We’re happy to announce the last release of this year, 0.8.0 Alpha. This release is a preview of Phalcon’s next stable release which will come next year. We decided to release this alpha version, so that you can get acquainted with the new features coming down the line.
In this article we highlight some of the features implemented:

We are very excited to release our third Phalcon demo after INVO and the alternative PHP website to the community, so as to showcase the power of Phalcon.
In this demo, we decided to go big! We created a music album library where one can get information about their favorite artists, discover new music and much more.

We are very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Phalcon Framework 0.7.0 stable.
It’s only been a month since we released 0.6.x, but we’re already back with more updates. And they’re pretty good!
Our friend Marcin @mailopl from Poland sent us this amazing tutorial and introduction to Phalcon. Check the first part here. Enjoy it!
Our friend Marcin @mailopl from Poland sent us this amazing tutorial and introduction to Phalcon. Enjoy it!

With the upcoming release in a week or so of 0.7.0 and the interfaces functionality attached to it, we have created a new repository in github called Phalcon Incubator:
The newest version of Phalcon has entered the beta stage. 0.7.0 Beta 1 is now available. This upcoming release introduces features requested by the community, to make the framework more extensible and more robust.
Some of the most important features introduced in this version are highlighted below:
Optimization is based on improvements concerning network connectivity, the web server optimization and improvement of the different elements that have their own websites, from HTML to JavaScript, CSS or going by the number of requests to DNS servers.
Many stories about how large Internet companies have improved their businesses by increasing their websites performance are not so many years ago: