1.5.0

• Changed the package install order to ensure that plugins are always installed as soon as possible
• Added ability to call composer from within sub-directories of a project
• Added support for GitLab API v4 (v3 will not be supported as of August 22nd)
• Added support for GitLab sub-groups
• Added some more rules to composer validate
• Added support for reading the USER env when guessing the username in composer init
• Added warning when uncompressing files with the same name but difference cases on case insensitive filesystems
• Added htaccess-protect option / COMPOSER_HTACCESS_PROTECT env var to disable the .htaccess creation in home dir (defaults to true)
• Improved clear-cache command
• Minor improvements/fixes and many documentation updates

1.4.3

• Fixed GitLab URLs
• Fixed root package version detection using latest git versions
• Fixed inconsistencies in date format in composer.lock when installing from source
• Fixed Mercurial support regression
• Fixed exclude-from-classmap not being applied when autoloading files for Composer plugins
• Fixed exclude-from-classmap being ignored when cwd has the wrong case on case insensitive filesystems
• Fixed several other minor issues

1.4.2

• Fixed Bitbucket API handler parsing old deleted branches in hg repos
• Fixed regression in gitlab downloads
• Fixed output inconsistencies
• Fixed unicode handling in init command for author names
• Fixed useless warning when doing partial updates/removes on packages that are not currently installed
• Fixed xdebug disabling issue when combined with disable_functions and allow_url_fopen CLI overrides

1.4.1

• Fixed apcu-autoloader config option being ignored in dump-autoload command
• Fixed json validation not allowing boolean for trunk-path, branches-path and tags-path in svn repos
• Fixed json validation not allowing repository URLs without scheme

1.4.0

• Capifony users beware: This release (and 1.3.3) has output format tweaks that mess up capifony interactive mode, see #6233
• Improved memory usage of dependency solver
• Added --format json option to the outdated and show command to get machine readable package listings
• Added --ignore-filters flag to archive command to bypass the .gitignore and co
• Added support for outdated output without ansi colors
• Added support for Bitbucket API v2
• Changed the require command to follow minimum-stability / prefer-stable values when picking a version
• Fixed regression when using composer in a Mercurial repository

1.3.3

• Capifony users beware: This release has output format tweaks that mess up capifony interactive mode, see #6233
• Improved baseline psr-4 autoloader performance for projects with many nested namespaces configured
• Fixed issues with gitlab API access when the token had insufficient permissions
• Fixed some HHVM strict type issues
• Fixed version guessing of headless git checkouts in some conditions
• Fixed compatibility with subversion 1.8
• Fixed version guessing not working with svn/hg
• Fixed script/exec errors not being output correctly
• Fixed PEAR repository bug with pear.php.net

1.3.2

• Added COMPOSER_BINARY env var that is defined within the scope of a Composer run automatically with the path to the phar file
• Fixed create-project ending in a detached HEAD when installing aliased packages
• Fixed composer show not returning non-zero exit code when the package does not exist
• Fixed @composer handling in scripts when --working-dir is used together with it
• Fixed private-GitLab handling of repos with dashes in them

1.3.1

• Fixed dist downloads from Bitbucket
• Fixed some regressions related to xdebug disabling
• Fixed --minor-only flag in outdated command
• Fixed handling of config.platform.php which did not replace other php-* package's versions

1.3.0

• Added workaround for xdebug performance impact by restarting PHP without xdebug automatically in case it is enabled
• Added --minor-only to the outdated command to only show updates to minor versions and ignore new major versions
• Added --apcu-autoloader to the update/install commands and --apcu to dump-autoload to enable an APCu-caching autoloader, which can be more efficient than --classmap-authoritative if you attempt to autoload many classes that do not exist, or if you can not use authoritative classmaps for some reason
• Added summary of operations to be executed before they run, and made execution output more compact
• Added php-debug and php-zts virtual platform packages
• Added gitlab-token auth config for GitLab private tokens
• Added --strict to the outdated command to return a non-zero exit code when there are outdated packages
• Added ability to call php scripts using the current php interpreter (instead of finding php in PATH by default) in script handlers via @php ...
• 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 COMPOSER_DEV_MODE env var that is set by Composer to forward the dev mode to script handlers
• Fixed handling of annotated git tags vs lightweight tags leading to useless updates sometimes
• Fixed case insensitivity of remove command
• Fixed support for git 2.11
• Fixed output from zip and rar leaking out when an error occured
• Removed hash from composer.lock, only content-hash is now used which should reduce conflicts
• Minor fixes and performance improvements

1.3.0-RC

Run composer self-update --preview to try this out!

• Added workaround for xdebug performance impact by restarting PHP without xdebug automatically in case it is enabled
• Added --minor-only to the outdated command to only show updates to minor versions and ignore new major versions
• Added --apcu-autoloader to the update/install commands and --apcu to dump-autoload to enable an APCu-caching autoloader, which can be more efficient than --classmap-authoritative if you attempt to autoload many classes that do not exist, or if you can not use authoritative classmaps for some reason
• Added summary of operations to be executed before they run, and made execution output more compact
• Added php-debug and php-zts virtual platform packages
• Added gitlab-token auth config for GitLab private tokens
• Added --strict to the outdated command to return a non-zero exit code when there are outdated packages
• Added ability to call php scripts using the current php interpreter (instead of finding php in PATH by default) in script handlers via @php ...
• 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 COMPOSER_DEV_MODE env var that is set by Composer to forward the dev mode to script handlers
• Fixed support for git 2.11
• Fixed output from zip and rar leaking out when an error occured
• Removed hash from composer.lock, only content-hash is now used which should reduce conflicts
• Minor fixes and performance improvements