Update dependencies

Slack

Every Sunday a schedules pipeline "send outdated dependency report to slack" is started and the result can be read in the channel #fs-outdated.

Update from backend using Composer

Manually check the version

./scripts/composer outdated -D Restricts the list of packages to your direct dependencies

The color coding is as such:

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.

https://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md#outdated

Structure and explanation of version numbers

• 0.x.x is a beta version. Here every change can contain ``Breaking Changes''.

2.3.5
│ │ │
│ │ └───────── Patch (contains mostly bug fixes)
│ └─────────── Minor version (mostly functional extension)
└───────────── Major version (mostly significant change)

Rules

• Don't mix dev dependencies with dependencies in a commit
• ~ instead of ^ to have similar systems between server and dev computer and to avoid big unwanted changes during yarn update
• only run yarn update if there are only outdated packages with explicit version information
• If you don't know what belongs together, then update only one package per commit.
• Major updates are best done in your own MR with changelog entry.

Update

• Change of version number in composer.json

./scripts/composer update PACKAGENAME* --with-dependencies