Version 0.8.0 Stable

• Improved Phalcon\Escaper, this component provides contextual escaping of different kinds of texts (CSS, Javascript, URL, HTML Attributes etc)
• Added serialization of Mvc\Collection instances
• Added Phalcon\Mvc\View::setLayout to change the layout instead of looking for a controller with the same name as the latest controller dispatched
• Now is possible to pass an option called 'options' to any of the Phalcon\Db\Adapter\Pdo adapters to set extra
  PDO options in the connection
• Removed filtering of keys from Phalcon\Cache\Backend\File
• Support for creating groups of routes using Phalcon\Router\Route\Group
• Added Phalcon\Mvc\Micro middleware events
• Implemented virtual scopes in Phalcon\Mvc\View
• Added support for behaviors in the ORM including: Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Behavior\Timestampable and Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Behavior\SoftDelete
• Improved serialization of Mvc\Model instances and complex resultsets
• Added an option to change the layouts directory and partials directory in Phalcon\Mvc\View
• Added an option to disable an specific level of rendering in Phalcon\Mvc\View
• Added Phalcon\Mvc\Model::setup to globally enable/disable specific features in the ORM
• Added Phalcon\Db::setup to globally enable/disable specific features in the database component
• Added Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Resultset::delete to delete every complete object returned in a resultset using a transaction
• Added Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Resultset::update to update every complete object returned in a resultset using a transaction
• Added support for converters in Phalcon\Mvc\Router
• Added Phalcon\Mvc\View::getRender to return contents of a template into a string
• Added methods to support HTTP method PATCH
• Now Phalcon\Mvc\Model uses the last part of a namespaced class name as source name
• Phalcon\DI now implements ArrayAccess to get/set services
• Phalcon\Mvc\Micro now implements ArrayAccess to get services from the related services container
• Improved building of complex service definitions in the DI
• Added toArray method to Phalcon\Mvc\Model instances
• Added autoescape mode in Volt
• Removed unnecessary intermediate zvals when retrieving array items reducing overall memory comsumption
• Removed unnecessary intermediate zvals when retrieving object members reducing overall memory comsumption
• Removed PH_CHECK constant making simpler calling functions and methods internally
• Added Phalcon\Text::increment, Phalcon\Text::random, Phalcon\Text::lower, Phalcon\Text::upper, Phalcon\Text::startsWith, Phalcon\Text::endsWith
• Added Phalcon\Config::merge to merge recursively a configuration with another one
• Added Phalcon\Config::toArray method to recursively convert an object to an array
• Improved Volt runtime error/syntax error messages including always line and file
• Added Phalcon\Security providing a set of functions to improve the security in Phalcon applications like bcrypt password hashing and CSRF protection
• Added Phalcon\Mvc\View\Engine\Volt\Compiler::addFunction to register user functions
• Added Phalcon\Mvc\View\Engine\Volt\Compiler::addFilter to register user filters
• Added Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Relation as class for model relationships
• Added '[' and ']' as delimiters to escape PHQL reserverd words
• Reduced memory usage in PHQL parser/tokenizer
• Added support for aliasing of model relationships in Phalcon\Mvc\Model
• Relationships in Models are now case insensitive to be compliant with the PHP standard
• Looking for a relationship in the models manager now performs a search in O(1) order
• Added "cache" statement in Volt to cache view fragments
• Added "do" statement to Volt to execute an expression without printing its evaluated value
• Added "include" statement to Volt to perform a statical include of other views in compiling time
• Added an internal method cache to speed up overall execution
• Reduced memory allocation when reading/writing properties from objects
• Added missing Phalcon\Mvc\Collection::getMessages() and Phalcon\Mvc\Collection::appendMessage
• Added Phalcon\Config::get method to obtain a value from the configuration object setting a default value
• Added an optional default value to Phalcon\Session\Adapter::get if this method returns a null value
• Added OO methods to Phalcon\Session\Bag::get
• Added an optional default value to Phalcon\Session\Bag::get if this method returns a null value
• Added multiple inheritance and two-way replacement of blocks in Volt
• Added evaluation of "tests" to Volt
• Added support to call methods and read properties in sub-objects in Volt
• Volt now checks if a variable name is a registered service and injects it to the views
• The "For" statement in Volt now supports get the current key and add an optional if evaluation
• Added support to read PHP constants in Volt
• Added "prefix" option to Volt, allowing prefixing the resulting compiled paths
• Now registerAutoloader in module definitions receives the services container (DI) as first parameter
• Fixed skipAttributes methods in Phalcon\Mvc\Model
• Fixed use of muliples databases in the ORM
• Fixed use of a common events manager databases in the ORM
• Now Phalcon\Mvc\Router can be configured to remove extra slashes passed in the URI
• In Phalcon\Mvc\Router the default route is '/' when none is giving