Hi, I’ve been working on the Nexus Repository Composer Format community plugin ( sonatype-nexus-community/nexus-repository-composer on GitHub ) recently including major refactoring for compatibility with Nexus 3.71+ datastore format. In 3.75 official Composer Proxy support arrived as a Pro feature a…

Hi Stefan, our apologies for putting you in a difficult position. You’ve been working hard to add useful functionality to the ecosystem, and we should have anticipated the impact and communicated about it better. We do have a number of changes coming, and we’d like to reach out to you to discuss the…

Hi Miguel, I totally understand that business decisions have priority and frankly, I was quite surprised about the amount of feedback from the Composer plugin refactoring (as often, feedback starts after things break). I appreciate that it’s now a (partially) supported feature. (among other positiv…

Hi, I’m actuallu using nexus-repository-composer and I have the same problem. We are currently stuck with the version 3.75 since January. It contradicts our organization’s policy, where we must update our services every month if new versions are available :confused: Could you update me on this m…

Up to 3.77.x you can remove the official plugin from your Nexus instance and add the community version as before. Basically remove the “nexus-repository-composer” entry from "$NEXUS_HOME"/system/com/sonatype/nexus/assemblies/nexus-community-feature/*/nexus-community-feature-*-features.xml (see mo…

Hi Stefan, Thank you a lot for your workaround. I will set up on our pre-prod. Yes I saw the big breaking changes in the release for 3.78. Thank you again

Hello there, I was trying to the upgrade of our instance of OSS version on OrientDB, after a lot of trouble as you know already I managed to change OrientDB to h2, and then … Well you know the story, I just saw the 3.78.1 version and all. I’ve already contributed to the composer repository in the …

Hi Stefan, are there some new news about the composer? Any feedback from Sonatype? Your great work in the core system would be a great plus Best regards Marinhio

Hi ! Do you have any updates on the Composer (hoster) integration? We need it in order to upgrade to the latest version in our company, currently we are blocked on the version 3.77.2 :frowning: Best regards, Jonas

State and future of Composer support (community plugin clashes with official implementation)

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Jonas (Jonas) September 29, 2025, 1:35pm 10

Hi !
Many times with no news…
This isn’t encouraging for the future.
Can anyone give any updates ?

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State and future of Composer support (community plugin clashes with official implementation)

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