1.3.0-RC - 2016-11-XX
- Added
--minor-only
to theoutdated
command to only show updates to minor versions and ignore new major versions - Added workaround for xdebug performance impact by restarting PHP without xdebug automatically in case it is enabled
- Added
COMPOSER_ALLOW_XDEBUG
env var to circumvent the xdebug-disabling behavior - Added
COMPOSER_MIRROR_PATH_REPOS
env var to force mirroring of path repositories vs symlinking - Added
php-debug
andphp-zts
virtual platform packages - Added
gitlab-token
auth config for GitLab private tokens - Fixed output from zip and rar leaking out when an error occured
- Removed
hash
from composer.lock, onlycontent-hash
is now used which should reduce conflicts - Minor fixes and performance improvements
1.2.3 - 2016-12-01
- Fixed bug in HgDriver failing to identify BitBucket repositories
- Fixed support for loading partial provider repositories
1.2.2 - 2016-11-03
- Fixed selection of packages based on stability to be independent from package repository order
- Fixed POST_DEPENDENCIES_SOLVING not containing some operations in edge cases
- Fixed issue handling GitLab URLs containing dots and other special characters
- Fixed issue on Windows when running composer at the root of a drive
- Minor fixes
1.2.1 - 2016-09-12
- Fixed edge case issues with the static autoloader
- Minor fixes
1.2.0 - 2016-07-19
- Security: Fixed httpoxy vulnerability
- Fixed
home
command to avoid rogue output on unix - Fixed output of git clones to clearly state when clones are from cache
- (from 1.2 RC) Fixed ext-network-ipv6 to be php-ipv6
1.2.0-RC - 2016-07-04
- Added caching of git repositories if you have git 2.3+ installed. Repositories will now be cached once and then cloned from local cache so subsequent installs should be faster
- Added detection of HEAD changes to the
status
command. If yougit checkout X
in a vendor directory for example it will tell you that it is not at the version that was installed - Added a virtual
php-ipv6
extension to require PHP compiled with IPv6 support - Added
--no-suggest
toinstall
andupdate
commands to skip output of suggestions at the end - Added
--type
to thesearch
command to restrict to a given package type - Added fossil support as alternative to git/svn/.. for package downloads
- Improved BitBucket OAuth support
- Added support for blocking cache operations using COMPOSER_CACHE_DIR=/dev/null (or NUL on windows)
- Added support for using declare(strict_types=1) in plugins
- Added
--prefer-stable
and--prefer-lowest
to therequire
command - Added
--no-scripts
to therequire
andremove
commands - Added
_comment
top level key to the schema to endorse using it as a place to store comments (it can be a string or array of strings) - Added support for justinrainbow/json-schema 2.0
- Fixed binaries not being re-installed if deleted by users or the bin-dir changes.
update
andinstall
will now re-install them - Many minor UX and docs improvements
1.1.3 - 2016-06-26
- Fixed bitbucket oauth instructions
- Fixed version parsing issue
- Fixed handling of bad proxies that modify JSON content on the fly
1.1.2 - 2016-05-31
- Fixed degraded mode issue when accessing packagist.org
- Fixed GitHub access_token being added on subsequent requests in case of redirections
- Fixed exclude-from-classmap not working in some circumstances
- Fixed openssl warning preventing the use of config command for disabling tls
1.1.1 - 2016-05-17
- Fixed regression in handling of #reference which made it update every time
- Fixed dev platform requirements being required even in --no-dev install from a lock file
- Fixed parsing of extension versions that do not follow valid numbers, we now try to parse x.y.z and ignore the rest
- Fixed exact constraints warnings appearing for 0.x versions
- Fixed regression in the
remove
command
1.1.0 - 2016-05-10
- Added fallback to SSH for https bitbucket URLs
- Added BaseCommand::isProxyCommand that can be overridden to mark a command as being a mere proxy, which helps avoid duplicate warnings etc on composer startup
- Fixed archiving generating long paths in zip files on Windows
1.1.0-RC - 2016-04-29
- Added ability for plugins to register their own composer commands
- Optimized the autoloader initialization using static loading on PHP 5.6 and above, this reduces the load time for large classmaps to almost nothing
- Added
--latest
toshow
command to show the latest version available of your dependencies - Added
--outdated
toshow
command ancomposer outdated
alias for it, to show only packages in need of update - Added
--direct
toshow
andoutdated
commands to show only your direct dependencies in the listing - Added support for editing all top-level properties (name, minimum-stability, ...) as well as extra values via the
config
command - Added abandoned state warning to the
show
andoutdated
commands when listing latest packages - Added support for
~/
and$HOME/
in the path repository paths - Added support for wildcards in the
show
command package filter, e.g.composer show seld/*
- Added ability to call composer itself from scripts via
@composer ...
- Added untracked files detection to the
status
command - Added warning to
validate
command when using exact-version requires - Added warning once per domain when accessing insecure URLs with secure-http disabled
- Added a dependency on composer/ca-bundle (extracted CA bundle management to a standalone lib)
- Added support for empty directories when archiving to tar
- Added an
init
event for plugins to react to, which occurs right after a Composer instance is fully initialized - Added many new detections of problems in the
why-not
/prohibits
command to figure out why something does not get installed in the expected version - Added a deprecation notice for script event listeners that use legacy script classes
- Fixed abandoned state not showing up if you had a package installed before it was marked abandoned
- Fixed --no-dev updates creating an incomplete lock file, everything is now always resolved on update
- Fixed partial updates in case the vendor dir was not up to date with the lock file
1.0.3 - 2016-04-29
- Security: Fixed possible command injection from the env vars into our sudo detection
- Fixed interactive authentication with gitlab
- Fixed class name replacement in plugins
- Fixed classmap generation mistakenly detecting anonymous classes
- Fixed auto-detection of stability flags in complex constraints like
2.0-dev || ^1.5
- Fixed content-length handling when redirecting to very small responses
1.0.2 - 2016-04-21
- Fixed regression in 1.0.1 on systems with mbstring.func_overload enabled
- Fixed regression in 1.0.1 that made dev packages update to the latest reference even if not whitelisted in a partial update
- Fixed init command ignoring the COMPOSER env var for choosing the json file name
- Fixed error reporting bug when the dependency resolution fails
- Fixed handling of
$
sign in composer config command in some cases it could corrupt the json file
1.0.1 - 2016-04-18
- Fixed URL updating when a package's URL changes, composer.lock now contains the right URL including correct reference
- Fixed URL updating of the origin git remote as well for packages installed as git clone
- Fixed binary .bat files generated from linux being incompatible with windows cmd
- Fixed handling of paths with trailing slashes in path repository
- Fixed create-project not using platform config when selecting a package
- Fixed self-update not showing the channel it uses to perform the update
- Fixed file downloads not failing loudly when the content does not match the Content-Length header
- Fixed secure-http detecting some malformed URLs as insecure
- Updated CA bundle
1.0.0 - 2016-04-05
- Added support for bitbucket-oauth configuration
- Added warning when running composer as super user, set COMPOSER_ALLOW_SUPERUSER=1 to hide the warning if you really must
- Added PluginManager::getGlobalComposer getter to retrieve the global instance (which can be null!)
- Fixed dependency solver error reporting in many cases it now shows you proper errors instead of just saying a package does not exist
- Fixed output of failed downloads appearing as 100% done instead of Failed
- Fixed handling of empty directories when archiving, they are not skipped anymore
- Fixed installation of broken plugins corrupting the vendor state when combined with symlinked path repositories
1.0.0-beta2 - 2016-03-27
- Break: The
install
command now turns into anupdate
command automatically if you have no composer.lock. This was done only half-way before which caused inconsistencies - Break: By default the
remove
command now removes dependencies as well, and --update-with-dependencies is deprecated. Use --no-update-with-dependencies to get old behavior - Added support for update channels in
self-update
. All users will now update to stable builds by default. Runself-update
with--snapshot
,--preview
or--stable
to switch between update channels. - Added support for SSL_CERT_DIR env var and openssl.capath ini value
- Added some conflict detection in
why-not
command - Added suggestion of root package's suggests in
create-project
command - Fixed
create-project
ignoring --ignore-platform-reqs when choosing a version of the package - Fixed
search
command in a directory without composer.json - Fixed path repository handling of symlinks on windows
- Fixed PEAR repo handling to prefer HTTPS mirrors over HTTP ones
- Fixed handling of Path env var on Windows, only PATH was accepted before
- Small error reporting and docs improvements
1.0.0-beta1 - 2016-03-03
- Break: By default we now disable any non-secure protocols (http, git, svn). This may lead to issues if you rely on those. See
secure-http
config option. - Break:
show
/list
command now only show installed packages by default. An--all
option is added to show all packages. - Added VCS repo support for the GitLab API, see also
gitlab-oauth
andgitlab-domains
config options - Added
prohibits
/why-not
command to show what blocks an upgrade to a given package:version pair - Added --tree / -t to the
show
command to see all your installed packages in a tree view - Added --interactive / -i to the
update
command, which lets you pick packages to update interactively - Added
exec
command to run binaries while having bin-dir in the PATH for convenience - Added --root-reqs to the
update
command to update only your direct, first degree dependencies - Added
cafile
andcapath
config options to control HTTPS certificate authority - Added pubkey verification of composer.phar when running self-update
- Added possibility to configure per-package
preferred-install
types for more flexibility between prefer-source and prefer-dist - Added unpushed-changes detection when updating dependencies and in the
status
command - Added COMPOSER_AUTH env var that lets you pass a json configuration like the auth.json file
- Added
secure-http
anddisable-tls
config options to control HTTPS/HTTP - Added warning when Xdebug is enabled as it reduces performance quite a bit, hide it with COMPOSER_DISABLE_XDEBUG_WARN=1 if you must
- Added duplicate key detection when loading composer.json
- Added
sort-packages
config option to force sorting of the requirements when using therequire
command - Added support for the XDG Base Directory spec on linux
- Added XzDownloader for xz file support
- Fixed SSL support to fully verify peers in all PHP versions, unsecure HTTP is also disabled by default
- Fixed stashing and cleaning up of untracked files when updating packages
- Fixed plugins being enabled after installation even when --no-plugins
- Many small bug fixes and additions
1.0.0-alpha11 - 2015-11-14
- Added config.platform to let you specify what your target environment looks like and make sure you do not inadvertently install dependencies that would break it
- Added
exclude-from-classmap
in the autoload config that lets you ignore sub-paths of classmapped directories, or psr-0/4 directories when building optimized autoloaders - Added
path
repository type to install/symlink packages from local paths - Added possibility to reference script handlers from within other handlers using @script-name to reduce duplication
- Added
suggests
command to show what packages are suggested, use -v to see more details - Added
content-hash
inside the composer.lock to restrict the warnings about outdated lock file to some specific changes in the composer.json file - Added
archive-format
andarchive-dir
config options to specify default values for the archive command - Added --classmap-authoritative to
install
,update
,require
,remove
anddump-autoload
commands, forcing the optimized classmap to be authoritative - Added -A / --with-dependencies to the
validate
command to allow validating all your dependencies recursively - Added --strict to the
validate
command to treat any warning as an error that then returns a non-zero exit code - Added a dependency on composer/semver, which is the externalized lib for all the version constraints parsing and handling
- Added support for classmap autoloading to load plugin classes and script handlers
- Added
bin-compat
config option that if set tofull
will create .bat proxy for binaries even if Composer runs in a linux VM - Added SPDX 2.0 support, and externalized that in a composer/spdx-licenses lib
- Added warnings when the classmap autoloader finds duplicate classes
- Added --file to the
archive
command to choose the filename - Added Ctrl+C handling in create-project to cancel the operation cleanly
- Fixed version guessing to use ^ always, default to stable versions, and avoid versions that require a higher php version than you have
- Fixed the lock file switching back and forth between old and new URL when a package URL is changed and many people run updates
- Fixed partial updates updating things they shouldn't when the current vendor dir was out of date with the lock file
- Fixed PHAR file creation to be more reproducible and always generate the exact same phar file from a given source
- Fixed issue when checking out git branches or tags that are also the name of a file in the repo
- Many minor fixes and documentation additions and UX improvements
1.0.0-alpha10 - 2015-04-14
- Break: The following event classes are deprecated and you should update your script handlers to use the new ones in type hints:
Composer\Script\CommandEvent
is deprecated, useComposer\Script\Event
Composer\Script\PackageEvent
is deprecated, useComposer\Installer\PackageEvent
- Break: Output is now split between stdout and stderr. Any irrelevant output to each command is on stderr as per unix best practices.
- Added support for npm-style semver operators (
^
and-
ranges,||
= OR) - Added --prefer-lowest to
update
command to allow testing a package with the lowest declared dependencies - Added support for parsing semver build metadata
+anything
at the end of versions - Added --sort-packages option to
require
command for sorting dependencies - Added --no-autoloader to
install
andupdate
commands to skip autoload generation - Added --list to
run-script
command to see available scripts - Added --absolute to
config
command to get back absolute paths - Added
classmap-authoritative
config option, if enabled only the classmap info will be used by the composer autoloader - Added support for branch-alias on numeric branches
- Added support for the
https_proxy
/HTTPS_PROXY
env vars used only for https URLs - Added support for using real composer repos as local paths in
create-project
command - Added --no-dev to
licenses
command - Added support for PHP 7.0 nightly builds
- Fixed detection of stability when parsing multiple constraints
- Fixed installs from lock file containing updated composer.json requirement
- Fixed the autoloader suffix in vendor/autoload.php changing in every build
- Many minor fixes, documentation additions and UX improvements
1.0.0-alpha9 - 2014-12-07
- Added
remove
command to do the reverse ofrequire
- Added --ignore-platform-reqs to
install
/update
commands to install even if you are missing a php extension or have an invalid php version - Added a warning when abandoned packages are being installed
- Added auto-selection of the version constraint in the
require
command, which can now be used simply ascomposer require foo/bar
- Added ability to define custom composer commands using scripts
- Added
browse
command to open a browser to the given package's repo URL (or homepage with-H
) - Added an
autoload-dev
section to declare dev-only autoload rules + a --no-dev flag to dump-autoload - Added an
auth.json
file, withstore-auths
config option - Added a
http-basic
config option to store login/pwds to hosts - Added failover to source/dist and vice-versa in case a download method fails
- Added --path (-P) flag to the show command to see the install path of packages
- Added --update-with-dependencies and --update-no-dev flags to the require command
- Added
optimize-autoloader
config option to force the-o
flag from the config - Added
clear-cache
command - Added a GzipDownloader to download single gzipped files
- Added
ssh
support in thegithub-protocols
config option - Added
pre-dependencies-solving
andpost-dependencies-solving
events - Added
pre-archive-cmd
andpost-archive-cmd
script events to thearchive
command - Added a
no-api
flag to GitHub VCS repos to skip the API but still get zip downloads - Added http-basic auth support for private git repos not on github
- Added support for autoloading
.hh
files when running HHVM - Added support for PHP 5.6
- Added support for OTP auth when retrieving a GitHub API key
- Fixed isolation of
files
autoloaded scripts to ensure they can not affect anything - Improved performance of solving dependencies
- Improved SVN and Perforce support
- A boatload of minor fixes, documentation additions and UX improvements
1.0.0-alpha8 - 2014-01-06
- Break: The
install
command now has --dev enabled by default. --no-dev can be used to install without dev requirements - Added
composer-plugin
package type to allow extensibility, and deprecatedcomposer-installer
- Added
psr-4
autoloading support and deprecatedtarget-dir
since it is a better alternative - Added --no-plugins flag to replace --no-custom-installers where available
- Added
global
command to operate Composer in a user-global directory - Added
licenses
command to list the license of all your dependencies - Added
pre-status-cmd
andpost-status-cmd
script events to thestatus
command - Added
post-root-package-install
andpost-create-project-cmd
script events to thecreate-project
command - Added
pre-autoload-dump
script event - Added --rollback flag to self-update
- Added --no-install flag to create-project to skip installing the dependencies
- Added a
hhvm
platform package to require Facebook's HHVM implementation of PHP - Added
github-domains
config option to allow using GitHub Enterprise with Composer's GitHub support - Added
prepend-autoloader
config option to allow appending Composer's autoloader instead of the default prepend behavior - Added Perforce support to the VCS repository
- Added a vendor/composer/autoload_files.php file that lists all files being included by the files autoloader
- Added support for the
no_proxy
env var and other proxy support improvements - Added many robustness tweaks to make sure zip downloads work more consistently and corrupted caches are invalidated
- Added the release date to
composer -V
output - Added
autoloader-suffix
config option to allow overriding the randomly generated autoloader class suffix - Fixed BitBucket API usage
- Fixed parsing of inferred stability flags that are more stable than the minimum stability
- Fixed installation order of plugins/custom installers
- Fixed tilde and wildcard version constraints to be more intuitive regarding stabilities
- Fixed handling of target-dir changes when updating packages
- Improved performance of the class loader
- Improved memory usage and performance of solving dependencies
- Tons of minor bug fixes and improvements
1.0.0-alpha7 - 2013-05-04
- Break: For forward compatibility, you should change your deployment scripts to run
composer install --no-dev
. The install command will install dev dependencies by default starting in the next release - Break: The
update
command now has --dev enabled by default. --no-dev can be used to update without dev requirements, but it will create an incomplete lock file and is discouraged - Break: Removed support for lock files created before 2012-09-15 due to their outdated unusable format
- Added
prefer-stable
flag to pick stable packages over unstable ones when possible - Added
preferred-install
config option to always enable --prefer-source or --prefer-dist - Added
diagnose
command to to system/network checks and find common problems - Added wildcard support in the update whitelist, e.g. to update all packages of a vendor do
composer update vendor/*
- Added
archive
command to archive the current directory or a given package - Added
run-script
command to manually trigger scripts - Added
proprietary
as valid license identifier for non-free code - Added a
php-64bit
platform package that you can require to force a 64bit php - Added a
lib-ICU
platform package - Added a new official package type
project
for project-bootstrapping packages - Added zip/dist local cache to speed up repetitive installations
- Added
post-autoload-dump
script event - Added
Event::getDevMode
to let script handlers know if dev requirements are being installed - Added
discard-changes
config option to control the default behavior when updating "dirty" dependencies - Added
use-include-path
config option to make the autoloader look for files in the include path too - Added
cache-ttl
,cache-files-ttl
andcache-files-maxsize
config option - Added
cache-dir
,cache-files-dir
,cache-repo-dir
andcache-vcs-dir
config option - Added support for using http(s) authentication to non-github repos
- Added support for using multiple autoloaders at once (e.g. PHPUnit + application both using Composer autoloader)
- Added support for .inc files for classmap autoloading (legacy support, do not do this on new projects!)
- Added support for version constraints in show command, e.g.
composer show monolog/monolog 1.4.*
- Added support for svn repositories containing packages in a deeper path (see package-path option)
- Added an
artifact
repository to scan a directory containing zipped packages - Added --no-dev flag to
install
andupdate
commands - Added --stability (-s) flag to create-project to lower the required stability
- Added --no-progress to
install
andupdate
to hide the progress indicators - Added --available (-a) flag to the
show
command to display only available packages - Added --name-only (-N) flag to the
show
command to show only package names (one per line, no formatting) - Added --optimize-autoloader (-o) flag to optimize the autoloader from the
install
andupdate
commands - Added -vv and -vvv flags to get more verbose output, can be useful to debug some issues
- Added COMPOSER_NO_INTERACTION env var to do the equivalent of --no-interaction (should be set on build boxes, CI, PaaS)
- Added PHP 5.2 compatibility to the autoloader configuration files so they can be used to configure another autoloader
- Fixed handling of platform requirements of the root package when installing from lock
- Fixed handling of require-dev dependencies
- Fixed handling of unstable packages that should be downgraded to stable packages when updating to new version constraints
- Fixed parsing of the
~
operator combined with unstable versions - Fixed the
require
command corrupting the json if the new requirement was invalid - Fixed support of aliases used together with
<version>#<reference>
constraints - Improved output of dependency solver problems by grouping versions of a package together
- Improved performance of classmap generation
- Improved mercurial support in various places
- Improved lock file format to minimize unnecessary diffs
- Improved the
config
command to support all options - Improved the coverage of the
validate
command - Tons of minor bug fixes and improvements
1.0.0-alpha6 - 2012-10-23
- Schema: Added ability to pass additional options to repositories (i.e. ssh keys/client certificates to secure private repos)
- Schema: Added a new
~
operator that should be preferred over>=
, see http://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#package-versions - Schema: Version constraints
<x.y
are assumed to be<x.y-dev
unless specified as<x.y-stable
to reduce confusion - Added
config
command to edit/list config values, including --global switch for system config - Added OAuth token support for the GitHub API
- Added ability to specify CLI commands as scripts in addition to PHP callbacks
- Added --prefer-dist flag to force installs of dev packages from zip archives instead of clones
- Added --working-dir (-d) flag to change the working directory
- Added --profile flag to all commands to display execution time and memory usage
- Added
github-protocols
config key to define the order of preferred protocols for github.com clones - Added ability to interactively reset changes to vendor dirs while updating
- Added support for hg bookmarks in the hg driver
- Added support for svn repositories not following the standard trunk/branch/tags scheme
- Fixed git clones of dev versions so that you end up on a branch and not in detached HEAD
- Fixed "Package not installed" issues with --dev installs
- Fixed the lock file format to be a snapshot of all the package info at the time of update
- Fixed order of autoload requires to follow package dependencies
- Fixed rename() failures with "Access denied" on windows
- Improved memory usage to be more reasonable and not grow with the repository size
- Improved performance and memory usage of installs from composer.lock
- Improved performance of a few essential code paths
- Many bug small fixes and docs improvements
1.0.0-alpha5 - 2012-08-18
- Added
dump-autoload
command to only regenerate the autoloader - Added --optimize to
dump-autoload
to generate a more performant classmap-based autoloader for production - Added
status
command to show if any source-installed dependency has local changes, use --verbose to see changed files - Added --verbose flag to
install
andupdate
that shows the new commits when updating source-installed dependencies - Added --no-update flag to
require
to only modify the composer.json file but skip the update - Added --no-custom-installers and --no-scripts to
install
,update
andcreate-project
to prevent all automatic code execution - Added support for installing archives that contain only a single file
- Fixed APC related issues in the autoload script on high load websites
- Fixed installation of branches containing capital letters
- Fixed installation of custom dev versions/branches
- Improved the coverage of the
validate
command - Improved PEAR scripts/binaries support
- Improved and fixed the output of various commands
- Improved error reporting on network failures and some other edge cases
- Various minor bug fixes and docs improvements
1.0.0-alpha4 - 2012-07-04
- Break: The default
minimum-stability
is nowstable
, 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 inrequire
/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
. Callingcomposer 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
andupdate
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
1.0.0-alpha3 - 2012-05-13
- 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
1.0.0-alpha2 - 2012-04-03
- Added
create-project
command to install a project from scratch with composer - Added automated
classmap
autoloading support for non-PSR-0 compliant projects - Added human readable error reporting when deps can not be solved
- Added support for private GitHub and SVN repositories (use --no-interaction for CI)
- Added "file" downloader type to download plain files
- Added support for authentication with svn repositories
- Added autoload support for PEAR repositories
- Improved clones from GitHub which now automatically select between git/https/http protocols
- Improved
validate
command to give more feedback - Improved the
search
&show
commands output - Removed dependency on filter_var
- Various robustness & error handling improvements, docs fixes and more bug fixes
- Initial release