[NEW RELEASE] Sifo 2.7 and Sifo 2.8

[Albert Lombarte]

Hello,

Although a little bit late, here is a short summary of the latest two versions of Sifo. I do not include every commit we have done in this email, see the links for reference (there are around 160 commits since Sifo 2.6)

Sifo 2.8

DEBUG:

- Added an option to clean Smarty compiled files

- Added a secondary floating window for AJAX calls

- Added sent headers (when Header class is used).

- Added Redis debug, similar in format to Mysql debug

- Added POST data information.

- Added Headers information.

- "Memory" (remembers the last position where the window was left)

APP:

- Cache Locking. Avoids calculating the same execution if someone already asked for it and it is being generated. Max wait time 8 seconds.

- Store memcached keys as SHA1 with collision control - Allows adding very looooong cache key names in old memcached library versions

- COREJS removed and added as submodule, now under libs/sifojs (requires git submodule init and git submodule update if you used it)

- Added Sifo\Password, a secure class to manage passwords for your users

- New method Session->reset()

- PHP script to send email from terminal using project email configuration and services (a.k.a Sendgrid, Amazon SES, etc.)

- Improvements in some Smarty plugins for Russian localization

- Other minor bugs and small improvements

- A ton of changes in COREJS, so it was moved to a new repo

LOG:

Differences with Sifo 2.7: https://github.com/alombarte/SIFO/compare/sifo-2.7...sifo-2.8

Differences with Sifo 2.6: https://github.com/alombarte/SIFO/compare/sifo-2.6...sifo-2.8

Sifo 2.7

- New Sifo\Header class. Manages all the headers instead of using header() directly in the code.

- Translation tool improvements

- Debug improvements

- Updated GeoIP database

- Right to left (RTL) CSS support (tested in Arabic and Hebrew so far)

- A little bit of CSS in the rebuild page. Show some love to developers :)

- Added db_init_commands in the PDO database class

- Bugfixing and small improvements

LOG:

Differences with Sifo 2.6: https://github.com/alombarte/SIFO/compare/sifo-2.6...sifo-2.7

Any questions please feel free to ask.

Best,

Albert