NPM 2.x was released last week. latest nodejs stable 0.10.32 comes with npm@1.4.28
if you do $ npm install -g npm (you will get npm@2.0.0) More about npm 2.x and semver: http://blog.npmjs.org/post/98131109725/npm-2-0-0 cordova and phonegap get's mentioned in the blog post. For now just pay close attention which npm you are using 1.x or 2.x with $ npm -v -- Carlos Santana <csantan...@gmail.com>