* 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` and `update` 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` and `create-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 now `stable`, [read more](https://groups.google.com/d/topic/composer-dev/_g3ASeIFlrc/discussion) * 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 * 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](http://www.spdx.org/licenses/) * 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 * 1.0.0-alpha1 (2012-03-01) * Initial release