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RELEASE INFORMATION

Zend Framework 2.3.0dev

This is the third minor (feature) release for the version 2 series.

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UPDATES IN 2.3.0

This release ups the minimum required PHP version from 5.3.3 to 5.3.23. Making this change affords the following:

• 5.3.9 and up have a fix that allows a class to implement multiple interfaces that define the same method, so long as the signatures are compatible. Prior to that version, doing so raised a fatal error. This change is necessary in order to solve a problem with separated interface usage in the framework.

• 5.3.23 contains a PHP bug #62672. Adopting this version or greater will allow us to (eventually) remove polyfill support that works around the symptoms of that issue.

As always, the Zend Framework project strongly recommends using the latest version of PHP available to ensure you have the latest security fixes.

Additional updates that may affect existing applications include:

• #5469 adds a new abstract controller, Zend\Mvc\Controller\AbstractConsoleController, for simplifying the creation of console controllers.

• #5364 adds "naming strategies" to hydrators, allowing transformation of the data keys when either hydrating or extracting data sets. This is implemented via a new interface, Zend\Stdlib\Hydrator\NamingStrategy\NamingStrategyInterface, which is now composed by default into the AbstractHydrator.

• #5587 changes the default cost for Zend\Crypt\Password\Bcrypt to 10, to keep it consistent with PHP's own default, as well as potentially mitigate DoS vectors (due to high computation cost).

• #5356 deprecates Zend\Dom\Css2Path::transform in favor of the new Zend\Dom\Document\Query::cssToXpath. Additionally, it properly cleans up the relations between documents, queries, and nodelists, providing a workflow similar to performing XPath queries in PHP:

  use Zend\Dom\Document;
  $document = new Document($content);
  $nodeList = Document\Query::execute($expression, $document, Document\Query::TYPE_CSS);
  foreach ($nodeList as $node) {
      // ...
  }

  or, more succinctly:

  use Zend\Dom\Document;
  foreach (
    Document\Query::execute($expression, new Document($content), Document\Query::TYPE_CSS)
    as $node
  ) {
      // ...
  }

  This API is intended to replace Zend\Dom\Query; however, Zend\Dom\Query remains in order to retain backwards compatibility.

• #5043 introduced changes in how DocBlock tag instances are returned via the Zend\Code\Reflection component. These instances are rarely created manually; however, if you are doing so, please note the following API changes:

  • Zend\Code\Generator\DocBlock\Tag\AuthorTag: removed set/getDatatype() and set/getParamName()
  • Zend\Code\Generator\DocBlock\Tag\AuthorTag: __construct changed from ($options = array()) to ($authorName = null, $authorEmail = null)
  • Zend\Code\Generator\DocBlock\Tag\LicenseTag: __construct changed from ($options = array()) to ($url = null, $licenseName = null)
  • Zend\Code\Generator\DocBlock\Tag\ReturnTag: __construct changed from ($options = array()) to ($types = array(), $description = null)
  • Zend\Code\Generator\DocBlock\Tag\ParamTag: __construct changed from ($options = array()) to ($variableName = null, $types = array(), $description = null)
  • Using DocBlockGenerator::fromReflection() and afterwards getTags() is now returning the new Tag classes (ReturnTag, AuthorTag, ParamTag, ...) where applicable and otherwise GenericTag. The deprecated class Tag will not be returned anymore.

• #5101 introduces a behavior change in the FormLabel view helper: it now escapes the label content by default. If you wish to disable escaping, you need to either pass the label option disable_html_escape to the form element, or call the setEscapeHtmlHelper(false) method on the formLabel() view helper.

• #4962 adds a service alias from "ControllerManager" to "ControllerLoader", and updates code to reference

Please see CHANGELOG.md.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Zend Framework 2 requires PHP 5.3.3 or later; we recommend using the latest PHP version whenever possible.

INSTALLATION

Please see INSTALL.md.

CONTRIBUTING

If you wish to contribute to Zend Framework, please read both the CONTRIBUTING.md and README-GIT.md file.

QUESTIONS AND FEEDBACK

Online documentation can be found at http://framework.zend.com/manual. Questions that are not addressed in the manual should be directed to the appropriate mailing list:

http://framework.zend.com/archives/subscribe/

If you find code in this release behaving in an unexpected manner or contrary to its documented behavior, please create an issue in our GitHub issue tracker:

https://github.com/zendframework/zf2/issues

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When reporting issues, please provide the following information:

• Component(s) affected
• A description indicating how to reproduce the issue
• A summary of the security vulnerability and impact

We request that you contact us via the email address above and give the project contributors a chance to resolve the vulnerability and issue a new release prior to any public exposure; this helps protect Zend Framework users and provides them with a chance to upgrade and/or update in order to protect their applications.

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LICENSE

The files in this archive are released under the Zend Framework license. You can find a copy of this license in LICENSE.txt.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Zend Framework team would like to thank all the contributors to the Zend Framework project, our corporate sponsor, and you, the Zend Framework user. Please visit us sometime soon at http://framework.zend.com.