Phalcon 2.0.2 released

The development of Phalcon has been accelerated since we released 2.0.0. More and more contributors find Zephir very easy to understand and work with, and as a result it is time to release Phalcon 2.0.2. This version includes many features, bug fixes and improvements in terms of performance:

Added stats() methods to Beanstalk
Fixed segfault when a docblock does not have annotations 10301
Fixed wrong number of parameters passed when triggering an event in Mvc\Collection
Now Mvc\Model checks if an attribute has a default value associated in the database and ignores it from the insert/update generated SQL
Re-added Http\Request::hasPut() 10283
Phalcon\Text: Added method reduceSlashes() - Reduces multiple slashes in a string to single slashes
Phalcon\Text: Added method concat() - Concatenates strings using the separator only once without duplication in places concatenation
Added conditional on Session adapter start() to check if the session has already been started
Added status() function in Session adapter to return the status of the session (disabled/none/started)
Implementation of subqueries as expressions in PHQL
Performance improvements focused on PHP 5.6

Subqueries

One of the most requested requests by the community is now available in Phalcon 2.0.2. Now, you can take advantage of subqueries as shown below:

$phql = "SELECT c.* FROM Shop\Cars c
WHERE c.brandId IN (SELECT id FROM Shop\Brands)
ORDER BY c.name";
$cars = $this->modelsManager->executeQuery($phql);

Models must belong to the same database in order to be used as source in a subquery.

Default Database Values

Now in the case that a column has a ‘default’ value declared in the field of the mapped table, this ‘default’ value will be used instead of inserting NULL:

$robots = new Robots();
$robots->save(); // use all `default` values

Update/Upgrade

This version can be installed from the master branch, if you don’t have Zephir installed follow these instructions:

git clone https://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon
cd cphalcon/ext
sudo ./install

The standard installation method also works:

git clone https://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon
cd cphalcon/build
sudo ./install

If you have Zephir installed:

git clone https://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon
cd cphalcon
zephir build

Note that running the installation script will replace any version of Phalcon installed before.

Windows DLLs are available in the download page.

See the upgrading guide for more information about upgrading to Phalcon 2.0.x from 1.3.x.

Coming soon

In the future 2.0.x series, we will be concentrating our efforts on requests from the community:

Eager-Loading in PHQL
Optional string empty values in the ORM
PHQL custom functions
Case Statements in PHQL
Aliases for namespaces in PHQL

Later on, we will be planning the features to include in Phalcon 2.1, for now:

Complete deprecation of PHP 5.3
Unification of Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Validation and Phalcon\Validation

Thanks

Thanks to everyone involved in making this version as well to the community for their continuous input and feedback!

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