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Bower v1.0.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2013-07-23 // almost 11 years ago

  • 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.