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Phalcon
Developer(s)Andres Gutierrez and others
Initial releaseNovember 14, 2012 (2012-11-14)[1]
Stable release
5.5.0 / 25 December 2023; 3 months ago (2023-12-25)[2]
Preview release
5.5.0 / 25 December 2023; 3 months ago (2023-12-25)[2]
RepositoryPhalcon Repository
Written inZephir, C, PHP
PlatformUnix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows[3]
TypeWeb application framework
LicenseBSD License[4]
Websitephalcon.io/en-us/

Phalcon is a PHP web framework based on the model–view–controller (MVC) pattern. Originally released in 2012, it is an open-source framework licensed under the terms of the BSD License.

Unlike other PHP frameworks,[citation needed] Phalcon is implemented as a web server extension written in Zephir and C, aiming to boost execution speed, reduce resource usage, and handle more HTTP requests per second than comparable frameworks written primarily in PHP. One drawback of this approach is that root/administrative access is required on the server to install Phalcon by building a custom binary or using a precompiled one.[5]

History

Phalcon was created by Andrés Gutiérrez and collaborators looking for a new approach to traditional web application frameworks written in PHP. The original draft of the framework in 2011 was called "Spark",[6] the name was later changed to Phalcon, representing the words "PHP" and "falcon". Phalcon's initial release was made available on November 14, 2012.

Phalcon 0.3.5 includes an ORM written in C, MVC components, and cache components. This release was followed by the Phalcon 0.5.0 that brought a high-level dialect of SQL called PHQL, and Phalcon 0.6.0 that introduced Volt, a template engine similar to Jinja. Phalcon 1.0 was released on March 22, 2013.[7] with Phalcon 1.3 being the last minor release in that series. Phalcon 2.0 saw most of the project ported from C to Zephir.[8]

v3

Phalcon 3.0.0 was released on 29 July 2016,[9] this major release includes support for PHP 7 as well as being Phalcon's first LTS (Long Term Support) release. Phalcon also adopted SemVer for their next releases versioning.[10]

v4

Phalcon 4.0.0 was released on 21 December 2019,[11] this major release includes support for PHP 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4 has stricter Interfaces and support PSR-3, PSR-7, PSR-11 (proxy), PSR-13, PSR-16, PSR-17.[12]

v5

On 19 August 2020,[13] it was announced that Serghei Iakovlev, one of the core contributors on the Zephir language was stepping down from the project. Antonio Braga and Kleber Faustino took over the maintenance of Zephir as well as the Zephir Parser, providing much needed support and fixes to long standing bugs. Nikolaos Dimopoulos[14] took over the full maintenance of Phalcon.

The team decided to change direction, offering v5 as a PHP extension with support for PHP 7.4 and 8.0+. For v6, Phalcon will be offered as a pure PHP implementation and will support PHP versions 8.0+. However, there will also be an extension available, for those that need extra performance. The new extension will work in parallel with v6.

In v5, support for PSR interfaces has been removed.[15] Repositories with proxy classes that implement PSR were made available for those that need these classes. Additionally, the Packagecloud repositories have been discontinued, leaving PECL the official installation source for Phalcon (other than building it from sources).

During a Phalcon Hangout on 6 September 2020,[16] the team announced that work has started on Phalcon 5. With this announcement, the projects new repositories were officially made public.

Phalcon v5.0.0 was released during a live Hangout[17] on September 23, 2022. Soon after, a bug was discovered and the team released v5.0.1[18]

Phalcon v5.5.0 was released on Christmas Day[19] on December 25, 2023. In this release, the team dropped support for PHP 7.4 and only supports PHP 8.0+. This was also announced in a Community Hangout two days earlier[20]

Release History

Version Release date PHP version
Old version, no longer maintained: 0.3 November 14, 2012
Old version, no longer maintained: 0.4 June 02, 2012
Old version, no longer maintained: 0.5 September 17, 2012
Old version, no longer maintained: 0.6 November 11, 2012
Old version, no longer maintained: 0.7 December 12, 2012
Old version, no longer maintained: 0.8 January 09, 2013
Old version, no longer maintained: 0.9 February 05, 2013
Old version, no longer maintained: 1.0 March 21, 2013
Old version, no longer maintained: 1.3 March 17, 2014
Old version, no longer maintained: 2.0 April 17, 2015
Old version, no longer maintained: 3.0 July 29, 2016 5.6-7.0
Old version, no longer maintained: 4.0 December 21, 2019 7.2-7.4
Old version, no longer maintained: 5.0 September 23, 2022 7.4-8.2
Older version, yet still maintained: 5.4 October 25, 2023 7.4-8.2
Current stable version: 5.5 December 25, 2023 8.0-8.3
Legend:
Old version
Older version, still maintained
Latest version
Latest preview version
Future release

Source: Phalcon [2]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Release Version 0.4.5 · phalcon/cphalcon". github.com. 2012-11-14. Retrieved 2015-03-09.
  2. ^ a b c "GitHub Repository Release Notes - Phalcon Framework". Phalcon Franework. Retrieved 2023-12-25.
  3. ^ "Download Phalcon for Linux/Unix/Mac". phalcon.io.
  4. ^ "cphalcon/LICENSE.md at master · phalcon/cphalcon · GitHub". GitHub.
  5. ^ Lukasz Kujawa (2013-05-09). "Is Phalcon the promised land for PHP?". systemsarchitect.net. Retrieved 2015-03-14.
  6. ^ "Interview with PhalconPHP Creator Andrés Gutiérrez". phalcon.io. 2015-05-19. Retrieved 2015-05-23.
  7. ^ "CHANGELOG-1.x.md at master". github.com. 2017-08-06. Retrieved 2018-12-19.
  8. ^ "CHANGELOG-2.0.md at master". github.com. 2015-04-17. Retrieved 2015-04-17.
  9. ^ "Phalcon 3.0.0 released - Phalcon Framework". phalcon.io. 2016-07-29. Retrieved 2016-07-29.
  10. ^ "CHANGELOG-3.0.md at master". github.com. 2016-07-29. Retrieved 2016-07-29.
  11. ^ "Phalcon 4.0.0 released - Phalcon Framework". phalcon.io. 2019-12-21. Retrieved 2019-12-21.
  12. ^ "CHANGELOG-4.0.md at master". github.com. 2019-12-21. Retrieved 2019-12-21.
  13. ^ "The Future of Phalcon". Phalcon Blog. 2020-08-19. Retrieved 2020-09-25.
  14. ^ "niden.net". niden.net. 2020-08-19. Retrieved 2020-08-19.
  15. ^ "Status Update - PSR - Packagecloud". phalcon.io. 2022-03-30. Retrieved 2022-03-30.
  16. ^ "Community Hangout and Update - 2020-09-06". Phalcon Blog. 2020-09-04. Retrieved 2020-09-25.
  17. ^ "Live Release v5.0.0". Phalcon Blog. 2022-09-23. Retrieved 2022-09-23.
  18. ^ "CHANGELOG-5.0.md at master". github.com. 2022-09-23. Retrieved 2022-09-23.
  19. ^ "Merry Christmas and Phalcon 5.5.0 Released". Phalcon Blog. 2023-12-25. Retrieved 2023-12-25.
  20. ^ "Community Hangout and Update - 2023-12-23". Phalcon PHP Framework Youtube Channel. 2023-12-22. Retrieved 2023-12-22.


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