Changelog
1.3.12 - 2014-09-28
- [stability] Fix versions for unstable dependencies (#1532)
- [fix] Update tar-fs to support old tar format (#1537)
- [fix] Make analytics work again (#1529)
- [fix] Always disable analytics for non-interactive mode (#1529)
- [fix] Bower init can create private packages again (#1522)
- [fix] Show again missing newline for bower search output (#1538)
1.3.11 - 2014-09-17
- [fix] Restore install missing dependencies on update (1519)
1.3.10 - 2014-09-13
- [fix] Back down concurrency from 50 to 5 (#1483)
- [fix] Read .bowerrc from specified cwd (#1301)
- [fix] Disable shallow clones except those from GitHub (#1393)
- [fix] Expose bower version (#1478)
- [fix] Bump dependencies, including "request" (#1467)
- [fix] Prevent an error when piping bower output to head (#1508)
- [fix] Disable removing unnecessary resolutions (#1061)
- [fix] Display the output of hooks again (#1484)
- [fix] analytics: true in .bowerrc prevents user prompt (#1470)
- [perf] Use
tar-fs
instead of tar
for faster TAR extraction (#1490)
1.3.9 - 2014-08-06
- [fix] Handle
tmp
sometimes returning an array (#1434)
1.3.8 - 2014-7-11
1.3.7 - 2014-07-04
- [fix] callstack error when processing installed packages with circular dependencies (#1349)
- [fix] Prevent bower list --paths` failing with TypeError (#1383)
- "bower install" fails if there's no bower.json in current directory (#922)
1.3.6 - 2014-07-02
- [fix] Make --force always re-run installation (#931)
- [fix] Disable caching for local resources (#1356)
- [fix] Emit errors instead throwing them when using bower.commands API (#1297)
- [fix] Main files and bower.json are never ignored (#547)
- [fix] Check if pkgMeta is undefined during uninstall command (#1329)
- [fix] Make custom tmp dir and ignores play well with each other (#1299)
- Warn users when installing package with missing properties (#694)
1.3.5 - 2014-06-06
- Search compatible versions in fetching packages (#1147)
1.3.4 - 2014-06-02
- Resolve a situation in which the install process gets into an infinite loop (#1169)
- Improved CLI output for conflicts (#1284)
- Changed
bower version
to mirror the tag format of npm version
(#1278)
- Allow short commit SHAs to be used (#990)
1.3.3 - 2014-04-24
- Do not cache moving targets like branches (#1242)
- Suppress output if --quiet option is specified (#1124)
- Use "svn export" for efficiency (#1224)
- Prevent loading insights and analytics on CI (#1221)
- Make "bower list" respect custom components directory (#1237)
- Improve non-interactive loading performance 2x (#1238)
- Load commands only on demand, improving performance (#1232)
1.3.2 - 2014-04-05
- Added yui moduleType PR #1129
- Fixes for concurrency issues PR #1211
link
now installs package dependencies PR #891
- Improved conflict installation message Commit
- Add --production switch to "prune" command PR #1168
1.3.1 - 2014-03-10
- No longer ask for permission to gather analytics when running on in a CI environment.
1.3.0 - 2014-03-10
- Removed support for node 0.8. It may still work but we will no longer fix bugs for older versions of node.
- Add Bower Insight for opt-in analytics integration to help improve tool and gain insight on community trends
- Add
moduleType
property to bower init (#934)
- Fix prune command to log only after cleanup is completed (#1023)
- Fix git resolver to ignore pre-release versions (#1017)
- Fix shorthand flag for
save
option on uninstall
command (#1031)
- Add
bower version
command (#961)
- Add .bowerrc option to use
--save
by default when using bower install
command (#1074)
- Fix git resolver caching (#1083)
- Fix reading versions from cache directory (#1076)
- Add svn support (#1055)
- Allow circular dependencies to be installed (#1104)
- Add scripts/hooks support (#718)
NOTE: It's advisable that users use --config.interactive=false
on automated scripts.
1.2.8 - 2013-12-02
- Fix absolute paths ending with / not going through the FsResolver, (#898)
- Allow query string parameters in package URLs
- Swapped 'unzip' module for 'decompress-zip', and some other small unzipping fixes(#873, #896)
- Allow the root-check to be overridden when calling bower programmatically.
- Fixed some bugs relating to packages with a very large dependency tree
- Fix a bug caused by a recent change to semver
1.2.7 - 2013-09-29
- Do not swallow sync errors when using the programmatic API (#849)
- Fix resolutions not being saved if
--force-latest
is specified (#861)
- Fix
bower register
warning about URL conversion, even if no conversion occurred
- Fix
bower update
not correctly catching up branch commits
- Add configured directory in
.bowerrc
to the ignores in bower init
(#854)
- Fix some case sensitive issues with data stored in registry cache (e.g.: jquery/jQuery, #859)
- Fix bower not checking out a tag if it looks like a semver (e.g.: 1.0, #872)
- Fix install & update commands printing the wrong versions in some cases (#879)
- Give priority to mime type headers when deciding if a package need to be extracted, except if it is
octet-stream
NOTE: It's advisable that users run bower cache clean
.
1.2.6 - 2013-09-04
- Bower now reports download progress even for servers that do not respond with
content-length
header.
- Do not translate endpoints when registering a package to a private registry server (#832)
- Detect corrupted downloads by comparing downloaded bytes with
content-length
header if possible; this fixes Bower silently failing on unstable networks (#824 and #792)
- Fix quotes in fields causing Bower to crash in the
init
command (#841)
1.2.5 - 2013-08-28
- Fix persistent conflict resolutions not working correctly for branches (#818)
- Fix Bower failing to run if HOME is not set (#826)
- Bower now prints a warning if HOME is not set (#827)
- Fix progress message being fired after completion of long running
git clone
commands
- Other minor improvements
1.2.4 - 2013-08-23
- Fix ignored nested folders not being correctly handled in some cases (#814)
1.2.3 - 2013-08-22
- Fix read of environment variables that map to config properties with dashes and also support nested ones (#8@bower-config)
- Fix
bower info <package> <property>
printing the available versions (it shouldn't!)
- Fix interactive shell not being correctly detected in node
0.8.x
(#802)
- Fix
extraneous
flag in the list
command being incorrectly set for saved dev dependencies in some cases
- Fix linked dependencies not being read in
bower list
on Windows (#813)
- Fix update notice not working with
--json
1.2.2 - 2013-08-20
- Standardize prompt behaviour with and without
--json
- Improve detection of
git
servers that do not support shallow clones (#805)
- Ignore remote tags (tags ending with ^{})
- Fix bower not saving the correct endpoint in some edge cases (#806)
1.2.1 - 2013-08-19
- Fix bower throwing on non-semver targets (#800)
1.2.0 - 2013-08-19
- Bower no longer installs a pre-release version by default, that is, if no version/range is specified (#782)
bower info <package>
will now show the latest <package>
information along with the available versions (#759)
bower link
no longer requires an elevated user on Windows in most cases (#472)
- Init command now prompts for the whole
bower.json
spec properties, filling in default values for author
and homepage
based on git
settings (#693)
- Changes to endpoint sources in
bower.json
are now catched up by bower install
and bower update
(#788)
- Allow semver ranges in
bower cache clean
, e.g. bower cache clean jquery#<2.0.0
(#688)
- Normalize
bower list --paths
on Windows (#279)
- Multiple mains are now correctly outputted as an array in
bower list --paths
(#784)
- Add
--relative
option to bower list --json
so that Bower outputs relative paths instead of absolute (#714)
bower list --paths
now outputs relative paths by default; can be turned off with --no-relative
(#785)
- Bower no longer fails if
symlinks
to files are present in the bower_components
folder (#783 and #791)
- Disable git templates/hooks when running
git
(#761)
- Add instructions to setup git workaround for proxies when execution of
git
fails (#250)
- Ignore
component.json
if it looks like a component(1) file (#556)
- Fix multi-user usage on bower when it creates temporary directories to hold some files
- Fix prompting causing an invalid JSON output when running commands with
--json
- When running Bower commands programmatically, prompting is now disabled by default (see the updated programmatic usage for more info)
- Other minor improvements and fixes
Fix for #788
requires installed components to be re-installed.
1.1.2 - 2013-08-10
- Detect and fallback if the git server does not support
--depth=1
when cloning (#747)
1.1.1 - 2013-08-08
- Fix silent fail when spawning child processes in some edge cases (#722)
- Fix
home
command not guessing the correct URL for GitHub
ssh endpoints (requires bower cache-clean
)
- Fix bower not correctly filtering packages with symlinks in some cases (#730)
- Fix multi-user usage on bower when it falls back to create a
/tmp/bower
folder (#743)
- Bower now sends a fake user agent when behind a proxy by default, so that corporate proxies do not block requests (#698)
- Bower now translates GitHub public
git://
URLs to git@
when behind a proxy (#731)
- Minor improvements to the CLI output on small terminals
- Minor programmatic usage improvements
- Minor help usage fixes
1.1.0 - 2013-08-03
- Fix
--save
and --save-dev
not working correctly for the uninstall command in some situations
- Attempting to register a package that declares
"private": true
in bower.json
will result in an error (#162)
- Fix retry strategy on download error that was causing some strange I/O errors (#699 and #704)
bower prune
now clears pruned packages dependencies if they are also extraneous (#708)
bower uninstall
now uninstalls uninstalled packages dependencies if they are not shared (#609)
- Fix
bower list
display the incompatible
label even if they are compatible (#710)
- Fix
bower cache clean
not working correctly when package#non-semver
is specified
- Implement no operation
completion
command to prevent weird output when hitting tab (#691)
- Fix
bower info --help
(#703)
- Add colorized output for
bower info <package>#<version>
(#571)
- Added
bower ls
as an alias to bower list
- Fix regression: do not create a json file when saving is required, warn instead
- Ignore linked packages when reading dependencies in
bower init
(#709)
bower list
is now able to (partially) reconstruct the dependency tree, even for dependencies not declared in bower.json
(#622)
1.0.3 - 2013-07-30
- Fix some changes not being saved to bower.json (#685)
- Fix
bower info <package> <property>
not showing information related to property of the latest version of that package (#684)
1.0.2 - 2013-07-30
- Fix severe bug originated from a wrong merge that caused conflict messages to not show up correctly
1.0.1 - 2013-07-29
- Fix
bower register
going ahead even if the answer was no
(#644)
- Fix local endpoints with backslashes on Windows (#2@endpoint-parser)
- Fix usage of multiple registries in the registry-client (#3@registry-client and #2@registry-client)
- File extensions now have more priority than mime types when deciding if extraction is necessary (#657)
- Fix
Bower
not working when calling .bat
/.cmd
commands on Windows; it affected people using Git portable
(#626)
- Fix
bower list --paths
not resolving all files to absolute paths when the main
property contained multiple files (660)
- Fix
Bower
renaming bower.json
and component.json
files to index.json
when it was the only file in the folder (#674)
- Ignore symlinks when copying/extracting since they are not portable, specially across different hard-drives (#665)
- Local file/dir endpoints are now exclusively referenced by an absolute path or relative path starting with
.
(#666)
- Linked packages
bower.json
files are now parsed, making bower list
account linked packages dependencies (#659)
- Bower now fails to run with sudo unless
--allow-root
is passed (#498)
- Add additional system information such as node version, bower version, OS version when an error occurs (#670)
bower install
no longer overwrites linked
packages unless it needs to (#593).
- All endpoint parts are now trimmed so that the Manager can better detect similar endpoints (#3@endpoint-parser)
bower register
now shows the server that will be used (#647)
1.0.0 - 2013-07-23
Total rewrite of bower.
The list bellow highlights the most important stuff.
For a complete list of changes that this rewrite and release brings please read: https://github.com/bower/bower/wiki/Rewrite-state
- 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 general bug fixes
Non-backwards compatible changes:
- The value of the
json
property from .bowerrc is no longer used
--map
and --sources
from the list command were removed, use --json
instead
- Programmatic usage changed, specially the commands interface
Users upgrading from bower-canary
and bower@~0.x.x
should do a bower cache clean
.
Additionally you may remove the ~/.bower
folder manually since it's no longer used.
On Windows the folder is located in AppData/bower
.
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
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 writer (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