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I think we are putting the cart before the horse here.

CI needs to move on from its current iteration. I'm not sure why people are asking for 3.0. I'd wager happily that most don't even know what extra features or security features. Here's what I could glean from a forum posting on the other forum.

There is a new, strong “ucfirst” naming convention.
There is also a new API-convention “Return NULL, (not FALSE anymore) if you have nothing to return”.
There are some new features within the database query builder.
There is an “official” native PHP-session driver.

My only reaction is, "that's it?". Hardly anything to get excited over. I have multiple projects in CI and won't be upgrading to 3.0. If anything, now the license is MIT. I'll backport any other enhancements and run an unofficial 2.3.

There really needs to be a focus on moving codeigniter forward. For backwards compatibility, people should be using 3.0 from now on. Have an old project, use CI 3.0. On shared hosting, use 3.0. Your developers only know php 5.2, use CI 3.0 and the list goes on.

Want to be bleeding edge, use php 5.5/5.6 and get a fast framework? Use CI 4.0.

Something like this should be the vision and will have something for everyone.