After some weeks of hard work, long nights, burning the midnight oil (as all programmers do), we have reached a very important milestone in our roadmap for Phalcon 2.0.

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It's time to talk about Phalcon 2 and the future of this project.

With every release, throughout the development of Phalcon, we have always focused on offering a good balance between new features (driven by the community) and bug fixes/optimizations.

We are happy to announce that Phalcon 1.2.1 is available for download/compile for our users.

This new release of the Phalcon framework, contains several new features (mostly requested by the community), bug fixes and various performance improvements. The main changes are highlighted in the beta article. You can see the CHANGELOG for a complete list of changes.

The Phalcon Team is constantly trying to find ways of making Phalcon even faster while keeping a good balance in terms of features offered and performance.

Success story from our community member Nikita Vershinin:

We are happy to announce the release of our first beta of Phalcon 1.2!

This post is quite technical, explaining the inner workings of Phalcon.