This version is maintenance release of the Phalcon 1.3.x branch and it has a contributions from our community and fixes to the framework. We thank everyone that has worked on this release, especially with their contributions both to 1.3.3 and our work in progress 2.0.0.

Today we are launching a new site that would help us spread the word about Phalcon and show where Phalcon is used, whether this is production applications, hobby projects or tutorials.

We are today releasing the much awaited 1.3.2 version.

As with any project, statistics are always good to have around. Whether this is personal curiosity or showing off, statistics help us make decisions.

Right after our 2 year celebration and several months of development, more than 1,500 commits and a lot of improvements and fixes, Phalcon 1.3 is finally released!

We are pleased to announce the release of Phalcon 1.2.5, the latest stable version of framework.

We are happy to announce the release of our first beta of Phalcon 1.3!

In addition to 2.0, the Phalcon Team is also focused on 1.3, a new version that will include new features, important improvements in the overall memory usage and new components like Phalcon\Image.

Last week, security researchers announced that a new attack towards websites has been discovered called BREACH. This attack allows the attacker to obtain data even if connections are secured with SSL connections. Several web sites and applications could be compromised. Note that this attack could affect any web applica…

With every release, throughout the development of Phalcon, we have always focused on offering a good balance between new features (driven by the community) and bug fixes/optimizations.

We are happy to announce that Phalcon 1.2.1 is available for download/compile for our users.

This new release of the Phalcon framework, contains several new features (mostly requested by the community), bug fixes and various performance improvements. The main changes are highlighted in the beta article. You can see the CHANGELOG for a complete list of changes.

The Phalcon Team is constantly trying to find ways of making Phalcon even faster while keeping a good balance in terms of features offered and performance.

Success story from our community member Nikita Vershinin:

We are happy to announce the release of our first beta of Phalcon 1.2!

This post is quite technical, explaining the inner workings of Phalcon.

Further popular demand by our community, we have opened a modest store where we have Phalcon stickers ready for you to purchase!

Yet another success story from our community member Michael (Xpundel).

Amazing projects need amazing tools. We might not know you just yet, but we think you'd be a great fit for building a better web. Together, we're ready to change the world!

We are constantly trying to enhance Phalcon, to make it a better framework using a completely new approach towards PHP frameworks. We are continuously adding new features and keeping the core stable and increasing performance as much as possible.

After a series of beta releases, Phalcon 1.1 is finally released!

Vökuró, is our new sample application to showcase the features of Phalcon. We implemented several features related to authorization, authentication and security. Some of these features have recently been introduced in the framework. This sample application provides a basic frontend and a backend where users/profiles/se…

In an effort to help developers with the installation of Phalcon, we have created a feature request with cPanel so that we can develop an installation script that would allow cPanel customers install the extension with literally one click.

After our successful 1.0 release, we continue improving Phalcon with our latest release 1.1.0 (beta). In this article, we're highlighting the most important features introduced:

In this tutorial, we're going to explain how to create a behavior for the Phalcon's ORM. Its goal is keep track of data changed by users on specific models. This behavior is often known as Blameable.

This tutorial is oriented to an intermediate/advanced audience. We'll explain how to create a custom model's initializer via annotations that can be easily modified/adapted to initialize collections, plugins, etc.

UPDATE: Although write Phalcon in Assembler may be challenging, we regret to inform you that this was our April Fools' joke, thanks for your great sense of humor! :)

Friends around the world, we're very proud and excited to announce that Phalcon 1.0 is ready for you!

We're are releasing today the beta version of Phalcon 1.0.0. Our goal is to get this version out to the community so as to discover bugs and get feedback. This post highlights some of the more important features introduced in this release:

As we gradually get closer to Phalcon 1.0, we have introduced in each version more and more features, stabilizing the framework consistently without losing performance. Many of you have provided feedback and requested new features that have been implemented in each release or are soon to be implemented. Once again, a b…