Npm publish fail on gitlab registry from gitlab CI

Hi,

Since today, I can’t publish my npm package from Gitlab CI to gitlab npm registry (It worked well few days/weeks ago).

The npm publish command throw the following error :

npm ERR! code ENEEDAUTH
npm ERR! need auth This command requires you to be logged in.
npm ERR! need auth You need to authorize this machine using `npm adduser`

• Account on gitlab.com (I’m maintainer of the repo)

• Gitlab Version : GitLab Enterprise Edition 13.8.0-pre 413d723b2cc

• Gitlab runners version : 13.7.0-rc1 (98e2e32d)

• My .gitlab-ci.yml config :

image: node:latest

stages:
  - deploy

deploy:
  stage: deploy
  script:
    - echo "//gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/${CI_PROJECT_ID}/packages/npm/:_authToken=${CI_JOB_TOKEN}">.npmrc
    - npm publish

I already checked the npm registry documentation / tutorials and nothing had change on it since I had written my gitlab ci configuration.
I also try to remove the current version of the package and relaunch the build on a commit which worked in the past, without success.

I would be very grateful if you could help me fix my problem or identify a potential new bug.

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I have the same issue. Any idea what changed in the latest node docker image that this does not work anymore?

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Any word on what broke this?