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CodeIgniter 1.6.1 Released

February 13th, 2008

Version 1.6.1 is primarily a maintenance release, but does bring a handful of nice feature additions and enhancements, such as Active Record caching, a new Path Helper, and a series of enhancements for working with multiple character sets.  After a very successful 1.6.0 release, a series of bugs have been squashed and enhancements have been made that we wanted to roll out as a formal release.  Updating from 1.6.0 is as easy as simply replacing a few files in your system directory (full update instructions). 

Work continues at a fever pitch, and we’re looking to make the next release into something very special.  For full details, here’s the official announcement.

Happy CodeIgniting!

This entry was made on February 13th, 2008 @ 6:53 and filed into .

Comments

Bruce wrote on February 13th, 2008 @ 10:19

Do you guys provide subversion access to tagged releases yet?  This would make it really easy to update to the latest release, as it’s then as simple as `svn sw 1.6.1`.

BTW, thanks for the slick framework, my teams love it.

Jakob Buis wrote on February 14th, 2008 @ 2:35

The path helper is a nice addition: especially nice for error-handling

Slightly offtopic maybe, but the release notes for 1.6.0 marked Scaffolding as ‘deprecated’. But both the 1.6.0 and 1.6.1-release still contain a folder named “scaffolding”?

Derek wrote on February 14th, 2008 @ 6:02

@Bruce: No we don’t.  The upgrade path is pretty straightforward in the meantime I hope.

To the issue of scaffolding, yes it is bring phased out.

This was a tough decision, and there was considerable internal debate, but at the end of the day we just weren’t happy with how scaffolding was implemented.  We felt it didn’t live up to the quality of the rest of CodeIgniter, and until we can have something in there that does, we just didn’t want to ship with it.  We were careful not to break any currently existing functionality, and scaffolding will stick around for some time, but the decision was made to move it out.

I’d love to see this get replaced by a more robust solution - and I fully intend to support any other solution that comes up.  For what its worth, scaffolding while appearing sexy on first glance, adds nothing to the end result of an application, but maintaining it opened up a host of other issues for us.

Elliot Haughin wrote on February 14th, 2008 @ 21:26

Bang on the right move here…

I think that scaffolding should be depreciated… It’s very seldom used, and some of the community members are beginning to build functionality that replaces it anyway.

Duke Justice wrote on February 21st, 2008 @ 20:39

concerning scaffolding: here is a small suggestion..

I integrated FreakAuth to a Codeigniter I have and set the option to check is usar is admin in the controller.

Scaffolding becomes as secure as can be… No?

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