Pi day releasenote draft

Pi Engine 2.4.0 Release

The Pi Team is pleased to present the Pi Engine Pi Day Release (Pi 2.4.0), an application development engine focusing on user oriented architecture, feature and API building. Meanwhile Pi powered applications are launched by a variety of teams.

Get the Pi Day Release and report issues and requests to Pi Issue Tracker.

What's New

During these months’ development, some features have been added and improved to Pi Engine and its basic modules.

Some of the major changes:

• New basic modules available: media, search
• Refactored API calls to be compatible with registry and model calls: changed Pi::api(<module>) and Pi::api(<module>, <api>) to Pi::api(<api>, <module>)
• Media service introduced to operate media in local or remote
• Added security and permission checks
• Added all modules updating features
• Added built-in support for module custom with build metadata versioning
• Added built-in support for module and theme custom asset
• Added customizable breadcrumbs provides by module itself
• Simplified config API with Pi::config()
• Merged module asset and public, located in www/asset; independent asset deployment dropped off
• Moved custom static to asset/custom folder for better deployment
• Moved system abstract API classes to sub namespace Api located in lib/Pi/Application/Api
• Added support for custom bootstrap and online custom bootstrap in themes
• Added service of string for multi-byte string handling
• Upgraded Zend Framework to 2.2.6 final
• Upgraded Bootstrap to 3.1.1
• Improvements and bugs fixed on core module: user, page, article, comment, message, tag, search, saml and uclient
• Added config folders/files:
  • var/config/event.listener.php
• Modified config files:
  • var/config/engine.php
  • var/config/host.php
  • var/config/hosts.php

Check out changelog for details. And finally special thank goes to @sexnothing, @Simon Zhang and @loidco.

Documentation

Checkout Pi development manual and tutorials at Github wiki and APIs and class charts at Pi API.

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Taiwen Jiang, Marc Desrousseaux, Hossein Azizabadi, Zongshu Lin, Pi Team

Mar 14th, 2014