We are very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Phalcon Framework 0.9.0 stable!

Phalcon now has a discussion forum!

We are happy to announce the release of Phalcon 0.9.0 Beta. This new release follows our roadmap, introducing features mostly requested by our community. We thank everyone that has been involved by providing input and helping with testing and finding bugs.

We're very proud to announce the immediate release of Phalcon 0.8. As mentioned in the alpha/beta posts we've introduce a lot of new and exciting features in this major release. As always we have improved performance and addressed several bugs increasing the overall stability of the framework.

After the introduction of many new and exciting features in our alpha version, we are today releasing the first beta version of 0.8.0.

We're happy to announce the last release of this year, 0.8.0 Alpha. This release is a preview of Phalcon's next stable release which will come next year. We decided to release this alpha version, so that you can get acquainted with the new features coming down the line.

We are very excited to release our third Phalcon demo after INVO and the alternative PHP website to the community, so as to showcase the power of Phalcon.

We are very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Phalcon Framework 0.7.0 stable.

Our friend Marcin @mailopl from Poland sent us this amazing tutorial and introduction to Phalcon. Check the first part here. Enjoy it!

Our friend Marcin @mailopl from Poland sent us this amazing tutorial and introduction to Phalcon. Enjoy it!

The newest version of Phalcon has entered the beta stage. 0.7.0 Beta 1 is now available. This upcoming release introduces features requested by the community, to make the framework more extensible and more robust.

We are pleased to announce the release of Phalcon 0.6.0.

We are very excited to announce that the 0.6.0 version of Phalcon is just around the corner.

Following the major refactoring in 0.5.0, we are going to be posting several blog posts introducing the changes in the upcoming version of Phalcon, 0.6.0.

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.

We are excited to announce that Phalcon supports the PostgreSQL RDBMS:

We built Phalcon because we wanted a faster and better way to create web applications with PHP. Now we can't imagine working without it. This time we're releasing the first update to the 0.4.x branch. Phalcon 0.4.1 comes with interesting features described as follows:

Today, we're launching another sample application for Phalcon. This time, we wanted to create an alternative version of the PHP site powered by the C-extension framework. This is the greatest example we have done until now, implementing many of the main framework features, especially the newly added: Multilingual Suppo…

We've been really busy this last month working on Phalcon 0.4.0, and for our pleasure is finally here! This release is giving much more satisfaction than ever before knowing that have been built with many suggestions and feedback from developers around all the globe.

Our next release, 0.4.0, is almost ready to rock, but we need your help to get the finish line in the best shape possible. Although previous alpha only included improvements in code structure and overall speed, this version (0.4.0 beta) is introducing several new features, improvements and bug fixes.

A couple of weeks a friend from Mexico, suggested us to create an alternative interface to Phalcon Developer Tools. It is true, some people have a hate relationship with the commend console ;).

We're happy to announce that after weeks of refactoring and polishing, 0.4.x are now ready to be tested. Although, it's an alpha release, it has many improvements, specially focused on a more maintainable code base and get running applications even faster.

If you spend a lot of time making software updates, you're probably familiar with the frustration of manually update every change you made on your development database to the production stage. :S

Since rolling out version 0.3.4 a few days ago, we've been hard at work on the next installment of Phalcon. In addition to a few bug fixes and minor tweaks, this release focuses on the ORM component and its partner Phalcon\Db.

We're part of the "speed up the web", therefore, we want to have a rapid release schedule releasing continuous improvements and bug fixes to Phalcon.

INVO is a sample application completely written with Phalcon. It will give you a closer insight into application development with this framework. Although, it's quite functional, have some flaws we expect to complement at the future (at this time does not produce invoices, for example).

We're proud to announce the immediate availability of Phalcon 0.3.3. The last version 0.3.2 was a bugfix/maintenance release.

Phalcon Developer Tools is a set of scripts to help developers in creating application components such as Controllers or Models.

Version 0.3.1 is part of the new 0.3.x branch on which we have been working. Last release improves many aspects of Phalcon. With this release we specifically work on aspects of memory by implementing a memory manager on top of Zend MM.

Last week, we were working on a huge refactoring over many aspects of Phalcon. Once all code in the last 0.2.x branch has reached maturity and reasonable stability We are now working on a new exciting branch producing a cleaner code base which let us to add many improvements as possible.