The long wait is over, Phalcon 0.5.0 final is here! This version marks a huge step forward in our development roadmap, taking into account mostly features requested by the community and offering a lot of flexibility while still keeping performance high. Phalcon framework is now a very powerful, extensible and fast tool…

It has been a really busy month and a half. We concentrated all of our efforts in developing Phalcon 0.5.0, which outlines a huge rewrite of core parts of the framework. We increased flexibility, extensibility and added more features while still keeping performance high.

This is the last part of the introduction series regarding our upcoming release of Phalcon 0.5.0.

The third installment of our blog posts regarding the upcoming 0.5.0 version is about the MVC implementation. Below follows implementation concepts and examples of a MVC application using Phalcon 0.5.0.

In addition to the dependency injection component seen in the previous post of the introduction series, a new component makes its appearance in Phalcon 0.5: the Events Manager. Its purpose is to intercept the execution of most of the components of the framework by creating "hook points". These hook points allow the dev…

Development in the new version of Phalcon 0.5.0 is well underway. In this new version we are introducing new components for the community to use. In the blog posts to follow, we will explain these new features in length.

Following up on the 0.4.2 release a few weeks ago, we have a fresh update to address some issues and minor bugs.

Our main goal is to make Phalcon a great framework that everyone can benefit from.