Publish workspace packages to a registry with pnpm publish -r (workspace: and catalog: version replacement)
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Documented steps
Bump versions in the packages you want to release, then run pnpm -r publish from the workspace root — it publishes all packages whose versions are not yet in the registry and skips the rest.
During packing, workspace: and catalog: specifiers in each package.json are replaced with real version ranges (workspace:* -> 1.5.0, workspace:^ -> ^1.5.0), so consumers never see the internal protocols.
Use --tag next to publish under a dist-tag other than latest, and --access public|restricted to set scoped-package visibility.
Verify safely first with --dry-run (does everything except upload). Git checks require a clean tree on master or main by default — override the branch with --publish-branch <branch> or skip checks entirely with --no-git-checks.
For supply-chain attestation from a supported cloud CI system, add --provenance to publicly link the package to where it was built.
Docs: https://pnpm.io/cli/publish
Known gotchas
Without -r, only the current package directory is published.
As of v11, pnpm publish is implemented natively and no longer delegates to the npm CLI — npm-only flags/behaviors may differ.
When publishing from a workspace, the root LICENSE file is packed into each package unless the package ships its own.
--force publishes even when the version already exists in the registry — usually not what you want; use publishConfig in package.json to rewrite fields (main, exports, etc.) at publish time.
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