“Starting today, the npm registry will begin removing README content from package version metadata to reduce the size of package packuments, and improve the performance of the registry and package managers, including the npm cli.”
Quoting the pnpm documentation: “Catalogs are a workspace feature for defining dependency version ranges as reusable constants. Constants defined in catalogs can later be referenced in package.json files.”
Socket has also published a blog post about pnpm 9.5.