Version 4.0.0-rc.2

Release Date: Sept 27, 2019

RC.2 release of CodeIgniter4

Enhancements:

• query builder testability simplified with new property, but dropped

  method parameters (breaking change)

• database, migrations and sessions beefed up
• numerous smaller bugs corrected

App changes:

• Config/Constants, Paths & some config settings have had changes

Message changes:

• N/A

The list of changed files follows, with PR numbers shown.

• admin/

• app/

  • Config/

    • Boot/* #2241
    • Constants #2183
    • Paths #2181

• public/

• system/

  • CLI/

    • BaseCommand #2231

  • Database/

    • MySQLi/Connection #2201, 2229

    • Postgre/

      • BaseBuilder #2269
      • Connection #2201

    • SQLite3/Connection #2201, 2228, 2230
    • BaseBuilder #2257, 2232, 2269, 2270
    • BaseConnection #2208, 2213, 2231
    • Config #2224
    • Forge #2205
    • MigrationRunner #2191

  • Debug/

    • Exceptions #2262

  • Encryption/

    • Encryption #2231
    • Handlers/BaseHandler #2231

  • Files/

    • FileCollection #2265

  • HTTP/

    • CURLRequest #2168
    • IncomingRequest #2265
    • Request #2253
    • Response #2253

  • I18n/

    • Time #2231
    • TimeDifference #2231

  • Images/

    • Handlers/BaseHandler #2246

  • RESTful/

    • ResourcePresenter #2271

  • Security/

    • Security #2240

  • Session/

    • Session #2197, 2231

  • Test/

    • CIDatabaseTestCase #2205
    • CIDatabaseUnitTestCase #2184

  • Validation/

    • FileRules #2265
    • Validation #2268

  • View/

    • Parser #2264

  • Common #2200, 2209, 2261
  • Model #2231

• tests/_support/

• tests/system/

  • Commands/

    • CommandClassTest #2231

  • Database/

    • Builder/

      • GetTest #2232
      • CountTest #2269
      • DeleteTest #2269
      • EmptyTest #2269
      • GetTest #2269
      • GroupTest #2257
      • InsertTest #2269
      • ReplaceTest #2269
      • TruncateTest #2269
      • UpdateTest #2269

    • Live/

      • EscapeTest #2229
      • ForgeTest #2201, 2211
      • GroupTest #2257
      • MetadataTest #2211
      • ModelTest #2231

    • BaseConnectionTest #2229, 2231

  • Encryption/

    • EncryptionTest #2231

  • Helpers/

    • URLHelperTest #2259

  • HTTP/

    • CURLRequestTest #2168
    • FileCOllectionTest #2265
    • URITest #2259

  • I18n/

    • TimeDifferenceTest #2231
    • TimeTest #2231

  • Pager/

    • pagerTest #2259

  • RESTful/

    • ResourcePresenterTest #2271

  • Session/

    • SessionTest #2231

  • View/

    • ParserTest #2264

• user_guide_src/

  • concepts/

    • structure #2221

  • database/

    • metadata #2199, 2201, 2208
    • queries #2208
    • query_builder #2257, 2232, 2269

  • dbmgmt/

    • migration #2190, 2191

  • extending/

    • contributing #2221

  • general/

    • errors #2221

  • helpera/

    • url_helper #2259

  • incoming/

    • restful #2189
    • routing #2221

  • installation/

    • troubleshooting #2260

  • libraries/

    • encryption #2221
    • pagination #2216
    • time #2221
    • uti #2216

  • outgoing/

    • api_responses #2245
    • view_layouts #2218
    • view_parser #2218, 2264

  • testing/

    • controllers #2221
    • debugging #2221, 2209
    • feature #2218, 2221
    • overview #2221

  • tutorial/

    • news_section #2221
    • static_pages #2221

PRs merged:

• #2271 fix ResourcePresenter::setModel()
• #2270 groupStart() refactorization
• #2269 testMode() method for BaseBuilder
• #2268 Validation session use only if exists
• #2267 Tests setUp and tearDown: void
• #2265 Fix a validation issue on multiple file upload
• #2264 fix. Parser allow other extension
• #2262 Fix parameter type in Debug/Exceptions
• #2261 Fix lang() signature
• #2260 Explain the whoops page
• #2259 Add URI & url_helper tests
• #2257 Several updates to the HAVING clauses
• #2253 Fix invalid parameters
• #2246 EXIF not supported for GIF
• #2245 Fix class ref parameter types
• #2241 Fix ini_set parameter type
• #2240 Handle JSON POSTs in CSRF
• #2232 Fixes BaseBuilder getWhere() bug
• #2231 Add magic __isset to classes with __get
• #2230 Add escape to SQLite _listTables()
• #2229 MySQLi escapeLikeStringDirect()
• #2228 Exclude sqlite_% from listTables()
• #2224 change new ConfigDatabase() to config(‘Database’)
• #2221 Documentation fixes
• #2218 Typo corrected
• #2216 Update uri.rst
• #2213 Filter listTables cache response on constrainPrefix
• #2211 Add listTable() tests
• #2209 Add trace()
• #2208 Add $db->getPrefix()
• #2205 Fix empty() bug on DBPrefix
• #2201 Foreign key columns
• #2200 Notify Kint of dd alias
• #2199 Add getForeignKeyData to User Guide
• #2187 Update Session.php
• #2191 Migration rollback reverse
• #2190 Fix name of ForeignKeyChecks
• #2189 missing return
• #2184 Fix case on “Seeds/” directory
• #2183 Check defined for constants
• #2181 Remove copy-paste extraneous text
• #2168 Fix for CURL for ‘debug’ option