set minimum-stability to stable

[fritzmg]

Having a minimum-stability of dev greatly increases the memory consumption of the dependency resolving process. Since "regular" users likely will require only a minimum-stability of stable, the default should be set to stable in my opinion. Any advanced user surely will be able to change the setting accordingly.

[discordier]

We can only do so in 0.17.0, as this will be a breaking change.

[fritzmg]

We can only do so in 0.17.0, as this will be a breaking change.

Since it can only affect new installations, it cannot break backwards compatibility, can it?

[discordier]

It won't break old installations but will break news installations within a patch level of the extension.
New installations will behave differently then as they used to behave and therefore causing confusion I assume.

As we are still in the 0.x range, we can break stuff in the next minor, if we would already be in 1.x, we would have to wait for 2.x.

[fritzmg]

The increased memory requirement already causes confusion anyway. On the community forum I have to recommend to set that option to stable (which is the default value anyway) quite frequently.

[discordier]

Which will happen automatically in the next minor, as I wrote above.