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@thayronarrais thayronarrais released this 09 May 12:26
v0.4.0
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Highlights

🎼 Composer bundled out of the box — Closes #1

The composer.phar (2.8.5) is now embedded in the binary and materialized
into C:\laraenv\composer\ automatically on first launch. No download, no
manual PATH setup — just install a PHP version, open the integrated
terminal and composer install works.

A second LTS entry (Composer 2.2.25) is also available from Libs / Tools
for projects pinned to older PHP versions.

📦 Eager-fetch of PHP extensions

Right after a PHP version finishes installing, LaraEnv now copies a curated
set of ~25 popular extensions out of the cached zip into ext/ — so toggling
them on/off in the UI never hits a "no DLL" error again. Includes:

openssl, curl, mbstring, fileinfo, intl, gd, pdo_mysql, pdo_pgsql, pdo_sqlite, sqlite3, mysqli, pgsql, zip, exif, sockets, soap, bcmath, gmp, sodium, xsl, ldap, ftp, calendar, shmop, tidy

🐞 PECL extensions support (Windows builds)

New section in the Extensions modal lets you install PECL extensions in one
click. Curated catalog with pinned versions per PHP series:

  • xdebug (Zend) — step debugger & profiler
  • redis — Redis client
  • mongodb — MongoDB driver
  • apcu — user-land in-memory cache
  • imagick — ImageMagick bindings (companion DLLs auto-extracted)
  • swoole — Laravel Octane runtime
  • memcached — Memcached client

DLLs are downloaded from windows.php.net/downloads/pecl/ and the matching
ini directive (extension= or zend_extension=) is written automatically.

Bug fixes

  • bcmath (and other extensions) reported as missing despite being
    installed.     Root cause: the generated php.ini set
    extension_dir = "ext" (relative). PHP on Windows resolves a relative
    extension_dir against the current working directory, not the PHP
    install folder — so any php invocation from outside the install dir
    failed to load every bundled extension. Fixed by writing an absolute
    path (extension_dir = "C:/laraenv/php/<version>/ext").

Install

Download LaraEnv-0.4.0.msi from the assets below. Verify with the
SHA-256 checksum in LaraEnv-0.4.0.msi.sha256. Existing installs will
auto-update via the in-app updater.

Full Changelog: v0.3.7...v0.4.0

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