zephir

• Fixed creating abstract instance
• Amended prototypes
• Don't treat numeric strings as numbers #1609
• Fixed compiling global functions without parameters #1616

• concat-assign: Do not cast dynamic string variables to long #1573
• div-assign: Support for assignment by division for variables #1573
• mod-assign: Support for assignment by division by modulus for variables
• ZE3: Fixed adding reference counter for scalar values

• Fixed creating a Variable
• Fixed CLI help
• Code cleanup and minor doc improvements
• Setting up the BranchManager before SymbolTable to avoid call getCurrentBranch on null

• Disable timecop extension from the launcher phalcon/cphalcon#13117

Changed

• Bump minimal parser version to safe use latest parser features
• Update AppVeyor build
• Updated Copyright
• Add dev version of Zephir Parser to the build matrix

Added

• Introduced Zephir\Operators\Other\TypeHintOperator

Fixed

• Removed $defaultValue from the Zephir\Variable constructor as not used anymore
• Improved Utils::getFullName to prevent calling AliasManager::isAlias on possibly NULL value
• ZE3: Fixed #1581 by adding missed zephir_bitwise_xor_function

Fixed

• Added missed import of CompilerException
• Fixed compilation for type casted function variables

Changed

• Improved code quality
• Allow install Zephir Parser on Scrutinizer
• Refactored and improved Config class to implement ArrayAccess and JsonSerializable
• Fully refactored Zephir\Bootstrap to reduce cyclomatic complexity and drop static calls
• Cleaned commands and improved commands description
• Move Zephir\CompilerException to Zephir\Compiler\CompilerException

Added

• Introduced the Config::fromServer factory method to allow create and populate a Config instance from the $_SERVER['argv']
• Introduced Zephir\Commands\Manager to proper and clear managing command stack
• Introduced domain exceptions to throw more specific errors
• Introduced Zephir\Commands\CommandInterface::getCommandsManager to allow drop any static Bootstrap calls
• Introduced Zephir\Commands\CommandInterface::getSynopsis to provide command synopsis
• Introduced ExceptionInterface::getExtra and ExceptionInterface::getErrorRegion to follow common interface for all Zephir exceptions:
  • ExceptionInterface::getExtra: Gets extra info.
  • ExceptionInterface::getErrorRegion: Returns the code block in which the error occurred.

• Added Zephir\Fcall\FcallManagerInterface and Zephir\Fcall\FcallAwareInterface to introduce more common backend API
• Added --help|-h command option to each command to provide per command help and reduce first level help

Fixed

• Fixed CI script installer and populating CI-related cache
• Fixed Logger' file contents cache
• Removed unused imports

Removed

• Removed enable_dl command option. This deprecated feature will certainly be removed in the future from PHP. Actually we no longer need this directive at all.
• Removed safe_mode PHP option. The Safe Mode removed from PHP 5.4, and generates a fatal E_CORE_ERROR level error when enabled.
• Removed no longer needed Zephir\FileSystem\Apc storage. APC creates a new memory pool when a CLI process is created so this adapter is useless.
• Removed no longer used bundled parser https://github.com/phalcon/zephir/issues/1471

• More function optimizers (e.g. math)
• Initial PHP7 support
• Minor Bugfixes and better error messages
• Fix the eval implementation to execute more than one statement
• Restore support for runtime class definitions
• (experimental) internal-fcall-optimization (disabled by default), performance improvement on method calls
• Fix array initialization