[jlp]

CodeIgniter 3.0.0 has been released, and is now available for download

Changes compared to CodeIgniter 2:

• The framework is released under the MIT license
  
• The database drivers have had extensive refactoring
  
• PDO is fully functional with subdrivers
  
• There is a new Session library
  
• There is a new Encryption library
  
• The unit testing has been beefed up, and code coverage improved
  
• PHP 5.4 or newer is recommended, but CI will still work on PHP 5.2.4
  
  

Here is a detailed list of the changes in CodeIgniter.
Here are some instructions for upgrading to CodeIgniter 3 from CodeIgniter 2.

Many, many thanks to @narf for shepherding version 3, and to the CodeIgniter community for their support and contributions!

Edit: Fixed the links

[silentium]

YAY! Finally. Awesome work by everyone, core developers and community for all pull request fixes.

Looking forward for what the future might hold for the framework.

[Muzikant]

Great news. :-)

The download link on the homepage still leading to RC3 version.

And yes, I am looking forward on the nex major release too. :-)

[fmertins]

Hi there, congratulations! I'm Using CI since 2007 and testing 3.x version since RC1.
Today is my birthday :-)

[marcelo]

User guide is down!

[Avenirer]

Thank you all for your great work.

[spider]

Allelujah!

[generalludd]

It seems the link to the upgrade notes is broken. Perhaps you are undergoing server maintenance?

CodeIgniter 3.0.0 has been released, and is now available for download

Changes compared to CodeIgniter 2:

• The framework is released under the MIT license
  
• The database drivers have had extensive refactoring
  
• PDO is fully functional with subdrivers
  
• There is a new Session library
  
• There is a new Encryption library
  
• The unit testing has been beefed up, and code coverage improved
  
• PHP 5.4 or newer is recommended, but CI will still work on PHP 5.2.4
  
  

Here is a detailed list of the changes in CodeIgniter.
Here are some instructions for upgrading to CodeIgniter 3 from CodeIgniter 2.

Many, many thanks to @narf for shepherding version 3, and to the CodeIgniter community for their support and contributions!

[Wouter60]

That is great news! Which files/folders have to be replaced to upgrade from RC3 to the final 3.0 version?

[Reconix]

nice, huge thanks to every one =)