Composer 2 show all not displaying available versions

[devchris79]

The show --all flag behaviour is different between version 1 and 2 of composer, the documented Magento method for obtaining versions doesn't work correctly with version 2.
It has been pointed out in the Magento forum that --available can be used, but its thought show all should return a list of versions too.

Magento forum post link

When I run this command:

composer show magento/product-community-edition 2.4.* --all | grep -m 1 versions

I get the following output:

versions : * 2.4.2-p2

And I expected this to happen:

versions : * 2.4.3, 2.4.2-p2, 2.4.2-p1, 2.4.2, 2.4.1-p1, 2.4.1, 2.4.0-p1, 2.4.0