Is CodeIgniter development dead?

[eluser]Narf[/eluser]
[quote author="pettersolberg" date="1395389932"][quote author="Narf" date="1395314901"]There is one major feature left to be completed: Sessions.[/quote]
Hi Narf, could you explain a bit more? What's the problem with Sessions?[/quote]

https://github.com/EllisLab/CodeIgniter/issues/2476
https://github.com/EllisLab/CodeIgniter/pull/1780
https://github.com/EllisLab/CodeIgniter/issues/2702
https://github.com/EllisLab/CodeIgniter/issues/1344

Also:

- They don't implement locking - unsafe for concurrency.
- The default (and only one available, until 3.0) storage is cookies, which means both storage and authentication is client-side, unless you use a database, and even then there are issues.
- The code is practically unmaintanable.

It's all the result of an old application design, that was made to work around the issues of the past and sparingly patched by random contributors. I'd elaborate more, but it wouldn't make a difference because the bottom line is - it's broken, it needs to be replaced and few people understand all of it to do that properly.

Just to be clear - this doesn't mean to rewrite your applications not to use the existing sessions in CI. If they have worked for you until now, then that's just fine and you'll get the improvements later with the 3.0 upgrade (the replacement will be backwards-compatible). It just means that there are some problems and they need to be addressed.