2.2.21

• Fixed extra.plugin-optional support in PluginInstaller when doing pre-install checks (#11326)

2.5.3

• Added extra.plugin-optional support for allow auto-disabling unknown plugins which are not critical when running non-interactive (#11315)

2.2.20

• Added extra.plugin-optional support for allow auto-disabling unknown plugins which are not critical when running non-interactive (#11315)

2.5.2

• Added warning when require auto-selects a feature branch as that is probably not desired (#11270)
• Fixed self.version requirements reporting lock file integrity errors when changing branches (#11283)
• Fixed require regression which broke the --fixed flag (#11247)
• Fixed security audit reports loading when exclude/only filter rules are used on a repository (#11281)
• Fixed autoloading regression on PHP 5.6 (#11285)
• Fixed archive command including an existing archive into itself if run repeatedly (#11239)
• Fixed dev package prompt in require not appearing in some conditions (#11287)

2.2.19

• Fixed URL sanitizer to handle new GitHub personal access tokens format (#11137)
• Fixed cache keys to allow _ to avoid conflicts between package names like a-b and a_b (#11229)
• Fixed handling of --ignore-platform-req with upper-bound ignores to not apply to conflict rules (#11037)
• Fixed handling of COMPOSER_DISCARD_CHANGES when set to 0

2.5.1

• Fixed ClassLoader regression which made it fail if serialized (e.g. within PHPUnit process isolation) (#11237)
• Fixed preg type error in svn version guessing (#11231)

2.5.0

• BC Warning: To prevent abuse of our includeFile() function it is now gone, it was not part of the official API but may still cause issues if some code incorrectly relied on it (#11015)
• Improved version guessing of require command to use the dependency resolution result instead of using the latest available version (except if you run with --no-update) (#11160)
• Improved version selection in archive command (#11230)
• Added hard failure when installing from a lock file which does not satisfy the composer.json requirements (#11195)
• Added autocompletion of config option names in the config command (#11130)
• Added support for writing custom commands as Command classes (#11151)
• Added warning when the outdated command rejects a new package due to unmet platform requirements (#11113)
• Added support for bump command to bump >=x to >=installed-version (#11179)
• Added --download-only flag to install command to only download and prime the cache with the package archives (#11041)
• Added autoconfiguration of github-domains/gitlab-domains when GitHub/GitLab credentials are configured for a custom domain (#11062)
• Added hard failure (throw) if COMPOSER_AUTH is present and malformed JSON (#11085)
• Added interactive prompt to run-script and exec commands if run without any argument (#11157)
• Added interactive prompt where to store credentials when a project-local auth.json exists (#11188)
• Fixed full disk warning to be shown when less than 100MiB is available (#11190)
• Fixed cache keys to allow _ to avoid conflicts between package names like a-b and a_b (#11229)
• Fixed docker compatibility by making paths more portable even if the project is installed at / (#11169)

2.4.4

• Added extra debug output when a zip extraction fails while on GitHub Actions (#11148)
• Fixed cache write failures when the cache dir gets removed during a composer run (#11076)
• Fixed 2.4.3 regression in loading Composer on SMB/network shares (#11077)
• Fixed --dry-run flag missing from bump command (#11047)
• Fixed status command reporting differences when the source ref is a tag (#11155)
• Fixed outdated command outputting legend on stdout instead of stderr
• Fixed URL sanitizer to handle new GitHub personal access tokens format (#11137)

2.4.3

• BC Break: The json format of audit command now has reportedAt as an RFC3339 string instead of an object which was a mistake (#11120)
• Fixed json format of audit command which was missing affectedVersions (#11120)
• Fixed plugin commands not being loaded during bash completions (#11074)
• Fixed parsing of inline aliases within complex constraints with || or , (#11086)
• Fixed min-php version check in autoload.php to avoid crashing sites running on PHP 5.5 or below silently with a 200 (#11091)
• Fixed JsonFile reading files without checking if they are readable first (#11077)
• Fixed require command with --dry-run failing when requiring a package requiring stability flag extraction (#11112)

2.4.2

• Fixed bash completion hanging when running as root without COMPOSER_ALLOW_SUPERUSER set (#11024)
• Fixed handling of plugin activation when running as root without COMPOSER_ALLOW_SUPERUSER set so it always happens after prompting, or does not happen if input is non-interactive
• Fixed package filter on bump command (#11053)
• Fixed handling of --ignore-platform-req with upper-bound ignores to not apply to conflict rules (#11037)
• Fixed handling of COMPOSER_DISCARD_CHANGES when set to 0
• Fixed handling of zero-major versions in outdated command with --major-only (#11032)
• Fixed show --platform regression since 2.4.0 when running in a directory without composer.json (#11046)
• Fixed a few strict type errors