One of the things I haven’t really been able to find is how to check for updates on third party extensions through composer. Is this even possible or am I stuck manually checking these and updating individually via compose per the instruction on each 3rd party module? I kept extension to a very minimum, but there are still probably about 6. Almost all of which backend related.
I saw the information here about checking module/extension versions composer status, which is very handy.
Obviously, the following only work for modules installed via Composer… But everyone should be using composer now anyway. Albeit, I understand there is the odd exception where some vendors only make their products downloadable via a zip file.
The following command can show you what will be updated if you run:
composer update --dry-run
Obviously, this will check all modules… But you could do this one-by-one with:
composer update vendor/module --dry-run
The following shows a list of installed modules that have updates available:
composer outdated
| Colour | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Green | Dependency is in the latest version and is up to date. |
| Yellow | Dependency has a new version available that includes backwards compatibility breaks according to semver, so upgrade when you can but it may involve work. |
| Red | Dependency has a new version that is semver-compatible and you should upgrade it. |
And if you want to see what versions of something you currently have installed then you can run:
composer show -l
Or for a specific module then you can use the grep tool and the name of the thing you’re after such as:
composer show | grep modulename
A gold mine of information. I do not know how I didn’t see this information in the documentation.
Running composer outdated, I see almost all magento “modules” are “outdated” I would assume these are managed during magento updates and should be left alone?? I wasn’t expecting to see just about everything on the list “outdated”.
I’m not familiar with “semver” other than what I just googled, but it seems it is a versioning that states it is compatible with magento based on that information.
Exactly, yes. Just focus on the one you installed yourself.
Perfect! Thank you very much.