1.0.0-alpha6 - released 2012-10-23

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Changelog

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 https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#package-version-constraints
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