What's new.

The book is completely separate from the framework

There isn't a list of upcoming features in the next release currently. Your best bet there is to watch the repo, especially the change logs, though sometimes those don't get updated completely until nearing release.

While I don't have specific timeframes just yet, I believe the plan is to pretty quickly get out a 4.1.6 release with PHP 8.1 compatibility and various smaller fixes/changes. After that we have 3 larger items that are all getting close: a task scheduler, a queue system, and revamped email system that is driver based so it's more easily extendable.

Also - if you're not aware, we released a Settings library as our first official package that allows you to read/store configuration items in either the database or config files, and can be extended to use as a user preferences library. MGatner has already created an implementation of that: CodeIgniter 4 Preferences.

And - for those wanting a kick start on an admin area, I'm hard at work on a brand new version of my old project, Bonfire 2.

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