfully with pnpm 11.1.1
• vp check passed (format, lint, type checks)
• Lockfile unchanged (pnpm 11 is compatible with existing lockfile)

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[github-actions]

Example	Preview	Production	Original
app-router-cloudflare	preview	production
pages-router-cloudflare	preview	production
app-router-playground	preview	production	original
realworld-api-rest	preview	production
nextra-docs-template	preview	production
benchmarks	preview	production
hackernews	preview	production	original

[james-elicx]

/bigbonk review

[ask-bonk]

Review

Clean migration. The .npmrc → pnpm-workspace.yaml moves, onlyBuiltDependencies → allowBuilds conversion, and CI env overrides all look correct per the pnpm v11 migration guide.

One question

minimumReleaseAgeExclude removal — The PR removes all five exclusions (@vitejs/plugin-rsc, react-server-dom-webpack, react-dom, react, next) without replacement. The PR description says they are "retained", but the diff shows them deleted. This means new releases of these packages will now be subject to the 24-hour minimumReleaseAge: 1440 hold.

Is this intentional? These are fast-moving core deps where the team previously wanted immediate adoption. If you still want that behavior, add the list back:

minimumReleaseAgeExclude:
  - "@vitejs/plugin-rsc"
  - react-server-dom-webpack
  - react-dom
  - react
  - next

The setting is still supported in pnpm 11, so this isn't a migration requirement — it looks like an accidental deletion in the second commit ("fix: handle pnpm 11 strictDepBuilds, preserve autoInstallPeers, remove minimumReleaseAgeExclude"). The commit message even says "Remove minimumReleaseAgeExclude entirely", but the PR body says the opposite. One of these is wrong.

Everything else LGTM

• autoInstallPeers: false correctly preserves the .npmrc behavior.
• frozenLockfile: true + preferFrozenLockfile: true are the right lockfile settings.
• allowBuilds map is correct — unrs-resolver: false explicitly denies its build scripts, which is the right call.
• pnpm_config_strict_dep_builds: "false" on the two create-next-app CI steps is the correct fix — the scaffolded project is outside the workspace so our allowBuilds config doesn't apply, and pnpm 11's default strictDepBuilds: true would abort on unreviewed build scripts from CNA's deps.
• Both .npmrc deletions are safe (no auth settings).

[ask-bonk]

Review posted on PR #1185.

Summary: The pnpm 10 → 11 migration is clean and mechanically correct. The one issue I flagged is a contradiction between the PR description (which says the minimumReleaseAgeExclude list is "retained") and the actual diff (which deletes it entirely). The commit message confirms the deletion was intentional, so the PR body needs updating — or the exclusions need to be added back if the team still wants immediate adoption of @vitejs/plugin-rsc, react, react-dom, react-server-dom-webpack, and next.

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