Ed Clement

> symbolic links are more flexible in the targets they support. see mklink. some of are using workin machines though that restrict certain admin actions such as mklink

@coreybutler - I use `npm link` often. It actually uses junctions. It may be the case that it falls back to using windows junctions when it can't create a symlink....

@juanpicado - how do you envision this impacting the [middleware](https://verdaccio.org/docs/plugin-middleware/) plugins? Would something like [fastify-express](https://www.fastify.io/docs/latest/Reference/Middleware/) be leveraged for compatibility?

Thanks. Maybe when we eventually migrate to v6 I'll see if we can use the fastify server and take a look at what is entailed in switching the middleware plugins...

> This.users is not updated when reloading the modified htpasswd file, is this a bug or by design? When you say _reloading_, do you mean restarting Verdaccio?

I had this same issue with when updating to WebStorm 2021.3.3. Restarting the IDE seemed to fix it... It's also interesting that on the plugin page [here](https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7275-codeglance) it states: 

any update on this? it's been open a while. Thanks!

Count me in on this problem as well. We can't seem to get a `BackendConfig` which has a `securityPolicy` attached to the Ingress ([docs](https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/ingress-features#cloud_armor)). So instead of relying on the...

Just noticed that the master branch seems to have support. Anyway we can get a tagged release?

Babel supports much more of es6 features and even some es7 that node 4/5 don't yet support. Babel will always support the latest and/or draft ecmascript spec.