NPM Version and Node Version Out Of Sync

[conradwt]

• Version:

$ node -v
v9.11.1

$ npm -v
5.6.0

• Platform:

macOS 10.13.4

• **Subsystem

After installing the current version Node version https://nodejs.org/en/, I'm seeing the following information when using npm in the terminal:

╭─────────────────────────────────────╮
│ │
│ Update available 5.6.0 → 5.8.0 │
│ Run npm i -g npm to update │
│ │
╰─────────────────────────────────────╯

Shouldn't the latest version of NPM be included in the current Node distribution?

[richardlau]

There's a breaking change in npm 5.8.0 (npm/npm#20163), see #19840.