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.

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…