CodeIgniter v4.6.0 released!

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the latest minor version release: v4.6.0!
This release contains potential breaking changes, a lot of enhancements and new features, and bug fixes. This minor version also has full support of PHP 8.4.

• Before upgrading to this version, ensure you have followed the upgrade guide: https://github.com/codeigniter4/CodeIgni...de_460.rst
  
• For Composer users, we highly encourage to upgrade to v4.5.8 first. Read https://forum.codeigniter.com/showthread.php?tid=92342 for more information.
  
• This minor version comes with PHP 8.4 support. If there are any issues regarding PHP 8.4 compatibility, please open a bug report on GitHub.
  
• See the changelog: https://github.com/codeigniter4/CodeIgni...v4.6.0.rst
  

Awesome! Thank you Paul, thanks team!

Thank you.

Why aren't there any new features? For a long time, updates have only included bug fixes and version upgrades, with no announcements of new features.

Your website is not very user-friendly. The user guide lacks realistic examples in many sections and doesn’t provide detailed explanations. I think this is one of the main reasons why other frameworks are preferred. Although CI4 is very simple, the documentation is not entirely clear.

Here's the new features: https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/chang...hancements

This is a community project. If you want things to be added, please open a pull request. If the documentations are not realistic or detailed, please open a PR to do so. The other frameworks are popular because (1) they have commercial backing and (2) have a large active community. If you want things to change, take the initiative.

Thank you CodeIgniter Development Team.

If you are using Windows with Laragon and you update to PHP 8.4.3, you need to download the
the Visual Studio vs17 Visual C++ Redistributable for it to work or you will get an Apache Error.

Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable latest supported downloads

What did you Try? What did you Get? What did you Expect?

Joined CodeIgniter Community 2009.  ( Skype: insitfx )

Just updated my 4 projects to CI 4.6 using PHP 8.3.16. No issues what so ever.
Thanks for all your efforts.

Thanks guys, much appreciated. Pleased to have been able to roll out PHP8.4 on my server after this latest release.

I'll tried  installing fresh codeigniter 4.6 using php 8.4.3. When I run "php spark serve", I have been getting error messagelike this.
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─(21:57:16)──> php spark serve                                      ──(Wed,Jan22)─┘
This "system/bootstrap.php" is no longer used. If you are seeing this error message,
the upgrade is not complete. Please refer to the upgrade guide and complete the upgrade.
See https://codeigniter4.github.io/userguide...e_450.html
PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Undefined constant "ENVIRONMENT" in /home/tito/siap/backend2/vendor/codeigniter4/framework/system/Common.php:779
Stack trace:
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I solved this problem by replaccing spark in root with vendor/codeigniter4/framework/spark

 When I opened the browser the same error message appeared. The solution overwrites  public/index.php with vendor/codeigniter4/framework/public.index.php.

@titounnes were you upgrading or installing codeigniter with

Code:

composer create-project codeigniter4/appstarter

With a fresh install, I cannot reproduce your errors.