Incorrect latest version

[bartbutenaers]

Hi guys,

Based on this discussion on Discourse.

My node-red-contrib-xterm/ node uses these dependencies:

 "dependencies": {
    "xterm": "^4.17.0",
    "xterm-addon-fit": "^0.5.0",
    "node-pty-prebuilt-multiarch": "^0.10.1-pre.4"
 },

Which results in following scorecard warning:

Running the node-red-dev tool manually gives me some more information, about what is wrong:

node-pty-prebuilt-multiarch is not at latest version, package.json specifies: ^0.10.1-pre.4, latest is: 0.10.0

Which is weird, because I use the latest version of the node-pty-prebuilt-multiarch package:

However it seems that the npm-check library passes the wrong latest version to node-red-dev:

Thanks !!!
Bart

[mike-feldmeier]

Not a dev, but came across this trying to find reasons for the issue I'm running into.

The node-red-dev tool is correct. The "latest" is always the the latest stable version (https://docs.npmjs.com/about-npm-versions). Anything with a prerelease tag is not considered stable (https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v6/using-npm/semver#prerelease-tags). So, according to the version history list you provided, 0.10.0 is the latest stable version.