Article URL: https://www.vlt.io/blog/1-0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172251 Points: 33 # Comments: 4

Stable client release and general availability of hosted registries & ecosystem mirrors. Today, we're happy to announce vlt 1.0, and general availability of our hosted package registries and ecosystem mirrors. With these releases, vlt is now an end-to-end platform for developers, their teams and agents to ship faster, safer, and more reliably. Since we first introduced vlt and vsr, the CLI has grown from a fast installer with a novel query syntax into a full-featured, security-first package manager now backed by our own infrastructure. The vlt client is a drop-in replacement for npm, and can run your entire package lifecycle through vlt, no npm fallback or dependency required. Our registry services are backwards compatible with the npm registry API, so you can use your existing tools and workflows with vlt. npm, pnpm, yarn, bun and deno are all supported and able to both install from and publish into our hosted registries. We're committed to making vlt accessible to everyone. Historically, private registries have been expensive and complex to set up and maintain. With a generous free tier, you can get started today with just a few clicks. The events of the past few years have made one thing clear, agents are the future of software development. As teams adopt AI-native development practices, the accelerated pace of shipping software requires better, dedicated infrastructure. Rapid development & ephemeral sandboxes are becoming the norm, making cold installation performance critical. At agentic scale the registry becomes the bottleneck. Packages are served from edge infrastructure near your developers and CI, so installs stay quick wherever your team runs them. In our benchmarks, a clean install runs up to 38% faster than npm, no change to your tooling required.