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Composer v1.0.0-alpha4 Release Notes

Release Date: 2012-07-04 // almost 12 years ago
    • Break: The default minimum-stability is now stable, read more
    • Break: Custom installers now receive the IO instance and a Composer instance in their constructor
    • Schema: Added references for dev versions, requiring dev-master#abcdef for example will force the abcdef commit
    • Schema: Added support key with some more metadata (email, issues, forum, wiki, irc, source)
    • Schema: Added != operator for version constraints in require/require-dev
    • Added a recommendation for package names to be lower-cased/with-dashes, it will be enforced for new packages on Pacakgist
    • Added require command to add a package to your requirements and install it
    • Added a whitelist to update. Calling composer update foo/bar foo/baz allows you to update only those packages
    • Added support for overriding repositories in the system config (define repositories in ~/.composer/config.json)
    • Added lib-* packages to the platform repository, e.g. lib-pcre contains the pcre version
    • Added caching of GitHub metadata (faster startup time with custom GitHub VCS repos)
    • Added caching of SVN metadata (faster startup time with custom SVN VCS repos)
    • Added support for file:// URLs to GitDriver
    • Added --self flag to the show command to display the infos of the root package
    • Added --dev flag to create-project command
    • Added --no-scripts to install and update commands to avoid triggering the scripts
    • Added COMPOSER_ROOT_VERSION env var to specify the version of the root package (fixes some edge cases)
    • Added support for multiple custom installers in one package
    • Added files autoloading method which requires files on every request, e.g. to load functional code
    • Added automatic recovery for lock files that contain references to rewritten (force pushed) commits
    • Improved PEAR repositories support and package.xml extraction
    • Improved and fixed the output of various commands
    • Fixed the order of installation of requirements (they are always installed before the packages requiring them)
    • Cleaned up / refactored the dependency solver code as well as the output for unsolvable requirements
    • Various bug fixes and docs improvements