diff --git a/app/composer.json b/app/composer.json
index fb361fc5d..e05128e72 100644
--- a/app/composer.json
+++ b/app/composer.json
@@ -23,8 +23,10 @@
 	},
 	"require-dev": {
 		"phpunit/phpunit": "3.7.*",
-		"cakephp/cakephp": "~2.8",
-		"cakephp/cakephp-codesniffer": "^1.0.0"
+		"cakephp/cakephp": "~2.8"
+	},
+	"suggest": {
+		"cakephp/cakephp-codesniffer": "Easily check code formatting against the CakePHP coding standards."
 	},
 	"bin": [
 		"lib/Cake/Console/cake"