v1.7.8

• Don't ask for git credentials in non-interactive session, fixes #956 #1009
• Prevent swallowing exceptions with programmatic api, fixes #2187
• Update graceful-fs to 4.x in all dependences, fixes nodejs/node#5213
• Resolve pluggable resolvers using cwd and fallback to global modules, fixes #1919
• Upgrade handlebars to 4.0.5, closes #2195
• Replace all % chatacters in defined scripts, instead of only first one, fixes #2174
• Update opn package to fix issues with "bower open" command on Windows
• Update bower-config
  • Do not interpolate environment variables in script hooks, fixes bower/config#47
• Update bower-json
  • Validate package name more strictly and allow only latin letters, dots, dashes and underscores
• Add support for "save" and "save-exact" in .bowerrc, #2161

v1.7.6

• Revert location of "bin/bower" as developers are using it directly (#2157)
  Note: Correctly, you should use an alias creted in npm bin --global directory.

v1.7.5

• Remove analytics from Bower, fixes (#2150)
• Default to ^ operator on bower install --save (#2145)
• Support absolute path in .bowerrc directory option (#2130)
• Display user's name upon bower login command (#2133)
• Decompress gzip files (#2092)
• Prevent name clashes in package extraction (#2102)
• When strictSsl is false, set GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY=true (#2129)
• Distribute bower with npm@3 for better Windows support (#2146)
• Update request to 2.67.0 and fs-write-stream-atomic to 1.0.8
• Documentation improvements

v1.7.3

Unpublished because of issue with npm distribution: npm/npm#11227

v1.7.2

• Lock "fs-write-stream-atomic" to 1.0.5

v1.7.1

• Rollback "Add bower update --save functionality", it causes issues and needs more testing
• Fix backward-compatibility of bower search --json (#2066)
• Ignore prerelease versions from bower info output
• Update update-notifier to 0.6.0
• Better formatting of help messages (de3e108)
• Add help menu for update --save and update --save-dev (612aaa8)

v1.7.0

• Add bower update --save functionality (#2035)
• bower search shows help message when no package name is specified (#2066)
• Update only those packages that are explicitly requested by the user. Related Issues
  • #256
  • #924
  • #1770
• Allow for @ in username for SVN on windows (#1650)
• Update bower config
  • Loads the .bowerrc file from the cwd specified on the command line
  • Allow the use of environment variables in .bowerrc (#41)
    • Allow for array notation in ENV variables (#44)

Big thank you for all active @bower/contributors!

v1.6.8

• Use fs-write-stream-atomic for downloads
• Improved downloader that properly cleans after itself
• Fix shallow host detection (#2040)
• Upgrade to (bower-config#1.2.3)
  • Properly restore env variables if they are undefined at the beginning
  • Properly handle default setting for config.ca
  • Display proper error if .bowerrc is a directory instead of file

Big thanks for all of our active @bower/contributors !

v1.6.4

• Fix ignoring dependencies on multiple install run (#1970)
• Use --non-interactive when running svn client (#1969)
• Fix downloading of URLs ending with slash (#1956)
• Add user-agent field for downloads by Bower (#1960)

v1.6.3

Fixes regression issues introduced with 1.6.2, specifically:

• Allow for bower_components to be a symlink
• Allow setting custom registry in .bowerrc