laravel/laravel — pull request #2364 by fturmel (2013-10-16 00:41:14+00:00)
Title: Adding prefer-stable to composer.json

Since this is the recommended way to start a new project, to me it would make sense that we explicitly prefer stable releases for all the framework dependencies. This will still respect the dev minimum stability if a dependency doesn't have a proper stable release.

http://getcomposer.org/doc/04-schema.md#prefer-stable