Version 3.0.0

• PHP 5.3 and 5.4 are now fully deprecated
• Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Validation is now deprecated in favor of Phalcon\Validation
• Changed default hash algorithm in Phalcon\Security to CRYPT_BLOWFISH_Y
• Changed constructor of Phalcon\Mvc\Model to allow pass an array of initialization data
• Removed support for prefixes strategy in Phalcon\Loader
• Now Phalcon\Mvc\View supports many views directories at the same time
• An absolute path can now be used to Mvc\View::setLayoutsDir
• Fixed odd view behavior#1933 related to setLayout() and pick()
• Phalcon\Di is now bound to services closures allowing use Phalcon\Di as $this to access services within them
• If an object is returned after firing the event beforeServiceResolve in Phalcon\Di this overrides the
  default service localization process
• Placeholders :controller and :action in Mvc\Router now defaults to /([\\w0-9\\_\\-]+) instead of /([\\a-zA-Z0-9\\_\\-]+)
• Modifier #u (PCRE_UTF8) is now default in regex based routes in Mvc\Router
• Return 'false' from an action disables the view component (same as $this->view->disable())
• Return a string from an action takes it as the body of the response (same as return $this->response->setContent('Hello world'))
• Return a string from an Mvc\Micro handler takes it as the body of the response
• Mvc\Router\Route now escapes characters such as . or + to avoid unexpected behaviors
• Closures used as handlers inMvc\Micro are now bound to the $app instance
• Routes now can have an associated callback that can override the default dispatcher + view behavior
• Phalcon\Mvc\Model now implements JsonSerializable making easy serialize model instances
• When destructing a Mvc\Model\Manager PHQL cache is clean
• Method isSetOption in Phalcon\Validation\ValidatorInterface marked as deprecated, please use hasOption
• Added internal check "allowEmpty" before calling a validator. If it option is true and the value of empty, the validator is skipped
• Added default header: Content-Type: "application/json; charset=UTF-8" in method Phalcon\Http\Response::setJsonContent
• Now Phalcon\Events\Event implements Phalcon\Events\EventInterface
• Phalcon\Events\Event::getCancelable renamed to Phalcon\Events\Event::isCancelable
• Removed Phalcon\Events\Manager::dettachAll in favor of Phalcon\Events\Manager::detachAll
• Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Criteria::getOrder renamed to Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Criteria::getOrderBy
• Added method getOption() in Phalcon\Mvc\Model\RelationInterface
• Added ability to spoof HTTP request method
• Added FULLTEXT index type to Phalcon\Db\Adapter\Pdo\Mysql
• Fixed the use of the annotation router with namespaced controllers
• Added Phalcon\Acl\RoleAware and Phalcon\Acl\ResourceAware Interfaces, Now you can pass objects to Phalcon\Acl\AdapterInterface::isAllowed as roleName and resourceName, also they will be automatically passed to function defined in Phalcon\Acl\AdapterInterface::allow or Phalcon\Acl\AdapterInterface::deny by type
• Phalcon\Acl\AdapterInterface::allow and Phalcon\Acl\AdapterInterface::deny have 4th argument - function, which will be called when using Phalcon\Acl\AdapterInterface::isAllowed
• Phalcon\Acl\AdapterInterface::isAllowed have 4th argument - parameters, you can pass arguments for function defined in Phalcon\Acl\AdapterInterface:allow or Phalcon\Acl\AdapterInterface::deny as associative array where key is argument name
• Added method getActionSuffix() in Phalcon\DispatcherInterface
• CLI parameters are now handled consistently.
• Added Phalcon\Mvc\Controller\BindModelInterface and associated model type hint loading through dispatcher.
• Added Phalcon\Dispatcher::hasParam().
• Phalcon\Cli\Console and Phalcon\Mvc\Application now inherit Phalcon\Application.
• Fixed afterFetch event not being sent to behaviors
• Fixed issue with radio not being checked when default value is 0 #11358
• Fixed issue with Model::__set that was bypassing setters #11286
• Fixed issue with Model::__set that was setting hidden attributes directly when setters are not declared #11286
• Added Phalcon\Cli\DispatcherInterface, Phalcon\Cli\TaskInterface, Phalcon\Cli\RouterInterface and Phalcon\Cli\Router\RouteInterface.
• Added Phalcon\Mvc\Collection::update, Phalcon\Mvc\Collection::create and Phalcon\Mvc\Collection::createIfNotExist
• Removed __construct from all interfaces #11410
• Fires the dispatch:beforeException event when there is any exception during dispatching #11458
• Added OR operator for Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Query\Builder methods: betweenWhere, notBetweenWhere, inWhere and notInWhere
• Fixed bug of destroy method of Phalcon\Session\Adapter\Libmemcached
• Added Phalcon\Cache\Backend\Memcache::addServers to enable pool of servers for memcache
• Added setLastModified method to Phalcon\Http\Response
• Added Phalcon\Validation\Validator\Date
• Added \Phalcon\Queue\Beanstalk::ignore() It removes the named tube from the watch list for the current connection.
• Added \Phalcon\Queue\Beanstalk::pauseTube() Can delay any new job being reserved for a given time.
• Added \Phalcon\Queue\Beanstalk::kick() It moves jobs into the ready queue. If there are any buried jobs, it will only kick buried jobs. Otherwise it will kick delayed jobs.
• Added \Phalcon\Queue\Beanstalk::listTubeUsed() Returns the tube currently being used by the client.
• Added \Phalcon\Queue\Beanstalk::listTubesWatched() Returns a list tubes currently being watched by the client.
• Added \Phalcon\Queue\Beanstalk::peekDelayed() Return the delayed job with the shortest delay left.
• Added \Phalcon\Queue\Beanstalk::jobPeek() Return job.
• Mcrypt is replaced with openssl in Phalcon\Crypt
• Default encrypt algorithm in Phalcon\Crypt is now changed to AES-256-CFB
• Removed methods setMode(), getMode(), getAvailableModes() in Phalcon\CryptInterface
• Added Phalcon\Assets\Manager::exists() to check if collection exists
• Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Manager::load() now can load models from aliased namespaces
• Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Transaction\Manager now correctly keeps account of transactions #11554
• Phalcon\Db\Dialect\Sqlite now maps additional column types to SQLite columns equivalents.
• Phalcon\Security is using now Phalcon\Security\Random
• Enforced that Phalcon\Security::getToken() and Phalcon\Security::getTokenKey() return a random value per request not per call
• Phalcon\Security::getToken() and Phalcon\Security::getTokenKey() are using now Phalcon\Security::_numberBytes instead of passed as a argument or hardcoded value
• Phalcon\Security::hash() corrected not working CRYPT_STD_DES, CRYPT_EXT_DES, MD5, CRYPT_SHA256
• Phalcon\Security::hash() CRYPT_SHA512 fixed wrong salt length
• Added missing unit-tests for Phalcon\Security
• Fixed Filter::add method handler #11581
• Removed Phalcon\Session #11340
• Phalcon\Tag::getTitle() shows a title depending on prependTitle and appendTitle
• Using a settable variable for the Mongo Connection Service name instead of a hard coded string #11725
• Added new getter Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Query\Builder::getJoins() - to get join parts from query builder
• Fixed Phalcon\Db\Dialect\Oracle::prepareTable() to correctly generate SQL for table aliases #11799
• Fixed Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Resultset::update() - removed endless loop queries
• The cache backend adapters now returns boolean on call Phalcon\Cache\BackendInterface::save
• Fixed the Session write callback #11733
• Added '\Phalcon\Loader::registerFiles' & '\Phalcon\Loader::getFiles'. This allows you to add files to the autoloader
• Added Phalcon\Security::hasLibreSsl and Phalcon\Security::getSslVersionNumber
• Added new setter Phalcon\Escaper::setDoubleEncode() - to allow setting/disabling double encoding
• Added Phalcon\Cache\Frontend\Msgpack - Added Msgpack Support for Frontend Cache
• Phalcon\Debug\Dump skip debugging di, fix detecting private/protected properties
• Added option to validate multiple fields with one validator(fix uniqueness validator as well), also removes unnecessary model => $this in Phalcon\Validation\Validator\Uniqueness.
• Phalcon\Validation\Validator\Alpha now correctly validates non-ASCII characters #11386
• Phalcon\Validation\Validator\Digit now correctly validates digits #11374
• Added Phalcon\Validation\CombinedFieldsValidator, validation will pass array of fields to this validator if needed
• Added ability to autoescape Flash messages #11448
• Fixed Phalcon\Config::merge for working with php7
• Added ability to use custom delimiter for Phalcon\Text::camelize and Phalcon\Text::uncamelize #10396
• Added support of CONNECT, TRACE and PURGE HTTP methods
• Refactored Phalcon\Http\Request::getHttpHost. Now it always return host name or empty string. Optionally validates and clean host name #2573
• Added Phalcon\Http\Request::getPort. To get information about the port on which the request is made.
• Added Phalcon\Http\Request::setStrictHostCheck and Phalcon\Http\Request::isStrictHostCheck to manage strict validation of host name.
• Fixed matching host name by Phalcon\Mvc\Route::handle when using port on current host name #2573
• Fixed Phalcon\Text:dynamic() to allow custom separator #11215
• Fixed Phalcon\Validation::appendMessage to allow append message to the empty stack #10405
• Fixed Phalcon\Session\Flash::getMessages. Now it returns an empty array in case of non existent message type request #11941
• Amended Phalcon\Mvc\RouterInterface and Phalcon\Mvc\Router. Added missed addPurge, addTrace and addConnect methods
• Fixed incorrect query when using NULL fields with Phalcon\Validation\Validator\Uniqueness
• Fixed Phalcon\Forms\Form::getValue. Now Elements can have names that match with the internal Form getters #10398
• Add setContentLength() method to Phalcon\Http\Response
• Fixed Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Manager::_mergeFindParameters - Merging conditions #11987
• Renamed Phalcon\Http\Request::isSoapRequest to Phalcon\Http\Request::isSoap and Phalcon\Http\Request::isSecureRequest to Phalcon\Http\Request::isSecure. Left the originals functions as aliases and marked them deprecated.
• Fixed wildcard inheritance in Phalcon\Acl\Adapter\Memory #12004
• Dropped support of Oracle #12008
• Improved Phalcon\Mvc\Collection::findById. Added check if a id in a valid format #12010
• Added convert option to Phalcon\Validation\Validator\Uniqueness to convert values to do the database lookup #12005