Today EllisLab and the CodeIgniter Reactor Engineers are proud to announce the first official release of CodeIgniter 2.0.0, which is being released in two flavors:
CodeIgniter Core
Core is a slow-moving branch that will be used as the base for EllisLab commercial products such as ExpressionEngine and MojoMotor. It will continue at a similar pace that CodeIgniter has in the past and will be useful for large commercial applications that require the upmost in stability and backward/forward compatibility at a pace more typical of SLA backed Enterprise products. Core is publicly available with tagged downloads at BitBucket.
CodeIgniter Reactor
Reactor is a community driven branch of CodeIgniter that will enable faster adoption of the best community submitted code to the framework. This means the community can create a fork of the project on BitBucket and contribute bug fixes, new features, documentation improvements, etc and have it reviewed by a code-review team called Reactor Engineers. These Engineers are primarily responsible for driving the development of the framework.
Changes and features made by EllisLab to Core will be merged into Reactor, and EllisLab will actively contribute to Reactor’s development. Reactor is the recommended version of CodeIgniter for use in the majority of day to day work. When you see “CodeIgniter” by itself on this web site, it is referring to CodeIgniter Reactor. The downloads, documentation, and forums all reflect this change. Put simply, Reactor = CodeIgniter.
Some of the big changes to happen in CodeIgniter 2.0 since CodeIgniter 1.7.3 are:
Support for PHP 4 is gone, PHP 5.1 is now a requirement.
CSRF Protection built into the form helper
Drivers
Application Packages
Scaffolding, having been deprecated for a number of versions, has been removed.
Removed the deprecated Validation Class.
Plugins have been removed, in favor of Helpers.
Added routing overrides to the main index.php file, enabling the normal routing to be overridden on a per “index” file basis.
Added $route[‘404_override’] to allow 404 pages to be handled by controllers.
50+ bugs fixed
Reactor contains all of these above and some nice changes of its own:
Full query-string support
Automatic base_url detecion if left blank
New Cache driver with file system, APC and memcache support
Command line compatibility for easy cron jobs
20+ tweaks and improvements
CodeIgniter 2.0.0 Released
