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-Since April 2017, Friendica uses [Composer](help/Composer) to manage autoloading.
+Friendica uses [Composer](help/Composer) to manage autoloading.
This means that all the PHP class files moved to the `src` folder will be [automatically included](help/autoloader) when the class it defines is first used in the flow.
This is an improvement over the current `require` usage since files will be included on an actual usage basis instead of the presence of a `require` call.