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Dependency Manager for PHP

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v2.4.0 · 1y+
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Read the Composer 2.4 Release Announcement for more details on the release highlights.

Complete Changelog

  • Added bash completions for Composer commands, package names, etc (see how to setup) (#10320)
  • Added bump command to bump requirements to the currently installed version (#10829)
  • Added audit command to check for known security vulnerabilities in installed packages (#10798, #10898)
  • Added automatic auditing of security vulnerabilities after update is done, can be overridden with --no-audit (#10798, #10898)
  • Added --audit to install command to also do an audit (#10798, #10898)
  • Added json format output to the check-platform-reqs command (#10979)
  • Added GitLab 15+ token refresh support (#10988)
  • Added r alias to require command (#10953)
  • Added composer/class-map-generator dependency to replace Composer\Autoload\ClassMapGenerator which is now deprecated (#10885)
  • Added --locked to depends/prohibits commands (#10834)
  • Added --strict-psr flag to dump-autoload command to fail the process if PSR violations were detected, useful for CI (#10886)
  • Added COMPOSER_PREFER_STABLE and COMPOSER_PREFER_LOWEST env vars to turn on --prefer-stable/--prefer-lowest on update and require command, useful for CI (#10919)
  • Added support for temporary update constraints on all packages (now also including non-root dependencies) (#10773)
  • Added --major-only flag to the outdated command to show only packages with major version updates (#10827)
  • Added sections for direct and transitive deps in outdated command output (#10779)
  • Added ability for cache GC to clean up vcs and repo caches (#10826)
  • Added --gc flag to clear-cache to only trigger a garbage collection instead of clearing everything (#10826)
  • Added signal (SIGINT, SIGTERM, SIGHUP) handling to ensure we wait for the child process to exit before Composer exits to avoid dropping output (#10958)
  • Added prompt suggesting using --dev when requiring packages with dev/testing/static analysis keywords present (#10960)
  • Added warning in require, init and create-project commands when the latest version of a package cannot be used due to platform requirements (#10896)
  • Fixed COMPOSER_NO_DEV so it also works with require and remove's --update-no-dev (#10995)