Drupal core Composer project templates now explicitly depend on the current minor branch

By xjm on 6 December 2020

Change record status:

Published (View all published change records)

Project:

Drupal core

Introduced in branch:

9.1.x

Introduced in version:

9.1.0-beta1

Issue links:

https://www.drupal.org/node/3182959

Description:

Drupal core packages now explicitly depend on the current minor branch (for example, ^9.1 instead of ^9), in order to make composer behavior with pre-releases more predictable. For example, the CoreRecommended project template has changed as follows:

     "require": {
         "composer/installers": "^1.9",
-        "drupal/core-composer-scaffold": "^9",
-        "drupal/core-project-message": "^9",
-        "drupal/core-recommended": "^9"
+        "drupal/core-composer-scaffold": "^9.2",
+        "drupal/core-project-message": "^9.2",
+        "drupal/core-recommended": "^9.2"
     },
     "require-dev": {
-        "drupal/core-dev": "^9"
+        "drupal/core-dev": "^9.2"
     },

Impacts:

Site builders, administrators, editors

Distribution developers

Updates Done (doc team, etc.)

Online documentation:

Not done

Theming guide:

Not done

Module developer documentation:

Not done

Examples project:

Not done