Magento 2 version(s) in composer

Question

We are getting ready to upgrade from v2.2.2 to v2.2.4. Due to our deployment process, I need to push the composer.json so it can be upgraded properly via the git rather than doing it in the backend.

But I just noticed that a second version number shows up in the top of the composer.json file. It currently shows our original version (2.2.1). Should this one be left alone to show the 'original' or should it be updated also?

{
 "name": "magento/project-community-edition",
 "description": "eCommerce Platform for Growth (Community Edition)",
 "type": "project",
 "version": "2.2.1",
 "license": [
 "OSL-3.0",
 "AFL-3.0"
 ],
 "require": {
 "magento/product-community-edition": "2.2.2",
 "composer/composer": "@alpha",
[.....]

• Vivek Kumar: You should mark the answer which helped you accepted.
• Scott: but I figured out the answer by re-running an upgrade on another instance. It wasn't an answer here that gave me the answer.
• Vivek Kumar: Marking answer accepted helps other users which come looking for same issues, so either you can post your own answer and mark it as accepted or accept the answer which will solve the issue as accepted
• Scott: and I already added a comment that states what I did to solve the problem (which was different than the solution listed in the answer)

Answer 1

This is what I use to upgrade:

How to update Magento2 using composer

Here is the solution that always works for me:

- composer require magento/product-community-edition 2.0.5 --no-update
- composer update
- rm -rf var/di var/generation
- php bin/magento cache:flush
- php bin/magento setup:upgrade
- php bin/magento setup:di:compile
- php bin/magento indexer:reindex

• Scott: ok, thanks - forgot I could run it that way to let composer do it. I had already updated one instance, but forgot that while my local copy isn't tied to a web server, it can work with composer. Doing that didn't update the top so I guess that answers that question.

Answer 2

Ran composer manually - looked at header of composer.json. Version at the top didn't update.

Happy Vivek?

• Vivek Kumar: ¯_(ツ)_/¯ .....