An Update on Composer and Packagist Supply Chain Security

Seldaek 21 points 2 comments May 27, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)

moebrowne

I appreciate Composers slower but deliberate, well thought out approach to supply chain attack mitigations.

captn3m0

I arrived at a similar model for NPM using hooks in pnpm: https://github.com/captn3m0/npm-sec-feed . I love the work Packagist/Composer is doing in the space. I’m now a firm believer that every package manager needs to support hooks globally. Composer also supports conflicts which results in this amazing approach of having a meta-package conflict with insecure packages: https://github.com/Roave/SecurityAdvisories . Can’t happen in Node, sadly because of language differences.

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