6.0.0 Alpha 3

This second alpha release for the upcoming 6.0.0 contains everything in alpha1 and alpha2 and the following

• Made xp-framework available via Composer (@thekid)
• Implemented RFC #288: Deprecate LONG_MIN / LONG_MAX (@thekid)
• Implemented RFC #287: Get rid of tools (@thekid)

6.0.0 Alpha 2

This second alpha release for the upcoming 6.0.0 contains everything in alpha1 and the following:

• The libevent-based server implementation - see #13
• The ability to extend from classes other than lang.reflect.Module for modules
• The ability to implement interfaces for modules
• Fixes for the xp -v output (see here)

6.0.0 Alpha 1

This is the first alpha for the XP Framework core version 6.0.0. The minimum PHP version required to run this is PHP 5.4.0.

• Implemented xp-framework/rfc#184: ArrayMap and ArrayList - (@thekid)
• Implemented xp-framework/rfc#286: Function types - (@thekid)
• Implemented xp-framework/rfc#283: Unittest closure actions - (@thekid)
• Implemented xp-framework/rfc#276: Define classes with annotations - (@thekid)
• Implemented xp-framework/rfc#282: Generic type variables - (@thekid)
• Implemented xp-framework/rfc#98: Generic Filter interface - (@thekid)
• Implemented xp-framework/rfc#266: Extend the XP typesystem - (@thekid)
• Implemented xp-framework/rfc#281: PHP 5.4.0 - (@thekid)
• Implemented xp-framework/rfc#146: Unicode - (@thekid)
• Implemented xp-framework/rfc#136: PHP namespaces adoption. All classes in the XP framework are now in PHP 5.3 namespaces - (@thekid)
• Implemented xp-framework/rfc#279: Newinstance with closures in #2 (@thekid)
• Implemented xp-framework/rfc#186: Drop SAPI feature alltogether; after it was deprecated since 5.9.0 - (@thekid)
• Implemented xp-framework/rfc#262: Split up framework into minimal pieces.

For details, see xp-framework/rfc#172