CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

1.0.0 - 2013-07-23

Total rewrite of bower. The list bellow highlights the most important stuff:

• Clear architecture and separation of concerns
• Much much faster
• --json output for all commands
• --offline usage for all commands, except register
• Proper install and update commands, similar to npm in behaviour
• Named endpoints when installing, e.g. bower install backbone-amd=backbone#~1.0.0
• New interactive conflict resolution strategy
• Prevent human errors when using register
• New home command, similar to npm
• New cache list command
• New prune command
• Many many bug general bug fixes

Non-backwards compatible changes:

• json from .bowerrc is no longer used
• Programmatic usage changed, specially the commands interface

For a complete list of changes that this rewrite and release brings please read: https://github.com/bower/bower/wiki/Rewrite-state

0.10.0 - 2013-07-02

• Allow specific commits to be targeted (#275)
• Change bower default folder from components to bower_components (#434)
• Support semver pre-releases and builds (#188)
• Use Content-Type and Content-Disposition to guess file types, such as zip files (#454)
• Fix bower failing silently when using an invalid version value in the bower.json file (#439)
• Fix bower slowness when downloading after redirects (#437)
• Detect and error out with a friendly message when git is not installed (#362)
• Add --quiet and --silent CLI options (#343)
• Minor programmatic usage improvements

NOTE: The components folder will still be used if already created, making it easier for users to upgrade.

0.9.2 - 2013-04-28

• Better fix for #429

0.9.1 - 2013-04-27

• Update package.json, docs and other stuff to point to the new Bower organisation on GitHub
• Fix root label of bower list being an absolute path; now uses the package name
• Fix bower update <pkg> updating all packages; now throws when updating an unknown package
• Fix list command when package use different names than the guessed one (#429)

0.9.0 - 2013-04-25

• Change from component.json to bower.json (#39)
• Compatibility with node 0.10.x, including fix hangs/errors when extracting zip files
• Fix --save and --save-dev not working with URLs that get redirected (#417)
• Fix init command targeting ~commit instead of *. (#385)
• Remove temporary directories before exiting (#345)
• Integrate update-notifier (#202)
• Use json name when a package name was inferred (#192)
• Fix bin/bower not exiting with an exit code greater than zero when an error occurs (#187)
• Fix --save and --save-dev saving resolved shorthands instead of the actual shorthands
• Fix bower using user defined git templates (#324)
• Add command abbreviations (#262)
• Improve help messages and fix abuse of colors in output
• Wait for every package to resolve before printing error messages (#290)
• Add shorthand_resolver to allow shorthands to be resolved to repositories other than GitHub (#278)

0.8.6 - 2013-04-03

• Emergency fix for node 0.8.x users to make zip extraction work again

0.8.5 - 2013-03-04

• Fix cache-clean command clearing the completion cache when the command was called with specific packages
• Add error message when an error is caught parsing an invalid component.json

0.8.4 - 2013-03-01

• Fix some more duplicate async callbacks being called twice
• Preserve new lines when saving component.json (#285)

0.8.3 - 2013-02-27

• Fix error when using the update command (#282)

0.8.2 - 2013-02-26

• Fix some errors in windows while removing directories, had to downgrade rimraf (#274)
• Prevent duplicate package names in error summaries (#277)

0.8.1 - 2013-02-25

• Fix some async callbacks being fired twice (#274)

0.8.0 - 2013-02-24

• Add init command similar to npm init (#219)
• Add devDependencies support (#251)
• Add --save-dev flag to install/uninstall commands (#258)
• cache-clean command now clears links pointing to nonexistent folders (#182)
• Fix issue when downloading assets behind a proxy using https (#230)
• Fix --save saving unresolved components (#240)
• Fix issue when extracting some zip files (#225)
• Fix automatic conflict resolver not selecting the correct version
• Add --sources option to the list command (#235)
• Automatically clear cache when git commands fail with code 128 (#216)
• Fix bower not working correctly behind a proxy in some commands (#208)

0.7.1 - 2013-02-20

• Remove postinstall script from bower installation

0.7.0 - 2013-02-01

• Ability to resolve conflicts (#214)
• Ability to search and publish to different endpoints by specifying them in the .bowerrc file
• Experimental autocompletion
• Ability to exclude (ignore) files
• Fix minor issues in the cache clean command
• Better error message for invalid semver tags (#185)
• Only show discover message in the list command only if there are packages
• Fix mismatch issue due to reading cached component.json files (#214)
• Better error messages when reading invalid .bowerrc files (#220)
• Fix update command when used in packages pointing to assets (#197)
• Bower now obeys packages's .bowerrc if they define a different json (#205)

0.6.8 - 2012-12-14

• Improve list command
  • Does not fetch versions if not necessary (for --map and --paths options)
  • Add --offline option to prevent versions from being fetched
• Fix uninstall command not firing the end event
• Fix error when executing an unknown command (#179)
• Fix help for the ls command (alias of list)

0.6.7 - 2012-12-10

• Fix uninstall removing all unsaved dependencies (#178)
• Fix uninstall --force flag in some cases
• Add --silent option to the register option, to avoid questioning
• Fix possible issues with options in some commands
• Fix error reporting when reading invalid project component.json

0.6.6 - 2012-12-03

• Improve error handling while reading component.json
• Fix package name not being correctly collected in the error summary

0.6.5 - 2012-12-01

• Fix error summary not being displayed in some edge cases
• Fix bower not fetching latest commits correctly in some cases

0.6.4 - 2012-11-29

• Fix permission on downloaded files (#160)

0.6.3 - 2012-11-24

• Fix version not being correctly set for local packages (#155)

0.6.2 - 2012-11-23

• Fix uninstall --save when there is no component.json

0.6.1 - 2012-11-22

• Fix uninstall when the project component.json has no deps saved (#153)
• Fix uncaught errors when using file writter (they are now caught and reported)
• Fix temporary directories not being deleted when an exception occurs (#153)

0.6.0 - 2012-11-21

• Add link command (similar to npm)
• Fix error reporting for nested deps
• Abort if a repository is detected when installing. This is useful to prevent people from loosing their work
• Minor fixes and improvements

0.5.1 - 2012-11-20

• Add errors summary to the end of install/update commands
• Add windows instructions to the README

0.5.0 - 2012-11-19

• Remove package.json support
• Support for local path repositories (#132)
• install --save now saves the correct tag (e.g: ~0.0.1) instead of 'latest'
• install --save now saves packages pointing directly to assets correctly
• Bower automatically creates a component.json when install with --save is used
• Fix issues with list command (#142)
• Fix local paths not being saved when installing with --save (#114)
• uninstall now uninstalls nested dependencies if they are not shared (#83)
• uninstall now warns when a dependency conflict occurs and aborts. It will only proceed if the --force flag is passed
• Bower now detects mismatches between the version specified in the component.json and the tag, informing the user
• bower ls now informs when a package has a new commit (for non-tagged repos)
• Add jshintrc and fix a lot of issues related with JSHint warnings
• bower register now prompts if the user really wants to proceed