Phalcon 3.2.0 released - New docs

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Hello everyone and Happy Father’s day!

For our Father’s day present, we are extremely happy to announce the release of our newest Phalcon version: 3.2.0.

Our Github issues page has well over 600 issues. However those are mostly New Feature Requests (NFRs), so we started clearing up more and more bugs as well as introducing suggested NFRs. Of course all this would not be feasible without the help of our amazing community: Thank you!

Documentation

Also as part of our goals for Q2, we are releasing our new documentation. We have been working hard to convert all the rst files (reStructuredText) to md (Markdown) and also have a first pass on identifying inconsistencies and enhancing the documentation. Of course a lot more is needed on that, but it will come in future versions.

We are now using Crowdin to help contributors translate our documents. The docs website has been updated but still needs a little bit of love with the stylesheet (coming very soon). Also you will note that the site mentions version 3.1; we will fix that this week coming to ensure that every document is properly versioned in Crowdin.

Our new documentation needs admittedly a little bit of fine tuning in terms of the CSS and the menus. This will be done in the upcoming week. Also, we are going through all the documents and ensuring the content is correct and accurate throughout. Examples and new functionality of new releases will also be added from now on, before we release so that the documents are up to date always.

NOTE: The documentation for previous versions is located here: https://olddocs.phalcon.io.

Release

The release tag can be found here: 3.2.0. The Windows DLLs are in the releases Github page.

Changelog

  • Phalcon will now trigger E_DEPREACATED by using Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Criteria::addWhere, Phalcon\Debug::getMajorVersion, Phalcon\Dispatcher::setModelBinding, Phalcon\Tag::resetInput, Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Validator::__construct
  • Added Factory Adapter loaders #11001
  • Added ability to sanitize URL to Phalcon\Filter
  • Added missed $type argument to interface Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Query\BuilderInterface::join() to specify type join
  • Added Phalcon\Mvc\Model::hasUpdated and Phalcon\Mvc\Model:getUpdatedFields, way to check if fields were updated after create/save/update
  • Added support for having option in Phalcon\Paginator\Adapter\QueryBuilder #12111
  • Added Phalcon\Config::path to get a value using a dot separated path #12221
  • Added service provider interface to configure services by context #12783
  • Added the ability to load services from yaml (Phalcon\Di::loadFromYaml) and php array (Phalcon\Di::loadFromPhp) files, so we can keep the references cleanly separated from code #12784
  • Added Phalcon\Cache\Backend\Apcu to introduce pure support of APCu #12098, #11934
  • Added Phalcon\Annotations\Adapter\Apcu to introduce pure support of APCu #12098
  • Added option to disable snapshot update on create/save using Phalcon\Mvc\Model::setup(['updateSnapshotOnSave' => false]) or phalcon.orm.update_snapshot_on_save = 0 in php.ini
  • Added Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Manager::setModelPrefix and Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Manager::getModelPrefix to introduce tables prefixes #10328
  • Added methods Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Query\Builder::andHaving, Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Query\Builder::orHaving, Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Query\Builder::betweenHaving, Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Query\Builder::notBetweenHaving, Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Query\Builder::inHaving, Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Query\Builder::notInHaving
  • Added parameters skip_on_insert, skip_on_update and allow_empty_string and fixed a bug for renamed integer columns in Phalcon\Mvc\Model\MetaData\Strategy\Annotations::getMetaData
  • Added way to disable setters in Phalcon\Mvc\Model::assign by using Phalcon\Mvc\Model::setup or ini option
  • Added ability to sanitize special characters to Phalcon\Filter
  • Added a new Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Binder::findBoundModel method. Params fetched from cache are being added to internalCache class property in Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Binder::getParamsFromCache
  • Added Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Criteria::createBuilder to create a query builder from criteria
  • Added dispatcher::beforeForward event to allow forwarding request to the separated module #121, #12417
  • Added Phalcon\Security\Random:base62 to provide the largest value that can safely be used in URLs without needing to take extra characters into consideration #12105
  • Added Phalcon\Assets\ResourceInterface. So now Phalcon\Assets\Inline and Phalcon\Assets\Resource implements ResourceInterface
  • Added Phalcon\Assets\Collection::has to checks whether the resource is added to the collection or not
  • Added Phalcon\Cli\Dispatcher::getOption, Phalcon\Cli\Dispatcher::hasOption and the options as parameter to cli handlers
  • Added Phalcon\Config\Adapter\Grouped to allow usage of multiple configuration files/adapters in a simple format #12884
  • Added DISTINCT type for Phalcon\Text::random
  • Added autopadding feature for Phalcon\Crypt::encryptBase64 and Phalcon\Crypt::decryptBase64 #12490
  • Fixed Dispatcher forwarding when handling exception #11819, #12154
  • Fixed params view scope for PHP 7 #12648
  • Fixed Phalcon\Mvc\Micro::handle to prevent attemps to send response twice #12668
  • Fixed Di::set, Di::setShared to allow pass more than 10 arguments #12299
  • Fixed Phalcon\Mvc\Model\MetaData\Strategy\Annotations::getColumnMaps where only renamed columns where returned if there was one
  • Fixed Phalcon\Mvc\Micro:handle to correctly handle before handlers #10931
  • Fixed Phalcon\Mvc\Micro:handle to correctly handle afterBinding handlers
  • Fixed Phalcon\Mvc\Model::hasChanged to correctly use it with arrays #12669
  • Fixed Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Resultset::delete to return result depending on success #11133
  • Fixed Phalcon\Session\Adapter::destroy to correctly clear the $_SESSION superglobal #12326, #12835
  • Fixed Phalcon\Assets\Collection:add to avoid duplication of resources #10938, #2008
  • Fixed Phalcon\Mvc\View\Engine\Volt::compile to not throw exception in case of absence the file and stat option is true #12849
  • Fixed Phalcon\Mvc\Collection::getReservedAttributes to workaround for PHP 7/7.1 bug with static null when extending class phalcon/incubator#762, phalcon/incubator#760
  • Fixed Phalcon\Cache\Backend\Redis::__construct and Phalcon\Cache\Backend\Redis::_connect to correctly handle the Redis auth option #12736
  • Fixed Phalcon\Mvc\Collection::getReservedAttributes, added missing properties to reserved attributes phalcon/incubator#762, phalcon/incubator#760
  • Fixed Phalcon\Mvc\Router\Annotation::processActionAnnotation to support PATCH request

Update/Upgrade

Phalcon 3.2.0 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

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

PackageCloud.io has been updated to allow your package manager (for Linux machines) to upgrade to the new version seamlessly.

NOTE: Windows DLLs are now available in our Github Release page.

PackageCloud will be updated shortly.

We encourage existing Phalcon 3 users to update to this version.

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