2.0.0 - Beta 1

[jarednova]

This is the first beta version of the long awaited Version 2 of Timber. We consider this beta feature-complete. We will concentrate on fixing bugs to be able to soon release a first release candidate.

There are quite a few breaking changes in Version 2 of Timber. Refer to the Upgrade Guide for more information.

The overall goals of Timber 2.0 include:

• Making Timber more consistent.
• Making Timber easier to handle and extend.
• Refactoring how Timber Core works under the hood to improve compatibility with WordPress Core and be ready for future challenges.
• Making Timber more compatible with other plugins.

High-level changes include:

• Timber will only work as a Composer package.
• A newer, streamlined API for accessing Posts, Terms, Users, Comments and Menus.
• Class Maps for a more loosely coupled way to extend Timber with your own Post, Term, User, Menu, MenuItem, and Comment objects.
• No more direct instantiation of the classes mentioned above. Use Class Maps instead.
• New PostCollectionInterface for a unified way to deal with various lists of posts.
• An upgraded Context.
• A big update for how fetching meta values works.
• An updated WP-CLI integration.
• Better options to control and extend Twig.
• Better integration with the WordPress Date and Time functionality.

We’re happy if you want to test out the first Timber beta. In case you find errors, please open an issue (and label with 2.x and bug) or create a discussion in case you have questions.

We want to thank so so so many people for being a part of Timber and helping us achieve this milestone. We're so proud of the work and the evolution to a stable and widely-used part of so many developer's tools.

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If you've been using the alpha versions, here's what's changed in this version of 1.0.0-beta.1:

What's Changed

• Add a .git-blame-ignore-revs file by @gchtr in Add a .git-blame-ignore-revs file #2606
• 2.x Add missing query() method to Timber\PostQuery by @gchtr in 2.x Add missing query() method to Timber\PostQuery #2613
• 2.x Reintroduce Timber’s WP-CLI integration by @gchtr in 2.x Reintroduce Timber’s WP-CLI integration #2611
• 2.x Remove unused WPML integration class by @gchtr in 2.x Remove unused WPML integration class #2616
• 2.x Remove Attachment::$caption property in favor of Attachment::caption() method by @gchtr in 2.x Remove Attachment::$caption property in favor of Attachment::caption() method #2612
• Make snippets CS compliant by @nlemoine in Make snippets CS compliant #2620
• 2.x update tests fix indentation by @nlemoine in 2.x update tests fix indentation #2622
• 2.x Fix tests in Use yoast/wp-test-utils #2614 by @gchtr in 2.x Fix tests in #2614 #2621
• Use yoast/wp-test-utils by @nlemoine in Use yoast/wp-test-utils #2614
• 2.x Document the timber/menuitem/classmap filter by @gchtr in 2.x Document the timber/menuitem/classmap filter #2618
• 2.x Add wp_object() method and $wp_object property for Core objects by @gchtr in 2.x Add wp_object() method and $wp_object property for Core objects #2615
• 2.x Update Upgrade Guide by @gchtr in 2.x Update Upgrade Guide #2617
• 2x Update CONTRIBUTING.md by @gchtr in 2x Update CONTRIBUTING.md #2619

Full Changelog: 2.0.0-alpha.5...2.0.0-beta.1

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This discussion was created from the release 2.0.0 - Beta 1.

[acobster]

This is huge!!! Congrats on an awesome looking Beta, guys! 😁🚀

[gchtr]

@acobster We wouldn’t be here without you, Coby. A huge thank you for all your work! 💪

[jarednova]

Indeed, hope things are going good with you @acobster !!!!

[begroff]

I noticed the assets/downloading the composer package doesn't have a composer.json file. Is this by design?

[Levdbas]

Hi everyone, the team is hard at work to make Timber 2.0 happen. We've just created an updated roadmap with open tickets, pull requests, etc. If you would like to help out on Timber, now is the perfect timing. See #2741

Closing this discussion in favor of the mentioned ticket above.