roots/wordpress-core-installer
A Composer custom installer to handle installing WordPress as a dependency
v4.0.0
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roots/wordpress-core-installer
What this package is like to depend on
Last release 5 months ago
22 Mar 2026
Release timing varies
gaps range from 5 months to 4.3 years
Nearly every release is documented
notes for 6 of 6 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
8 years old
6 releases · first in 2018
1 release in the last 12 months
see the full history below
Release timeline
6 releases · Dec 2018 to Mar 2026
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Releases
latest 6-
v4.0.022 Mar 2026Release notes
Open source →Breaking Changes
- Composer 2 is now required — Composer v1 reached EOL in October 2022 and is no longer supported. The
composer-plugin-apiandcomposer/composerconstraints have been updated to^2.0.
Improvements
- Cleaned up v1/v2 compatibility shims in tests
- Fixed PHPUnit deprecation warning (
expectExceptionMessageRegExp→expectExceptionMessageMatches)
Full Changelog: 3.0.0...v4.0.0
- Composer 2 is now required — Composer v1 reached EOL in October 2022 and is no longer supported. The
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3.0.023 May 2025 -
2.0.014 Dec 2024 -
1.100.020 Aug 2020Release notes
Open source →- Added support for Composer v2. Special thanks to @Ayesh for the original pull request to add this support.
- Bumped minimum required PHP version to 5.6 (same as WP). If you need to stick with an older PHP version, you're probably ok with also sticking with an older version of Composer and can continue to use
^1.0as your version constraint. - Other various fixes and improvements to README, tests, etc.
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1.1.010 Dec 2018Release notes
Open source →What's Changed
- Allow overwriting wordpress-core type packages by @austinpray in #1
Full Changelog: 1.0.0...1.1.0
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1.0.009 Dec 2018Release notes
Open source →Initial fork
- Initial stable release
- Added tests and CI
- Support added for custom vendor directories
- Added sanity check for overwriting sensitive directories