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joomla/session
==============

Joomla Session Package

4.0.0(9mo ago)5365.1k↓21%206GPL-2.0-or-laterPHPPHP ^8.3.0CI passing

Since Jun 4Pushed 9mo ago13 watchersCompare

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READMEChangelog (7)Dependencies (11)Versions (33)Used By (6)Security (1)

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[](#the-session-package-)

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The Session package provides an interface for managing sessions within an application.

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- PHP 8.1 or later

Installation via Composer
-------------------------

[](#installation-via-composer)

Add `"joomla/session": "~3.0"` to the require block in your composer.json and then run `composer install`.

```
{
	"require": {
		"joomla/session": "~3.0"
	}
}
```

Alternatively, you can simply run the following from the command line:

```
composer require joomla/session "~3.0"
```

If you want to include the test sources, use

```
composer require --prefer-source joomla/session "~3.0"
```

###  Health Score

59

—

FairBetter than 99% of packages

Maintenance55

Moderate activity, may be stable

Popularity44

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community35

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity89

Battle-tested with a long release history

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 69% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~158 days

Recently: every ~163 days

Total

29

Last Release

299d ago

Major Versions

1.5.0 → 2.0.0-beta2020-06-05

1.6.0 → 2.0.0-rc2021-05-18

2.0.2 → 3.0.02023-10-08

3.0.3 → 4.0.02025-07-23

PHP version history (6 changes)1.0-alphaPHP >=5.3.10

1.3.2PHP ^5.3.10|~7.0

2.0.0-betaPHP ^7.2.5

2.0.2PHP ^7.2.5|~8.0.0|~8.1.0

3.0.0PHP ^8.1.0

4.0.0PHP ^8.3.0

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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Tags

joomlajoomla-frameworkphpsessionframeworksessionjoomla

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Static AnalysisPHPStan

Code StylePHP\_CodeSniffer

Type Coverage Yes

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