Pull request #13111merged on 8 October 2026
Composer: our changes to an open source project
The dependency manager for PHP: it installs and updates a project's libraries from its composer.json.
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- getcomposer.org
1merged change
Merged on 8 October 2026.
Number 2 of the 64 GitHub projects with our changes, by stars. First is Zed (91,587).
The change merged into Composer
The docs and the help of the config command say which keys support --json and --merge: besides extra.*, also the policy.* and audit.ignore keys, and the flags are ignored for the other keys.
What it taught us
Docs that describe less than the code does mislead as much as a bug. A list of the supported keys in the command help saves guesswork.
Other projects with our changes: PHP
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Composer among all our changes
Day by day from 5 September 2026 to 11 October 2026. A column is every change merged that day, the accent is the changes in Composer.
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1 merged change in Composer
Merged on 8 October 2026.
On the same day
Changes of ours were also merged into: urfave/cli, Predis, Versity Gateway.
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