CodeIgniter 4.0.0-alpha.5 Released

CodeIgniter-4.0.0-alpha.5 launches today

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

Release highlights:

• updated PHP dependency to 7.2
  
• lots of bug fixes, especially for the database support
  
• code coverage is at 77% ... getting ever closer to our target of 80%
  
• new feature branches have been created for the email and queue modules, so they don't impact the release of 4.0.0
  
• dropped several language messages that were unused (eg Migrations.missingTable) and added some new (eg Migrations.invalidType)
  
• provided filters (CSRF, Honeypot, DebugToolbar) have been moved from app/Filters/ to system/Filters/
  
• revisited the installation and tutorial sections of the user guide
   
  

The app-starter distribution has improved path handling, too
 
Check the changelog for details, and the installation writeup for further directions.

We hope this will be the last alpha, and that the next pre-release will be our first beta ... fingers crossed!
Thank you to the community for stepping up to help make this the best PHP framework!

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 resources that we have!

Thank you, and ENJOY!

Update: I messed up the release download, but have corrected it. Sorry!

James Parry
Project Lead