Changelog

1.7.2 - 2015-12-31

Lock "fs-write-stream-atomic" to 1.0.5

1.7.1 - 2015-12-11

Rollback "Add bower update --save functionality", it causes issues and needs more testing
Fix backward-compatibility of bower search --json (#2066)
Ignore prerelease versions from bower info output
Update update-notifier to 0.6.0
Better formatting of help messages (https://github.com/bower/bower/commit/de3e1089da80f47ea3667c5ab80d301cddfd8c3e)
Add help menu for update --save and update --save-dev (https://github.com/bower/bower/commit/612aaa88eb4d4b268b2d8665c338ac086af3a5b0)

1.7.0 - 2015-12-07

Add bower update --save functionality (#2035)
bower search shows help message when no package name is specified (#2066)
Update only those packages that are explicitly requested by the user. Related Issues
- #256
- #924
- #1770
Allow for @ in username for SVN on windows (#1650)
Update bower config
- Loads the .bowerrc file from the cwd specified on the command line
- Allow the use of environment variables in .bowerrc (#41)
  - Allow for array notation in ENV variables (#44)

1.6.9 - 2015-12-04

Change git version of fs-write-stream-atomic back to npm version (#2079)

1.6.8 - 2015-11-27

Use fs-write-stream-atomic for downloads
Improved downloader that properly cleans after itself
Fix shallow host detection (#2040)
Upgrade to (bower-config#1.2.3)
- Properly restore env variables if they are undefined at the beginning
- Properly handle default setting for config.ca
- Display proper error if .bowerrc is a directory instead of file

1.6.7 - 2015-11-26

Bundless all the dependencies again

1.6.6 - 2015-11-25

Fixes regression with the published npm version

1.6.5 - 2015-10-24

Updates to tests and documentation
Fixes passing options when requesting downloads

1.6.4 - 2015-10-24

Fix ignoring dependencies on multiple install run (#1970)
Use --non-interactive when running svn client (#1969)
Fix downloading of URLs ending with slash (#1956)
Add user-agent field for downloads by Bower (#1960)

1.6.3 - 2015-10-16

Fixes regression issues introduced with 1.6.2, specifically:

Allow for bower_components to be a symlink
Allow setting custom registry in .bowerrc

1.6.2 - 2015-10-15

Fix dependency issues of 1.6.1. First published release of 1.6.x.

1.6.1 - 2015-10-15

Fix dependency issues of 1.6.0. Reverted release.

1.6.0 - 2015-10-15

Shrinkwrap all dependencies and add them to bundledDependencies (#1948)
Allow for ignoring of child dependencies (#1394)
Allow passing --config.resolvers through CLI (#1922)
Use defaults values from package.json if it exists (bower init) (#1731)
Properly use cerificates set in .bowerrc (#1869)
Include package name when version conflict occurs (#1917)
Add timeout for permission check (yeoman/insight#35)
Close file-handles when possible. Prevents all sorts of permission issues on Windows (0bb1536)
Prevent ENOENT error on Windows when in VM environment (isaacs/chmodr#8)

Reverted release.

1.5.4 - 2015-11-24

[fix] Lock lru-cache dependency to 2.7.0

1.5.3 - 2015-09-24

Revert auto sorting of bower dependencies, fixes (#1897)
Fix --save-exact feature for github endpoints, fixes (#1925)
Fix bower init to support private flag again (#1819)
Bump insight dependency to support prompt timeout (#1102)

1.5.2 - 2015-08-25

Revert update semver version from 2.x to 5.x, fixes (#1896)
Make bower commands work from subdirectories, fixes (#1893)
Put auto shallow cloning for git behind a flag, fixes (#1764)

1.5.1 - 2015-08-24

If cwd provided explicitly, force using it, fixes #1866

1.5.0 - 2015-08-24

Pluggable Resolvers! http://bower.io/docs/pluggable-resolvers/
Update semver version from 2.x to 5.x (#1852)
Auto-sort dependencies alphabetically (#1381)
Make bower commands work from subdirectories (#1866)
No longer prefer installing bower as global module (#1865)

1.4.2 - 2015-11-24

[fix] Lock lru-cache dependency to 2.7.0

1.4.1 - 2015-04-01

[fix] Reading .bowerrc upwards directory tree (#1763)
[fix] Update bower-registry-client so it uses the same bower-config as bower

1.4.0 - 2015-03-30

Add login and unregister commands (#1719)
Automatically detecting smart Git hosts (#1628)
[bower/config#23] Allow npm config variables (#1711)
[bower/config#24] Merge .bowerrc files upwards directory tree (#1689)
Better homedir detection (514eb8f)
Add --save-exact flag (#1654)
Ensure extracted files are readable (tar-fs) (#1548)
The version command in the programmatic API now returns the new version (#1755)
Some minor fixes: #1639, #1620, #1576, #1557, 962a565, a464f5a
Improved Windows support (AppVeyor CI, tests actually passing on Windows)
OSX testing enabled on TravisCI

It also includes improved test coverage (~60% -> ~85%) and many refactors.

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

[fix] Lock down tmp package dep (#1403, #1407)

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
- Old overview of Insight, Issue #260
- Reporting to GA. Public Dashboard is in progress.
- Turn off interactive mode if you run Bower in a CI environment
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

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 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

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