Pros and cons of version 3.0

Can someone please tell me the pros and cons of using version 3.0. I've read a lot of people have issues with all sorts of things and I'm reluctant to migrate.

I was quite happy with the last CI Rick Ellis left us with. Do you need composer to install?

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You don't need Composer.

URL helper functions are updated for use with HTTPS.

New Encryption class replaces Encrypt class that supposedly had issues.

I haven't seen anything else noteworthy, but I'm sure others will chime in.

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You don't need Composer.

URL helper functions are updated for use with HTTPS.

New Encryption class replaces Encrypt class that supposedly had issues.

I haven't seen anything else noteworthy, but I'm sure others will chime in.

Interesting, in that case I don't think it affects me as I'm not using https or encryption, well the CI encryption anyway. What about usability is it stable? I've heard there's a lot of issues with the sessions class.

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There aren't a lot of issues with the sessions class, just a lot of people who don't know how to use it and don't care to read the docs. The huge amounts of bugfixes in the changelog should answer your other questions.

Thanks Narf that's good to hear, are you the only dev contributing to CI3 at the moment?

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You should be able to see on GitHub that there are a lot of developers contributing to CI3, and there have been for a long time.

Additional points of improvement for CI3:
- the sessions library has a lot more options for session storage
- the database library (and Query Builder) supports databases other than MySQL much better than it did in CI2, and the MySQLi driver is improved, too
- more consistent filename rules
- a lot of smaller improvements all over the place, see the changelog: http://www.codeigniter.com/user_guide/changelog.html

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