opensource 15 years of Packagist: Over 200 billion package installs On September 27th, 2011, Jordi submitted monolog/monolog to Packagist.org, it got package ID 1. Fifteen years later, Packagist.org lists more than 469,000 packages with over 5.8 million versions, and Composer has installed packages from it more than 200 billion times. Monolog alone has passed one
packagist.org Announcing the Composer & Packagist Sponsorship Program Today we are launching a formal sponsorship program for Composer and Packagist.org, together with new public sponsor pages on packagist.org/sponsor and getcomposer.org/sponsor. We want to start by thanking the companies who are on board at launch: Private Packagist, Aikido, AWS, Socket, Bunny, Upsun, Sonatype, Tideways,
composer An update on Composer & Packagist supply chain security The last months, and even more so the last weeks, saw an increasing amount of software supply chain attacks targeting open-source ecosystems. A handful of these have hit the PHP ecosystem too, via taken-over GitHub accounts and stolen access tokens that let attackers publish new tags on packages
opensourcepledge Private Packagist 2025 contributions for the Open Source Pledge This is now our third year as a member of the Open Source Pledge. Private Packagist subscriptions help fund not only the development of Composer and Packagist.org, but also the open source dependencies we rely on to build and run our commercial product. In 2025, we contributed a total
opensource Strengthening PHP Supply Chain Security with a Transparency Log for Packagist.org The release of Composer 2.9 this week introduced new security features on the Composer CLI client, which were funded by Private Packagist through service subscriptions. But in parallel, we are working on security on the main PHP package repository at Packagist.org with additional funding from the Sovereign Tech
opensource A Call for Sustainable Open Source Infrastructure Today, we joined other major package registries in signing an important joint statement on sustainable stewardship of open source infrastructure. Together with Maven Central, PyPI, crates.io, Open VSX, OpenJS Foundation, OpenSSF and Alpha-Omega, we're addressing a critical challenge: the growing gap between infrastructure usage and support.
opensource The Reality of Funding Open Source As the founder of Packagist Conductors, a small company with just eight employees, I've had a front-row seat to one of the most pressing challenges in software development today: sustainable open source funding. We found our own way to fund a major open source project, and managed
opensourcepledge Private Packagist is joining the Open Source Pledge We're joining the Open Source Pledge because our business is built on and with open-source software. We will spend at least $2,000 per full-time developer on open-source projects and maintainers. Sentry launched this initiative after a $500,000 distribution across their open-source dependencies,
composer Shutting down Packagist.org support for Composer 1.x Composer 1.x has served the PHP community well, but with Composer 2.0 released four years ago in October 2020, it's time to move forward. As of today, more than 95% of Composer updates are using v2, benefiting from its significant improvements in performance, memory usage, and
security Security Monitoring for Composer Projects As of today Private Packagist [https://packagist.com] automatically keeps track of security vulnerabilities in your Composer project dependencies. When we notice you are using a vulnerable version of a dependency we'll alert you either by email, on Slack, on Microsoft Teams, or through a webhook of your
composer Composer 2 Development Update Back in September 2018 we started working on a 2.0 branch for Composer. It took us a while to get there as we refactored, trying to bake in all the things we learned maintaining the project since 2011. The funding from Private Packagist [https://packagist.com] subscriptions has provided
packagist.org An Update on Packagist.org Hosting As we announced a bit over a week ago, we recently did some heavy server maintenance on the packagist.org website. I wanted to share some more details about the current infrastructure behind the website and how we got there.
