composer/CHANGELOG.md

• 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
  • 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
  • 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