Composer still installing Sage 8.5.3

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Following the install instructions at https://roots.io/sage/docs/theme-installation/ still results in composer downloading Sage 8.5.3. I have run composer clear-cache to make sure I have cleared the cache for previous versions.

Reading through https://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md#create-project, it looks like I can specify a minimum version of the project using some flags, but this may be something the team wants to update so that it installs Sage 9 by default instead of the older Sage 8.5.3.

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It looks like this may have been a PHP version issue; my local OS host is running PHP 5.6.3, whereas my VM is running 7.1. Was running Composer from the host OS instead of in the VM. Am testing further to verify.

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As noted in my original post, I have already run this.

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It looks like the root cause of the issue was not having PHP 7.x on my host OS. I was able to successfully install it in the VM without issue. Marking resolved.