Fixes #4454: Improved asset bundle managed and used composer-asset-plugin to manage the dependencies on 3rd-party JS libraries

framework/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -264,6 +264,7 @@ Yii Framework 2 Change Log
 - Chg #4318: `yii\helpers\Html::ul()` and `ol()` will return an empty list tag if an empty item array is given (qiangxue)
 - Chg #4331: `yii\helpers\Url` now uses `UrlManager` to determine base URL when generating URLs (qiangxue)
 - Chg #4424: Added `inline` and `mimeType` options to all file downloading methods provided in `yii\web\Response` (qiangxue)
+- Chg #4454: Improved asset bundle managed and used composer-asset-plugin to manage the dependencies on 3rd-party JS libraries (qiangxue)
 - Chg #4501: Renamed the constant `YII_PATH` to `YII2_PATH` (qiangxue)
 - Chg #4586: Signed bigint and unsigned int will be converted into integers when they are loaded from DB by AR (qiangxue)
 - Chg #4591: `yii\helpers\Url::to()` will no longer prefix relative URLs with the base URL (qiangxue)

framework/UPGRADE.md

@@ -12,6 +12,13 @@ for both A and B.
 Upgrade from Yii 2.0 Beta
 -------------------------
 
+* If you are using Composer to install Yii, you should run the following command first (once for all) to install
+  the composer-asset-plugin:
+
+  ```
+  php composer.phar global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin:~1.0"
+  ```
+
 * If you used `clearAll()` or `clearAllAssignments()` of `yii\rbac\DbManager`, you should replace
   them with `removeAll()` and `removeAllAssignments()` respectively.