This post has been cross posted from Lezgro's blog, written by Pavlo Pastushenko

Today we're very excited to announce the release of the third beta (and possibly last one) of Phalcon 2!

This version is maintenance release of the Phalcon 1.3.x branch and it has a contributions from our community and fixes to the framework. We thank everyone that has worked on this release, especially with their contributions both to 1.3.3 and our work in progress 2.0.0.

It's been a while since we last communicated with our community. Rest assured our resolve and determination towards the project remains the same :)

Today we are launching a new site that would help us spread the word about Phalcon and show where Phalcon is used, whether this is production applications, hobby projects or tutorials.

We are today releasing the much awaited 1.3.2 version.

Eight months ago we announced the creation of a new high-level compiled language called Zephir which we used to completely rewrite Phalcon 2.0.

Yesterday (2014-04-05) we had our first Phalcon community hangout. The main purpose of the hangout was to meet the community, discuss about what Phalcon is and what our future steps are, and hear news, concerns, success stories from the community itself.

Today, we have an important announcement to make. A few weeks ago we received an interesting proposal from an important japanese video-game company. They wanted us to create a game that would help children to become interested in web programming including open source alternatives like Phalcon. We are no way video game…

As with any project, statistics are always good to have around. Whether this is personal curiosity or showing off, statistics help us make decisions.