Version 4.0.0-rc.2

Release Date: Sept 27, 2019

RC.2 release of CodeIgniter4

Enhancements:

• query builder testability simplified with new property, but dropped

  method parameters (breaking change)

• database, migrations and sessions beefed up

• numerous smaller bugs corrected

App changes:

• Config/Constants, Paths & some config settings have had changes

Message changes:

• N/A

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

• admin/

• app/

  • Config/

    • Boot/* #2241

    • Constants #2183

    • Paths #2181

• public/

• system/

  • CLI/

    • BaseCommand #2231

  • Database/

    • MySQLi/Connection #2201, 2229

    • Postgre/

      • BaseBuilder #2269

      • Connection #2201

    • SQLite3/Connection #2201, 2228, 2230

    • BaseBuilder #2257, 2232, 2269, 2270

    • BaseConnection #2208, 2213, 2231

    • Config #2224

    • Forge #2205

    • MigrationRunner #2191

  • Debug/

    • Exceptions #2262

  • Encryption/

    • Encryption #2231

    • Handlers/BaseHandler #2231

  • Files/

    • FileCollection #2265

  • HTTP/

    • CURLRequest #2168

    • IncomingRequest #2265

    • Request #2253

    • Response #2253

  • I18n/

    • Time #2231

    • TimeDifference #2231

  • Images/

    • Handlers/BaseHandler #2246

  • RESTful/

    • ResourcePresenter #2271

  • Security/

    • Security #2240

  • Session/

    • Session #2197, 2231

  • Test/

    • CIDatabaseTestCase #2205

    • CIDatabaseUnitTestCase #2184

  • Validation/

    • FileRules #2265

    • Validation #2268

  • View/

    • Parser #2264

  • Common #2200, 2209, 2261

  • Model #2231

• tests/_support/

• tests/system/

  • Commands/

    • CommandClassTest #2231

  • Database/

    • Builder/

      • GetTest #2232

        • CountTest #2269

        • DeleteTest #2269

        • EmptyTest #2269

        • GetTest #2269

      • GroupTest #2257

        • InsertTest #2269

        • ReplaceTest #2269

        • TruncateTest #2269

        • UpdateTest #2269

    • Live/

      • EscapeTest #2229

      • ForgeTest #2201, 2211

      • GroupTest #2257

      • MetadataTest #2211

      • ModelTest #2231

    • BaseConnectionTest #2229, 2231

  • Encryption/

    • EncryptionTest #2231

  • Helpers/

    • URLHelperTest #2259

  • HTTP/

    • CURLRequestTest #2168

    • FileCOllectionTest #2265

    • URITest #2259

  • I18n/

    • TimeDifferenceTest #2231

    • TimeTest #2231

  • Pager/

    • pagerTest #2259

  • RESTful/

    • ResourcePresenterTest #2271

  • Session/

    • SessionTest #2231

  • View/

    • ParserTest #2264

• user_guide_src/

  • concepts/

    • structure #2221

  • database/

    • metadata #2199, 2201, 2208

    • queries #2208

    • query_builder #2257, 2232, 2269

  • dbmgmt/

    • migration #2190, 2191

  • extending/

    • contributing #2221

  • general/

    • errors #2221

  • helpera/

    • url_helper #2259

  • incoming/

    • restful #2189

    • routing #2221

  • installation/

    • troubleshooting #2260

  • libraries/

    • encryption #2221

    • pagination #2216

    • time #2221

    • uti #2216

  • outgoing/

    • api_responses #2245

    • view_layouts #2218

    • view_parser #2218, 2264

  • testing/

    • controllers #2221

    • debugging #2221, 2209

    • feature #2218, 2221

    • overview #2221

  • tutorial/

    • news_section #2221

    • static_pages #2221

PRs merged:

• #2271 fix ResourcePresenter::setModel()

• #2270 groupStart() refactorization

• #2269 testMode() method for BaseBuilder

• #2268 Validation session use only if exists

• #2267 Tests setUp and tearDown: void

• #2265 Fix a validation issue on multiple file upload

• #2264 fix. Parser allow other extension

• #2262 Fix parameter type in Debug/Exceptions

• #2261 Fix lang() signature

• #2260 Explain the whoops page

• #2259 Add URI & url_helper tests

• #2257 Several updates to the HAVING clauses

• #2253 Fix invalid parameters

• #2246 EXIF not supported for GIF

• #2245 Fix class ref parameter types

• #2241 Fix ini_set parameter type

• #2240 Handle JSON POSTs in CSRF

• #2232 Fixes BaseBuilder getWhere() bug

• #2231 Add magic __isset to classes with __get

• #2230 Add escape to SQLite _listTables()

• #2229 MySQLi escapeLikeStringDirect()

• #2228 Exclude sqlite_% from listTables()

• #2224 change new ConfigDatabase() to config(‘Database’)

• #2221 Documentation fixes

• #2218 Typo corrected

• #2216 Update uri.rst

• #2213 Filter listTables cache response on constrainPrefix

• #2211 Add listTable() tests

• #2209 Add trace()

• #2208 Add $db->getPrefix()

• #2205 Fix empty() bug on DBPrefix

• #2201 Foreign key columns

• #2200 Notify Kint of dd alias

• #2199 Add getForeignKeyData to User Guide

• #2187 Update Session.php

• #2191 Migration rollback reverse

• #2190 Fix name of ForeignKeyChecks

• #2189 missing return

• #2184 Fix case on “Seeds/” directory

• #2183 Check defined for constants

• #2181 Remove copy-paste extraneous text

• #2168 Fix for CURL for ‘debug’ option