Version 4.0.0-beta.1

Release Date: Mar 1, 2019

Highlights:

• New View Layouts provide simple way to create site site view templates.

• Fixed user guide CSS for proper wide table display

• Converted UploadedFile to use system messages

• Numerous database, migration & model bugs fixed

• Refactored unit testing for appstarter & framework distributions

New messages:

• Database.tableNotFound

• HTTP.uploadErr…

App changes:

• app/Config/Cache has new setting: database

• app/Views/welcome_message has logo tinted

• composer.json has a case correction

• env adds CI_ENVIRONMENT suggestion

The list of changed files follows, with PR numbers shown.

• app/

  • Config/

    • Cache #1719

  • Views/

    • welome_message #1774

• system/

  • Cache/Handlers/

    • RedisHandler #1719, #1723

  • Config/

    • Config #37dbc1

    • Services #1704, #37dbc1

  • Database/

    • Exceptions/DatabaseException #1739

    • Postgre/

      • Builder #1733

    • SQLite3/

      • Connection #1739

      • Forge #1739

      • Table #1739

    • BaseBuilder #36fbb8, #549d7d

    • BaseConnection #549d7d, #1739

    • Forge #1739

    • MigrationRunner #1743

    • Query #36fbb8

    • Seeder #1722

  • Debug/

    • Exceptions #1704

  • Files/

    • UploadedFile #1708

  • Helpers/

    • date_helper #1768

    • number_helper #1768

    • security_helper #1768

    • text_helper #1768

    • url_helper #1768

  • HTTP/

    • Request #1725

  • Language/en/

    • Database #1739

    • HTTP #1708

    • View #1757

  • Router/

    • RouteCollection #1709, #1732

    • Router #1764

  • Test/

    • ControllerResponse #1740

    • ControllerTester #1740

    • DOMParser #1740

    • FeatureResponse #1740

  • Validation/

    • Rules #1738, #1743

    • Validation #37dbc1, #1763

  • View/

    • View #1729

  • Common #1741

  • Entity #6e549a, #1739

  • Model #4f4a37, #6e549a, #37dbc1, #1712, #1763

• tests/system/

  • Database/

    • BaseQueryTest #36fbb8

    • Live/

      • SQLite3/AlterTableTest #1739, #1740

      • ForgeTest #1739, #1745

      • ModelTest #37dbc1, #4ff1f5, #1763

    • Migrations/MigrationRunnerTest #1743

  • Helpers/

    • FilesystemHelperTest #1740

  • I18n/

    • TimeTest # 1736

  • Test/

    • DOMParserTest #1740

  • Validation/

    • ValidationTest #1763

  • View/

    • ViewTest #1729

  • EntityTest #6e549a, #1736

• user_guide_src/

  • _themes/…/

    • citheme.css #1696

  • changelogs/

    • v4.0.0-alpha.5 #1699

  • database/

    • migrate #1696

  • dbmgmt/

    • forge #1751

  • installation/

    • install_manual #1699

    • running #1750

  • intro/

    • psr #1752

  • libraries/

    • caching #1719

    • validation #1742

  • models/

    • entities #1744

  • outgoing/

    • index #1729

    • view_layouts #1729

  • testing/

    • controllers #1740

  • tutorial/

    • static_pages #1763

• composer.json #1755

• .env #1749

PRs merged:

• #1774 Housekeeping for beta.1

• #1768 Helper changes - signatures & typos

• #1764 Fix routing when no default route has been specified. Fixes #1758

• #1763 Ensure validation works in Model with errors as part of rules. Fixes #1574

• #1757 Correct the unneeded double-quote (typo)

• #1755 lowercase ‘vfsStream’ in composer files

• #1752 Fixed typo preventing link format

• #1751 Guide: Moving misplaced text under correct heading

• #1750 Remove reference to Encryption Key in User Guide

• #1749 Adding environment to .env

• #1745 Updated composite key tests for SQLite3 support. Fixes #1478

• #1744 Update entity docs for current framework state. Fixes #1727

• #1743 Manually sort migrations found instead of relying on the OS. Fixes #1666

• #1742 Fix required_without rule bug.

• #1741 Helpers with a specific namespace can be loaded now. Fixes #1726

• #1740 Refactor test support for app starter

• #1739 Fix typo

• #1738 Fix required_with rule bug. Fixes #1728

• #1737 Added support for dropTable and modifyTable with SQLite driver

• #1736 Accommodate long travis execution times

• #1733 Fix increment and decrement errors with Postgres

• #1732 Don’t check from CLI in Routes. Fixes #1724

• #1729 New View Layout functionality for simple template

• #1725 Update Request.php

• #1723 Log an error if redis authentication is failed

• #1722 Seeder adds default namespace to seeds

• #1719 Update Cache RedisHandler to support select database

• #4ff1f5 Additional tests for inserts and required validation failing (#1717)

• #549d7d Another try at getting escaping working correctly both when in and out of models

• #1712 Minor readability changes

• #37dbc1 Ensure Model validation rules can be a group name

• #1709 Fix resource routing websafe method order checking

• #1708 Language for UploadedFile

• #36fbb8 BaseBuilder should only turn off Connection’s setEscapeFlags when running a query…

• #6e549a Provide default baseURL that works with the development server for easier first time setup (Fixes #1646)

• #1704 Fix viewsDirectory bug (#1701)

• #4f4a37 remove debugging from Model.

• #1699 Fix install link in user guide

• #1696 Fix page structure etc

• #1695 Tidy up code blocks in the user guide