Manage modules and extensions

Contributing developers upgrade modules and extensions by specifying their versions in the Adobe Commerce or Magento Open Source composer.json file. If you are not a contributing developer, see Perform an upgrade.

You can either add a require section to the composer.json file or you can use the composer require command as follows:

  1. Log in to your server.

  2. Switch to the file system owner.

  3. Change to the directory where you cloned the application. For example,

    cd /var/www/magento2

You have the following options:

Get available module versions

Command usage:

composer show --all <vendor>/<name>

For example:

composer show --all example/module

Use the composer require command

Command usage:

composer require <vendor>/<name>:<version>

For example:

composer require example/module:1.0.0

Wait while Composer updates dependencies and installs the module.

Add a require section to the composer.json file

  1. Open the composer.json in a text editor.

  2. Add a require section.

    "require": {
  "<vendor>/<name>": "<version>",
  "<vendor>/<name>": "<version>"
}

  3. Save your changes to the composer.json file and exit the text editor.

  4. Resolve dependencies and write exact versions to the composer.lock file.

    composer update

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