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 Satis can be used to host the metadata of your company's private packages, or
 your own. It basically acts as a micro-packagist. You can get it from
 [GitHub](http://github.com/composer/satis) or install via CLI:
-`composer.phar create-project composer/satis`.
+`composer.phar create-project composer/satis --stability=dev`.
 
 ## Setup