After a series of beta releases, Phalcon 1.1 is finally released!

This release adds new functionality, fixes bugs, improves of the current components, improves performance and more! We’re constantly searching for the best balance between performance and functionality, building a robust framework that performs exceptionally well!

Main features in this release were highlighted in the beta article.

Vökuró, is our new sample application to showcase the features of Phalcon. We implemented several features related to authorization, authentication and security. Some of these features have recently been introduced in the framework. This sample application provides a basic frontend and a backend where users/profiles/security can be managed.

The following features are implemented:

In an effort to help developers with the installation of Phalcon, we have created a feature request with cPanel so that we can develop an installation script that would allow cPanel customers install the extension with literally one click.

https://features.cpanel.net/responses/add-support-for-phalconphp-extension-apache-php

After our successful 1.0 release, we continue improving Phalcon with our latest release 1.1.0 (beta). In this article, we’re highlighting the most important features introduced:

In this tutorial, we’re going to explain how to create a behavior for the Phalcon’s ORM. Its goal is keep track of data changed by users on specific models. This behavior is often known as Blameable.

A model in Phalcon triggers specific events when operations like create/update/delete are performed. These events help us to insert hook points extending the functionality according to our business needs.

This tutorial is oriented to an intermediate/advanced audience. We’ll explain how to create a custom model’s initializer via annotations that can be easily modified/adapted to initialize collections, plugins, etc.

UPDATE: Although write Phalcon in Assembler may be challenging, we regret to inform you that this was our April Fools’ joke, thanks for your great sense of humor! :)

Continuing our work of trying to make Phalcon even faster, we have decided to start migrating our code to assembler.

Friends around the world, we’re very proud and excited to announce that Phalcon 1.0 is ready for you!

After more than one year of hard work and several releases, we are happy to bring you the most stable and complete version of Phalcon.