How to know when a new package version using bower?

Question

I am using bower see dependencies from my bower.json below, so the question is I want bower to give a report of dependencies with newer version release but without installing it, for insatnce using npm-check-updates for npm give a nice list of dependencies that are outdated.

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 "dependencies": {
        "angular": "1.3.0-beta.17",
        "angular-animate": "1.3.0-beta.17",
        "angular-mocks": "1.3.0-beta.17",
        "angular-resource": "1.3.0-beta.17",
        "angular-route": "1.3.0-beta.17",
        "angular-ui-select2": "~0.0.5",
        "underscore": "~1.x",
        "bootstrap": "~3.x",
        "components-font-awesome": "~4.x",
        "angular-bootstrap": "~0.11.0",
        "ng-grid": "~2.0.11",
        "AngularJS-Toaster": "~0.4.6",
        "intro.js": "~0.9.0",
        "angular-intro.js": "~1.1.1"
    },
...

Answer 1

You can just do bower ls and it'll tell you which packages are outdated. However there's discussion regarding adding an outdated command alias to be consistent with other package managers, included npm. You can voice your support here: https://github.com/bower/bower/issues/1138