diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish-npm.yaml b/.github/workflows/publish-npm.yaml
index c06547756df..a8172c1797b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish-npm.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish-npm.yaml
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           ref: ${{ inputs.tag }}
-          submodules: recursive
 
       - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
         with:
diff --git a/npm/.npmignore b/npm/.npmignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9d17c9c4d9f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/npm/.npmignore
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# This file is required for us, even if empty.
+#
+# The default .npmignore would disallow bin/, which contains binaries for our
+# NPM release.  Every release before v3.0.3 was missing .npmignore, and
+# therefore had no binaries.  These were unusable in NPM, and have been marked
+# as deprecated because of it.
+#
+# See also https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-packager/issues/1369
diff --git a/npm/prepublish.js b/npm/prepublish.js
index 57b13049840..b6a2c49eb13 100755
--- a/npm/prepublish.js
+++ b/npm/prepublish.js
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ var commandNames = {
   },
   darwin: {
     'x64': 'packager-osx-x64',
+    'arm64': 'packager-osx-arm64',
   },
   win32: {
     'x64': 'packager-win-x64.exe',