1.1.0-RC - released 2016-04-29

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Changelog

Added ability for plugins to register their own composer commands
Optimized the autoloader initialization using static loading on PHP 5.6 and above, this reduces the load time for large classmaps to almost nothing
Added --latest to show command to show the latest version available of your dependencies
Added --outdated to show command an composer outdated alias for it, to show only packages in need of update
Added --direct to show and outdated commands to show only your direct dependencies in the listing
Added support for editing all top-level properties (name, minimum-stability, ...) as well as extra values via the config command
Added abandoned state warning to the show and outdated commands when listing latest packages
Added support for ~/ and $HOME/ in the path repository paths
Added support for wildcards in the show command package filter, e.g. composer show seld/*
Added ability to call composer itself from scripts via @composer ...
Added untracked files detection to the status command
Added warning to validate command when using exact-version requires
Added warning once per domain when accessing insecure URLs with secure-http disabled
Added a dependency on composer/ca-bundle (extracted CA bundle management to a standalone lib)
Added support for empty directories when archiving to tar
Added an init event for plugins to react to, which occurs right after a Composer instance is fully initialized
Added many new detections of problems in the why-not/prohibits command to figure out why something does not get installed in the expected version
Added a deprecation notice for script event listeners that use legacy script classes
Fixed abandoned state not showing up if you had a package installed before it was marked abandoned
Fixed --no-dev updates creating an incomplete lock file, everything is now always resolved on update
Fixed partial updates in case the vendor dir was not up to date with the lock file