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Nikolaos Dimopoulos
Nikolaos Dimopoulos

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Phalcon v4.0.0-rc3 released

#release #phalcon #phalcon4 #rc

We are very happy to announce the release of v4.0.0 Release Candidate (RC) 3!.

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We streamed this release live! https://youtu.be/iAGWIW9A4Mc

This release fixed quite a few bugs (thanks community!). We have also introduced support for PSR-13, ability to build Hypermedia Links

We are nearly there. 5 documents left to rewrite, a bit of work on DevTools and fixing a few bugs that were found in the previous iteration.

You can see the remaining cards for v4 in our project page.

Regarding the documents, you can check our progress in this issue:

https://github.com/phalcon/docs/issues/2322

Changelog

Added

  • Added support for PSR-13 links and evolvable links #14507
    • Added Phalcon\Html\Link\Link
    • Added Phalcon\Html\Link\LinkProvider
    • Added Phalcon\Html\Link\EvolvableLink
    • Added Phalcon\Html\Link\EvolvableLinkProvider
    • Added Phalcon\Html\Link\Serializer\Header
    • Added Phalcon\Html\Link\Serializer\SerializerInterface
  • Added Phalcon\Collection:getKeys and Phalcon\Collection\getValues for getting data from the collection #14507
  • Added has-one-through relations to Phalcon\Mvc\Model and Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Manager #14511
  • Added Phalcon\Mvc\Model::hasOneThrough()
  • Added Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Manager::addHasOneThrough()
  • Added Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Manager::existsHasOneThrough()
  • Added Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Manager::getHasOneThrough()
  • Added Phalcon\Mvc\Model\ManagerInterface::addHasOneThrough()
  • Added Phalcon\Mvc\Model\ManagerInterface::existsHasOneThrough()
  • Added Phalcon\Mvc\Model\ManagerInterface::getHasOneThrough()
  • Added Phalcon\Http\Request::numFiles to return the number of files in the request #14519

Changed

  • Changed Phalcon\Paginator\Adapter\Model
    • Removed the data parameter
    • Added model parameter to pass model class
    • Added optional parameter parameters which is used as the parameter Model::find()

Fixed

  • Fixed Phalcon\Annotations\AnnotationsFactory:newInstance to return the correct object back #14494
  • Fixed return types:
    • Phalcon\Db\Adapter\PdoFactory::load() now returns Phalcon\Db\Adapter\AdapterInterface
    • Phalcon\Db\Adapter\PdoFactory::newInstance() now returns Phalcon\Db\Adapter\AdapterInterface
    • Phalcon\Logger\LoggerFactory::load() now returns Phalcon\Logger
    • Phalcon\Validation\ValidatorFactory::newInstance now returns Phalcon\Factory\ValidatorInterface
  • Fixed Phalcon\Container:get to use getShared transparently #14502
  • Fixed Phalcon\Mvc\Model to include correct model instances in messages metadata #14510
  • Fixed Phalcon\Di\Injectable::__get() to return shared instance by default #14491
  • Fixed Phalcon\Mvc\View::loadTemplateEngines() to not share engine with other views by default #14491
  • Fixed Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Manager::getRelations() and getRelationsBetween() to return many-to-many relations correctly #14509
  • Fixed Phalcon\Logger to correctly allow transactional logging #14514
  • Fixed Phalcon\Annotations\Adapter\Stream::read and Phalcon\Annotations\Adapter\Stream::write to use serialize/unserialize vs. var_export #14515
  • Fixed Phalcon\Http\Request::hasFiles to return boolean and true if files are present #14519
  • Fixed Phalcon\Logger\Adapter\Syslog to correctly log Syslog messages #14522
  • Fixed Phalcon\Mvc\Model\MetaDataInterface::getIdentityField and Phalcon\Mvc\Model\MetaData::getIdentityField to also return null if the identity field is not present #14523
  • Fixed Phalcon\Storage\Serializer\Json to serialize objects that implement the JsonSerializable interface #14528
  • Fixed Phalcon\Collection to correctly return one level nested objects that implement JsonSerializable #14528
  • Fixed Phalcon\Mvc\View to only include first found instance of view when using multiple view directories #12977

Removed

  • Removed Phalcon\Logger\Formatter\Syslog - really did not do much #14523

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 v4.0.0-rc2. 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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