Bump composer/composer from 2.9.5 to 2.9.6 in the composer group across 1 directory

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Bumps the composer group with 1 update in the / directory: composer/composer.

Updates composer/composer from 2.9.5 to 2.9.6

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2.9.6

• Security: Fixed command injection via malicious Perforce reference (GHSA-gqw4-4w2p-838q / CVE-2026-40261)
• Security: Fixed command injection via malicious Perforce repository definition (GHSA-wg36-wvj6-r67p / CVE-2026-40176)
• Security: Fixed git credentials remaining in git mirror .git/config after clone or update failed (2bcbfc3d)
• Security: Fixed usage of insecure 3DES ciphers when ext-curl is missing (5e71d77e)
• Security: Fixed Perforce unescaped user input in queryP4User shell command (ef3fc088)
• Security: Hardened git/hg/perforce/fossil identifier validation to ensure branch names starting with - do not cause issues (6621d45, d836b90, 5e08c764)
• Fixed inconsistent treatment of SingleCommandApplication script commands wrt autoloading (#12758)
• Fixed GitHub API authentication errors not being visible to the user (#12737)
• Fixed some platform package parsing failing when Composer runs in web SAPIs (#12735)
• Fixed error reporting for clarity when a constraint cannot be parsed (#12743)

Full Changelog: composer/composer@2.9.5...2.9.6

Changelog

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[2.9.6] 2026-04-14

• Security: Fixed command injection via malicious Perforce reference (GHSA-gqw4-4w2p-838q / CVE-2026-40261)
• Security: Fixed command injection via malicious Perforce repository definition (GHSA-wg36-wvj6-r67p / CVE-2026-40176)
• Security: Fixed git credentials remaining in git mirror .git/config after clone or update failed (2bcbfc3d)
• Security: Fixed usage of insecure 3DES ciphers when ext-curl is missing (5e71d77e)
• Security: Fixed Perforce unescaped user input in queryP4User shell command (ef3fc088)
• Security: Hardened git/hg/perforce/fossil identifier validation to ensure branch names starting with - do not cause issues (6621d45, d836b90, 5e08c764)
• Fixed inconsistent treatment of SingleCommandApplication script commands wrt autoloading (#12758)
• Fixed GitHub API authentication errors not being visible to the user (#12737)
• Fixed some platform package parsing failing when Composer runs in web SAPIs (#12735)
• Fixed error reporting for clarity when a constraint cannot be parsed (#12743)

Commits

• 9afc32c Release 2.9.6
• e00073c Fix some perforce type issues
• 4fcc13d Convert perforce util to use array process args to avoid injections
• fd82721 Update changelog
• 15f2541 Fix --no-plugins handling regression in #12758, fixes #12789
• 4f02616 Merge commit from fork
• 91f0770 Merge commit from fork
• d836b90 Fix fossil driver identifier validation for getFileContent
• 028a251 Fix tests
• 5e08c76 Fix fossil update call when calling it with valid branch names like --dry-run...
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