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Composer v1.0.0-alpha3 Release Notes

Release Date: 2012-05-13 // almost 12 years ago
    • Schema: Added require-dev for development-time requirements (tests, etc), install with --dev
    • Schema: Added author.role to list the author's role in the project
    • Schema: Added minimum-stability + @<stability> flags in require for restricting packages to a certain stability
    • Schema: Removed recommend
    • Schema: suggest is now informational and can use any description for a package, not only a constraint
    • Break: vendor/.composer/autoload.php has been moved to vendor/autoload.php, other files are now in vendor/composer/
    • Added caching of repository metadata (faster startup times & failover if packagist is down)
    • Added removal of packages that are not needed anymore
    • Added include_path support for legacy projects that are full of require_once statements
    • Added installation notifications API to allow better statistics on Composer repositories
    • Added support for proxies that require authentication
    • Added support for private github repositories over https
    • Added autoloading support for root packages that use target-dir
    • Added awareness of the root package presence and support for it's provide/replace/conflict keys
    • Added IOInterface::isDecorated to test for colored output support
    • Added validation of licenses based on the SPDX registry
    • Improved repository protocol to have large cacheable parts
    • Fixed various bugs relating to package aliasing, proxy configuration, binaries
    • Various bug fixes and docs improvements