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[eluser]WanWizard[/eluser]
And they do.

But you have to appreciate the fact that they will be very cautious, their core business runs on CodeIgniter, and they obviously don't want to introduce a potential risk there.

On the other hand, this is exactly what many of us like: CodeIgniter is a very stable framework, suitable for production applications, and with no significant API changes in between versions (so not a lot of upgrade effort).

Compare that to the likes of Kohana, where regular changes in design and strategy can make upgrading a nightmare...