Nette Tester 2 is finally out. I'll describe changes and new features in detail.
New Tester requires PHP in version 5.6 or newer and supports PHP 7.2. Simultaneously, support for HHVM has been dropped. There has been small opinion poll on this topic.
Tester's default interpreter (when called without the -p
option) is CLI now. It used to be CGI. You will see notice in console
about it.
After a summer break, here comes a whole heap of news and info about what has been going on and what is in the picture. The hottest piece of news is the new version of Nette Framework 2.4. A complex overview of changes made to the framework, including all novelties related to versioning, can be found on the release webpage: https://forum.nette.org/…2-4-released. In short, in the future only respective packages will be versioned (such as the release described here: https://forum.nette.org/…4-2016-07-31). Other big changes that should be mentioned is Nette/Object replacement with traits, see David's talk from Hradec Králové: https://www.youtube.com/watch?… and the fact the “guts” of Latte, a template system, have been rewritten (a video from Plzeň will be published on YouTube soon). Here is also a post bringing attention to what you need to be careful about when migrating: https://forum.nette.org/…nette-2-4-rc. If you're still unsure whether you should use the latest version of Nette Framework or not, why don't you read a short post from the Slevomat boys about changin to 2.4: https://twitter.com/…122388672512, there are more and more companies following the example. In case you run on 2.4 too, tweet with hashtag #nettefw.
At the last PoSobota meetup, David Grudl introduced the news waiting for us in the version 2.4 which should become the LTS in Nette version 2. There are big plans with Nette version 3, especially regarding PHP 7, therefore the version 2.4 should most likely be the version for all Nette 2.x projects to stick to for good, thus the prolonged support. As of today, the minimal support of each .x version is 2 years, prolonged by at least a year in the LTS version.
Summer is coming! (pun intended) and the planned outing in the open is coming with it. You can pre-register at www.nettecamp.cz. Together with Tomas Jacik, we are preparing many new things and we will try to overcome the obstacles exposed by last year’s 0th Camp. The date is 25 – 28 August 2016 and we are moving the venue to Český ráj.
Our Czech mailing list community already counts more than 600 subscribers. It is a shame that we are not able to gauge the exact count of newcomers who decided to read this actual post. But I believe that this number is going to rise at least as fast as the Czech, local one.
A new patch version of Nette Framework has just released. It brings a few
novelties that may be found at https://forum.nette.org/…3-9-released.
I cannot leave out, at least, one of them – it is now possible to turn off
the Tracy by Debugger::$showBar = FALSE; The last stable versions
(2.3.9, 2.2.12 and even 2.1.12) are fully compatible with PHP 7 and, as a
bonus, version 2.3.9 is able to get use of PHP 7 features as argument type
hints and a return type of a generated factory.
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This Twitter hashtag stands for small repeated events and casual community meetings. An English equivalent, #NetteFwBeer, will also be used. These casual meetings take place every second Wednesday in a month. If you'd like to set up your own local community event, just create an event at http://eventle.com/(or elsewhere) and promote it on a Nette forum. We want the community to grow and this is a one of the ways how we are able to make it happen.