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@@ -23,50 +23,62 @@ Release Date: Not Released
- Added an optional backtrace to php-error template.
- Added Android to the list of user agents.
- Added Windows 7, Android, Blackberry and iOS to the list of user platforms.
+ - Added Fennec (Firefox for mobile) to the list of mobile user agents.
- Ability to log certain error types, not all under a threshold.
- Added support for pem, p10, p12, p7a, p7c, p7m, p7r, p7s, crt, crl, der, kdb, rsa, cer, sst, csr Certs to mimes.php.
- Added support for pgp and gpg to mimes.php.
- Added support for 3gp, 3g2, mp4, wmv, f4v, vlc Video files to mimes.php.
- Added support for m4a, aac, m4u, xspf, au, ac3, flac, ogg Audio files to mimes.php.
- Added support for kmz and kml (Google Earth) files to mimes.php.
- - Added Romanian and Greek characters in foreign_characters.php
+ - Added support for ics Calendar files to mimes.php
+ - Updated support for xml ('application/xml') and xsl ('application/xml', 'text/xsl') files in mimes.php.
- Updated support for doc files in mimes.php.
- - Added application/xml for xml and application/xml, text/xsl for xsl in mimes.php.
+ - Added some more doctypes.
+ - Added Romanian and Greek characters in foreign_characters.php.
- Changed logger to only chmod when file is first created.
- Removed previously deprecated SHA1 Library.
- Removed previously deprecated use of ``$autoload['core']`` in application/config/autoload.php.
Only entries in ``$autoload['libraries']`` are auto-loaded now.
- - Added some more doctypes.
+ - Removed previously deprecated EXT constant.
- Updated all classes to be written in PHP 5 style, with visibility declarations and no ``var`` usage for properties.
- Moved error templates to "application/views/errors"
- - Global config files are loaded first, then environment ones. Environment config keys overwrite base ones, allowing to only set the keys we want changed per Env.
+ - Global config files are loaded first, then environment ones. Environment config keys overwrite base ones, allowing to only set the keys we want changed per environment.
+ - Changed detection of ``$view_folder`` so that if it's not found in the current path, it will now also be searched for under the application folder.
+ - Path constants BASEPATH, APPPATH and VIEWPATH are now (internally) defined as absolute paths.
- Helpers
- - create_captcha() accepts additional colors parameter, allowing for color customization
- - url_title() will now trim extra dashes from beginning and end.
+ - :doc:`Date Helper <helpers/date_helper>` function now() now works with all timezone strings supported by PHP.
+ - ``create_captcha()`` accepts additional colors parameter, allowing for color customization.
+ - ``url_title()`` will now trim extra dashes from beginning and end.
- Added XHTML Basic 1.1 doctype to :doc:`HTML Helper <helpers/html_helper>`.
- - Changed humanize() to include a second param for the separator.
+ - Changed ``humanize()`` to include a second param for the separator.
- Refactored ``plural()`` and ``singular()`` to avoid double pluralization and support more words.
- Added an optional third parameter to ``force_download()`` that enables/disables sending the actual file MIME type in the Content-Type header (disabled by default).
- Added an optional third parameter to ``timespan()`` that constrains the number of time units displayed.
- - Added a work-around in force_download() for a bug Android <= 2.1, where the filename extension needs to be in uppercase.
- - form_dropdown() will now also take an array for unity with other form helpers.
- - set_realpath() can now also handle file paths as opposed to just directories.
- - do_hash() now uses PHP's native hash() function, supporting more algorithms.
- - Added an optional paramater to ``delete_files()`` to enable it to skip deleting files such as .htaccess and index.html.
- - Removed deprecated helper function ``js_insert_smiley()`` from smiley helper.
+ - Added a work-around in ``force_download()`` for a bug Android <= 2.1, where the filename extension needs to be in uppercase.
+ - ``form_dropdown()`` will now also take an array for unity with other form helpers.
+ - ``do_hash()`` now uses PHP's native ``hash()`` function (supporting more algorithms) and is deprecated.
+ - Removed previously deprecated helper function ``js_insert_smiley()`` from smiley helper.
+ - :doc:`File Helper <helpers/file_helper>` changes include:
+ - ``set_realpath()`` can now also handle file paths as opposed to just directories.
+ - Added an optional paramater to ``delete_files()`` to enable it to skip deleting files such as .htaccess and index.html.
+ - ``read_file()`` is now a deprecated alias of ``file_get_contents()``.
- Database
- - Renamed the Active Record class to Query Builder to remove confusion with the Active Record design pattern.
- - Added the ability to insert objects with insert_batch() in :doc:`Query Builder <database/query_builder>`.
- - Added new :doc:`Query Builder <database/query_builder>` methods that return the SQL string of queries without executing them: get_compiled_select(), get_compiled_insert(), get_compiled_update(), get_compiled_delete().
- - Adding $escape parameter to the order_by() method, this enables ordering by custom fields.
+ - :doc:`Query Builder <database/query_builder>` changes include:
+ - Renamed the Active Record class to Query Builder to remove confusion with the Active Record design pattern.
+ - Added the ability to insert objects with insert_batch().
+ - Added new methods that return the SQL string of queries without executing them: get_compiled_select(), get_compiled_insert(), get_compiled_update(), get_compiled_delete().
+ - Added an optional order_by() parameter that allows to disable escaping (useful for custom fields).
+ - Added an optional join() parameter that allows to disable escaping.
+ - Added support for join() with multiple conditions.
- Improved support for the MySQLi driver, including:
- - OOP style of the PHP extension is now used, instead of the procedural aliases.
- - Server version checking is now done via ``mysqli::$server_info`` instead of running an SQL query.
- - Added persistent connections support for PHP >= 5.3.
+ - OOP style of the PHP extension is now used, instead of the procedural aliases.
+ - Server version checking is now done via ``mysqli::$server_info`` instead of running an SQL query.
+ - Added persistent connections support for PHP >= 5.3.
+ - Added support for backup() in :doc:`Database Utilities <database/utilities>`.
- Added 'dsn' configuration setting for drivers that support DSN strings (PDO, PostgreSQL, Oracle, ODBC, CUBRID).
- Improved PDO database support.
- Added Interbase/Firebird database support via the "interbase" driver.
@@ -74,34 +86,41 @@ Release Date: Not Released
- Replaced the _error_message() and _error_number() methods with error(), that returns an array containing the last database error code and message.
- Improved version() implementation so that drivers that have a native function to get the version number don't have to be defined in the core DB_driver class.
- Improved support of the PostgreSQL driver, including:
- - pg_version() is now used to get the database version number, when possible.
- - Added db_set_charset() support.
- - Added _optimize_table() support for the :doc:`Database Utility Class <database/utilities>` (rebuilds table indexes).
- - Added boolean data type support in escape().
- - Added update_batch() support.
+ - pg_version() is now used to get the database version number, when possible.
+ - Added db_set_charset() support.
+ - Added support for optimize_table() in :doc:`Database Utilities <database/utilities>` (rebuilds table indexes).
+ - Added boolean data type support in escape().
+ - Added update_batch() support.
+ - Removed limit() and order_by() support for UPDATE and DELETE queries in as PostgreSQL does not support those features.
- Added a constructor to the DB_result class and moved all driver-specific properties and logic out of the base DB_driver class to allow better abstraction.
- - Removed limit() and order_by() support for UPDATE and DELETE queries in PostgreSQL driver. Postgres does not support those features.
- Removed protect_identifiers() and renamed internal method _protect_identifiers() to it instead - it was just an alias.
+ - Renamed internal method _escape_identifiers() to escape_identifiers().
+ - Updated escape_identifiers() to accept an array of fields as well as strings.
- MySQL and MySQLi drivers now require at least MySQL version 5.1.
- db_set_charset() now only requires one parameter (collation was only needed due to legacy support for MySQL versions prior to 5.1).
- - Added DSN string support for CUBRID.
- - Added persistent connections support for CUBRID.
- - Added random ordering support for MSSQL, SQLSRV.
- Added support for SQLite3 database driver.
+ - Improved support of the CUBRID driver, including:
+ - Added DSN string support.
+ - Added persistent connections support.
+ - Improved list_databases() in :doc:`Database Utility <database/utilities>` (until now only the currently used database was returned).
+ - Improved support of the MSSQL and SQLSRV drivers, including:
+ - Added random ordering support.
+ - Added support for optimize_table() in :doc:`Database Utility <database/utilities>`.
+ - Added escaping with QUOTE_IDENTIFIER setting detection.
+ - Added port handling support for UNIX-based systems (MSSQL driver).
+ - Added OFFSET support for SQL Server 2005 and above.
- Improved support of the Oracle (OCI8) driver, including:
- - Added DSN string support (Easy Connect and TNS).
- - Added support for dropping tables to :doc:`Database Forge <database/forge>`.
- - Added support for listing database schemas to :doc:`Database Utilities <database/utilities>`.
- - Generally improved for speed and cleaned up all of its components.
- - *Row* result methods now really only fetch only the needed number of rows, instead of depending entirely on result().
- - num_rows() is now only called explicitly by the developer and no longer re-executes statements.
- - Added replace() support for SQLite.
- - Renamed internal method _escape_identifiers() to escape_identifiers().
- - Added SQLite support for drop_table() in :doc:`Database Forge <database/forge>`.
+ - Added DSN string support (Easy Connect and TNS).
+ - Added support for drop_table() in :doc:`Database Forge <database/forge>`.
+ - Added support for list_databases() in :doc:`Database Utilities <database/utilities>`.
+ - Generally improved for speed and cleaned up all of its components.
+ - *Row* result methods now really only fetch only the needed number of rows, instead of depending entirely on result().
+ - num_rows() is now only called explicitly by the developer and no longer re-executes statements.
+ - Improved support of the SQLite driver, including:
+ - Added support for replace() in :doc:`Query Builder <database/query_builder>`.
+ - Added support for drop_table() in :doc:`Database Forge <database/forge>`.
- Added ODBC support for create_database(), drop_database() and drop_table() in :doc:`Database Forge <database/forge>`.
- Added PDO support for create_database(), drop_database and drop_table() in :doc:`Database Forge <database/forge>`.
- - Added MSSQL, SQLSRV support for optimize_table() in :doc:`Database Utility <database/utilities>`.
- - Improved CUBRID support for list_databases() in :doc:`Database Utility <database/utilities>` (until now only the currently used database was returned).
- Added unbuffered_row() method for getting a row without prefetching whole result (consume less memory).
- Libraries
@@ -129,11 +148,16 @@ Release Date: Not Released
- _execute() now considers input data to be invalid if a specified rule is not found.
- Removed method is_numeric() as it exists as a native PHP function and _execute() will find and use that (the 'is_numeric' rule itself is deprecated since 1.6.1).
- Native PHP functions used as rules can now accept an additional parameter, other than the data itself.
+ - Updated set_rules() to accept an array of rules as well as a string.
- Changed the :doc:`Session Library <libraries/sessions>` to select only one row when using database sessions.
- Added all_flashdata() method to session class. Returns an associative array of only flashdata.
- Allowed for setting table class defaults in a config file.
- Added a Wincache driver to the :doc:`Caching Library <libraries/caching>`.
+ - Added a Redis driver to the :doc:`Caching Library <libraries/caching>`.
- Added dsn (delivery status notification) option to the :doc:`Email Library <libraries/email>`.
+ - Renamed method _set_header() to set_header() and made it public to enable adding custom headers in the :doc:`Email Library <libraries/email>`.
+ - Added an "index" parameter to the data() method in the :doc:`Upload Library <libraries/file_uploading>`.
+ - Added support for the anchor "rel" attribute in the :doc:`Pagination Library <libraries/pagination>`.
- Core
@@ -147,6 +171,9 @@ Release Date: Not Released
- Added support for HTTP-Only cookies with new config option ``cookie_httponly`` (default FALSE).
- Renamed method _call_hook() to call_hook() in the :doc:`Hooks Library <general/hooks>`.
- Added get_content_type() method to the :doc:`Output Library <libraries/output>`.
+ - Added get_mimes() function to system/core/Commons.php to return the config/mimes.php array.
+ - Added a second argument to set_content_type() in the :doc:`Output Library <libraries/output>` that allows setting the document charset as well.
+ - $config['time_reference'] now supports all timezone strings supported by PHP.
Bug fixes for 3.0
------------------
@@ -154,7 +181,7 @@ Bug fixes for 3.0
- Fixed a bug where ``unlink()`` raised an error if cache file did not exist when you try to delete it.
- Fixed a bug (#181) where a mis-spelling was in the form validation language file.
- Fixed a bug (#159, #163) that mishandled Query Builder nested transactions because _trans_depth was not getting incremented.
-- Fixed a bug (#737, #75) where pagination anchor class was not set properly when using initialize method.
+- Fixed a bug (#737, #75) - :doc:`Pagination <libraries/pagination>` anchor class was not set properly when using initialize method.
- Fixed a bug (#419) - auto_link() now recognizes URLs that come after a word boundary.
- Fixed a bug (#724) - is_unique in form validation now checks that you are connected to a database.
- Fixed a bug (#647) - _get_mod_time() in Zip library no longer generates stat failed errors.
@@ -165,7 +192,7 @@ Bug fixes for 3.0
- Fixed a bug (#797) - timespan() was using incorrect seconds for year and month.
- Fixed a bug in CI_Cart::contents() where if called without a TRUE (or equal) parameter, it would fail due to a typo.
- Fixed a bug (#696) - make oci_execute() calls inside num_rows() non-committing, since they are only there to reset which row is next in line for oci_fetch calls and thus don't need to be committed.
-- Fixed a bug (#406) - sqlsrv DB driver not returning resource on ``db_pconnect()``.
+- Fixed a bug (#406) - SQLSRV DB driver not returning resource on ``db_pconnect()``.
- Fixed a bug in CI_Image_lib::gd_loaded() where it was possible for the script execution to end or a PHP E_WARNING message to be emitted.
- Fixed a bug in the :doc:`Pagination library <libraries/pagination>` where when use_page_numbers=TRUE previous link and page 1 link did not have the same url.
- Fixed a bug (#561) - Errors in :doc:`XML-RPC Library <libraries/xmlrpc>` were not properly escaped.
@@ -223,19 +250,39 @@ Bug fixes for 3.0
- Fixed a bug (#121) - ``CI_DB_result::row()`` returned an array when there's no actual result to be returned.
- Fixed a bug (#319) - SQLSRV's affected_rows() method failed due to a scrollable cursor being created for write-type queries.
- Fixed a bug (#356) - PostgreSQL driver didn't have an _update_batch() method, which resulted in fatal error being triggered when update_batch() is used with it.
-- Fixed a bug (#862) - create_table() failed on SQLSRV/MSSQL when used with 'IF NOT EXISTS'.
+- Fixed a bug (#784, #862) - :doc:`Database Forge <database/forge>` method ``create_table()`` failed on SQLSRV/MSSQL when used with 'IF NOT EXISTS'.
- Fixed a bug (#1419) - libraries/Driver.php had a static variable that was causing an error.
+- Fixed a bug (#1411) - the :doc:`Email library <libraries/email>` used its own short list of MIMEs instead the one from config/mimes.php.
+- Fixed a bug where the magic_quotes_runtime setting wasn't turned off for PHP 5.3 (where it is indeed deprecated, but not non-existent).
+- Fixed a bug (#666) - :doc:`Output library <libraries/output>`'s set_content_type() method didn't set the document charset.
+- Fixed a bug (#784, #861) - :doc:`Database Forge <database/forge>` method ``create_table()`` used to accept constraints for MSSQL/SQLSRV integer-type columns.
+- Fixed a bug (#706) - SQLSRV/MSSSQL didn't escape field names.
+- Fixed a bug (#1452) - protect_identifiers() didn't properly detect identifiers with spaces in their names.
+- Fixed a bug where protect_identifiers() ignored it's extra arguments when the value passed to it is an array.
+- Fixed a bug where _has_operator() didn't detect BETWEEN.
+- Fixed a bug in :doc:`Query Builder <database/query_builder>`'s join() method where it failed with identifiers containing dashes.
+- Fixed a bug (#1264) - :doc:`Database Forge <database/forge>` and :doc:`Database Utilities <database/utilities>` didn't update/reset the databases and tables list cache when a table or a database is created, dropped or renamed.
+- Fixed a bug (#7) - :doc:`Query Builder <database/query_builder>`'s join() method only escaped one set of conditions.
+- Fixed a bug (#1321) - Core Exceptions class couldn't find the errors/ folder in some cases.
+- Fixed a bug in the File-based :doc:`Cache Library <libraries/caching>` driver's get_metadata() method where a non-existent array key was accessed for the TTL value.
+- Fixed a bug (#1202) - :doc:`Encryption Library <libraries/encryption>` encode_from_legacy() didn't set back the encrypt mode on failure.
+- Fixed a bug (#145) - compile_binds() failed when the bind marker was present in a literal string within the query.
+- Fixed a bug in protect_identifiers() where if passed along with the field names, operators got escaped as well.
+- Fixed a bug (#10) - :doc:`URI Library <libraries/uri>` internal method _detect_uri() failed with paths containing a colon.
+- Fixed a bug (#1387) - :doc:`Query Builder <database/query_builder>`'s from() method didn't escape table aliases.
Version 2.1.1
=============
-Release Date: Not Released
+Release Date: June 13, 2012
- General Changes
- Fixed support for docx, xlsx files in mimes.php.
- Libraries
- Further improved MIME type detection in the :doc:`File Uploading Library <libraries/file_uploading>`.
+ - Added support for IPv6 to the :doc:`Input Library <libraries/input>`.
+ - Added support for the IP format parameter to the :doc:`Form Validation Library <libraries/form_validation>`.
- Helpers
- url_title() performance and output improved. You can now use any string as the word delimiter, but 'dash' and 'underscore' are still supported.
@@ -250,6 +297,8 @@ Bug fixes for 2.1.1
- Fixed a bug - When database caching was enabled, $this->db->query() checked the cache before binding variables which resulted in cached queries never being found.
- Fixed a bug - CSRF cookie value was allowed to be any (non-empty) string before being written to the output, making code injection a risk.
- Fixed a bug (#726) - PDO put a 'dbname' argument in it's connection string regardless of the database platform in use, which made it impossible to use SQLite.
+- Fixed a bug - CI_DB_pdo_driver::num_rows() was not returning properly value with SELECT queries, cause it was relying on PDOStatement::rowCount().
+- Fixed a bug (#1059) - CI_Image_lib::clear() was not correctly clearing all necessary object properties, namely width and height.
Version 2.1.0
=============