The bower team has been working hard, getting new features in the project and closing bugs for users and developers. As of 2016–04–05, bower is version 1.7.9. My favorite one is the option to have` — save` enabled with every download, as described here , usually when I’m adding a bower dependency I’d like it to be saved on the bower.json, very rarely I would download a package with no project. 1040 Backwards compatibility is important, so by default this is disabled, to enable it add the options “save” and/or “save-exact” to your .bowerrc configuration file. {"save": true,"save-exact": true,} With save-exact, the version will be persisted to your bower.json, like this: {"angular": "^1.5.3", // version 1.5.3 or newer"bootstrap": "3.0.0" // always use the exact version 3.0.0} All the new features added this month are: 1.7.9–2016–04–05 Show warnings for invalid bower.json fields Update bower-json Less strict validation on package name (allow spaces, slashes, and “@”) 1.7.8–2016–04–04 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 The whole list of changes can be found . here
