Wow - a year has flown by since the last project update!
2018 has seen a whirlwind of CodeIgniter 4 activity, especially during the last half of the year!
CodeIgniter 4:
- Getting closer, with four alpha releases so far. The community has stepped up and is helping to flesh out missing features and uncover bugs.
- There has been a bunch of refactoring and defect removals.
- The SQLite driver is official.
- Code coverage is sitting at about 77%, almost close enough!
- Per the Github issue tracking, five issues remain for 4.0.0, and that is a substantial improvement over a few months ago.
- We ask people to revisit any old PR's they have and either update them or close them, or comment that someone else should take over.
- Our repository and distributions have been beefed up, embracing composer while not requiring it.
- We continue to work on the installation & setup documentation, and the different ways to build an app with CI4. We now have a Vagrant script, though it still needs complete docs.
- We expect to complete the alpha phase once the current database issues are resolved. Our available time is limited, and more community involvement would be welcome!
CodeIgniter 3:
- CodeIgniter 3 has had three minor releases during 2018, and is currently at 3.1.9.
- A number of additional bug fixes and enhancements have been accumulated, and they will be bundled into a new release, probably this quarter.
- There were a few security reports on HackerOne, but they turned out to be not applicable.
Website/Forum:
- We have more than 12,800 forum members now, and almost 69,000 threads.
- Keeping the forum free of spam and spammers is a never-ending battle ... we have updated our forum policies & guidelines, and are enforcing them with reduced patience & tolerance
- Website & forum traffic are steady, sitting around 530K requests per day.
Looking forward, our goals for the first half of 2019:
- We look forward to the completion & launch of 4.0.0!
- We expect to have another 3.x release, whether it be 3.1.10 or 3.2
Thank you, the CodeIgniter community, for your support and engagement!
James Parry
Project Lead
