CodeIgniter 4.0.0-alpha.2 Released

CodeIgniter-4.0.0-alpha.2 launches today, after a flurry of activity since alpha.1

Huge shoutout to Lonnie Ezell for all of his hard work getting the vision and the core implementation in place!

This is an early pre-release of 4.0.0. It is not suitable for production!

Check the changelog for details.

There are several possible downloads, that you can see on the release page
- the runnable versions as a zip or a tarball
- the developer versions of the framework (with contributor components) as a zip or a tarball
- and finally the epub version of the user guide for this release.

The release has all the major features in place, but there are still gaps and issues. See ...

- Bugs in the 4.0.0-alpha
- Things that we definitely want to see fixed before first proper release
- Features we would like to see in the initial proper release, if possible, else the next update to it
- Features that we are consciously deferring to later

What we need now is feedback from the community ...

- What doesn't work well (raise a post inCodeIgniter 4 Development).If you have found a bug, then by all means create a new issue on the repo.
- What you think is missing (raise a post in CodeIgniter 4 Feature Requests).
- We will soon start the candidate new feature posts, for those items in the feature requests forum that appear to have traction
- Problems that you are having using the release (raise a post in CodeIgniter 4 Support). Do NOT create repo issues with support questions - we are using github for bug and work package tracking

Do NOT post support questions or feature requests in response to this thread - those will be deleted. We are trying to make the best of the limited resousrces that we have!

Thank you, and ENJOY!

James Parry
Project Lead