Agavi 1.0.7 RC1 released!

Agavi 1.0.7-RC1 is now available for download at www.agavi.org and via the PEAR channel.

As always, the CHANGELOG has the full story, but here is a summary of the most important changes:

• The getCredentials() method on an Action is no longer called unconditionally (i.e. whether or not the isSecure() method returned false) but only if the Action is “secure”.

• The PHPTAL renderer now supports configuration of character encoding via parameter “encoding”.

• It is now possible to manually call shutdown() on any database adapter to close the underlying connection; another call to getConnection() will cause a reconnect.

• AgaviTesting::dispatch() can now call exit()? with the appropriate shell status code (the same as returned by a vanilla PHPUnit run) to indicate success or failures/errors to the calling process. This behavior is triggered when the new optional second argument, defaulting tofalse, is set totrue. If set tofalse`, it returns the PHPUnit result object that may be used by custom code to perform further analysis of the test run.

• Several other minor changes and fixes are included in this release as well; most notably, AgaviBooleanValidator’s casting and exporting logic has been repaired, and AgaviConsoleRequest now properly creates an AgaviUploadedFile object with STDIN contents (when configured to read those) instead of a plain array.

• The timezone database was updated to version 2011n.