Composer v1.6.4 is Released With a Security Fix

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Today, the Composer team released v1.6.4 and it includes a security fix so all users are encouraged to upgrade. According to Jordi Boggiano, it also includes triaging/merging/fixing for almost 200 issues and you can see everything that changed from the release page on Github.

Below is a highlight of the changes:

  • Security fixes in some edge case scenarios, recommended update for all users
  • Fixed regression in version guessing of path repositories
  • Fixed removing aliased packages from the repository, which might resolve some odd update bugs
  • Fixed updating of package URLs for GitLab
  • Fixed run-script –list failing when script handlers were defined
  • Fixed init command not respecting the current php version when selecting package versions
  • Fixed handling of uppercase package names in why/why-not commands
  • Fixed exclude-from-classmap symlink handling
  • Fixed filesystem permissions of PEAR binaries
  • Improved performance of subversion repos
  • Other minor fixes

To get this latest version the Composer CLI tool includes a self-update command and you can run the following:

composer self-update

For complete details visit the v1.6.4 release page.

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