Below 1.0 versions work differently in composer version requirements unfortunately, so it has to be explicitly allowed
The ^ operator behaves very similarly, but it sticks closer to semantic versioning, and will always allow non-breaking updates. For example ^1.2.3 is equivalent to >=1.2.3 <2.0.0 as none of the releases until 2.0 should break backwards compatibility. For pre-1.0 versions it also acts with safety in mind and treats ^0.3 as >=0.3.0 <0.4.0
rosstuck
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2 years ago
Below 1.0 versions work differently in composer version requirements unfortunately, so it has to be explicitly allowed