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Composer hits Beta 1

Eric L. Barnes Published March 3, 2016

Jordi Boggiano, the lead developer, of the Composer project just announced beta one has been tagged and released:

A small step for mankind, but a big step for me: I just tagged Composer beta1! https://t.co/SFgpnbKbG4 #composerphp

— Jordi Boggiano (@seldaek) March 3, 2016

Big congrats to the team behind it and for the meteoric rise as an Alpha that even Gmail couldn’t pull off.

Eric is the creator of Laravel News and has been covering Laravel since 2012.

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