Phing development update

Michiel Rook

The last Phing development update was almost a year ago, so I guess it’s about time for a discussion of what’s new in Phing world.

2.5.0 and Semantic Versioning

The most important news in this update is the brand new 2.5.0 release (pushed out yesterday). We bumped the minor version number because we now (try to) follow the Semantic Versioning spec, and this release introduces new functionality. Our changed roadmap reflects this as well.

This version closes the following issues:

#979 svncommit: invalid switch ignoreexternals
#977 phpunit Task doesn’t support @codeCoverageIgnore[…] comments
#972 SvnCopyTask: remove “force” from documentation
#971 TokenSource does not work
#969 PHPUnit task does not report diffs for failed assertions
#968 Proper handling of STDOUT and STDERR
#963 XSLT task fails with fatal error on PHP 5.4
#962 DbDeploy: infinite loop in case if directory not found
#961 DbDeploy: checkall output isn’t informative
#960 Documentation of Dbdeploy task
#959 Bug in SvnListTask Version 2.4.14
#958 Property wrapped in if/then structure is not substituted by it’s value
#954 Paths becoming part of S3 file names on Windows
#953 Add PHP extension check to Available Task
#952 Properly document how to load environment variables as properties
#951 S3Put throws “Source is not set” exception
#949 SymfonyConsoleTask improvements: checkreturn and output of command

 

Other goodies

The past few months Phing has seen a few interesting additions:

  • Composer packager support (we’re listed on Packagist as well)
  • phploc task
  • apply task
  • improved phpdoc(2) support
  • lots of documentation, bug and other fixes

GitHub

The move to GitHub in early 2012 has been very successful in speeding up Phing’s development. We can definitely still use your help though, so fork our project and submit a pull request. Thanks!

Michiel Rook

Michiel Rook is an experienced, passionate & pragmatic freelance coach, developer & speaker from the Netherlands. He loves helping teams and companies to develop better software and significantly improve their delivery process. When he’s not thinking about continuous deployment, DevOps or event sourcing he enjoys music, cars, sports and movies.

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