Phalcon 3.2.0 released

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 attempts 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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