Phalcon v4.1.0 released

We are very happy to announce the release of Phalcon v4.1.0!

This release offers new features requested by the community as well as bug fixes reported by the community.

As per our blog post The future of Phalcon, this will be the last version we release for Phalcon as a PHP extension.

Huge thanks to our contributors that reported issues, offered input as well as submitted pull requests with additions and corrections!

NOTE: You can always check our roadmap and the status of our active sprint for v5 in our project page: https://github.com/orgs/phalcon/projects/5

Added

Added JWT (JSON Web Tokens) support under Phalcon\Security\JWT. Offers support for:
- Token
- Parser
- Builder
- Validator
- Signers (None, HMAC)
- Base64 encode/decodeUrl helper class #13856
Added additional HTML helpers under Phalcon\Html\Helper: Anchor, Base, Body, Button, Close, Element, Form, Img, Input\Color, Input\Date, Input\DateTime, Input\DateTimeLocal, Input\Email, Input\File, Input\Hidden, Input\Image, Input\Input, Input\Month, Input\Numeric, Input\Password, Input\Range, Input\Select, Input\Search, Input\Submit, Input\Tel, Input\Text, Input\Textarea, Input\Time, Input\Url, Input\Week, Label, Link, Meta, Ol, Script, Style, Title, Ul #14696
Added Phalcon\Http\Request::getPreferredIsoLocaleVariant() to return the base language if this is a specific one (en vs en-US) #3135
Added preload for Volt, which will send a HTTP/2 preload header #13128
Added Phalcon\Helper\Arr::blackList() to exclude elements of an array by the keys obtained from the elements of a blacklist #14801 @TimurFlush
Added Phalcon\Debug::renderHtml() to get a HTML representation of the exception #14794 @TimurFlush
Added Phalcon\Mvc\Router\Annotations->setActionPreformatCallback($callback) to set a callback which pre-formats actions to custom pattern #14819
Added new PDO wrapper for the Data Mapper implementation, with decorated instance, locator and profiler
- Phalcon\DataMapper\Pdo\Connection
- Phalcon\DataMapper\Pdo\Connection\Decorated
- Phalcon\DataMapper\Pdo\Profiler\Profiler
- Phalcon\DataMapper\Pdo\Profiler\MemoryLogger
- Phalcon\DataMapper\Pdo\ConnectionLocator This component will be used in the Data Mapper implementation but can be used as a stand alone component for PDO connections. #14733
Added new Query Builder, as well as a factory, for the Data Mapper implementation supporting CRUD with bound parameters
- Phalcon\DataMapper\Query\Bind
- Phalcon\DataMapper\Query\Delete
- Phalcon\DataMapper\Query\Insert
- Phalcon\DataMapper\Query\Select
- Phalcon\DataMapper\Query\Update
- Phalcon\DataMapper\Query\QueryFactory This component can be used to create SQL statements using a fluent interface. Optionally the statements can be executed from the builder itself using the DataMapper\Pdo connection. #14734
Added Phalcon\Mvc\Micro\LazyLoader::getHandler() to return real handler when using lazy loaded controllers for Phalcon\Mvc\Micro #14871 @Jurigag
Added Phalcon\Collection\CollectionInterface and Phalcon\Config\ConfigInterface to use as typehints when extending or implementing custom classes #15106 @BeMySlaveDarlin
Added Phalcon\Db\Adapter\AdapterInterface::getDefaultValue() and supportsDefaultValue() methods to properly support the DEFAULT keyword #15180
Added Phalcon\Db\Adapter\AbstractAdapter::supportsDefaultValue() method to properly support the DEFAULT keyword #15180

Changed

Added service checks for the session. Now cookies will be saved in the session only when the session service is defined #11770, #14649
Changed Phalcon\Db\Adapter\*::getRawSQLStatement() to return the full SQL query with parameters #12196
Changed Phalcon\Filter::sanitize to throw a E_USER_NOTICE when a filter does not exist. #14679
PHQL now supports the use of any printable characters from the extended ASCII table for escaped identifiers. The exception characters are [ and ]. To use [ and ] escape they (\[, \]) #14535
Removed UTF-8 charset when using Phalcon\Http\Response::setJsonContent to apply with rfc7159
Changed the visibility of properties in Phalcon\Http\Message\Uri to work with clone. #15040
Change Phalcon\Validation\AbstractValidator::__construct. Save custom validator message in options. #15053 @ivan-zolotavin
Add proxy methods without _ prefix in methods names: getRelatedRecords(), groupResult(), exists(), preSaveRelatedRecords(), preSave(), doLowUpdate(), postSaveRelatedRecords(), postSave(), cancelOperation(), doLowInsert(), getConnection(), getConnectionService(), getVersion(), getSpecial() #14971
Modified Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Relation to accept callable params for model relations. #15158

Fixed

Fixed Phalcon\Db\Dialect\Mysql::getColumnDefinition to recognize size for DATETIME, TIME and TIMESTAMP columns #13297
Fixed Phalcon\Events\Manager to provide callable support #13322, #15045
Fixed Phalcon\Validation\Validator\Uniqueness fixed except query #15084
Fixed Phalcon\Mvc\Model to also check the params option in cascade relations when deleting #15098
Fixed Phalcon\Mvc\Model to also check the params option in restricted relations when deleting #15172
Fixed Phalcon\Mvc\Model::findFirst() to return correct value #15077
Fixed Phalcon\Mvc\Model\CriteriaInterface::where() parameters #15144
Fixed Phalcon\Http\Response\Cookies::set() to utilize the options parameter correctly #15129
Fixed Phalcon\Http\Cookie::send() to define options parameter #15142
Fixed Phalcon\Crypt performance issues. #15118
Fixed Phalcon\Mvc\Router\Route unicode support in patterns #15102
Fixed fatal error in Phalcon\Mvc\Model::cloneResultMap() when column map is used with orm.cast_on_hydrate turned on. #14617
Fixed Phalcon\Mvc\Model::sum(), average(), minimum(), maxmium(), count() to utilize the transaction parameter. #15113
Fixed Phalcon\Mvc\Model::__set() to clear dirtyRelated when empty array is set. #14822
Fixed Phalcon\Mvc\Model to skip columns with default values when the DEFAULT keyword is not supported by the database adapter (SQLite) #15180
Fixed Phalcon\Mvc\Router to handle numeric routes properly #14926
Fixed Phalcon\Session\Adapter\Redis and Phalcon\Session\Adapter\Libmemcached to utilize the prefix option #15184
Fixed Phalcon\Mvc\Model to save the modified properties of previously queried single related records. #15148

Removed

Removed Phalcon\Http\Cookie binding to session #11770
- Phalcon\Http\Cookie no longer depends on the session service and data will not be duplicated in the session. This made it difficult to use cookies in stateless applications (SPA).
Removed unused property Phalcon\Mvc\Router::uriSource. #15123

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 v4.1.0. 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.

Note: It might take a bit of time for the DEB and RPM packages to be built from when this blog post is published.

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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