Following up on the 0.4.2 release a few weeks ago, we have a fresh update to address some issues and minor bugs.

We are also very excited to announce the release of the 0.5.0 alpha 1 version! This new branch offers many improvements and a huge refactoring of the framework. We are happy that the changes we have introduced have increased performance even more.

As we continue to enhance Phalcon with new functionality and features, we have migrated all of our documentation on Read the Docs, a service that hosts documentation for open source projects such as ours.

Utilizing this service allows for:

Our main goal is to make Phalcon a great framework that everyone can benefit from.

With that in mind, the 0.4.x branch was a great step forward and we are preparing for 0.5.x which will be a big redesign. The new branch will require some refactoring which we want to discuss with you. New changes will be introduced, big but necessary, which will affect the functionality of current applications.

We are excited to announce that Phalcon supports the PostgreSQL RDBMS:

We built Phalcon because we wanted a faster and better way to create web applications with PHP. Now we can’t imagine working without it. This time we’re releasing the first update to the 0.4.x branch. Phalcon 0.4.1 comes with interesting features described as follows:

Today, we’re launching another sample application for Phalcon. This time, we wanted to create an alternative version of the PHP site powered by the C-extension framework. This is the greatest example we have done until now, implementing many of the main framework features, especially the newly added: Multilingual Support and Complex Routing.

Being a full time developer you need a powerful tool to help you creating amazing web sites and applications. PhpStorm is an amazing IDE for PHP that has become very popular among developers lately.

We’ve been really busy this last month working on Phalcon 0.4.0, and for our pleasure is finally here! This release is giving much more satisfaction than ever before knowing that have been built with many suggestions and feedback from developers around all the globe.

Also, this final version is adding some highly requested features to Phalcon:

Our next release, 0.4.0, is almost ready to rock, but we need your help to get the finish line in the best shape possible. Although previous alpha only included improvements in code structure and overall speed, this version (0.4.0 beta) is introducing several new features, improvements and bug fixes.

Below is a comprehensive list of changes: