The new composer version is available with a lot of new functionalities. Today you can find an incredible number of packages on GitHub, and with one command, you can install them in your project.
For updating your Composer, you need to open the terminal (if you have a global installation) and run one of the following commands: The performance was improved in this release.
For this to work, you need to add the COMPOSER_DISABLE_NETWORK=1 when running the commands: or set it in your environment variables. You will see messages indicating that you are running it in an offline mode: besides that, you will see a message for packages that are not cached: This option was already available when running.