Phalcon 2.0.8 and 2.1 beta 2 released

We are excited to announce the immediate availability of Phalcon 2.0.8 and Phalcon 2.1.0 beta 2!

This is the eighth maintenance release in the 2.0.x series. In regards to Phalcon 2.1, the second beta introduces bug fixes and new features intended to stabilize our next major release.

Changes in 2.0.8

Added Phalcon\Security\Random::base58 - to generate a random base58 string
Added Phalcon\Logger\Adapter::isTransaction() to check whether the logger is currently in transaction mode or not (Phalcon 1.3 behavior)
Phalcon\Session\Adapter now closes the session when the adapter is destroyed (Phalcon 1.3 behavior)
Fixed fetching of data in modes FETCH_CLASS, FETCH_INTO and FETCH_FUNC in Phalcon\Db
Added missing code property in Phalcon\Validation\Message available in Phalcon 1.3.x
Added Phalcon\Db\Column::TYPE_TIMESTAMP to allow migrations on these kind of columns
Added Phalcon\Db\ColumnInterface::hasDefault to check if a column has a default value declared in its database column definition
Fixed determining of default value for column in Phalcon\Db\Dialect\MySQL, Phalcon\Db\Dialect\Sqlite and Phalcon\Db\Dialect\Postgresql classes
Now Phalcon\Mvc\Model::__call invokes finders as in __callStatic
Fixed Phalcon\Db\Dialect\Postgresql::getColumnDefinition for BIGINT and BOOLEAN data types
Fixed BOOLEAN default value in Phalcon\Db\Dialect\Postgresql
Added Phalcon\Validation\Validator\CreditCard - validation credit card number using luhn algorithm

Changes in 2.1.0 beta 2

Phalcon\Mvc\Model now implements JsonSerializable making easy serialize model instances
When destroying a Mvc\Model\Manager object the PHQL cache is clean
Method isSetOption in Phalcon\Validation\ValidatorInterface marked as deprecated, please use hasOption
Added internal check “allowEmpty” before calling a validator. If it option is true and the value of empty, the validator is skipped
Added default header: Content-Type: "application/json; charset=UTF-8" in method Phalcon\Http\Response::setJsonContent
Loop structure in Volt now can be passed to macros and functions as loop.self

Last month, important improvements to support PHP7 have been done by the Zephir Team, so we expect to have a usable version of Phalcon for PHP7 soon.

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/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.

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