I am very pleased to announce the release of Blink version 0.3.0. Please refer to the documentation to install or upgrade to this version.

Version 0.3 is a major release of Blink framework that brings several new feature and improvements:

1. Plugins Support

   Blink 0.3 introduced the concept of plugins, with the plugin support, it is possible to inject custom code at the application bootstrapping phase, such as registering services, adding routes. It brings possibilities to implement modules or reuse code in a better way.

2. Route Group

   Blink 0.3 now implemented Route Group, It would be great for large projects to split routes into multiple groups, make the routes management more efficiently.

3. RequestActor for API testing

   Blink 0.3 implemented RequestActor for API testing, it would make API testing more easier and fun.

4. New server management commands

   Blink 0.3 introduced several server management command and enhanced server:serve to support live reloading.

5. Integrated to PsySH

   Blink 0.3 now integrated PsySH, we can interact with Blink application with a simple ./blink shell command.

Here is the changelog of version 0.3.0:

• New: Added application plugins support
• New: Added grouped routes support
• New: Added RequestActor for easier functional testing cases
• New: Integrated PsySH for better debug experience
• New: Added CookieBag::all() to return all cookies
• New: Added the new server management commands(server:start server:stop server:restart server:serve server:reload)
• Enh: Better PHP7 exception support
• Enh: Added Custom PID file path support
• Enh: Improved automatically handling of Content-Type
• Enh: Added SwServer::$outputBufferSize parameter
• Enh: Improved Request::secure() to handle X-Forwarded-* headers
• End: Improved live reload support
• Chg: Removed php 5.5 support
• Bug: Fixed "Expected array for frame 0" error for PHP7+Xdebug