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Setup and working with Platform Versions

On technical level, the Platform Version comes as a composer dependency and can be added to the projects composer.json.

Setup Platform Version​

Setup with existing project​

Use following steps to set up Pimcore Platform Version in an existing project:

  • Install platform version via composer require pimcore/platform-version and follow steps described below to install further Pimcore modules. Eventually you need to adapt versions of other pimcore packages to apply to versions required by platform version. Please follow instructions of composer.

Setup with new project​

Use following steps to set up Pimcore Platform Version for a new project:

  • Get skeleton via composer create-project pimcore/skeleton my-project.
  • Install platform version via composer require pimcore/platform-version. Eventually you need to adapt versions of other pimcore packages to apply to versions required by platform version. Please follow instructions of composer.
  • Run composer update to install necessary additional requirements for Pimcore Platform Version and follow steps described below to install further Pimcore modules.

Working with Platform Version​

Once Pimcore Platform Version is set up, you can add included Pimcore modules with the matching version and update Pimcore modules installed in the project.

Install tracked Pimcore modules​

Use following command to install additional Pimcore modules to the project: composer require pimcore/<MODULE>.

Eventually adding :* as version constraint helps if composer doesn't find a matching version of the module.

Update Pimcore modules​

Update Pimcore modules to new bugfix versions​

Bugfix versions of Pimcore modules can be installed within a Platform Version via composer defaults. composer update will install most up-to-date bugfix versions of all tracked Pimcore modules.

Update to new Platform Version​

  • Carefully read our Release Notes before any update.
  • Update to a new Pimcore Platform version:
    • if you want to update to a specific version, use the command composer require pimcore/platform-version:2023.1 --no-update to update your composer.json. Afterwards run composer update.
    • if you want to update to the latest version (and the constraint in your composer.json allows further updates), use the command composer update pimcore/platform-version.
tip

Eventually adding pimcore/* is necessary for composer to resolve pimcore repository versions properly.

caution

Keep in mind that the pimcore/platform-version repository does not specify required packages.
It only specifies conflicting packages to ensure compatible versions are installed. The command composer require pimcore/platform-version --update-with-all-dependencies will therefore not work. The command composer require will check against your composer.lock and may result in an error. You need to run composer update to update all packages to the latest version.

warning

It might be necessary to update a specific Pimcore module to a version that is not included in the Platform Version. In that case, you need to remove the platform-version dependency from your composer.json and update the module to the desired version. Be aware that this might lead to a theoretically compatible but untested combination of Pimcore modules.