v4.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 02 January 2025

Downloading & Installing

The only official distribution site is Github. Check out the Installation page to get started.

Reporting Problems

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New Features

• Added carbon to handle date/timezone processing

Fixes/Bugs Closed

• Updated array references, curly braces, and method signatures for PHP 8.x compatibility
• Applied database schema updates for mysql 5.6 compatibility
• Updated database calls for mysql 8.x compatibility - mostly bad date formats (0000-00-00)

Misc Changes/Improvements

• Removed the /vendor directory and let Composer handle it
• Updated the phing build script to use updated versions of phploc and phpstan
• Removed ADODB as our needed functionality has moved into core PHP
• Updated jpgraph to a more recent version
• Cleaned up the Search module to use the hook_search properly
• Fixes to numerous views for tables (index), views, and similar to fix warnings
• Cleaned up a ton of PHP error log warnings
• Lots of other cleanups throughout, some provided by Opto in the old 3.4 branch

Open/Known Issues

• Removed the File Explorer from the Files module
• Removed the file versioning from the Files module

System Metrics

There are some core metrics that may be of interest to the geekier among us. We generate these by using ‘phing metrics’ using the unit_tests/build.xml file:

• Lines of Code: 64089 (9030 of comments, 55059 of code)
• Cyclomatic Complexity:
  • Per Class: 18.48 (min: 1.0, max: 242.0)
  • Per Method: 2.46 (min: 1.0, max: 64.0)
  • Per Line of Code: 0.25
• Interfaces: 2
• Traits: 0
• Classes: 133 (128 Concrete, 5 Abstract)
  • Lines of Code/Class: 84
  • Class Constants: 6
  • Methods: 1619 (48 static, 1571 non-static)
    • Public: 1502
    • Protected: 108
    • Private: 9
  • Lines of Code/Method: 6
• Functions: 203
• Constants: 72