Version 0.5.3 Stable

• Fixed bug in Phalcon\Mvc\Model::_exists making PHQL inserts fail
• Fixed bug passing extra parameters to Phalcon\Mvc\Model magic methods
• Fixed bug in Phalcon\Loader producing that pathFound event wasn't triggered
• Added throwing exception in Phalcon\Loader when trying to write in a read only file
• Now Phalcon\Loader replaces _ by DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR in most strategies
• Fixed bug in Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Resultset::seek that doesn't allow to paginate results in Phalcon\Paginator
• Fixed bug in Phalcon\Mvc\Dispatcher that doesn't throws an exception when an infinite forward is produced
• PDO error mode was changed to PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION producing exceptions instead of silent error messages
• Fixed wrong precedence in PHQL operators
• Fixed bug that makes that the correct value for SERIAL columns wasn't filled for PostgreSQL
• Added an extra parameter "data" to an event triggering in Phalcon\Events allowing getting more information about certain event
• Added an extra parameter to Phalcon\Db::query and Phalcon\Db::execute to bind parameters by their data type
• Added recognition of the related sequence for PostgreSQL when inserting data into tables with SERIAL columns Phalcon\Mvc\Model
• Phalcon\Db\Adapter*::describeColumns try to find the best bind param type for every column
• Added bindType to Phalcon\Db\Column to know what its best bind param to cast according to its data type
• Added getDefaultValue() to Phalcon\Db\Adapter* in order the best value to insert in an auto-increment or serial column
• Added bindTypes param to Phalcon\Mvc\Model::find and Phalcon\Mvc\Model::findFirst
• Due to the new agressive type-casting when binding parameters, Phalcon\Mvc\Model isn't capable anymore of generate reliable automatic keys for the cache
• Fixed bug that makes actions and events implemented in a parent class innaccessibles for Phalcon
• Now Phalcon\Text::camelize checks for underscores and dashes
• Added Phalcon\Mvc\Model::getRelated to return related relation models on namespaced models
  • Added Phalcon\CLI components to create CLI applications
  • Added SQLite support
  • Removed support for Twig and Mustache
  • Added PhalconQL (PHQL), a high level query language directly engaged with the Phalcon\Mvc\Model component
  • Multiples refactorings removing unused code
  • Added support to match routes on a determined individual or a set of HTTP methods
  • Added support for named parameters without requiring a regular expression in Phalcon\Mvc\Router
  • Added Phalcon\Mvc\Router\Route to encapsulate the information of a route
  • Added Phalcon\Mvc\Micro to create applications in a micro-framework style
  • Added Phalcon\Di\FactoryDefault that has the Phalcon Components registered as Default
• Added Phalcon\DI as dependency injector container
• Added Phalcon\Events as events management component
• Removed Phalcon\Router\Rewrite
• Phalcon\Router\Regex moved to Phalcon\Mvc\Router
• Phalcon\Dispatcher moved to Phalcon\Mvc\Dispatcher
• Phalcon\Mvc\Dispatcher::forward now only accepts an array parameter
• Dispatcher events has been removed (beforeDispatch and afterDispatch) in favor of the new EventsManager component
• Controller look up based on controllersDir has been removed in favor of autoloaders
• Phalcon\Controller moved to Phalcon\Mvc\Controller
• Phalcon\Model moved to Phalcon\Mvc\Model
• Phalcon\Transaction moved to Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Transaction
• Removed Phalcon\Db\Pool
• ModelsManager look up based on modelsDir has been removed in favor of autoloaders
• Phalcon\Db\Pdo::describeColumns return an array of Phalcon\Db\Columns
• Removed Phalcon\Controller\Front
• Most "Factories" and "Singletons" implementations were removed
• Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Metadata adapters must be instantiated directly
• Removed memory leaks when reading class constants
• Replaced the database native adapters by PDO
• Classes are now registered as PHP namespaces.
• Improved stability running Phalcon with PHP versions lower or equal than 5.3.3
• Thousand of unnecessary intermediate variables were removed improving stability
• Phalcon now performs a reduced number of copy-on-write checks
• Added class modifiers like Abstract or Final to Phalcon classes
• Fixed memory leaks generated when throwing internal exceptions
• Removed deprecated experimental function and method calls