1.0.0-alpha9 - released 2014-12-07

View the release on GitHub

Changelog

Added remove command to do the reverse of require
Added --ignore-platform-reqs to install/update commands to install even if you are missing a php extension or have an invalid php version
Added a warning when abandoned packages are being installed
Added auto-selection of the version constraint in the require command, which can now be used simply as composer require foo/bar
Added ability to define custom composer commands using scripts
Added browse command to open a browser to the given package's repo URL (or homepage with -H)
Added an autoload-dev section to declare dev-only autoload rules + a --no-dev flag to dump-autoload
Added an auth.json file, with store-auths config option
Added a http-basic config option to store login/pwds to hosts
Added failover to source/dist and vice-versa in case a download method fails
Added --path (-P) flag to the show command to see the install path of packages
Added --update-with-dependencies and --update-no-dev flags to the require command
Added optimize-autoloader config option to force the -o flag from the config
Added clear-cache command
Added a GzipDownloader to download single gzipped files
Added ssh support in the github-protocols config option
Added pre-dependencies-solving and post-dependencies-solving events
Added pre-archive-cmd and post-archive-cmd script events to the archive command
Added a no-api flag to GitHub VCS repos to skip the API but still get zip downloads
Added http-basic auth support for private git repos not on github
Added support for autoloading .hh files when running HHVM
Added support for PHP 5.6
Added support for OTP auth when retrieving a GitHub API key
Fixed isolation of files autoloaded scripts to ensure they can not affect anything
Improved performance of solving dependencies
Improved SVN and Perforce support
A boatload of minor fixes, documentation additions and UX improvements