Phalcon v4.0.0-alpha4 released

The Phalcon Team is happy to announce the release of v4.0.0 Alpha 4! Github Tag. We also made a mistake yesterday in our hangout, PSR-7/PSR-17 related components were not released with alpha.3; the PR was actually merged after that release. Therefore we are releasing alpha.4 today!

As always, we cannot thank your community enough! As mentioned in yesterday’s hangout, our community rocks! We have more and more people joining our Discord server, contributors are helping with minor and major issues on all repositories. Our community is the drive that makes Phalcon better with every release.

We are releasing the fourth alpha version today, a lot of additions as well as bug fixes. You can see our project here

The biggest addition in this release is the PSR-7/PSR-17 compatible components under the Phalcon\Http\Message namespace.

Most likely, this will be the last alpha release, but it will depend primarily on the progress of the PSR-16 (Cache) implementation.

Changelog

Added

Added delimiter and enclosure options to Phalcon\Translate\Adapter\Csv constructor
Added Phalcon\Http\Message\* namespace implementing PSR-7 and PSR-17. Introducing:
- Phalcon\Http\Message\Request
- Phalcon\Http\Message\RequestFactory
- Phalcon\Http\Message\Response
- Phalcon\Http\Message\ResponseFactory
- Phalcon\Http\Message\ServerRequest
- Phalcon\Http\Message\ServerRequestFactory
- Phalcon\Http\Message\Stream
- Phalcon\Http\Message\StreamFactory
- Phalcon\Http\Message\UploadedFile
- Phalcon\Http\Message\UploadedFileFactory
- Phalcon\Http\Message\Uri
- Phalcon\Http\Message\UriFactory
- Phalcon\Http\Message\Stream\Input
- Phalcon\Http\Message\Stream\Memory
- Phalcon\Http\Message\Stream\Temp The implementation offers PSR-7/PSR-17 compatible components in a different namespace to allow usage of both Request and Response implementations for this version. #11789
Added Phalcon\Helper\* namespace, offering easy manipulations for arrays, numbers etc..
- Phalcon\Helper\Arr
- Phalcon\Helper\Number #13889
Added Phalcon\Collection, an object implementing ArrayAccess, Countable, IteratorAggregate, JsonSerializable, Serializable, offering an easy way to handle collections of data such as arrays, superglobals etc. #13886
Added Phalcon\Collection, in Phalcon\Http\Message\Request and Phalcon\Http\Message\ServerRequest to handle the headers #13907

Fixed

Fixed Phalcon\Image\Adapter\Imagick::_watermark, setImageAlpha() fills the alpha channel with black before execution (replaced by evaluateImage()). Improved imagick compatibility. #13911
Fixed Assets Manager hard reference to \Phalcon\Tag, should use DI #12261

Changed

Refactored Phalcon\Registry to use the Phalcon\Collection class #13893
Refactored Phalcon\Session\Bag to use the Phalcon\Collection class #13893
Refactored almost all files of the project to abide by the new coding standard for Phalcon. Certain files have been intentionally left untouched because they will be relaced later on. #13915

Removed

Removed Phalcon\Session\BagInterface #13893

Installation/Upgrade

The packages in packagecloud.io are being updated (at the time of this post) and will be ready soon. You will need to use the mainline repository to install v4.0.0-alpha4. You can also download the zip file, as well as DLLs for Windows, from our release page here.

You can also clone the repository and checkout the tag, and then run

zephir fullclean
zephir build

to install the new extension. Detailed installation instructions can be found in our documentation page.

Thank you

Once again a huge thank you to all of our contributors! You guys have helped us a lot. You can help us even more by installing this version and testing it. If you find bugs, please report them in our Github Issues page. Alternatively you can always join us in our Discord server or our Forum.

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